Given a couple of opinions offered here, perhaps the USA should've stayed out of WWII altogether. That's never been my opinion but I'm really sick of listening to the bullshit from people who the US fought to free. I think "fuck you, guess we should've stayed home so you could all be saying Zieg Heil" just about sums it up. We might make mistakes and sometimes the law of unintended consequences kicks in but we really do mean well, and with great strength comes an obligation to try to rid the world of tyrants. And save your bullshit about American tyranny, I live here and it just ain't so, things can get pretty screwed up but that's just how life is. And by the way, if we fought the war in Iraq the way we fought WWII, the casualties and destruction would be far more horrendous than they have been with our modern, more targeted munitions (though the damned thing would probably have long been over by now).

To me Iraq has been as if there was a very bad man on the next street over who is torturing and killing his own family but there aren't any cops to stop him. Do I sit here and do nothing about it? Hell no, I've got to stop the asshole. Now, while fighting with this jerk some of his idiot neighbors have decided they want to mix it up with me and take his family hostage, steal their shit, and kill the ones who won't join them. So do I just cut and run & let these other animals take over? Well I'm hurtin' pretty bad by now, it's been a harder and longer fight than I first expected, but I'm not gonna desert these people I swore to help. That's just wrong.