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Steffie like you I am old enough to have two sons who are of draft age. I was drafted for Vietnam, I failed the physical.
Vietnam was an immoral pointless war. This new adventure scares me more because I do not know what to believe. Saddam is an evil dictator but unless provoked he is not a clear and present danger to the US, North Korea is an Army and not much more but they have not bothered anyone for 50 years.
American history shows the US gets into wars for only two reasons economic gain or if attacked. Some attacks have been staged to galvanize the US population into support, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin incident for Vietnam and probably the Battle Ship Maine for the Spanish American War.
Our government scares the hell out of me. They have taken a single horific incident that occured on Sept 11 2001 and turned it into a justifiction for an international witch hunt.
If either of these events turn into a war it will not be confined to Iraq or Korea. If the administration is correct and Saddam has chemical or biological weapons there is no way to keep them away from our shores. If they are right an N Korea has nuclear weapons they will use them and so will we. This will not be pretty, this will not be bloodless and there will be no place to run.
The entire world should be concerned and we should be concerned for our children.
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