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Positive:

"Bravo!!! You really tell it like it is. Thank you for your information on the reasoning behind the war."
-Ed (email withheld)

"You are not only well informed, your heart is in the right place. Thank God for Americans like you."
-Joanne (email withheld)

"good for you. i think that it is terrible that people are protesting the war while our troops are over there. there was plenty of time for that before the war began but now it is important for out troops to feel supported."
-Mary (email withheld)

"Dear Sir I'm a former Marine who has served in Kosovo/Bosnia and done some work in other places. In any case I want to applaud your seek of truth. I do not believe in war but realize it is necessary. I have seen to many dead bodies not to realize that mad men like Saddam need to be eliminated."
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"I read through your web page, and you have sought after facts very well. There is little I can contribute factually that you haven't already covered, but I can honestly tell you that anti-war activists, specifically those who argue about oil, are too hard-headed to be convinced by the few comments you present on our declared trust for the oil fields of Iraq..."
-Ryan (email withheld)

"Thanks to you for all your effort in making your "response" message. It is great to read such a well presented document, especially after reading over a number of postings from really misinformed people!"
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"...We read your article(s) and found it to be very interesting and constructive. Therefore, we would appreciate your permission to publish your article(s) in our websites; www.hasbara.org.il (currently under construction)..."
-Asaf (email withheld)

"lOVED THE WEBSITE."
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"great stuff!why are the bush people not getting this info to the people."
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"I would vote for YOU. A great piece of work and I do research so I can say so from the 'other side' of the issue."
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"You got a great site."
-Rick (email withheld)

"I love your waebsite evey thing her makes so much sense Long live democracy and long live President George W. Bush Go U.S.A. I support President Bush 200% "
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"Dear WildJew, I just wanted to thank you so much for your website!!! It has helped me like you wouldn't believe. You are one smart person. I'm in a little debate with my older sisters boyfriend and I used your website as a link to help my argument. You have everything you say already backed up so there's no room for the typical liberal quote "wheres the proof?". I need all the help I can get. I'm only 16, my sisters boyfriend is 28, he has a little more experience under his belt. So thank you again for your website. I can tell you have put a lot of work into it."
-Tiffany (email withheld)

"Just wanted you to know I enjoyed your site and will look at it in more detail tomorrow."
-Delilah (email withheld)

"I don't know who you are...man or woman...but you are certainly an American.

Your comments and the detail in which you provide information has enlightened me in so many ways.

I am the mother of a 32 year-old son who is currently in the U.S. Army. He has not been deployed and probably will not be (I pray) because of several reasons. He was part of the group that was sent into Somalia and saw several of his unit killed. He was wounded and has suffered mentally with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. That experience has changed him in many ways.

I was 100% behind President Bush when he declared war to go after bin Laden for what happened on 9/11/2001. That was the worst day in the history of America and no one should ever be allowed to forget about it. I only wish we had captured him but I certainly do not blame our troops or our President for that. The man had too many people helping him (Saddam???), too many followers and too many places to hide.

I was not happy to see America go into a war with Iraq and I was not totally aware of the reasons why we were there until I read your message. I have been in so many of these "chat rooms" where so many people don't know what they are talking about and it is usually just words full of hatred, anger and "Bush Bashing". I supposed many of them do it just for "effect" and to start someone else in the room arguing with them, but I get so disgusted with the anti-American, Bush Bashing idiots that I can't stay and listen to them anymore. I wish there was some way that I could get all of them to read your comments and maybe just one or two of them would change their minds about what we, as Americans, are trying to do to help the people in other countries that are not as lucky as we are. I must admit that things have changed since 9/11 and I am sorry that my grandchildren will have to grow up with the fear that has been instilled in us since that horrible day but we are still Americans and we are still free and that is what we are fighting for.

Thank you very much and may God Bless You...God Bless America...God Bless our Troops and God Bless President Bush.

Regards,"
-Barbara (email withheld)

"Hello,

Your web published article, A Response to the "Anti-War" Movement , was an excellent commentary based on fact and backed up with extensive, credible research. You have obviously put forth an immense amount of work and have made it much easier for me to try to persuade people to be less emotional and more logical when criticizing the USA's efforts in Iraq.

Until now, where your data gives me impressive argumentative power, all I have been able to do is slightly stun the protesters with predictions that if they weren't complaining now, they would be complaining that we did nothing [in Iraq] later. The best I have been able to do, up to now, was point out past criticism of our inattention to the holocaust and the fact that mass murders had been going on in a similar manner in Iraq. I used to say: "Damned if you do-Iraq: Damned if you don't-Holocaust." But the short sighted would be unable to draw any rhetorical lesson out of this phrase.

Thanks again! We're all hoping for a quick "Mission Complete" with Iraq so we can move onto other things."
-Neil (email withheld)

"Hey Friend,

Just wanted to let you know that your material is right on the mark and that I appreciate your efforts and tremendously hard work. Keep up the great work at exposing the "truth". There are many many of us, although at times and unfortunately quite appreciate folks like you that are on the front lines exposing the truth.

Stay strong! There are more of us that support you then you may know.

Best Regards,"
-Lance (email withheld)

"Nice website. I think the Iraq War was justified and that the Bush Administration will uncover WMD and other terror groups. But just who was in really in for the oil?

Take France as one example. France had oil contracts with Saddam's regime. Now France didn't do nothing during the Iraq War. They aimed Iraq more than the United States did, by giving Iraq a nuclear facility.

Now Germany as another one. Germany gave Saddam's regime German made bunkers for his underground bases. Can anyone say Hitler?

Now there is Russia. When the Russians were the Soviets, the Soviets supported the Baathist party. That probably explains why Baathist states such as Syria and Iraq are/were anti-Israel and anti-U.S. Russia was also responsible for giving Saddam GPS systems. Making sure the United States would cause more colatoral damage.

Then there is China. China is Russia's closest ally, and has given Iraq many supplies. They even gave a Chinese silk missle that Saddam Hussein himself used during Gulf War II. Perhaps that's why China joined Russia, Germany and France to block the impletation of Resolution 1441.

Now the "anti-war" people are defending these four countries. And they claim that America supported Saddam Hussein, yet some of their leaders namely Ramsey Clark went to Iraq to support Saddam Hussein during Gulf War I and II. What hyprocrites."
-Maxwell (email withheld)

I wanted to take the time to thank you for writing such an excellent page on the war in Iraq. My name is Daniel I am a senior in high school and I am doing a persuasive paper/speach on the reasons for and agianst the war. I thought you should know that, while I really had no bias going into this I have found that many people are happy to give you their opinions on the war without the facts to back it up (most of these are the "anti-war protestors"). One site I found called the reasons for going to war "false, grossly exaggerated, irrelevant or simply silly" So you see I have had a hard time finding reliable sources for my paper. so thanks agian....its nice to find someone who does more than just pointing and caling names. and someone who backs their opinions up with facts. I hope you don't mind if I use your site as a source for my paper. And feel free to contact me if you ever want an intelligent discussion on political topics such as this.
-Daniel (email withheld)

...sir that is one good posting....i only hope it gets around........i am curious about one thing ...why when we were at war with the axis in ww2...there were no holds bared...dresden,berlin, japan, atom bombs..on and on...but in this war...we fight with both hands tied....both us and israel........best regards...
-Jack (email withheld)

I loved your website (www.wildjew.com) and your response to the "anti-war" protestor. It was very inspiring.
-Deanna (email withheld)

Hi,

I was just looking on how I might get the Dayside Link to point out something about these anti war people and Bush bashes.

You made a good clear point on this war and what these anti war people are screaming about.

I thank you for that!

I would like these people to know how many people in the United States kill each other in a week, a month etc. The numbers compared are higher then those who volunteered to fight for their country and to bring freedom to other countries across the world. Why do these do gooder think they have the right to speak loudly against them. I do not believe anyone like war, but at time we have to stand stronge to make a world of difference. Keep up the good work!
-artezia (email withheld)

Thankyou......justajesusjewlovertoo
-Anonymous (email withheld)

Great site and thanks for your support
-Mark (email withheld)

Whatever your real name is,

I am 17 years old, a junior in High school, and doing a panel desuction in a few days about the War in Iraq. I believe the war was the right thing to do and just wanted to thank you for you site. It's given me all the facts and their sources I needed on top of the ones of Saddam's nuclear program I found. The other side of the descusion doesn't have a chance. It's good to now there are other intellegent people in the world after a few of my teachers gave us a lecture on how the war was wrong. My school is mostly liberal too, and it's hard to stick up for your views in a situation like that. Well, thanks again.
-Andrew (email withheld)

Dear Wildjew,

I found your website to be one of the best resources I have ever seen. Your articulate arguments and footnotes with links are top-notch! I will be using it and passing it around you can be sure.

Thanks for your good work.
-Brad (email withheld)

I just found your site and appreciate and agree with your rational thinking. Sadly, rationality really doesn't sell in the US -- witness the rise of Howard Dean.

Thanks again for the site. I enjoyed it.
-Dave (email withheld)

whats up, I just read your essay you wrote in response to those anti-war losers. I thought it was great, I agree with you 100%, I also saw the negative comments some people were sending you. SCREW THEM, you keep it up, you raise all good and TRUE points, and if those people dont like it then they can go somwhere else, GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. It sounds like there more for the enemy than for us, well at any rate, keep up what your doing, and god bless you!

"peace is produced through war" -latin proverb

GOD BLESS AMERICA
-Anonymous (email withheld)

FYI, LOVE your site!
-Sam (email withheld)

Dear WildJew

Thank you for taking time to write your article on, "A Response to the Anti-War Movement." I too am sick of the anti-war arguments brought out by idiots and friends. I needed a succinct way to articulate why war is the right thing to do. Your article helps. I think the silent majority is pro-war, but we've got to stop being silient and start challenging and convincing people of what's right. People are being easily mis-led and we've gotta help the truth be understood.

Thanks, if you know of other articles, please share the URL with me. thanks
-Steven (email withheld)

hello,

You left out why there wasn't much protests when Clinton bombed the hell out of the Balkan's because the Serb's had murdered hundrens of thousands of people and buried them in mass graves.

The BBC and Nato admitted that it wasn't anywhere close to even 100K. I believe the count now stands at about 13K. Un inspectors are now saying that many of the bodies may even be from other groups.

Also there were WMD that were found, but not destroyed by the inspectors that were never accounted for! I guess we are suppose to trust Saddam after all the lies he has told!

I wonder why we don't trust our own people as much as the protesters demand that we trust Saddam!

I guess the UN working for Saddam for billions of dollars over the last 12 years didn't effect their judgement as well(2.5% charge off the top of all their oil exports for adminstritive costs)!

Funny how S.M. was kicked to the curb asap, but after Saddam broke all of the UN resolutions and spite in their faces for 12 years the UN needed to give him more time!

Shouldn't Clinton have sent inspectors into the Balkan's to find all of the 100's of thousands of bodies before destroying all of these countries?

Thanks for your time!
-Anonymous (email withheld)

Negative:

"GWB... ROVE, CARD HAVE ALL YOU FAR RIGHT REPUKE..ALL BRAIN WASHED SORT LIKE THAT DICTATER IN HITLER,S AGENDA... "
-Bill (email withheld)

"Your head was up deep then and buried deeper in embarrassment now for distorted incorrect premise's and totally wrong conclusions. Fools like you still linger out there in Flush Limbaugh land and Israel will be the sacrificial lamb that the Bush junta will give up to the Muslims so the criminals can keep the Haliburton oilfields! For supporting this lie you should be ashamed."
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"YOU REPUBLIKKKLAN CAR HUGGERS ARE FUNNY!!!"
-Anonymous (email withheld)

"how can one respond to such blatant propaganda? you are a wild jew . perhaps you enjoy just seeing innocent muslims die . well i dont . dont you remember hitler ? dont you feel like a hypocrite? "
-Anonymous (email withheld)

""But make no mistake about it..." you sound like a clone of george bush."
-Bobby (email withheld)

A friend emailed me your twisted propaganda about the "War on Terror". Remember when George Jr. became "President". His first executive orders were to overturn and undo all President Clinton had accomplished. I still have a copy of George's comments on the Clinton Doctrine ( the policy on North Korea). George thought it was a good policy (Clinton stated that if North Korea reopened the reactor and started to produce plutonium, the US without hesitation would bomb it) Six months into the GW Bush presidency, the policy was dropped nine months later NK cranked up the reactor and started production. Now they are a huge threat. Remember Clinton inherited Somolia from George Sr. Something was done after Blackhawk down, we pulled out and WOW! mysteriously the warlords disbanded, do you think you know everything or goverment does in covert ops? 9/11 HAPPENED BECAUSE GW BUSH PULLED THE FUNDING USED TO TRACK AND APPREHEND AL QUEADA OPERATIVES. GW would rather gives all a couple of hundred dollars back rather than spend it on tracking terrorist. Try and find a series called "FRONT LINE: THE ROAD TO WAR". It is bone chilling to see and hear the Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz talking about how this country needs to enact "The New National Security Initiative" a plan so radical and imperilistict George Bush Sr. turned it down in 1992. Yes 1992. Right after the Gulf War a group calling themselves The Neo-Rightwing Radicals. Wanted the US to pre-emptively invade Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz even goes as far as to say publicly that it would take "a major event" to rally America behind such a radical policy and SHAZZAM! the towers are destroyed nine months later. Even though 14 of the known terrorist pilots are Saudi Arabian we invade Afghanistan and then Iraq. How come the current BUsh administration won't spend a dime investigating the 911 tragedy but the republicans paid Kenneth Starr 60 million to investigate Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. How come you don't remind readers that it was the Reagan/BUsh administration that gave Saddam Hussein the ways and means to manufactuer chemical weapons in 1983 in exchange for cheap oil, Saddam promptly gassed hundreds of thousands Iranians and Kurds with WEAPONS WE GAVE HIM! Or that it was the CIA who trained Osama Bin Laden in terrorist tactics to be used against the Soviets, we also made him a millionare in the process. The economy is in the toilet, we are at war, unemployment is getting higher every day, the Clean Air Act is shot, Bush just signed another bill out sourcing hundreds of thousands of American jobs to other countries, and every day brave young men and women die fighting another politicians war for oil and greed. It was GW Bush's Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz who said. "Iraq is swimming in a sea of oil, it makes good ecomoic sense to take it" I survived the last unpopular war of lies and greed, I am a veteran and I have seen the horrors of war. I guarantee for every soldier that dies there are fifty innocent women and children who perish in the process. This use to be a strong country not afraid of anyone or anything, our current administration is using fear and intimidation as tools to control and pacify us. Who can complain about the ineffective president when we are at war? Bill Clinton was president three years ago, stop blaming him, get over it and pull yourself up by your own rightwing jockstrap and get this country back on track. GOD BLESS AMERICA - LT. JG. JACK KELLER
-Harvey (email withheld)

Its funny how the jews agree with this war.

Buddy let me tell you one thing that is going to scare the crap out of your chosen ones ass.

Check out the new census regarding the number of followers per religion.

The total number of jews has been declining by 50 000 every year for the past 5 years (yippy)

Islam is growing exponentially despite the mass media brainwashing to give Islam a bad name. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world (yahoo)

Did you know that the first terrorsits are jewish terrorists!!!! Bet you didn’t.

Also let me tell you why the war in Iraq is illegal….because international law says its illegal !!!!

(But then what the hell do Israelis know about international law right)

How do you feel that Iraq has got no weapons of mass destruction !!!!, you should have some honour and take that point of your website, since there is NONE.

Also that environment point on your webpage ……………if USA cared about the environment it would sign the Kyoto protocols …not drop uranium rich bombs into the environment….

As far as funding the freedom fighters of Palestine, that is the only good thing Saddam managed to do in his miserable existence.

Because I know the next sentence is very difficult for jews to understand…….YOU ARE ON THEIR LAND…GET OFF. Geez what a complicated sentence.

Stop killing civilians with your helicopters and tanks. Let the refugees return to their land.

Also, Did you know that the USA backed Saddam during the Iran/Iraq war!!!!!...what do you have to say to that.

Did you know it says in the bible that the Messiah will lead the jewish people back to their land!!!!

Where is this messiah…is it Sharon????? (only joking he is a War criminal)

The truth is my friend that the Jews time of being potrayed as victims is over, people are waking up, human shields from all over the world go to Palestine to support the Palestinians. More and more people I speak to everyday despise the jews. Have you ever wondered why your people are always hated since day one of your existence.

I know your response ‘ Everyone hates us (jews) because we are the chosen ones’….hahahahah what a load of crap….in what way are you the chosen ones. What where you chosen to do??? (kill Palestinians???) (backstab His Holy Prophet Jesus) (Disobey Moses)

Back to my original point…..Islam is growing because in the long run the truth will surface…don’t take my word for it go to the census statistical records to see for yourself. I tell you what it put a smile on my face...
-Mazi (email withheld)

Rebuttals:

"Hi, I have a couple questions for you if you get the chance. No immediate urgency is needed, because its just for personal interest.

Personally I do not support the war because I feel that it is not right for America to invade Iraq for thier own self-interests.

Fine.

What I am saying is that I feel that they should have waited a couple more months until the UN was involved, instead of immediate action for the sake of the cooler spring months than the summer scorching heat.

12 years of inspections, and the expulsion of UN inspectors in 1998 by Saddam from Iraq isn't enough time?

What is the UN for?

If you find out, let me know ;)

Furthermore, what is your take on the freedom of speech act... its a no wonder the people protesting don't have a clue (which I think is hilarious) when professors such as some in California are threatened with losing their job because they are speaking against the war.

It's sad that people are threatened for speaking their mind, but the story has two sides. There have been just as many cases of people being threatened for supporting the war, but of course those cases haven't been as publicized because the ant-war protestors drown out everyone else with their "screaming" protests.

Heck why don't we go have a CD burning party with those down in a small town in Texas because of a democratic right to an opinon against the war shared by the Dixie Chicks. So What I am saying is that I guess you are entitled to freedom of speech as long as its what the ruler wants (eg enforcing the patriot act).. anyway thats all from this young soap boxer.

People can burn CDs. It's also their right not to listen to anything they don't want to listen to. It's a personal decision that everyone makes. If I don't like the Dixie Chicks or someone else for any reason, I'm not going to listen to them. Simple as that. As a side note, they've politicized this issue themselves by attacking Bush personally (which as you might guess is really pointless and gives them no credibility).

Gotta run to class

Thanks for your time and I look forward to your responce

James

Peace and good luck.
WJ"

On one of your links--the message board where your moniker is 1--you state that most of the antiwar protesters are anti-Semitic, racist, socialist, Ada, Ada, yada.

Inadequate. Misleading. Wrong. "Most?!?!?!??!?!" How about maybe one weirdo out of 50 that usually attend the ones I go to? How about only one guy out of 50 that got arrested in Birmingham recently, for wearing a bandana, which used a law meant to discourage KKK wearing hoods at public rallies?

I, nor any of the folks in my local Peace Project, are socialist. There may be an outsider who occasionally shows up at these vigils and stays on the fringes, and I don't know what the heck his preference for economic systems is. Mine happens to be capitalism. Not the Laissez faire type present at 1906 when Upton Sinclair wrote his famous treatise, but the kind present in a healthy society where workers are respected, competition is healthy, and the consumer is protected from the unscrupulous.

...As far as racism or anti-Semitism goes, you are so far out of range that you missed the ringed corkboard completely. I am half Jewish in blood, and my fathers side of the family is of the Jewish faith. Please don't parrot back to me that tired old mantra of "self hating Jew, eh?" at me. Go to www.tekken.org to understand how many Jews feel about that God forsaken war.

-Anonymous (email withheld)

Firstly, let me say that I am no anti-semite but i am pro palestinian. I love larry david but despise ariel sharon. I am an admirer of the jewish people for there willingness to stick together and become a successful (if u will) and influential people, and acknowledge the struggle that comes with being a jew. I truly believe that the jew is probably the most practical person on earth. To say that suicide bombings is purely an act of terrorism is totally wrong. both israelis and palestinians are fighting the same struggle (jihad); but only one is backed by the world' s leading imperialist. suicide bombings are signs of desperation and despair on behalf of palestinians, It symbolizes that there is no other alternative for palestinian self-determination. A zionist by the name of Jabotinsky wrote: "We cannot give any compensation for palestine, neither to the palestinians nor to other arabs.....All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the shield of force which comprises an iron wall which the local population can never break through..this is our arab policy......" I know this would make any person mad as hell if it applied to them, certainly to any jew. I do believe that the palestinian struggle is morally justified even though some of its manifestations are unjustifiable. Cause and Effect is the main issue here........ Cause and Effect.

Thank you for your time.

-Anonymous (email withheld)

So what.

Buddy, you got some of your facts wrong and some selectively picked. Many "facts" come directly from the US propaganda machine we call the Free Press, the RNC, and the Bush Press Releases, --- oh and JINSA/AIC.

Simple truths: Dogs bite back when provoked. Stop provoking the dog! Mom said that much.

A proud "dog" will never be broken, be he canine dog, Jew, Palestinian, or any other human being. The fight for freedom will go on, despite bigger weapons. More death and destruction will harden survivors and may unfortunately harden hate.

WMDs (non-existent or non-threatening) and all the other excuses were summed up by Kurt Vonnegut: Nonsense.

The Bush regime, point by point, is growing to resemble the definition of a military dictatorship, day by day. Clinton was no picnic either. Bush just more blatant. Clinton pushed NAFTA and stepped up phony drug wars to fill prisons with Americans. Bush outright overturned Constitutional Law or sidestepped it, just like Hitler did after Reichstag. I hope this is wrong, and not a matter of degrees.

According to Nat Guard officers, Bush was AWOL for over a year, but who cares except for the irony of the chicken hawk.

The US cares diddy about Shi'a and Kurds. The US does NOT want them to have any power. If the US cared, they wouldn't have authored the slaughter.

Definition: If you know someone is going to commit a crime and you give them the tools and weapons to do it, you are an accessory. This is the US in Palestine, BEYOND ANY SHADOW OF A DOUBT, BEYOND QUESTION! If you "arrange for someone to be killed" by setting a trap, you are guilty of a crime. That is the US in Iraq, killing the rebels they told to rise up.

Loving the United States is a like loving your brother after he robbed and killed some innocent people to pay for his crack addiction. He is still and always your brother, buy you can't stand by his actions and make excuses and lies.

For any more, read Indymedia, IMC, counterpunch, ramallahonline, gush-shalom, many other sites on Middle East, and The Fire This Time by Ramsey Clark. Many more articles and documented facts. It's all right out in the open, triple documented, hidden from view by our "free press".

-Anonymous (email withheld)

First of all, I think your website is very nicely set-up and congratulate your effort to articualte you argument reasonably and authoritatively.

However, in a lot of instances I think your sources are, though I must say I feel many of your sources are, to say the least, a tad biased (For example, I direct your attention to the following article in Briatin's primary non-affiliated broadsheet, the Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931873,00.html)

I think it is hard for people in the US to understand the antipathy with which the US is now viewed by a broad section of, well, basically the rest of the world. The blame for this, I suspect lies with a dangerously partizan meedia.

Personally speaking I think Saddam's regime was intolerable, saddistic and extremely repressive. I am glad that he is gone.

I do have a problem with the invasion however, insomuch that it was done in full defiance of the UN security council and the expressed wish of the vast majority of UN member-states. The UN, although flawed in many regards, was completely undermined by the US and UK and now has a lot of wounds to lick. This was not the case in 1991.

As we now know, there was no imminent danger of a Iraq-sponsored threat or an Iraqi invasion, and waiting that few extra months for the Blix report would not have destabilized the threat of the region in any way. By choosing to go in virually unilaterally, the US has only served to make a bigger enemy of itself in the middle-east (and elsewhere) and, as is freely admitted by CIA officials, has done nothing (if not the reverse) for preserving US security. We see now that terrorist attacks on US citizens have not decreased since the war, but have instead escalated exponentially.

Now the coalition forces find themselves in an extremely difficult situation, in an extremely hostile and unstable environment - unexpected presumably because of deplorable planning (Rumsfeld has been completely sidelined since October).

They have now asked the UN for assistance. While I find this request utterly hypocritical, I think it should be given, in the best interests of restoring stability.

I have vistited the US many times, and even worked there on a 3 month placement. I think it is a fantastic country with wonderfully friendly and open people and I think Bush is doing an extreme disservice to his subjects.

I would very much like to hear your comments on what I have written, and hope that you do not confuse my dismay at the behaviour of your president with the affection I hold for the american people.

Yours etc.

-J (email withheld)

See, it all goes back to their parental relations (and of course other influences towards them with they were youths or even adolescents). See Saddam's mother tried killing herself because when she was pregnant with him her husband and first child had died. When Saddam has born she sent him to his uncle. His uncle had something to do with the military, and so something had happened (i dont rember what) and he had to go away for a while (i think he was put in jail but im not sure). Saddam was sent back to his mother, who meanwhile had remarried. Her current husband beat Saddam and wouldnt let him go to school, so after a few years Saddam found out his uncle was out of jail or whatever had happened to him. Saddam then stole away to his uncles house. His uncle put him in school. His uncle gave him a gun (he might have done a little more than just that but i am unsure). Saddam took it to school and made his first killing at the age 10. His uncle did not punish him for his crimes. Now think about it, if you were in his situation you would probably have a whole different outllook on life right about now (considering that you probably came from a good family). This does NOT mean i feel sorry for him or give hime any leeway whatever-so-ever. This is just to show that anyone put in situation probably wouldnt have been much better he was. And yes, i do know what Saddam has done is terrible wrong (and i personally think he deserves to suffer just as much as his victims but it is not my place to deicide such matters). All of this still does not justify the killing of people. What was wrong before is still wrong today, although some people believe in "changing" the laws of today to justify what they are doiing. Just look at the US. The people individually can not kill but yet the people as a whole can. Now, what is wrong with this picture? As they say with almost everything: just because everyone else is doing it doesnt make it right. If everyone is killing everyone else, who is there going to be left to kill when everyone else is gone but ourselves? Killing is like a drug. You can't just say that you'll stop tomarrow or that you won't get addicted because you will.

A solution to this problem would be to find Saddam and the other sources of the problem and put them into in extremely high security confinement centers where only certainminimun number of people can visit them. This may seem a little far-fetched but what good can come from (more-so) in-humane action? nothing. because then you have problem of people finding out and the questioning of morality begins all over again. Nothing can bring peace but peace its self, no killing, no torturing, no raping, no stealing. You call this anti-government, unpatriotic, or even un-American but just because we believe these things can do no wrong doesnt mean its true.please send me back your reply,

-Deanna (email withheld)