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I do agree that, whether you agree with the war or not, right now is a time to show solidarity and unity to support the troops. That could be as simple as sitting quietly and disagreeing with what's going on. Protests merely add insult to injury for the men and women of the Services who are risking and/or losing their lives in a hostile land. Home should never be hostile to them, they are merely doing their jobs whether they believe it's right to attack Iraq or not.
But on Saddam shooting at our planes in the no-fly zone.....c'mon now, what do you expect him to do? The US and Britain pretty much self-imposed those no-fly zones that are, quite frankly, a violation of Iraq's sovereignty. Now you may think "but b, Saddam is a dictator and we're protecting his people" but when you get down to it we basically disagree with him and "care about his people." Really Americans don't care about the Iraqi people and the government cares even less about them. Every nation should have its sovereignty protected. The US government doesn't even care about its own people but a 1/4 of the time....why would they care about some other country's?
I would say more but for now I'll just leave it with peace to those who suffer.
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