by C.R. Webb

Created on: April 02, 2009   Last Updated: April 03, 2009

I have several family members fighting over in Iraq and I support them because they are family...and my family has been involved in every major militant conflict since the Civil War. However, I do not support war as I am into the ideology of giving peace a chance.

I am not a coward...but fighting the bad guy is different than fighting the different guy just because we don't see eye to eye. Our country has always been about protecting the free and the American Spirit, what does the involvement in Iraq have to do with that currently? As i see it, nothing!

When we first went over there, I supported Bush because there was bad things happening to innocent people, since the bad things have ended it seems like we are just over there creating a large nest of dangerous and pist-off hornets. We aren't freeing anyone, we aren't protecting the American Spirit, and we are killing our troops and innocent people. We have become that which we went to destroy! And the worst part of it is that we keep sending our soldiers over there to die and kill for a government that is no longer backed buy the people they are suppose to be fighting for.

I think that most Americans have someone overseas, and support that they are there as a symbol of there families back home, but those families and many of the soldiers don't agree with the war. There almost has to be a separation between soldier and war in order for an end to come.

Bush made a mess of an already messy situation and I feel that he sucker punched the American soldier and the American people and then dropped his mess in Obama's capable lap. Obama is a good guy, and read to put the war to an end, but at what cost to Iraq, the soldiers, and the American economy. Let's not forget also that we have been attacked on our own soil.

When are we going to ever come back to the reality that American terrorists are prevalent and capable of attacking an almost soldier-less American soil. We should have a larger home-front protective shield. Sure, the homeland security is making American's more aware and beefing up transport security, but what are they doing to watch the little guy that came home from Iraq with a changed mind?

We are sending our soldiers to fight in a war who's main enemy is the human mind. Our troops come back as burnouts, disabled by violence and horror. What good is that to our country? The sooner the war end, the sooner the healing process for our troops begins!

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