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Anger Meter: 5 out of 7
(Meter: 1, doesn't bother you unless you think about it, 2 it's not that bad though it sucks, 3 it's disruptive to your glee, 4 you whine about it to your friends, 5 you are "this close" to telling that person to stop before you disembowel them, 6, You HAVE threatened to disembowel them, and 7, you just may "cut a b***h".)

7: My brother is home for the Easter holidays. He is 18. It's funny how he is too lazy to go down to Morrisons himself, but not too lazy to drag me round the house by my ankles until I go for him. This is why I cannot wait until my sister comes home this weekend, she is 20 and bigger than he is, she will tell him to do it himself and will defend me. 3nodding

I once found a used condom on the landing. *Shivers*

Of course the President doesn't ralk about it, it'a 40% his fault.

The candidates can't talk about it unless they lie: Either they don't want to do that, or they don't want us to know. It's pretty fail.

Are you in the war? If so, what's it like? Do you fight? Do you worry your family? DO they go months without speaking to you?

You do know that the majority of soldiers also support the war right? That's probably because they actually see what's going on over there. They see how much good is being done. Most the stuff going on over there doesn't ever hit the media. All they usually talk about is the violence.
I do actually know people who are there right now. My brother is also in the military...and while he is not there he knows a lot of people who have been there. For some odd reason they know about a whole hell of a lot of good stuff going on there that you really don't hear on the news. They don't think the US should pull out. On the news you mostly see the Iraqi's that want the US to leave, but apparently the majority of them want the US there, and look at the US as a savior from the horrible condition of life before.
If we leave now while the Iraqi government and military are still unstable there is a good chance that it could fall apart, and a new dictatorship will likely form. Only this time it will be a more violent dictatorship than before.
I also support the original decision to invade. We thought they had nuclear weapons. We also had photographic evidence. Imagine what could have happened if we had not invaded, and they did actually have those weapons.

I feel that I can blame people, as I in fact did find out what was really going on before my friends or my brother joined the military. If you aren't going to work to find out the facts, then don't voice your opinion sheesh.
And the thing is with the weapons of mass destruction is that the fact that there were none could only be known after the invasion because for some odd reason the Iraqi government would no cooperate with the UN. They apparently had no reason not to cooperate, cause there were no weapons being made...right? So in reality it was the Iraqi governments choice not to cooperate that made it impossible to make sure there were no weapons of mass destruction without an actual invasion. With all the evidence we had before the invasion, along with the resistance of the Iraqi government, it seemed quite logical that they were trying to hide weapons. Had they actually had weapons (which as previously stated seemed quite logic given the situation) inaction could have proven fatal.
If that last part sounds a bit repetitive, it is because you really need to notice those particular facts for how they were before the invasion. It's idiotic to make a judgment on the situation based on hindsight.
Also...I don't know how old you were at the time that this all was actually happening, but I am willing to bet I am older than you, and I remember it all quite well.

Edit: and yes...I agree that they really need to make people aware of the progress in Iraq. I think the reason they seem to have trouble doing this is because those in office, the president being key, kinda backed off and admitted to it being a mistake to invade, and seem to be in a continual state of self doubt about the whole thing. This is probably one of the biggest reasons such large numbers of people were suddenly against Bush. I think if he had supported his own decision the whole way through he would have a lot more respect than he does now. Basically, I think all that stuff I just said has caused some inaction in way of any kind of media support of the war.