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There are a number of things that I have issues with in your arguments.

First, we were in debt long before the Iraq war started. If I remember correctly, we've been in debt since the Civil War, if not before. It's been fixed before, but never entirely and never for a long period of time. Government spending--part of which goes to the Iraq war, yes--is the main issue there, but not all the money goes to the Iraq war, or even the bulk. The government's trying to control everything and help everyone, and that's just not possible. Especially since people don't want to pay more taxes, even though they want more welfare and help and whatever else. Government is a give-take process: To give help to people, it needs money. If people want lower taxes, they have to expect debt. And I'm relatively sure we'll never be able to fall down to third-world country status, unless one of the countries we're currently in debt to decides to be vindictive and call in their debt. Odds are slim for that happening, because some of those countries (especially China) are dependent on the US for a lot of its jobs (outsourcing, anyone?). Plus, we're already an industrialized democracy. We can't become un-industrialized. Third-world countries are generally mostly unindustrialized, which is what makes them third-world. But I digress.

Second, gas prices have absolutely nothing to do with the war and everything to do with oil companies being greedy.

I like how you mention how many US soldiers died in the last five years or so, but made no mention of the amount of Iraqi people have died. Not soldiers, but civilians, too.

I'm relatively sure Bush Sr. wasn't friends with Hussein. He just ignored him instead of taking steps to remove him from office.

Last point (this one's important): Bin Laden had nothing to do with the Iraq war. We went into Iraq because Bush convinced the Senate that they had WMDs. The government knew that bin Laden was in another country back then and probably now. 9/11 had nothing to do with the start of the war. All it did was let Bush get away with invading another country with less restriction and little to no opposition at the time. 9/11 shouldn't even be brought up when talking about the Iraq war, in my opinion.

That said, I have no real opinion either way on the Iraq war. n.n"

I'm sorry.. but Muslims are not supposed to attack Christians. There's no reason why Muslims are supposed to. You may be asking, "Then why they attacked America?". Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know why. I don't understand why. I don't think just because there are differences in religion, it's a reason good enough to start a war. There must be more behind all this things.