Dale,

You need to go back and re-read your own post, because in your words you make it clear that it is the "job" of soldiers to fight and die. If you don't agree, I'd suggest you chose your words more carefully.

You ask if the world is a better place without Saddam; certainly it is, however, the Shrub administration sold this war on under a completely different context. He led this country to believe that we were under inevitiable attack if Saddam were left in power. And that such attack would be that of a nuclear variety or that of a severe WMD variety.

I sincerely believe, if Shrub and his people had told the truth from the start not one of our troops in Iraq would be dead and that our attention would have stayed on Al Queda, where it so rightly needs to be.

Bush and company fabricated our need to be in Iraq. And to top it off, the Shrub administration has NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, shown a true appreciation for human rights. So it is even more obscene they would use such an argument to justify their action while the fiction of Iraqi WMD blows up in their faces.

And really, who knows if the Iraqi people really want us over there? I am more suspicious of such claims when I see the news reports of other countries stating the obvious.