I'm curious, of course I know the twins are safe and sound, but does anyone know if any of GW's Cabinet member's children are in Iraq? Since practically the entire world opposes this war, wouldn't it be a good faith gesture if the people who started it would put their own children in harm's way for such "a noble cause"? Or are those kids "special"? Seems like it would do a lot for the moral of the people who are over there, not to mention the parents of those who are in Iraq.

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"Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him." Luke 8:25

Well seeming as though Bush recieved and maintains majority support for the war, you assertion that 'the whole world is against this war' is wrong.

Also, if none of the cabinet members children are militarily trained or if they would not be able to cope with the pressures of war, and few people can, then what use would they be to the army?

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They support us staying, however, so we can fix what we broke.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in930772.shtml

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well maybe not cabinet,but i know that out of the hundreds of congressmen,only 1 has kids in iraq.....

The 'World' did not elect George W. Bush, nor do I recall the 'World' giving sanction to his war adventures.

An estimated 60 million people 'world'-wide did publicly protest against the imminent war on February 15, 2003. I was one of them. We recognised the sabre-rattling of the administration for what it was; others swallowed all this bluster whole and preach to us now that there was no way of knowing then that the justifications used for war were all untrue (Colin brandishing fake anthrax at the UN, indeed! - reminiscent of the crassly transparent antics of medicine show charlatans).

I am not aware of how many millions marched, 'world'wide, in support of the war.

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I appologise, I am behind on the latest opinions of the American people seeing as though I live in another country.

To nawbut: I recognise that not everyone supported the war, I didn't and don't support it, I was simply saying that the whole world wasn't against it or else it would never of happened. I thought you would have known that I wasn't supporting the war.

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is kind of a big thing! Americans don't generally care much about what the world thinks unless it hits the economy in some way. I would guess if you polled every last country on earth (I guess it's over 130 now or something) most would vote they don't really care and never gave it much thought.

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I had myself marching in '2001' - typos happen!

As far as being against the war; its not a criminal offence to have been in favour of it, y'know? Just evidence of irredeemable dimness

The US was going to pursue its policy regardless of 'the world', a second resolution, Blix, the UN inspectors, the marching hordes, cautioning friends, reality....

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

If they are not militarily trained they could at least tour the camps and do humanitarian work. You know, visit the troops and give them pep talks, stay busy organizing functions to boost moral and just flat be visible, and I don't mean just go over one day and go to the safest spot (if there is one) for a publicity stunt, I mean go over and stay until it is finished, like Bush and the puppet masters say the troops have to do. Why shouldn't they do this? Oh, uh, is it too dangerous you suppose? Is there no safe place in all of Iraq? If it was a winnable war, there would be a safe place. Hell, democracy isn't going to fix that country, nothing will fix that country now except to let them have their president backand get ourselves out. Those people need to fix the problems between themselves. And I bet Saddam could send those insurgents running for tall timber.

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"Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him." Luke 8:25

Why don't you? Why should the children of these people have to do anything, how do you know that they aren't against the war?

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison