War- Does It Scare You?

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I have all kinds of friends and relatives in or on their way over there, so the prospect of the loss of someone close to me concerns me greatly.

* I wonder if the American people really know how long we're in for. I fear - and I could be wrong, but it's my fear - that this is not going to be 40 days and 40 nights of bombing followed by a "war" that lasts less time and inflicts fewer US casualties than the Tet offensive. Beyond that, we'll have major forces in the region for YEARS. The whole Kurd/Suni/Shite conflict is not going to be settled in a few months of occupation. I also expect that alQaida and others will lash out at the U.S. and its allies

* I was watching Buchannan and Press on MS-RNC this morning, and they had a talking head from the Republican party on. I came away from the interview thinking of The Guns of August . It almost seems as if the U.S. is putting into motion a scenario where we "HAVE" to go to war at a certain time simply because the plans call for it. I find that disturbing.

* I'm not sure what annoys me more - the professional leftists dragging out all the trite "stop the war machine" slogans from the past, or the "No Nothings" making the claims that those demonstrating for peace this weekend are "giving aid to Saddam." Equally moronic, I suppose, and equally annoying.