Ok guys, the whole "foreign policy" that's in place has been bothering me for quite some time. For the last 2 hours I have been reading some articles out there, and now I feel sick.

What are your guys feelings about the war in Iraq? I had never supported the war. Why the heck are we still there? To establish a middle eastern military base? Oil? economic stronghold?

In 01, Rice and Powell declared that iraq had no WMD and oppossed NO threat. ( http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm ) Then, how so, did Iraq become this threat after 9/11? Was it because they were "harboring terrorists?" or all the sudden, they acquired these WMDs?

Was invading iraq a plan that was laid out well before 9/11? is this war intended to mark the official emmergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire?

I feel attacks are going to continue from terroists, therefore giving us the necessary reason to attack/invade other nations. Where does this end?

So far over 22,000 civilians in iraq have died.