At first, I was all for the war since I felt, and still feel it as a partially unsubstantiated fact, that this guy was in cahoots with terrorists, and was a menace due to the WMD issues, and felt a bit conflicted about how he had treated his own people. I now feel I was being too greedy and self-centered. I am not naive enough to disregard the oil issues, but I feel like that argument could have been made in just about any war, whether it was land, oil, or something else (even our forefathers, at least some, fought for personal reasons aside from the noble cause of freedom from tyranny).. Now, once the war started, I felt certain we would rumble across some line and be hit w/chemical weapons, or would find that type of thing all over..but it does not seem like that happened..so I felt badly about the war being commenced.. Then, I read about trace elements of things being found, see the reality of the fact that they could have been dumping it ever since the UN fiascos started, or maybe they are yet to be discovered..or finally proven to exist..clearly, conventional weapons like missiles were there.. It is very sad to know that civilians lost their lives, as well as soldiers, but the fact..the FACT, is that the vast majority of these people are now free.. Freedom is the most valued asset this country (the USA) possesses. To me, that is more valuable than oil, land...even life, people.. That is why many, if not most, of our people are there fighting. I think that even if you hate the idea of war, which is a valid position, you cannot make a well founded argument that this war was wrong. I now feel that this freedom for their people was, standing alone, worth our getting involved. I am wary of fighting fro freedom everywhere, but this is one area of the world where there needs to be more freedom. I hope we split as soon as they get their sh$t together in an minimal form, but anyone who tries to convince anyone else this was a "wrong" war has no real clue about the significance this has. While this war might spawn a hundred Bin Laden's, if it even inspires one Ghandi, with the similar gift of expression and resolve, it will have been worth it..