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Well, that was then and this is now, Taks. If bush want to occupy that nation, fine, but let him do it without American tax dollars and American troops. I seriously hope that Congress actually gets off their duff and make binding resolutions that will bring our forces home and reallocate resources away from Iraq. The US involvement in Iraq is a failure. Just turn on the news and you can see that.

Were suicide bombers, where up a hundred people being killed and/or injured, a daily or weekly occurance during Saddam's rule? In any case, there will only be peace in Iraq when the Iraqis want it, no later or sooner than that. The only right thing to do now is to leave that country and let the Iraqis make this decision on their own.

What are the specifications of you computer?

*Sand pounces on Muso to shove a donut in his mouth to cheer him up but grabs his freshly laundered linen instead* Whoops, wrong pocket!

If you say so, but I only said that it was more stable than the current situation.

Yes, but its not moddable.

Um... Yeah!

*Sand pounces on Dodger and shoves a Donutland donut down his throat* HI!

And that is what is leading the destabilization of the country. The first step is to force stabilization. Without a stable environment in which people can feel safe in, or at least not have to worry about getting blown up while going to market, there can be no progression towards a more amiable solution. As long as the chaos and destruction is allowed to remain the US will see no significant progress made. Dictators can impose order at the cost of freedom, but one cannot have freedom without order being established first.

Well, the only one that has been released so far would be Oblivion and I already have that on the PC so there is no need to get the subpar XBox 360 version.

Then why has the Bush administration failed to do what Saddam succeeded in? We have a much larger force and support of the local government.

Its $400 USD plus freaking tax, making it about $430. I am not going to spend $430 just to play one game that more than likely will become a PC game just a few years down the road. I made the mistake of buying a console for the sake of one game once. I am not going to do it again, especially on a console that is going to cost me 4 times as much.

It doesn't matter if Saddam's party was the minority or what he did. He was an Iraiqi. An Iraqi dealing with Iraqi business and Iraqi affairs. It was his country, it was the Iraqis country, not the US nor was it the place of the US to interfere, especially interfering on the basis of the false and misleading inteliigence documents that led to the invasion. Unless a country is a direct threat to the US what goes on inside that country is no one's business except for that country's leaders and the population that resides there. Iraq was no direct threat to the US or its allies at the time in which we invaded. The US removal of Saddam has led Iraq into chaos and destruction, with hundreds of Iraqis getting killed each month. It is irrelevant who is causing the destabilizing, may it be Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran, or even Mother Goose. What is relevant that the catalyst for the destabilization that allowed thousands of Iraqi deaths to happen is squarely the invasion which the Bush Administration and Congress are responsible for. The military has failed to maintain control. The Bush Administration has failed in stabilizing the region. Congress have failed to rein in the Bush Administration from going down this path of destruction. The question now is what to do with this mess and the only viable solution lies in the hands of the Iraqis and no one else.

Here I thought it was just gas. (j/k)

It was part of the upgrade process. Next is a DirectX 10 Video Card.

Well, unless I can find a X Box 360 Premium for about $100 USD I doubt that I will get the console. With how much a X Box 360 costs I rather spend that money upgrading my PC.

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Thus you use violence.

The thing it also made a sort of sense. Nanotech was the major aspect of that game and nanotech ammunition would conform to the weapon being used, with only the mass of the ammo determining how much of the base nanotech material was used. Lame game design? Yes. Plausible for the setting? Yes.

Well, here's waiting for the PC version.

Its the old Blue versus Red mentality. Humans are a violent creature by nature and will always be aggressive towards those who are deemed different, may that difference be religion, political views, physical appearance, or whatever.

Religion = evil Whats the main cause of wars, death, destruction and the suffering it brings right now? Religion. If there was such a thing as god/s and I was their god, I would have deserted my flock a long time ago for bastardizing my message of peace and kindness. Convert or die. This is the way of love and peace. I disagree. I think the main cause for war, death, and destruction comes from the fact that humans can't leave each other alone. They have to interfere in everything, even when they have no business or right to interfere in the first place. Religion is just a convenient tool to justify that interference. If we humans didn't have religion we would just use something else to justify such brutality.

Religion is often used to justify one's violent and brutal actions against another who does not share the same faith. Then again, if they didn't have religion to use they would use something else.

Tan... Dragon...

Make up you mind. Or is this more of your tried and true "The US cant do nothin right!"? @astr0creep: There is something to be said for "fighting the enemy there or we will be fighting the enemy here" reasoning. Saddam was an Iraqi, not an outsider. Only the Iraqis will be able to bring stability to their region if they choose it and not any outside power that forces it upon them, may that be the US or not. Do I need to explain everything to you or are you just acting thick-headed on purpose?