The War

I was watching the news this morning, and they were talking about a soldier who died in Iraq. He put his helmet over a grenade that was going to go off to save the others. I don't agree with the war, and personally I don't see why we went over there, but now it's like we're stuck there because we did go over. The really sad part is that you have people like this soldier who died- doing good things and then you have other soldiers accused of being abusive and doing horrible things in war (which I'm sure some of them probably did, how do you expect people to act when they are trained to kill? ) Anyways, this just brings up another reason why I don't agree with it- you watch the news and see all these soldiers killed- most of them in their early 20's-it's one of the saddest things I've seen. The government says they are over there defending democracy.....when was Iraq accually ever proven to be a threat to us? And since when has the government of the US actually lived up to all the ideals we claimed- with the motives we claimed? The US is hypocritical just like most other countries. We do some good, we do some bad. I just think it's sad that so many people have to die, US soldiers, other soldiers from countries that only sent them because we sent ours, iraqi's who didn't necessarily do anything. They aren't all rebels, I'm sure there's been many normal citizens killed, there always are. We created chaos in a country, which was better, how it was, or how it is now? Well, we can't go back. And all this because they(the soldiers) were told to go to iraq- and they obeyed. Obedience is costing them their lives, and we hype up and glorify the war by saying they are defending us, defending our liberty. War shouldn't be hyped up, it shouldn't be promoted in any way- it's horrible, that's all it is, and I wish it didn't happen. I feel bad for the soldiers, and unless they're the ones doing horrible things, I'm not going to critize them, but I'm not going to promote what is going on over there either with a surge of nationalism. I'm just going to feel sorry for them and hope they come back alive, and not so scarred by war that they can't really live. As for the president, it's not my place to say whether he was or is right or wrong, I'm sure he knows the answer- and he has to live with it. What will the history books say about this 50 yrs, 100 yrs. from now? will our "defense of freedom" still be 'glorious' then? I wonder.