Well, I am REALLY gonna stir up the Hornets nest now, so I imagine as usual this thread will close soon.......

It is ALL about Israel..... You know, God's chosen people and all?
If Israel wasn't in the middle of the Arab world, persecuting the Palestinians and placing all of their immigrating brothers in Palestinian territory..... We would not be doing any of this. I knew a Jewish scholar once (very credible and at a large University) that told me of "The Samson option" which has been policy of the Israeli Gov't since the formation of the Jewish state and the aquisition of the Nuke.... It is a policy that if the existence of the Jewish state comes under question (such as an Arab invasion) and the real threat of them losing their place in the mideast, they will nuke the whole area, effectively keeping their "Birthright" out of enemy hands.
We are so afraid of this option that we will do every thing we can to protect them.
This includes conquering Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc... to show the Arab world that we will conquer them if they don't behave. I doubt there will ever be peace over there, and the quagmire has just begun. Saddens me that we do it for a country (Israel) that thinks they have a "God given" right to occupy what was never theirs and we support that crazy way of thinking.

Ohhhhhhh, I cannot wait to hear whats coming from you folks now..... Just please do not call me "Anti semetic".... any thing else is acceptable....

MC