# Who wants war with Iraq?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-war-with-iraq/126347>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-war-with-iraq/126347 "2002-08-30T19:04:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flowers)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-war-with-iraq/126347/1 "2002-08-30T19:04:14Z")

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I did run a search for this in the last 30 days but I came up with nothing, so I hope noone has done this already. The rhetoric that’s been flying around the last few weeks has been getting pretty heavy, IMO, & I’m just curious, why so many of the people who are advocating a [war](http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html) with Iraq have never [fought](http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html)in a war themselves, even though the opportunity was there.  
It is all very easy to stand before a hand-picked audience & thunder [Iraqhasweaponsofmassdestructionandatotalitariangovernment](http://www.progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html) when noone in the liberal media asks you how that came to be.  
War is a frightening thing.  
The men & women in the military do a dangerous & unglamorous job for a ridiculously low salary, & they deserve better than to be treated as mere tin soldiers to be pushed around on some swaggering dictator’s stratego board.  
I am glad my husband is retired from the army. I fear for my stepson’s life. He is a Marine. He has honor.