[benVFR]

No I wouldn't be crying when they hit us.

I wasn't even really crying when 9/11 happened. It was more like "Ugh that was a long time coming". 9/11 wasn't terribly surprising to me... sorry but that's the truth.

I don't really acknowledge terror as a great risk to American citizens IN THE US. Even with one 9/11 level event a year I know I'm more likely to die of 20 other different things, and more likely to have a friend of family member die of 20 other different things.

It is just not a big enough risk to justify all the soldiers we have lost and all the people we have killed. The difference is those of us who don't support the war do not believe the war is doing any good to stop terrorism. Have other items Bush has done as a reaction to 9/11 reduced the risk? Yes I would say so.. but not necessarily the war. All this does is make more and more people want to kill themselves to hurt the US.

Terrorism has been hyped to no end by the government & press in order to get us to support the war and whatever other invasions of civil liberty, unpopular international actions, etc.. the government would like to do.

Terrorism is so far down the list of likely causes of death for us it's not even funny. Apparently the massive cash outlay to fight in Iraq is worth it... but are the civilians lives lost in 9/11 really worth the military lives lost in Iraq? Are those civilians worth more? Has the loss of military life prevented a future 9/11-level event?

Did Saddam's capture stop a new 9/11-level event in the US?
Did the death of Al Zarqawi prevent another 9/11-level event in the US? Or did it just prevent the deaths of some soldiers who shouldn't be in Iraq and the deaths of Iraqi innocents?