exactly...
not every irish man is a member of the IRA, and not every irish man plants nail bombs in pubs in London. but some are, some do...
that doesn't mean that you should hate and label every person from a particular country as a terrorist.
At the same time, not every soldier that is out there is really fighting for peace, and not every soldier there really upholds the ideals that they are supposably fighting for, racism is rife in the armed services.
As for pulling out, I agree with the polititians that suggest that the country is still to instable, I mean imagine what would happen if every piece of stable law in that country just disappeared overnight apart from a few hasitly trained policemen! all that would happen is that the old regieme would simply set up again, or a new regime worse than the old one, some random militant group would just move into the country hoping to sieze power of the people (and money) (and oil).
xguynameddavex do ytou not realise that in killing the innocent civillians (i.e by gunning down children who can't even talk yet) it's actually the US marines who are the enemies of their country, it's the US marines who are killing their brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers. (and sons and daughters and babies).
The people of iraq had no chance to speak up either against sadam hussaions regime (through fear of death), or against the war (they had no political voice).
certainly they didn't have a voice that was listened to even if anything was said!
Paradox, he won't understand, he's got no intention of understanding, if he sees one of these people wearing a turban he'll immediatly think he's a member of the taliban, (desipte the fact that the taliban were ruling in afganistan and not iraq, and despite the fact that sadam hussain was the leader of the baith party and not the taliban, he just sees an arabic man and assumes he must be the enemy...
fanatisism on either side, is a bad thing, but you can't reason with a fanatic!