I was too young to confront the choices of that time directly -- I was in the last group who got draft numbers in that old draft, but no one from our year was actually drafted. But I saw it all on TV, and will always remember my dear departed father screaming at the TV during news shows -- he was a big Nixon backer, and a pretty strong hawk. I remember how as a boy at first my beliefs pretty much followed his, but over time I started to shift toward opposition to the war (as was much of the nation). I read the "New York Times editorial (registration required)":http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/15/opinion/15SAT1.html just now. I am no fan of Saddam. And if there is real evidence of weapons that can endanger us there, we do need to act. But I am still skeptical of the Bush administration. Are they really telling the truth? Back in Vietnam days the government did plenty of lying to bolster it's case -- including fabricating the key details of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that semi-legitimized the war. How do I know that the administration is not telling lies now? Moreover, I think there is a big difference between acting as a group of nations against an aggressor, and going in alone. Acting as a community does not ensure perfect decisions, but if we as the world's biggest superpower feel the right to "fix" a situation this way, what about all the other nations with a grudge? If somehow invading Iraq could magically make us all safe from worries about terrorism, I'd be for it, despite all these reservations. But I see no evidence that this war will make us safer. The terrorists are all over the world, funded from many sources (including I am certain some of our "allies" in the Middle East). Supposing we oust Saddam -- who will rule Iraq? It's probably going to pretty much be a U.S. puppet government, which will probably fall to Islamic fundamentalists unless we continue to occupy the country. In the process, many civilians will die. And our economy, the biggest source of strength for the free world (and I honestly believe that) will continue to tank. Bottom line is, we're big but if someting has to be done here we need the support of much more of the world, and we have to figure out how to get it -- or better yet, find a peaceful way out of this). And if I don't start feeling that my government is really listening on this, I might be out in the streets myself.