I've never felt that I was a pacifist. If there was a good reason for going to war I've always thought that we should go into it wholeheartedly and to win. It's just that the past few wars seem to have either no reason for happening or a horrible reason. We don't have wars today to defend our loved ones or our country. We go to war today to display to the world how dominant we are. I don't mind dying for a just cause such as protecting my homeland but I don't want to throw my life away just so that Dubya or people like him can show how we can dominate a group of people. Take this current war as an example. We did not go into it to protect America. Now that we are embroiled in this mess attempting to turn a country of people living in a 1500's world of feudalism into a modern democracy, what are we really trying to accomplish? The people of Iraq do not want to become a democracy. They do not have the will or attitude to become a democracy. As soon as we leave they are going to fall back into their pattern of feudalistic factional infighting that they have been doing off and on for thousands of years. They are living hundreds of years in the past and nothing we can do will change that. Every life we lose over there is a testament to the futility of our policy and a waste.