My questions after 2005

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I've been thinking about the state of our country, and I honestly don't have the answers to the following questions (from a country point of view):

1)Why was Afghanistan acceptable to attack, but Iraq was not?

2)Are we truly at war?

3)Is the Patriot Act a good thing?

4)Which is more important: our lives, or our freedom to live them the way we choose?

5)Why is Iraq so important?

6)What is our goal?

7)Four years later, have we overreacted to 9/11?

8)Have the lives we've lost in Iraq been less than the lives we've saved in doing so?

9)Is this a temporary state, or a new paradigm of America?

10)Are things better?

I realize that many of these questions are unanswerable. Frankly, I'm just bewildered by what's happening in our country. It would seem that no one remembers we will be electing a new President in two years, and that much of this will change(barring we elect Cheney). I just don't know what's happening. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]