I think I'm opposed to the war on Iraq. I just don't see any point to it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that there are lots of wonderful reasons to fight Iraq. But how relevant are they to the situation? Some people say that September 11 is why we need to go to war against Iraq. I do not see a strong enough connection to merit a war. Hunting down Osama is one thing, picking fights with every terrorist in the middle east is another. There's too much generalization. Some people demand a war against Iraq because Saddam is a terrorist like Osama. Some are committing hate crimes against Muslims because those who started the attacks were Islamic. Why? A generalization is a model for behavior, a pattern, with some exceptions. If there are too many exceptions to the generalization, however, it ceases to be useful, and becomes harmful. Yes, there should be some kind of generalization made about the September 11 attacks; if there is no generalization, there is no pattern, no predictability, no hope of defending ourselves in the future. But so far all people have been focusing on is religion, which has so many exceptions that it can't be considered an accurate generalization. So, why are we attacking Iraq? What is the connection between Saddam and September 11? Is it that he fits into the same category as Bin Laden, that of the "powerful, anti-American, Muslim leader"? But, does that really give us enough of a reason to attack his country? I don't think there's a strong enough connection. We're going from "perpetrators of the attacks on the world trade center" to "Osama bin Laden" to "powerful terrorist leaders" to "Saddam Hussein" to "Iraq". With each step, the connection gets weaker, and by the time you get to Iraq, it's not strong enough to merit killing people. What is the point of this war? Is it to defend ourselves against another September 11? If, in order to defend ourselves, we attack Iraq, Iraq will counterattack. We will most likely lose more lives in a "preventive war" than we would in another September 11. So, in order to prevent future terrorist attacks against the U.S. - to prevent more deaths - we have to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers, and cause more deaths? That doesn't make sense to me. I don't see the point in a war against Iraq. I can't think of any reason strong enough to be worth all the horrors of war. If any politician would give anything close to a straight answer as to why a war is necessary, or beneficial, or reasonable, or rational, I'd like to hear it. What are the reasons for war? I need to decide for myself whether I think those reasons are strong enough to merit killing people. There are so many reasons not to go to war. The reasons to go to war had better be worth it.