The plan is, from what I have seen on the news, is to hand Iraqi over to its people in June. Coalition Troops (Hopefully it will not be just Americans and British by then) will stay as a police force to protect the citizens. Hopefully they will not be there for long and Iraq can be truly free.

I am a Pacifist at heart. I would love to see a united world working together to settle Mars and explore space. I would love to see all the resources humans put toward war be used in Space exploration, and settlement. Can you imagine, Raoul, what the human race could accomplish if we could do such a thing! Such a wonderful thing! Insted of fighting over this world, we could explore and settle new worlds. That is what I want...what I dream about.

But I am also a realist- 9/11 did that to me (Before 9/11, I thought we were almost there). I know the Earth is not at that point yet, and will not be until places like the Middle East, North Korea, and parts of Africa join the rest of the modern world with basic human rights. Until then, unfortunately, war will be a tool to tame those places on there Earth where freedom is viewed with disgust, and human lives have no value.