Thanks for the response.

As far as Afghanistan, responding to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 didn't make us warmongers. But Iraq? The whole world despises us for how we handled that. We went in there based on lies and faulty intelligence. We still have no proof Saddam had any ties to Al Qaeda. If anything, it appears his regime despised them and was a force holding them at bay. And WOMD? There were none. Our leaders lied to the American people to get them into the war, and that is inexcusable no matter what the justification. Bush could've at least said, "We think Saddam Hussein is a bad, bad man who treats his people horribly, so even though we put him in power we're going to attack him and his nation at the risk of killing thousands of innocent civilians so we can put him to death."

As far as the immigrants, the problem is... some shouldn't be immigrants. During the Great Depression, a lot of Mexican-Americans were forcibly deported to free up jobs for Caucasians. Ironically it is now their children who are forced to hide out because they lack citizenship. Furthermore, a good chunk of Southern USA was stolen from Mexico during the Mexican-American war in what Lincoln and others called horribly unjust.

As far as the crime rate associated with illegal immigrants, that is a clear problem. I would like to see them given a path to citizenship that deals with the problem via means of a probationary period where crimes at a certain level would be punishable by deportation, extended sentences, or military service. Furthermore, another possibility would be the earning of citizenship for one and one's immediate family via military service.