War still incites opposing views

“I'd hate to see a total throwing of that away. It would be disrespectful to the warriors who have fallen over there.”

Retired physicist Peter Shaw looks at Iraq as a nightmare that must end soon. National Guardsman Mike Wenrick sees an unfinished job.

Their contrasting views frame the charged argument of whether to withdraw U.S. troops as the war marks its fifth anniversary today.

The other day, Shaw looked over a pamphlet that the State College Peace Center handed out in 2002, warning that a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis, cost tens of billions of dollars and erode the international cooperation needed to destroy al-Qaida. Read more