Five years ago on March 19, Americans were pinned to the TV sets to watch, of all things, a sand storm. But this was no mere “sand storm.” No, this was the beginning of a war with unforeseeable results.
The second war in the Gulf region in over a decade has been called many things:
“Bush’s Revenge on Saddam”
“Bush/Cheney's War for Oil”
“Christian Crusade to aid the Zionists”
“War to Spread Imperialism”
These are all false, of course. The proper name is the Second Persian Gulf War (a.k.a. The War in Iraq) prematurely labeled as “mission accomplished” since five bloody years contradict such a declaration.
For some reason, peaceniks live and act as if this Iraqi conflict is the bloodiest war ever fought in history. They couldn’t be more wrong and ignorant. Truly the reactions we get from these morons are derived from the “glory” protest days that were the 60s and 70s. “Peace and love” anyone? The thing is that today’s protesters are protesting in a disruptive manner that hurts their cause rather than build up support for it.
How is it that a Christian preacher on a quad of a large university campus can be insulted, maltreated, vilified, and basically run off campus just for trying to spread the Gospel peacefully, but a protester against the War in Iraq can disrupt traffic flow, attack marine recruiters, vandalize private and public property, use vulgar language, condemn our troops and our country, and silence those with opposing opinions? And aren’t these the hypocrites that cry foul about their 1st Amendment rights being “violated?”
These people are trying to resurrect a movement long since dead only because they wish to have been a part of the time of free sex and drugs and lawlessness. Meanwhile we have troops dying out on the battlefield.
Ron Paul is among the list of dissenters demanding we pull out of Iraq no matter what the end result will be because, as Sen. Clinton put it on Monday, March 17, 2008, “we cannot win” the Iraq War. These people along with those America-hating bigots known as “Code Pink” still claim to be supporting the troops! Each of them, maybe not Clinton, has at one point declared that our troops are the terrorists in this war.
They argue our presence in Iraq is encouraging more al-Qaeda followers.
They claim we’re in Iraq for the oil.
They state that America is responsible for the spread of terrorism.
Our men and women in uniform continue to fight in Iraq against brutal animals. They have their hands full wondering if they’ll make it home in one piece much less alive. The last thing they need is for stupid, so called “Americans” to stab them in the back while the troops shoot at their fronts.
We cannot pull out of Iraq.
We cannot give these 70s hippie wannabes their “Helicopter lifting off from Saigon” photo op.
We cannot stop defending our country because the enemy won’t stop trying to kill us.
Like it or not, terrorists have tried destroying Americans long before George W. Bush was born. Bush was the only person at the time willing to answer a threat long gone ignored. He paid for it with his popularity.
No, I don’t like that the President has spent us into an incredible debt, but that wasn’t just because of the war. (Congress got a blank check.)
There are some things worth fighting for. Our freedom must be preserved in order for us as a country to persevere. That is why we must continue to fight.
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