Friday, October 22, 2004
I notice the Top headline in the news:
Video Shows CARE Director Pleading for Life
For some reason this is the top news. I feel for her, I pray for her, I would risk my own life to deliver her from the evil filth who are exploiting her if I were in a position to do so. This is an example of what we are in Iraq to stop. Unfortunately it will take time to substantially decrease this type of activity- probably a decade or more. In the meantime examples of the types of incidents that are currently not happening in Iraq are being ignored.
For example:
Another not so high profile story on the news:
"BAGHDAD, Iraq- The images were shocking.
A trench with piles of clothed bodies packed tightly together. Men, women, little children. Even unborn children. Some blindfolded. Some with their hands bound. All slaughtered in cold blood by the henchmen of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein"
This type of incident is not occuring in Iraq today because of our just presence. Were these people less worthy of life just because they are not British or American? The women were probably crying and pleading for their lives and those of their children as they were brutally murdered. Were their cries of less worth than those of a westerner? Is it not wonderful that so many are living safe from such government sponsored terror and the ragtag remnants of that government can only accomplish this type of evil in ones or twos now.
These type facts have been discovered and reported many times over. These were people, just like the ones down the block. They had dreams aspirations and a desire to live in peace, but according to many Westerners they were beneath notice. They will mutter sure it is terrible, but that is their problem, why should America get involved? after all what are they doing in Sudan, Rwanda, Chile and a hundred other places that the USA has not projected force? Many in the Liberal left seem to scream that we should either solve all the worlds problems or none at all, especially if the country who's problems we are solving happens to have oil...that is the only reason we are there 'cause the DNC says so. Set aside for the moment the potential causes for the war (WMD's, sponsoring & harboring terrorism, Firing at American aircraft enforcing the no fly zones, Defying sanctions, etc...) and imagine that our sole reason for being there was to prevent the repetitive recurrance of the above mentioned atrocities. Would that not, in and of itself, be sufficient justification for being there. The allied and terrorists actions are causing casualties too! spouts the leftist. Yes, they are, but the per annum ratio is less than 7% of what the average human extinction was under Saddams regime and at least it gets reported and is not isolated to the most innocent of the population. To the left winger who also shouts " You greedy capitalist war mongers are just there for the oil and are not helping anyone else who does not have oil and there are 60 other nations with Al queda cells---- I say:
1. Sudan has oil, More current production than Iraq.
2. The U.S delayed through 13 years of violated sanctions and intensive diplomacy prior to attacking Iraq.
3. By the lefts own political position we are engaged in each of those situations through the United Nations and normal diplomatic channels trying to resolve them.
4. There are only 58 other nations with Al-Queda cells now. Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Libya are rolling over like whipped dogs to try and oust them. Many nations infiltrated are already our allies and as for the rest....Watch out, your next if you do not take action.
5. If there were a natural disaster and I were to help my friend next door while another dozen neighbors shouted that I was just doing it for money and not helping the person 2 blocks over while doing nothing to help on their own I would ignore them as hypocritical idiots. The fact is I cannot unilatterally help everybody, it is enough that we are there now helping, we are saving lives, and we are creating a better place for the populace. History will show the justice of our actions.
The poorest 1% of America has more opportunity and support than the average person in Iraq. For those selfish isolationists here who insist on taking care of our own before we worry about the rest of the world I maintain that we already have. If one wants to dismiss the citizens of Iraq as being sub-human and not worth risking American lives to preserve then I can dismiss them as being self-centered and unworthy of consideration in the debate.
Deus es Semper Fideles
Video Shows CARE Director Pleading for Life
For some reason this is the top news. I feel for her, I pray for her, I would risk my own life to deliver her from the evil filth who are exploiting her if I were in a position to do so. This is an example of what we are in Iraq to stop. Unfortunately it will take time to substantially decrease this type of activity- probably a decade or more. In the meantime examples of the types of incidents that are currently not happening in Iraq are being ignored.
For example:
Another not so high profile story on the news:
"BAGHDAD, Iraq- The images were shocking.
A trench with piles of clothed bodies packed tightly together. Men, women, little children. Even unborn children. Some blindfolded. Some with their hands bound. All slaughtered in cold blood by the henchmen of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein"
This type of incident is not occuring in Iraq today because of our just presence. Were these people less worthy of life just because they are not British or American? The women were probably crying and pleading for their lives and those of their children as they were brutally murdered. Were their cries of less worth than those of a westerner? Is it not wonderful that so many are living safe from such government sponsored terror and the ragtag remnants of that government can only accomplish this type of evil in ones or twos now.
These type facts have been discovered and reported many times over. These were people, just like the ones down the block. They had dreams aspirations and a desire to live in peace, but according to many Westerners they were beneath notice. They will mutter sure it is terrible, but that is their problem, why should America get involved? after all what are they doing in Sudan, Rwanda, Chile and a hundred other places that the USA has not projected force? Many in the Liberal left seem to scream that we should either solve all the worlds problems or none at all, especially if the country who's problems we are solving happens to have oil...that is the only reason we are there 'cause the DNC says so. Set aside for the moment the potential causes for the war (WMD's, sponsoring & harboring terrorism, Firing at American aircraft enforcing the no fly zones, Defying sanctions, etc...) and imagine that our sole reason for being there was to prevent the repetitive recurrance of the above mentioned atrocities. Would that not, in and of itself, be sufficient justification for being there. The allied and terrorists actions are causing casualties too! spouts the leftist. Yes, they are, but the per annum ratio is less than 7% of what the average human extinction was under Saddams regime and at least it gets reported and is not isolated to the most innocent of the population. To the left winger who also shouts " You greedy capitalist war mongers are just there for the oil and are not helping anyone else who does not have oil and there are 60 other nations with Al queda cells---- I say:
1. Sudan has oil, More current production than Iraq.
2. The U.S delayed through 13 years of violated sanctions and intensive diplomacy prior to attacking Iraq.
3. By the lefts own political position we are engaged in each of those situations through the United Nations and normal diplomatic channels trying to resolve them.
4. There are only 58 other nations with Al-Queda cells now. Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Libya are rolling over like whipped dogs to try and oust them. Many nations infiltrated are already our allies and as for the rest....Watch out, your next if you do not take action.
5. If there were a natural disaster and I were to help my friend next door while another dozen neighbors shouted that I was just doing it for money and not helping the person 2 blocks over while doing nothing to help on their own I would ignore them as hypocritical idiots. The fact is I cannot unilatterally help everybody, it is enough that we are there now helping, we are saving lives, and we are creating a better place for the populace. History will show the justice of our actions.
The poorest 1% of America has more opportunity and support than the average person in Iraq. For those selfish isolationists here who insist on taking care of our own before we worry about the rest of the world I maintain that we already have. If one wants to dismiss the citizens of Iraq as being sub-human and not worth risking American lives to preserve then I can dismiss them as being self-centered and unworthy of consideration in the debate.
Deus es Semper Fideles
# posted by SGT USMC 1ea @ 10/22/2004 05:14:00 PM 
