I am not a flag waiver, unless putting up a flag after 9-11 makes me one.
I am however a son of World War II. The war of our greatest generation. The generation that lost over 250,000 killed in action in a war that lasted from Dec. 7, 1941 to August of 1945 .. just over 3 years.
We fought a terrible man who killed well in excess of 10 million people not on the battle field but in Concentration Camps. 6 Million Jews, 2 Million Gypsy's and reportedly 1.5 Million Catholics. ( Working from memory here )
He killed the handicapped, the deformed, anyone who would dirty the gene pool. He was a Eugenics Believer. (A silly science that actually had its beginnings in the early 1900's in the United States.)
Now we are engaged in a war with people who would do the same thing. Yes, the SAME exact thing that Hitler would do, Ossama Bin Laden and his Wahabi Sect Believers would kill all Jews, Christians, anyone who would not believe in Islam.
Liberals do not understand the enemy. They think that this enemy was born from the mistreatment of Arab nations and peoples in the 20th Century. This is not the case. Our actions in Iraq, Iran, and the rest of the Middle East are not why they "Hate" the United States. WE are not responsible for this hate.
This hatred has its roots in late 1700's Politics and is rooted even further in the history of the middle east.
Here is the description of the Wahabi Sect from the Google Dictionary..
Puritanical Saudi Islamic sect founded by Muhammad ibn-Abd-al-Wahab (1703–1792), which regards all other sects as heretical. By the early 20th century it had spread throughout the Arabian peninsula; it still remains the official ideology of the Saudi Arabian kingdom.
Our self hate and loathing is a waste.
We are winning in Iraq. We are winning the war on terror. While the war has not been fought perfectly is has been fought to win. Al Queda is on the run in Somalia, due in part to the Iraq war. Al Queda is in Iraq, it is pinned down. It has put all of its resources into this war in order to prove its point that the Wahabi Sect of Islam is capable of defeating the Infidels. Failure to realize this will mean terrible destruction and a continuation of the terror attacks on the world. We have no choice but to defeat Al Queda IN Iraq.
I have to wonder if we had fought the Second World War now if we would have won. Would we have bailed over 3100 casualties. We lost 250,000 in World War 2 and we are willing to pull out over 3100 deaths. WHAT MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING to the Wahabi Sect Believers if we leave. Just because there is no ARMY does not mean we are not in danger. The war will come to this country.
Pulling out of the Middle East, Independence from Oil, nothing short of conversion to Islam will end this terror.
Ossama has bet the house and the movement on THIS war.
The press is misreporting and spinning this. The press was against the war and is ONLY looking for information to back their own view. Occasionally they goof and show a soldier or his family supporting the war and what it is about and allow these people to say why. My guess is to say that we need to protect these poor misguided people.
President Bush made a statement the other day. He is not doing his job to be popular. This was a courageous statement. It is easy to rule by popularity and by having some kind of poll taken each week like Clinton did. It is harder to govern and do the right thing when the majority believe you are wrong and your message will not get out.
IF this were World War 2 I suggest that the people of this country would have shut down the New York Times, and the Washingtong Post and lynched many of the current News Media talking heads. Today we just believe we are wrong. WE BLAME ourselves for this.
Sadam Hussein was actively seeking ways to attack the United States. (Soviet Union backs this up)
He was harboring terrorists who had killed American Citizens.
There were 2 Al Queda Training Camps in the country, one was a MOCK AIRPORT set up to train operatives how to take over a plane. It was so good we had planned on taking it in the first day of the war to have a base for our planes. When Turkey would not let us over fly it was discarded and taken several weeks into the invasion.
There were WMD's found in Iraq. The press has ignored this, in order to perpetuate the LIE. (See this blog and information previously reported about WMD)
Sadam had killed hundreds of thousands of his own people and his sons had run RAPE rooms where they kidnapped, raped and murdered women.
Sadam was actively funding terror bombers in Palestine.
Sadam had thumbed his nose at the UN for 9 years.
Al Queda is IN IRAQ.
One more time, they are there because they BELIEVE that if they can defeat our army they can start a movement to destroy Western Nations. WE MUST WIN IN IRAQ, or our children and their children will be fighting for their lives for another Century.
Jim Dicken
