Why Iraq?
I am just going to state the facts. I will show when I am putting my opinion into the note. Also, this note is meant to be a friendly debate. So watch what you say.
Here are the facts:
- Saddam Hussein supported Terrorism. He was a lifelong Muslim who had a hatred for the west.
- During the 1990s, Saddam gave money to groups affilated with Al-Qaeda.
- He had WMDs. The UN inspectors were only allowed into certain places on Saddams watch.
- Al-Qaeda is not one big group. It is a loose alliance of Terror organizations that have a common goal of destroying out the West. One of the groups Saddam gave money to was part of Al-Qaeda’s system.
- At the beginning of the war, almost everyone including Left-wing politicians were for going into Iraq.
- Saddam’s audio tapes have him talking about smuggling his WMDs across the border to Syria.
- Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Vladimir Putin, the CIA, and Tony Blair all felt Saddam was a threat, supported Terrorism, and had WMDs.
Did we go in for Oil?
Here is how I see it. With the threat of radical Islam in the Middle East spreading like wildfire, the middle east’s oil supply was threatened. Thus the economy of the U.S. was threatened. Bush and the other SANE people left in our govt knew that we had to establish a base there to protect the oil supply and thus our economy. A great side product of that was getting rid of the next worst thing than Hitler, Saddam Hussein. We could attack Al Qaeda from there, protect our oil and our economy, and get rid of one of the most evil people in the history of the world.
Now here is where it gets messy:
The Bush Administration predicted that the war would be swiftly won and not many troops would be needed. After the invasion, the situation worsened and the WMDs were not found. This is where everyone attacks Bush. But as you can see, one of the only problems with the war is that we did not have enough troops for the initial invasion or that Bush did not tell us we were going in also to protect the flow of Middle-East oil.
Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction and was affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Bush did not lie. Also, a side note, not that many Iraqi civilians have been killed. Liberals just make up numbers all the time. The UN says around 55,000 dead. Wow, I guess the New York Times lied when they said that millions were dead. Compare that with the fact that Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of his own people for decades!
By the way, even our Socialist President Mr. Obama says that we need more time in Iraq. What happened to all this getting out of Iraq and “change” garbage he kept spewing at us? Maybe now he realizes that he was wrong and that just running away from a difficult situation isn’t the a good strategy. God forbit George Bush could have been right.
Mr. Obama even acknowledged that our forces in Iraq had “succeeded beyond any expectation.” Mr. Obama also recognized that Iraqis themselves have made significant political progress, and that “there is renewed cause for hope in Iraq.” That’s a far cry from his message of last July, when he told reporters, after visiting Iraq, that “So far, I think we have not seen the kind of political reconciliation that’s going to bring about long-term stability in Iraq.”
He also said “We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein’s regime — and you got the job done. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government — and you got the job done. And we will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life — that is your achievement; that is the prospect that you have made possible.”
Maybe this whole “Change” thing means he will change his mind all the time!
The truth is we are doing a great thing in Iraq. Most of the Iraqi people really do want to be a united democratic nation and already consider America their greatest friend and ally. Most of Iraq’s provinces are under full Iraqi security control, and U.S. forces will be out of all Iraqi cities and towns by this July. So I guess the media was lying about the war. Big surprise there. It would have been a crime to turn tail and abandon them like all the Bush-haters and latte-sipping liberals wanted.
Hence, this war is a necessary evil. We DO NOT negotiate with Terrorrists like Jimmy Carter did. With these people in the middle-east, pre-emptive strike and military force is the only way to get set things right. And thanks to President Bush, we are now one step closer to peace in the Middle-East.
The Al-Qaeda prisoners we have do not deserve human rights. Whatever it takes to get information out of them is okay with me. This is the greatest nation on earth and we need more people like President Bush around.
