Re: Dikush te flase per Nicholas Berg!
US Invaded Iraq For
Humanitarian Reasons (Satire)
By Bob Hirschfeld
BuzzFlash.com
5-21-4
Why is it difficult for some people to understand why we went to war in Iraq?
Iraq was involved with 9/11. Well, actually it had nothing to do with the attack but Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Qaeda. Not really connected but he did have contact. Maybe not contact. Perhaps one collect phone call. OK, he had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.
But still Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction it could give to terrorists. Though it wasn't actual weapons but "weapons related program activities" which eventually could build weapons. Even if most of those programs were non-existent shams that Iraqi scientists used to dupe Saddam to justify their employment. OK, forget about the weapons.
The United States had to invade Iraq for humanitarian reasons. Innocent Iraqis were being held in a vile prison and subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. We couldn't stand by and not free the people of Iraq, who in turn would warmly celebrate our action as liberators.
Perhaps they wouldn't actually greet us a liberators but certainly there would be liberation greeting program related activities in which they'd eventually show their gratitude. Alright so maybe a majority of Iraqis now view us an occupying force, are increasingly resentful about this and want us to leave.
But we did the right thing because the Iraqi people are no longer subjected to human rights abuses. Maybe some of them, but it's just because of a few renegade troops acting alone.
Besides, as conservative radio hosts astutely pointed out, it was nothing more than some soldiers having a good time and the kind of thing you might find on any college campus fraternity hazing. Perhaps part of our rebuilding effort should be frat houses throughout Iraq to show citizens there these kind of pranks aren't restricted to prisons.
Plus, as a Republican senator noted, those prisoners deserve to be treated harshly since they're guilty. Maybe not guilty, but certainly suspect. Well maybe the Red Cross reported most of the prisoners were innocent and that the abuses were wide spread. But at least this doesn't reflect immoral behavior the way liberals in Hollywood do in movies that corrupt our society.
Most importantly, we're on a larger mission to spread freedom throughout the Middle East by winning their hearts and minds. So maybe the way we've bungled the management of Iraq since the war hasn't won them over and only stoked hostility toward the United States which may incite more terrorism.
But invading Iraq is part of the war on terror and this has made us safer. Perhaps not safer in a code orange kind of way. And you could argue that the billions of dollars a week it's costing us may have been better spent going after Al Qaeda and protecting homeland security to truly make us safer.
Yet Saddam had to go because he was tyrant. Though there are plenty of other tyrants in the world that we wouldn't try to topple and most of them we didn't previously arm and support as an ally.
But this is all beside the point. We need to stay the course and not let the media make us waver with all their pesky reporting. The reason we're in Iraq is perfectly clear. It was a decision our president had to make and one of the toughest ones he did. Even though at the time we went to war, he said he had no choice, which means that without a choice, it wasn't a decision.
