Why did Saddam have to go - why did we have to stay?

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These questions have been asked for a good long time and while some may feel this is a dead issue, I think it is very much alive when I hear Obama and his ilk claiming the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war and a wrong war. Stepping around the facts that Obama has a tendency to suck up to our enemies and ignore our allies – we need to address WHY in fact Iraq was a ‘good war’ on par with Korea and WWII.

I mentioned how we saw the horrors of Saddam years before we actually invade, and we saw those struggling for Democracy crushed under his brutal heel, at the allowance of our own country – but that is beside the point. What is the point is that while in WWII we had only an inkling of an idea of the horrors, we did know what Saddam was doing.

We also know that he was buying off the terrorists who were blowing up Israel. I can understand the argument – well they didn’t seem to be blowing up American cities. My response – and Hitler didn’t get the chance to start killing American Jews – just the ones he could get his hands on then. Where do we stop evil? This is the real question.

Do we stop evil at the border, or do we go out and stamp it out where we find it. A brief lesson in history – President Washington cautioned us against getting entangled in foreign wars. Well, Washington was also a president of a country that had struggled to survive for the previous ten years, and would still face a century + of turmoil and tribulations.

The America of today is a vibrant, mature member of the world, and is in fact the leader of the world. We are threatened by various members of our world, and in fact the argument could be successfully made that other countries such as China and the former Soviet Union are more ‘clear and present’ dangers to our way of life. But they’re not up at bat yet. The bad guys we’re facing are the terrorists who wish to plant suitcase nukes in our cities and deadly spores in our malls.

Saddam supported these terrorists and therefore he had to go. Notice that when President Bush started to point out the terrorists regimes out there, how they became wobbly kneed and were started pumping out rhetoric because of their fear of an American Smartbomb. And so they should be afraid, because the only thing deadlier then an American Smartbomb is the AMERICAN SOLDIER!

As for why are we still in Iraq – we are still in Germany – we are still maintaining bases there. Are you really so naïve to think that we would be leaving Iraq in a couple of months? Yeah – let’s change the government and – then we’ll just leave them to their own devices. This is the Democrats argument – walk away and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.

Hope you learned something – if not – too bad. Leave the light on for the next person who wants to learn.