The Iraqi War

My reasoning about why the Iraqi war is neccecary and we need to stick with it.

No matter what our opinion about the war in "Iraq is, positive or negative, there is one complete truth that everyone must accept - It is happening. I am for the war in Iraq, and before you shut me out and say, "He's a violent bastard who supports war!" I want you to hear me out.

Like I said earlier, no matter if we're for the war or against it, it's still going on. And while the liberals and conservatives fight it out tooth and nail in Congress and the Senate, our troops struggle to stay alive. I blame both parties for that.

On the conservative side, it's our fault they're there. But we're there for a good cause.

On March 16, 1980, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked by Saddam Hussein with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more. [Wikipedia, http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/18714.htm]

So far Saddam's murder count is at 5,000.

In 1974, the Department of General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) was set up in Iraq. It was most feared and commonly known for torture and assassinations, and was headed by Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's younger half-brother. I have not found a reliable source of how many people were tortured and executed, but I will continue my search.

From 1980-1988 was the bloody Iran-Iraq war. Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizeable Arab minority, on September 22, 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq. United States policy was to support neither side and discourage other countries from doing so during this time. The war ended with approximately 1.7 million deaths from both sides. [Wikipedia, need more reliable resource. I'll keep you posted.]

Now Mr. Hussein's hands are very bloody, with and approximated 3,405,000 deaths. And the liberals in office say we should pull out because we have reached the death count of 9-11?

Now on to the more fun stuff.

I'll use my weakest argument first. If we leave Iraq now, we look weak and divided in the eyes of the rest of the world. North Korea, Iran and China will be all over us, trying to take advantage of that weakness. "Hey, they can't hold onto Iraq, so maybe we could pull of..." Yeah. Not a pretty thought.

Now may I ask you a question? Well, here it is. Does a weapon of mass destruction have to be nuclear? Because in my humble opinion, anything that can cause more than 100 deaths is mass destruction.

On April 14, 2003, Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakley announced that 11 mobile chemical labs capable of producing chemical and biological weapons were found buried south of Baghdad. Since I'm mainly independent, I have no problem with saying the whole truth - no weapons were found in the labs. But, if they had enough time to bury the labs, wouldn't they have enough time to get the weapons out of the labs? [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.labs/index.html]

In addition to that, eight mobile chemical weapons labs were sold to Iraq from Germany in the late 1980's. [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/846588/posts]

So let's examine what I've stated so far. Approximately 3,405,000 dead, genocide on the Kurds, 11 mobile weapon labs found buried south of Baghdad, and a record of eight being sold to Iraq. Let's add more, shall we?

The number two General in Iraq's air force, Georges Sada, wrote a book called "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied And Survived Saddam Hussein", and in it, he states that, "Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people...I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. Iraq had some projects for nuclear weapons but it was destroyed in 1981. (When asked if there was any chance there were nuclear weapons or on their way to nuclear weapons when USA invaded, he said): Not in Iraq."

So now even a top military general says they had them? I think we've got a reason to be in there. We needed to get Saddam the dictator, the murderer, and the genocidal "President" out of there.

Well, that's about all I have to say, and I hope and pray I have made my point clear. Thanks for reading!