WAR is WRONG... BUT ARE WE RIGHT?

The disparity over the war in Iraq is unsettling. We have a dysfunctional view of how it's going and what we are supposed to do about it. We all hate to hear the stories of our boys dying daily, yet to look at the figures accurately our losses are nothing compared to those of the "enemy." Theirs are in the hundreds of thousands. We have killed so many they don't even quote numbers anymore.

Getting out of the situation is America's loudest gripe, but don't we remember that we were attacked? Right on our own soil?

Don't we understand that the people that attacked us trained right here in our country to do the horrendous deed. That many sat in American homes, dining at our tables going to school learning our culture, picking the minds of the professors, and attending church, some sitting right next to us, calculating their nefarious plan of action and then on that faithful day set out to destroy the very people they pretended to like?

Is all of America naïve blind or just forgetful and unmindful to that fact?

Why do we insist on getting out when common sense says stay and fight to get it done completely? Ah, but there is the rub... will it ever be done completely?

See, that is the dilemma I think many have with the fighting. It has gone on so long now that they do not see an end. They see the fighting on television and the number of young soldiers killed in action and at random bombings and fear for those who might be slain next.

Never mind that {sic} the enemy is teaching their children starting at six years of age to hate our guts and think about wiping us off the face of the planet when they get older. Never mind that Iraqis television has commercials decrying anything American and depicting us as the evil giant who must be destroyed.

The President isn't wrong... he just doesn't know what he's doing. His hope is for the long run and that what he's doing will keep the "enemy" from encroaching on our territory again in the future. I applaud him for those thoughts, although I think that his plan will escalate into a nuclear war if not curtailed and brought back into the perspective of stopping those in charge of these maniacal terrorist.

This confrontation is more about politics than it is about winning or losing. We were once led to believe it was about oil, but with the Iraqis and all off Europe experiencing the same disparaging reports of high oil prices for themselves we can easily see that is not the case. It's a power struggle sure enough, and Bush isn't one to let anyone think that we are not the strongest.

We may still be the most powerful nation at the present, but the strongest, I don't know. We still have so much strife and dissention among ourselves that I sometimes wonder how does that make us a strong country when other countries unite against us with a mind-set that we are evil. We (America's United States) go about preaching love one another and that all is right with the world on our side of it, although in it, poverty thrives, hunger in a land of plenty is rampant and we still allow a disparate equality that puts young black men in chains just for being B.I.P. {black-in-public}.

The war is not wrong. The war against tyranny, against breaking the backs of a people and putting them in a subservient role is never wrong. The fighting is a necessary evil toward the expectation of a world where war will be no more... if the ones who want war can be stopped.

We should be focusing on our own needs around the country we live in and not the lifestyles of the far and foreign. It is America's backyard that needs the most cleaning, and with that purges ourselves of the vices that keep those across the waters wanting to hurt us.

Unless you live on another planet, you know the problems we have in the United States, and I love it dearly and am proud to be here and appreciate my country but were I to go into all of the atrocities that go on in America, that would be another article in and of itself, so let's know we got work to do and ours should be first.

We've got to keep fighting; there is no reasonable doubt about that. They want to destroy us... "Wipe us off the planet" their very words. And we want a peaceful negotiation with their nation that will allow us to keep face and retain the economical advantage over its people that will also allow the rest of the world to see that we just didn't go in there disastrously.

What's a country to do? War is wrong if it is to force ideology upon an unwary and unwilling people(s), and we cannot allow that. Yet, we don't want to be a nation that tries to control others. Our form of government and ideology should speak for itself. We want our country to stand as example to the world that we are a people united and that although not perfect, ours is the best system to achieve that goal of freedom for all. And they must be made to understand that to choose any other way would be wrong.
Because we are right... aren't we?