Why Are We In Iraq? Is There A Chance It Is Strategically Important?

When a decision is made to militarily solve an issue there are questions that must be asked and answered. Some of those most basic ones are, "Can it be won?", "Is there a benefit and to whom will the benefit go?", "Is there a strategic purpose, albeit geographic, political, defensive/threat reduction, control and security, etc?".

In the case of Iraq these questions were asked and answered. The decision to invade was made based upon criteria much aligned with what I have illuminated above and in the case of Iraq it is important to highlight that almost all of the criteria laid out above lead us to an overwhelming answer that to invade was of great benefit to the USA.
There are all sorts of places all over the earth where groups could benefit from some degree of intervention from the USA, but, in the case of Iraq the overwhelming benefit to the USA was determined from that criteria and for reasons of strategic importance due to long years and decades of leaving the Middle East to tend to itself was a failed policy no longer to the benefit of the USA. The Arab Muslim Madman network had become a worldwide threat and if we continued to do nothing we would continue getting what we had been getting.

The middle east needed to be subject to an American presence, history will bear that out. And this is so in respect to the fact that the USA needed to be represented there. The Middle East as a whole had become incapable of policing it's own society of relatively huge criminal elements that had grown to the point of being able to launch massive full scale attacks on a "percieved" enemy for reasons largely founded in deviant religiosity. That is a threat that demands an assertive and decisive act on our part. We needed to deliver an act of assertion that would provide a benefit to those of the Arab mainstream mass poulation that is "good" and not consumed by religious devance and that could provide those people with a voice that they have not formerly been allowed to excersize. The people who do not want to use Islam for an excuse to murder and maim, kill and destroy needed to be brought to the forefront. In order for a people to institute a system of civillity from a tradition of oppression they must have help and the Iraqis pleaded for that help. For twelve years that I know of and from personal experience gained while living in Dearborn, MI and knowing many immigrants from Iraq-many from Baghdad- I have heard those types of pleadings for many more years than the twelve following the Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91. Finally, through the USA, that long beckoned help came. They lived for decades in oppression. It will take time for them to rise to the call and actually trust their new freedom and lern to use it, love it and defend it. They are human though, and they are good people and they will do as anyone else would given the opportunity and the necessary support as they do it, they will thrive and prosper. The greatest enemy they have to that right now is the pessimism from the very streets of the USA. The people here have been free for so long they do not remember that it is a lot of work to truly accomplish a working freedom.
There was never a question about whether or not the outcome of an invasion of Iraq could be successful. The Iraqi Army simply was not very astute. It was no where near as formidable as Saddam had proffessed it to be. They never actually even fought. They resisted, they made trouble and they didn't quite lay down, but, faced with a superior trained and proffessional military...they may as well have presented their arms and preserved what they did have from further destruction.

To ask if there was a reason to oust the leader of Iraq is a fraction of the vast array of questions that resounds with multi-facets presenting a preponderance of evidence that all would benefit from such an occurence. There was-and make no mistake about it 'is'- a web resembling mobster-like proportions consisting of an Arab/Muslim Criminal -if not criminally insane- madmen bent on destruction, chaos and murder. Saddam Hussein was a part of that. There is no doubt he was a criminal, murderer, financier and promulgator of chaos and meditated murder. He was a part of the very amalgamation with which the Arab Muslim criminal network could wreak havoc on the world at their will. It went un-checked and evaded the checks and balances of decent law-abiding society for so long that it had actually grown to the proportions we now see long before the USA began to seek a military solution. It was simply not seen because that is the way terror networks/criminal badguy networks function. They cannot stand in the light of rightful scrutiny. Honestly, do you think that the drug smugglers in the USA are going to don uniforms and gather in one place and yell thru a megaphone that they are now organized and ready to do battle with the good people of society? Of course not. Those of us that find them a repulsive hemorrhagic parasitic tumor on society would not stand for such an exploitation. No thinking person could stand down as our criminals did such a thing. Just because you do not see those elements though, you do not doubt their existence, do you? Again, of course we cannot. The same is true for the good and upright citizenry of the Arab world. There is an overwhelming and well organized tumor growing directly from their religious book and it is doing as it does all the while preaching a doctine of hate and in-tolerance and those criminals are using the Book Of Islam to prop up their doctrines of hate and murder. What makes it even worse is that it is growing as an appendage directly from the walls of Arab society. It Is A Threat to every person in the world and No thinking person can deny that.

An opportunity for a military solution presented itself in the defiant personage of Saddam Hussein- a disciple of a devout Nazi, his uncle. The USA took that option. The people of Iraq wanted it, the man Saddam Hussein in his own behaviour justified it and geo-politically it was an option that presented us with more signs of benefit than absence of benefit when viewed in terms of post 9-11 conditions in the Arab world. Iran seeks nuclear proliferation and preaches a doctrine of Anti-Semitism and Christian hate. He is also a criminal. He was the leader of the hostage takers in the 1979 abduction of the American personnel of our embassy there. He belongs, arguably, in an American jail. In light of all these things compounded with the environment of the post 9/11 world, the USA could no longer stand still like the big clumsy mentally retarded child being bullied by playground ruffians who were not being policed by their own hosting nations. And, we had been forced to stop seeing those being supported by and even financed by those host nations as a low-level threat. Retaliation was necessary and Afghanistan was opportune, but not the heart of the matter. Afghanistan was a nation fallen prey to the radical psychotic Islamic extremists and instead of choosing to back off from the problem in the almost useless conquest of Afghanistan the Government of the USA decided to continue the initiative and flow with decisive action right into the center of the Arab world. We went for the throat, so to speak. It was time to give the rightful Arab people a voice and to do so in a decisive and mighty blow which it no doubt was and it no doubt will be known as.

The only question is, will the USA continue to stand united while her troops do what they so well can do? Will the people of the USA actually get a 'get the job done' spirit and work to help make the world safe for future generations or will we allow fear and fatal second guessing to run us into a corner? The jury is still out on this.
I am beginning to suspect that much as a person wearys of digging all day with a shovel the USA will weary of her labors in the Arab world and begin to look for an easy soft way. I propose that there is none. At least not anymore. I believe that the days for an easier, softer way are long behind us. The Arab/Muslim criminal network has now by far and away grown far beyond what it may have been when this would have been a relatively easy task. For example, in 1979 when it first began to rear its head as a formidable and motivated foe of wide fervor action was justified, yet we stood still and let the psychotic bullies slap us like an abused mentally challenged kid in the playground, again. It has indeed grown much since those days and is not a diminutive problem that would have gone away on its own. There has just been to many years allowed to pass without ever taking a stand, the hate has grown to a highly refined and seemingly to them legitimate doctrine and its driven by religious fervor that shows no signs of waning.
We now face something for more lethal and I propose that we have simply faced that which was inevitable. For us as a nation to sit idly by and watch as the Arab world contends with its own criminal problems is not a reasonable or even sane posture to take. They will by historical precedent not do that in any effective measure and to expect otherwise is a posture not to be taken by reasonable men. No existing evidence supports any such belief. The people of Middle Eastern Arab lands cannot even get along with each other. They kill each other without regard for even children as a matter of course and it is barely viewed as a crime there at all.

To this civillized man from America that is insane. And to stand by and wait for them to do what has never been adequately evidenced would be a practice in insanity by us of the USA.

The problem herein lays in the obvious question, why does the government not simply say this stuff to us? That is a reasonable and valid question. The answers though are so simple they are almost laughable, and the answer is best given as a question: How would a responsible government say this stuff?

The Arab Muslim world loses its collective mind when anyone from outside makes any comments whatsoever that they do not like. It is censorship at its absolute most vigorous and maybe one of the only observable patterns of cohesiveness in the Arab world. If any "infidel" speaks anything that the Muslims do not approve of or see as the truth-whethyer it is or not- they do indeed come together as one body over it, and they then spread havoc. We have seen it so many times that I am not even feeling as if I could like anyone who would ask me to prove this point. They killed people over a damned cartoon, which, honestly I thought was an acidically accurate caricature of the Muslim suicide tendency. Facts are, the Muslim world is in effect some of the worst behaved people on the planet. Sorry. They will surely hunt me over it, but I am old so big deal. They are. They are what appears to me to be united in only one thing. Their general, fervent passionate anger and utter unwillingness to have a good day.

Again. how does a responsible president of the USA actuyally say these things? My God, you wouldn't be able to make enough bullets fast enough and there is not enough water in the ocean to stop them from spreading their wrath. It does make one wonder, if we were all to stand together and say it in unison and outloud unceasingly... would they eventually begin to understand that we actually do see them that way? Why do they think they should control how people speak, think and see them? Why do they so often wish to command from the rest of us how we percieve them rather than take responsibility for their collectively horrible abhorrent behaviours and do something to pro-actively change what they provide us with to see?

America, you have to wake up and learn to look at what is. Looking at what you want to see is not going to get you any place that it did not get us to on the way to 9/11/01. It also will not be to our benefit to sit in big circles and pontificate over the Arab problem. They have shown us that. They simply need to learn another way...and if not us....then who?