The question we should be asking is whether the American people have the collective will to persevere, to finish the job of giving the Iraqi people freedom from fear and tyranny. The removal of Saddam Hussein from power was the stated, bipartisan goal of the United States government. An imprisoned Saddam Hussein now awaits trial for his genocide. He recently has admitted to his responsibility in the murdering of thousands of Iraqis.
In the weeks preceding the US attack on Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Pres Bush asserted that "a new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the world." Chace claims that if presidential candidate John Kerry intends to challenge the democratic imperialism of Pres Bush, he would do well to reflect on the history and resurrect the wisdom by the "wise men," who came to the fore during the Second World War and were realists who understood that unilateral power had its limits.
Critics of the Iraq war are fond of calling soldiers an "occupation force." This label troubles me, since it ignores the noble reason our brave men and women are serving there. I am reminded of the sentiment of Nathanael Greene, one of George Washington's brightest generals, who wrote: "We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our own private interests, but for the public security." Our fighting forces are not there to annex a country for some imperial strategy, but to offer Iraqis a chance to build a new government of freedom and democracy, and make the world safer from the terrors of an uncivilized regime such as Saddam Hussein's.
Operation Iraqi Freedom caused minimal military and civilian casualties and scant urban destruction - less than 6,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed.2 Furthermore, the destruction of the Saddam Hussein regime released Shi'ites and Kurds from the shackles of Sunni dominance, and this translated into retributive violence and tribal confrontations. Yet, the Office of Military Government, United States, in Germany adapted its policies to the circumstances on the ground.\n * A very limited de-Baathification program, restricted to the upper echelons of the Saddam Hussein regime involved in the planning and execution of genocidal campaigns against Shi'a and Kurds. * The suppression of insurgents in the center/ north zone by Iraqi armed forces, security services, and police supervised by coalition...
The United States can help Iraqis achieve a peaceful, freedom- loving, democratic society - if that's what they want. In toppling Saddam Hussein from power, President Bush presented them with that opportunity. On the other hand, U.S. troops cannot stop the slide toward civil war, if that's what the Iraqis really want.
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Supporting the troops is the right thing to do, but supporting a failed president is something else entirely. Try as I might, I can't find many things President Bush has done to deserve being re- elected. I'll give him credit for going after al-Qaida after Sept. 11, 2001, but the Bush administration's failure to heed the warnings of many in the intelligence field prior to Sept. 11 was an extreme failure. Now, I'm not claiming that would have prevented Sept. 11, but not seeing the warning signs or ignoring them is unacceptable. In Iraq our troops are fighting the good fight for freedom and democracy. They have freed the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein but now their country could be on the verge of a civil war and the United States plans to hand over power to the Iraqis on June 30.
...He does explain the fact that Saddam had used WMD before on Iranians and Kurds and that... consider that invading Iraq would divert from American pursuit of OBL and the destruction of al-... Saddam's well-documented crimes to a "freedom agenda" for Iraq and the Middle East. For Rumsfeld...
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