Why Did We Go Into Iraq?

My liberal friends ask me "Why did we go into Iraq?" I think the short answer can be find in the picture of Bush holding the 13 yr old little girl who lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11. The look on Bush's face says it all.......Never again. Never again.

But here is my answer. Saddam and the hi-jackers are two sides of the same coin. Both believing that America was the enemy and both seething with rage toward our country, our democracy, and our freedom.
9-11 woke us up to a region of the world we could no longer ignore, We could no longer ignore the festering hate toward America that had spread in the middle east. We could no longer ignore the cult mindset of a warped Islamic faith. We could no longer ignore the breeding of monsters so mentally sick that they would send their own children to become weapons of death.

The natural instinct of humans to protect their young disappears into a fanatical evil where children are nothing more than a means to murder and mutilate the innocent.

Nor could we ignore the deep anger and rage of Saddam. We could no longer ignore his ability to seek revenge for thwarting his attempt to invade the region. Not because he had anything to do with planning 9-11, but because he shared with them the hatred of America and the mental sickness to extend that hate into the action of murdering Americans. No one argues that Saddam would have attacked us if given the chance.
Bush was simply never going to give him the chance.

In invading Iraq and taking down Saddam there is no doubt that we stirred up a hornet's nest. We had attacked and killed the enemy in Afghanistan. The monsters are enraged and like a rabid pit bull they will snarl and tear at the fabric of freedom until they are killed.

What we are seeing in Fallujah is what Bush called taking the fight to the enemy. Our brave warriors fight the good fight and it is never a pretty thing. But history shows us that some things are worth the bloody battles we fight. We have raged against tyranny, slavery, and hate before. The path of freedom is difficult and we are humbled by those who fight in our place, who rage against the evil that threatens our world.

That's my answer. You may disagree, but that is my view. At the heart of what we conservatives believe is that freedom, ours and theirs, is a God given right that cannot be torn from our hands by evil.