Why America Must Stay in Iraq

First off let me tell you I have never voted for ANY Bush past or present and I’m proud of that. Secondly, I did NOT agree with going to Iraq to search for fuckin’ WMDs or for OIL (operation Iraqi Liberation) or any other reason, particularly when we had allegedly been attacked by TERRORISTs not by Iraq, Iran, North Korea or any other member of the cartoonishly infamous “axis of evil”.

I do believe that there are terrorist who want to destroy America, but prior to America’s preemtive strike on Iraq they didn’t have the numbers, motives, power or news coverage that they do now. The war in Iraq has possibly made internation terrorism have a united cause.

I actually agree with 94′ Dick Cheney’s views on why it is a bad idea to take Iraq:

So why, then do I think we should stay? I see it as our responsibility to help the Iraqi people out of this chaos that was created by uprooting the structure they had in place. I am not an apologist for Saddam Hussein. I believe he was an evil man who violated the UN resolutions (a violation punishable by war, I might add). And though I think it was a VERY bad idea to unleash this “quagmire” that is now up to nearly half a trillion dollars (at a time when America itself faces a baby boomer social security disaster) we have an obligation to follow through. If we bail on the Iraqi people it will be worse than mere cowardice, it will dishonorable, heartless and above all, it will be betrayal. The same kind of betrayal that the U.S. exhibited in the Gulf War when we abandoned the Kurds and the resistance that rose up when we and many other nations stomped Saddam and got him out of Kuwait.

While I think we should stay in Iraq, I don’t buy into the AM radio, RUSH-Ditto-headed, “We have to win for OUR freedom” BULLSHIT! Its the height of arrogance to pin the successes of a stable Iraq in our hands for our own purpose when all the heavy lifting MUST be done by the Iraqi people. Yes, we will be will benefit by their stability but it is their country. We can help them attain stability, but ulimately success is in the hands of the Iraqis.

What annoys me about the Democrats and main stream liberals rhetoric is that they claim to want prosperity, health and love for everyone, but they want to bail out on the Iraqi people. I mean, yes it was wrong to go! Yes, the Bush administration sucks, but the fact is that we are there NOW and those people are suffering because of our actions.

Leaving Iraq now would be like a hit and run. We could call it “Sucker Punch” Diplomacy. It is sad that only the war mongers that flirt with a nuclear world war III (Guiliani) are the only ones who want to stay in Iraq and even they want to stay because, “We have to win for OUR freedom.”

I believe it is our moral and spiritual duty to stay in Iraq. Not for some BS religious reasons or devious political and strategic reason, but because there are people there (woman and children) who just want to live their lives.