Iraq war justified through liberation of Iraqi people
James Mack, Jr.
Issue date: 4/16/04 Section: Ed-Op
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If you could, imagine you're sound asleep in your bed. You and your family work hard to make enough to get by and all of you play by all the rules. As you're drifting off in your warm, comfortable bed, you hear your front door kicked in. Apparently, the secret police have found out you, God forbid, possibly spoke out against your current president, and they are here to arrest you and your entire family. After being hooked up to a car battery and shocked for five hours straight, the interrogators mercifully decide to shoot you in the head with a 9 mm as your punishment for speaking your mind. But not before your wife is forced into a room with soldiers and violated repeatedly and your three children placed in jail until they become adults, after which they must swear undying allegiance to the government. This, of course, does not happen here in the United States, and it never will. Across the globe, somewhere between the 29th and 37th parallel, there once existed a nation that was subjected to these and innumerous other injustices - until recently. Iraq is now free, and so are its tens of millions of people. The more opponents of the war claim that there were no weapons of mass destruction, the easier it gets to justify the liberation of the Iraqi people. The continuing fight in the Middle East proves to me, every day, that we have freed an entire population from a tyrannical reign that would only spiral the nation downward into an inescapable abyss of oppression.
In response to Elisa Bermudez's commentary ("Shakira's concert about far more than just music, The Triangle, April 9, p. 14"), let's rewind to March 16, 1988. Saddam, unhappy with dissidents, detonated chemical warheads in the Kurdish part of Iraq in the north. Sarin nerve gas was released and killed over 5,000 Iraqi citizens, injured 7,000, and caused the debilitating health effects to ripple through the area even today. In the last 20 years, there have been 10 other recorded incidents of Saddam using chemical weapons to pacify his own people, or launch a military strike against his neighboring countries. Never mind that the Geneva Convention prohibits all use of poisonous or asphyxiating gases during combat. He committed acts of aggression so often and so egregiously that he was a danger to not only the world, but also to people in his own country.
In response to Elisa Bermudez's commentary ("Shakira's concert about far more than just music, The Triangle, April 9, p. 14"), let's rewind to March 16, 1988. Saddam, unhappy with dissidents, detonated chemical warheads in the Kurdish part of Iraq in the north. Sarin nerve gas was released and killed over 5,000 Iraqi citizens, injured 7,000, and caused the debilitating health effects to ripple through the area even today. In the last 20 years, there have been 10 other recorded incidents of Saddam using chemical weapons to pacify his own people, or launch a military strike against his neighboring countries. Never mind that the Geneva Convention prohibits all use of poisonous or asphyxiating gases during combat. He committed acts of aggression so often and so egregiously that he was a danger to not only the world, but also to people in his own country.
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Dan_2000
Dan_2000
posted 2/16/06 @ 1:20 PM EST
You are entitled to your views, however I have a rebuttle to everything you've stated. Everyone knows of the tyranny of Saddam's regime, but have you ever looked at your own. (Continued…)
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