Left's hatred blinds followers to progress in Iraq
By: Andrew Dunn
Issue date: 7/23/04 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 7/22/04 at 9:39 PM EST
Last update: 7/22/04 at 9:40 PM EST
Originally published: 7/22/04 at 9:39 PM EST
Last update: 7/22/04 at 9:40 PM EST
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1980: Hussein launched a full-scale war against Iran. During the war, lasting eight years, one million Iranians and some 500,000 Iraqis lost their lives. During this time, international television broadcast the aftermath of an Iraqi gas attack on the town of Halabja; 6,000 Iraqi Kurds were killed. Also, during the war, a French-built nuclear reactor outside Baghdad was nearing completion. Hussein released a statement threatening the "Zionist entity" (Israel) with Iraq's nuclear capabilities. Fortunately Israel intervened with a pre-emptive strike, destroying Jacques Chirac's gift to Hussein.
I hope everyone reading this remembers Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, his post-Gulf War persecution of the Shiites, his draining of the Marsh Arabs' homelands, his harboring of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas terrorist organizations and his $25,000 payments to Palestinian suicide bombers. And let's not forget the years of cat-and-mouse games he played with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Contrary to what people like Michael Moore think, Iraq was a republic of fear. In addition to all the atrocities I've mentioned, Iraq was a country where children were tortured in front of their parents and mass graves littered the countryside.
In time, we will eventually thank the U.S. for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The parallels between Hussein and Hitler are too similar to ignore. The Butcher of Baghdad may have been down, but he wasn't out. It is true that the war hasn't always been managed well. The loss of over 800 American soldiers is saddening, but those lives haven't been lost in vain. Hussein was a terrorist, an ethnic cleanser, an imperialist and had a frightening history of possessing weapons of mass destruction.
Today 20 million Iraqis are free, and despite the hardships they face, are embracing their newfound freedom. Hussein will soon face the justice he denied his people. Maybe then those on the far-left will finally thank the U.S. for doing what it had to do.
Andrew Dunn is a student at the Goodwin College of Professional Studies in the Saturday Scholar's program.
I hope everyone reading this remembers Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, his post-Gulf War persecution of the Shiites, his draining of the Marsh Arabs' homelands, his harboring of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas terrorist organizations and his $25,000 payments to Palestinian suicide bombers. And let's not forget the years of cat-and-mouse games he played with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Contrary to what people like Michael Moore think, Iraq was a republic of fear. In addition to all the atrocities I've mentioned, Iraq was a country where children were tortured in front of their parents and mass graves littered the countryside.
In time, we will eventually thank the U.S. for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The parallels between Hussein and Hitler are too similar to ignore. The Butcher of Baghdad may have been down, but he wasn't out. It is true that the war hasn't always been managed well. The loss of over 800 American soldiers is saddening, but those lives haven't been lost in vain. Hussein was a terrorist, an ethnic cleanser, an imperialist and had a frightening history of possessing weapons of mass destruction.
Today 20 million Iraqis are free, and despite the hardships they face, are embracing their newfound freedom. Hussein will soon face the justice he denied his people. Maybe then those on the far-left will finally thank the U.S. for doing what it had to do.
Andrew Dunn is a student at the Goodwin College of Professional Studies in the Saturday Scholar's program.
tholzerman
tholzerman
posted 7/23/04 @ 1:34 PM EST
Dude, you're way off base here.
I don't doubt the tyrrany of Saddam Hussein's rule, but please, that's not a valid reason to go to war in this day and age. (Continued…)