Im just so sick of all of the negativity toward the US throughout this whole ordeal.
One Tuesday morning we woke up - starting our day watching passenger planes filled with our families and friends explode through office buildings filled with hard working people. We watched them leap to their deaths rather than burn alive, we watched the buildings collapse as rescue workers ran in to their deaths to try to save more lives. We watched another plane land in the pentagon, and another crash to the ground carrying more of our people to their deaths.
None of those people did anything to the people who murdered them.
We watched as our enemies paraded through their streets barbarically celebrating the death of innocents.
Did the US rush to point fingers? Did we launch cruise missiles quickly to ease our minds? No, we waited. We determined exactly who was responsible and organize to respond not for vengeance, but for protection. We made the world a safer place by decimating Al Qaeda. We brought food and medicine to Afghanistan.
Many of our allies responded by attacking us for dealing with matters on our own.
Despite the UNs proven refusal to take action thereby giving its policies some weight, we attempted to work with the UN to enforce the cease fire terms for our war with Iraq. Knowing that we must do something about the opinion of the US in the middle east, we continued our attempt to clean up the region by forcing a brutal dictator to live up to his promises. He would not. We then asked the UN to take action, it would not. So we went in on our own, enforcing the UNs resolutions for it.
Our allies attacked us again.
We have brought living conditions to Iraq that far exceed what they were under Saddams rule. Weve poured money and blood into that country so that its people could be free thereby protecting our people.
We have done so much for the Iraqi people, and so many of them are grateful to us for it.
Why is it necessary to focus so hard on the negative? We took a terrible situation and turned it into the liberation of an oppressed people. Why do we have to focus on the actions of a few morons in our military who abused a few of those who would gladly do worse to us, when we can also learn about the schools that weve brought electricity and supplies to and the towns that weve cleaned up?
An example:
One town in Iraq was plagued with raw sewage that soaked the streets for something like a 13 years! We cleaned it up for them.
Were so many people surprised by the prison abuse? Were so many surprised that we would lose troops to car bombs or that some Iraqis that tried to help their people achieve freedom would lose their lives to terrorists? Did we not know that we faced this future when we went in?
The surprises to me are the living conditions of these people, and the help that we have been able to bring them
and the fact that people refuse to see that this war is a war for opinions and those people are the battleground in more ways than one.
the funny thing is its the most liberal leaning rag in philly..talk about iriony. it was pointed out to him very plainly that he's a misguided fool using his own sons misfortune to further his own agenda and that the people he should be calling murderers are the ones holding his sons head up after they cut it off..they where not very nice about it.
