The Wars!

Many wars are being waged right now. The war on terror, the war on drugs, and the war on so on and so forth. If you ask almost anyone if war is good or bad they will say it is bad. War is not a good thing, people die and its horrible. I think that sometimes republicans have a crazy notion in their mind that if they hear another republican talking and he doesn't come off like the guy on that history channel show "Mail Call" they are not a real republican. That way of thinking is not smart. I should stipulate that hating war in general should be universal. I don't think that it is good if anyone likes war, actually that is a sick and twisted thing if you actually like war. But hating this war, hating this president, and hating the administration is not a productive road to head down and it only leads to what we have witnessed since the 2000 election, political divide.

You can disagree with the President and not like his policy, but downright hatred of him is idiotic. Personally I don't like war I hate anything where good men and women have to die. But I do think that we are justified in waging war on Iraq/Saddam and Afghanistan. Saddam broke the laws that he agreed to follow far to many times and Afghanistan was the home to the people that attacked us on 9/11. In Iraq things have gone wrong, I realize that. We had bad intelligence. We haven't utilized everything that we have militarily and we put to many restrictions on our troops. If you sent Rocky Marciano into the ring with one hand tied behind his back he wouldn't have a good fight. But after all of this I still think that our mission is good and of worth to achieve. Why? you ask.

I pulled into a parking lot today and I saw a car that had some bumper stickers that were anti-President Bush and anti republican. I to have some bumper stickers (far less idiotic than this persons) on my car, none the less mine don't share the same point of view. I would love it if the people in Iraq could have this. It brought me joy to see that this person has the right to say what she wants to say.

There is a war of irrational ideas going on in America right now and that war needs to stop. I have no problem with a rational pool of ideas that are thought upon and debated by the people and our government. But irrational thought and spontaneous emotional actions will only lead you into a dead end. It desperately needs to stop in Iraq as well as here at home. Granted the degree that we make our emotional decisions on is not as harsh as the people in Iraq, none the less emotion plays a huge part in what the terrorists in Iraq do and I don't want it to get that far in America. I am not saying that emotion should not be present in the decision making process I am just simply saying that people need to think before they spew their ideas.

Freedom is a great and significant cause in the world and worth fighting for. Just like we did in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and in WW2. In all of those wars freedom of some kind was at stake or in jeopardy. And in Iraq freedom was not only at stake it was abolished. Anyone that says that Iraq was better under the rule of the killer and dictator Saddam needs to really re-think their position and fill up their empty head with common sense. Freedom is universal and should be able to be felt by everyone on this earth. Fighting for it is not wrong. Whether we went into Iraq for weapons of mass destruction or not we went in on the basis that someones freedom was in jeopardy.

Everyone needs to know this , most of the time you will not change a persons opinion about any political issue, especially if you are trying to ram it down their throat like so many wacko activists do in this country. Be smart, thoughtful and remember to share a viable opinion with someone rather than fighting with a knife of activism.