As a fellow liberal, you and I have walked together on this board arm-in-arm in the crusade against the right-wing reactionaries that permeate Aces High.
As defenders of the enlightened, we have survived numerous jokes about blow jobs in the white house, and the "selection" of an even bigger joke, who is now a resident of the white house.
With that being said, I must say that no matter what you think of President-Select Bush, the truth is that his administration is taking the correct action in Iraq.
When you're dealing with a dictatorship that has shown a propensity for trying to subdue it's neighbors(Iran, Kuwait) and willfuly uses weapons of mass destruction on it's own people(the Kurds), it's clear that the world would be that much safer in the long run to have him removed from power.
You may disagree with how its accomplished, but it needs to get done. Left alone, Saddam would eventually either use weapons of mass destruction himself against some country again, or he would sell or give them to terrorists, who would then use them to attack Americans in America.
Don't believe me? Read your history books, and learn from them. While it is clear that Hitler's motives were based primarily on revenge for the injustices of the Versailles Treaty of 1919, it is not so much of a stretch to compare the two situations and view them as similar. We are in a similar situation as the British and French found themselves in 1936, when Hitler gambled and re-militarized the Rhineland. The major difference between the late 1930's and now, is that the agressor nation(Germany) was spending huge amounts of money on their military, and it was becoming more powerful than the two armed forces that could've(and should've) done something to stop it. Today, our military far outclasses Iraq's, and the eventual conclusion of the war is not in doubt.
To sit idly by and let Saddam continue to build weapons of mass destruction for later use against the world would be criminal. To be sure, Iraq poses little or not threat to the world at large today. But since America, Great Britain, Australia and Portugal seem to have learned from history, it is up to us to lead the way and do what needs to be done.
War is a horrible thing. I am no war monger, and in fact I don't even own a gun. I am a tree hugger and whale saver to the core. But I am also a student of history, and a realist.
This war is neccessary, and the sooner we get it over with, the sooner Iraq can re-join the world as a prosperous, peaceful nation. Liberals and Conservatives alike need to join arm-in-arm and support the troops as they are about to do what needs to be done to protect the future of the world.
