thatlisagirl's Blog

So...going back in time, I remember it was said that our war on terror must take us to Iraq, where intelligence showed that Saddam was hiding WMD and we must protect ourselves from Saddam inflicting any harm within our borders. Okay. Lets go, then... off to Iraq because Saddam wasnt exactly hospitable when it came to allowing weapons inspectors to verify his statement that he didnt have any WMD, and...we didnt believe him. After physically removing Sadaam from his dictatorship, we still cannot find any WMD and our Administration says that "our intelligence says they are there"....so we trudge on, and stumble upon Sadaam in a hole, and also discover mass graves of Iraquis that had been put to death by Sadaam for one reason or another. Voila! We have a reason now to detain Sadaam! And just in time....the government we are helping Iraq set up for themselves has their first set of trials for their former dictator and is sentenced to death and is quickly put to death. Our administration says that we are slowly making a difference to them. The only difference I saw was that Sadaam is no longer able to hurt anyone else and that was a good thing, but not the REASON that we went east to fight the war on terror. But, were any Americans found or rumoured to be in those graves? I didnt hear that. No, Americans became kidnapped, imprisoned, beheaded, bombed, burned and shot AFTER our arrival....to help the Iraq become a democracy and govern themselves rather than another dictator to decide for the citizens.

Onto today, its a great IDEA for a nation to be able to govern themselves and take ADVICE from another nation that is a bit better experienced at it. However, when dealing with a people that had been born and bred to fight since Jesus walked this earth, how can we expect anything different? So far, thousands of the new Iraqui police and soldiers have been fired because they would not fight when called to defend, even turned over vehicles and weapons to the militias they went up against,  wether it be because it was their own people or against their own beliefs or whatever the reason. What if in all of this administrations wisdom, we have trained an enemy against us. Did anyone really believe that thousands of years of breeding will change the way of a people in a few years? Is the constant discord in the middle east surprising at all?

What I see is the way of Iraq going back to the way it always was and those who do not agree with the way of the land will emigrate here or to another country that works better with their belierfs and way they want to live their lives. I think that is the difference wanting something better for a people and expecting them to change a way of life to something that is not theirs.