Another Reason

Another reason that we went to war is very simple. Saddam was an evil and he had to be removed. There is an old saying: "if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Saddam was a homicidal dictator who killed hundreds of thousands of men women and children. One of our interpreters told me a story of how Saddam visited a school as part of a photo op. When he asked a little boy if he knew who he was, the boy replied “you are the man whose picture my father hits with his shoe. Saddam had the father rounded up and shot in front of his son.
This is the same guy that used chemical weapons, supported terrorism and invaded two of his neighbors. Should we have sat idly by and do nothing? Just look away and pretend bad things aren’t happening? What would that say about us as a people? Should we have issued some more sanctions? That worked so well in the past. Maybe reach out to him and try to understand that his underlying hostility isn’t really his fault and he is lashing out…blah, blah, blah…Doing the right thing is sometimes difficult and painful. We are the world’s loan superpower and with that comes great responsibility. If there are Americans out there that think we should look the other way and appease evil—consider moving to France—they’ll love to have you.