I've read the commentaries about the evil U.S. government, the incompetent U.S. president, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the lies that got the U.S. into the war, how the U.S. bungled the war, the thousands of innocent Iraqis the U.S. has slaughtered, and on and on and on. For some people, America is always at fault and the reason for all the suffering in the world.

These people either don't read at all, they limit their sources to other like-minded writers, or they just don't think. The war in Iraq is a fight for humanity. It is a fight for our children and grandchildren. It is a fight to rid the planet of the scourge of terrorism. The timing is right, the cause is right, and at least initially, the methodology was right. Unfortunately, it has been watered down by these anti-bodies, people who can't see past the end of their noses and are "anti" everything U.S.

The war in Iraq rid the world of tyrants - Saddam Hussein, his sons, and his cronies. If any one of these anti-bodies experienced the evils of that regime, I believe they would feel differently.

Imagine a bride and groom, still dressed in their wedding attire, leaving the reception enroute to the rest of their lives with dreams of happiness, children, and a life together. Only a few steps from the festivities, they are stopped by Saddam's sons. They want the bride. The groom resists in an effort to protect his bride, so he is shot and killed. The son's had their way with the bride, then left her in the street with nothing more than a shattered future. That was then and it was real.

This is now. It's also real. Imagine a day at the mall shopping with your family, eating out, and enjoying some fun, laughs, and quality time. One of your children runs just around the corner in front of you to a store where you'll catch up in only seconds. Before those seconds pass, you hear an explosion and see your child seemingly catapulted across your path and through the shattering glass of the store across the way.

The people who do this are real and they must be stopped. If they are not stopped where they live, they will soon be where we live. Do we want them being able to walk down our residential streets, randomly picking our wives and daughters to make their next victims?

There are unfortunate realities in any war. Death is a part of it. What do the anti-bodies believe is worth dying for? Would they die to protect their families? The groom did, but that didn't change anything.

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