by Marc Phillippe Babineau

Created on: October 28, 2008

When does a liberating force become an occupying force, and what are the responsibilities of the liberators once the liberation has been completed? When the occupying forces stay in place, trying to force their political views on a nation thousands of years older than their own, it becomes more than liberation, it becomes forced democracy. Of the approximately 5 million Iraqi citizens displaced by George W. Bushes' attack on Saddam Hussein and his cronies, I would wager that about 4.9999 million of them would say thanks for liberating us, can you please go home now? The Iraqi dictator is dead, long live the American dictators! The United States should have withdrawn from Iraq as soon as Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hung for his despicable treatment of Iraqi's. Innocents were slaughtered for no other reason than believing a slightly different version of the Qur'an, or for opposing his self-imposed dictatorship over them. In a country with a wealth of oil revenues, the majority of the citizens should be well employed, but the greed in the government and military ranks is deplorable, yet allowed to fester due to our oil dependencies and requirements.

The United States bears the responsibility to help get the Iraqi infrastructure that was destroyed by American wayward bombings back in place. Then the coalition forces should get out of Iraq and head for the real reason that we are in the Middle East in the first place; to hunt down the leaders of al Qaeda and their organizations that were behind the worst act of war on American soil. It was a declaration of war, when the twin towers fell. The sights of people jumping to their certain deaths rather than burn in the intense fires will be ever ingrained upon our generation. When the Pentagon was stricken and a few heroes stopped the last jet from making it's target known, war was declared against the United States, as well as all other countries with offices in the twin towers, by a group of well armed and financed terrorists, not the Iraqi national army.

Perhaps those heroes on flight 93 saved the White House from imminent destruction, or it could have been a financial target. But the act of aggression against the American sites was against the American way of life, and was re-acted upon with well-advanced warnings of a "shock and awe" wave of military aggression. Nothing like giving the enemy a few months' notice of when the attacks would come; a sure fire way of shocking the awe out of them. They were prepared

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