by Dr. Stephen D.

Created on: July 19, 2007

Contrary to what those on the left would like you to believe, the terrorists we are fighting in Iraq are the very same terrorists we would be fighting here or elsewhere. It is the terrorist's who have chosen Iraq as their battleground, not us. If the left is so concerned about fighting terrorism, why are they hell-bent on running away from the fight?

This is not a game. This is not a political competition. This is the real world we live in. It is not a world that we have created. The terrorists created it. America is not the bad guy. The terrorists are the bad guys. It is a shame that even has to be stated, but those on the left have spent so much energy demonizing the United States, that many have bought the lies they so easily and religiously spew.

The truth is that this is a war we will be fighting, most probably, for generations. If not in Iraq, then we will fight them someplace else. We have done nothing to these people to warrant their hatred. Their hatred is a result of their religious ideology. An ideology that believes that if someone doesn't believe the same as they do, then they should die. An ideology that believes that it must use force the make the world to accept its belief system.

Isn't it ironic that the very people who want to run away from the fight are the same people who would be oppressed the most under the political system of the terrorists? Under that system, we would not be having this debate; dissenters are simply killed. Women would be half a person, treated as property, uneducated, confined to the home, and they, not the rapist, would be killed for allowing themselves to be raped. Homosexuals would be immediately killed, that kind of puts an end to the same-sex marriage debate eh? I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

Those on the left love to try and fit their fantasy worldview onto the real world. It doesn't work that way. You can only deal with the world the way it really is. You will not appease the terrorists by being nice to them or by trying to reason with them. They are not capable of reason, their religious ideology does not permit it, and being nice is only seen as a sign of weakness. They have sworn to kill us, and the only solution is to kill them first. Stop the politicizing of this war, and allow the military to win it. I say, stay in Iraq as long as it takes to do just that.

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