From Iraq The Model we hear a "Thank You" today...Mohammed is thanking the U.S. for staying the course...and thanking the troops for the tough job they continue to do:
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and especially to the soldiers who are fighting to defend freedom.
Reading his words struck a chord with me....we always - I always - wonder what the "rest of the story" is when I hear a liberal shrieking "The Iraqi's want us OUT OF IRAQ!"...
Our very own fellow countrymen calling us "occupiers"..."invaders"...
In his own words, Mohammed corrects that notion...in fact...he re-states VERY CLEARLY what the President, the Vice President, and many others have been saying all along...
We all know why some insist that US must leave or keep calling the presence of these troops an occupation. The problem is that the ordinary citizen here cannot talk about this in public for fear of being labeled as an agent or collaborator with the occupation and what can an unarmed citizen do to face such an accusation coming from this or that militia.
What pushes these politicians and militias to take this attitude is their dream of regaining sovereignty but not national sovereignty; it is their sovereignty over Iraq.
What is keeping these liars from making a large scale coup over the democratic change is the presence of coalition troops that are protecting the new Iraq.
Our newfound democracy is suffering a lot from the evil of neighboring dictatorships and the legacy of Saddam's dictatorship and I see the only guarantee to the growth of our democracy until its institutions are firm enough and well established lies in the presence of coalition troops for a longer time. This requires not only the preparation of Iraqi security forces but goes beyond that to protecting the democracy until it passes the danger zone...
"...protecting the democracy until it passes the danger zone..."
There is no other way to state it with more clarity...we have got to stay and finish the job...lives are depending on it...
If you think for one nanosecond that leaving Iraq before their fledgling government is self-sufficient and able to defend itself will help America to "make friends" with the rest of the world as the cum-bay-uh-intoxicated-liberal-left would have you believe...think again...
Those that are clever enough to play into the left's Achilles Heel do not have good intentions for the citizens of Iraq...they are simply biding their time, hoping against hope that the Left in this country will scream and wail long and loud enough to get their way about pulling troops out of Iraq in some sort of appeasement effort...
If - by some horrible turn of events - IF the Left is successful in getting their way over this anti-war effort...the blood of each and every innocent, democracy-and-freedom-loving Iraqi will be on their hands...and on ours...
The annihilation, torture, murder, and butchery that Saddam Hussein put on the Iraqi people after the first Gulf War will turn out to only have been a dress rehearsal for what will follow with our abandonment of these people...
If we leave before the job is finished...the trust...the word...of the United States of America will be deemed worthless...and rightfully so...
DR
