They Didn't Die In Vain, But...

I saw Nightline last night and the show featured mothers who had lost their sons in Iraq. Of course, there were many different views on it all, but so many said that their sons died defending our freedom or that they fought them over there so we wouldn’t have to fight them here.

I know that they don’t want their sons (and they all happened to be sons, not daughters) to have died for nothing, but the truth is that if Saddam were still in power our lives would not be changed; our freedoms would be intact; the Iraqi insurgents would not have move to the U.S.

That said, their sons did not die in vain. Soldiers do not get to choose their assignments, nor can they disagree with them. They serve their country and that in itself makes their sacrifice meaningful.

The waste of their lives belongs to our president and his cronies who went to war for their own reasons but tried to sell us another. I don’t give a damn what they’re saying now, WE WENT TO WAR BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

They can say that they were fooled too, but they weren’t. Time after time when they said they were delivering proof of WMDs, I listened. I listened to what Colin Powell had to say to the UN. Never did I hear one thing that made me believe that we knew anything about WMDs in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein is an evil man, make no mistake. But if we can judge people by their deeds, then Bush is just as evil. He may market himself with a moral wrapper, but he is just as responsible for the deaths of thousands as Saddam.