This gentleman makes a heck of an argument for justification of a war with Iraq.
An 80 year old Veteran, who was in the Korean War and World War II gave a little history lesson
and his thoughts today on War.
It is a different look at the War.
Thoughts to think about
I'm not going to get into a history lesson.
The short, short version is that the League of Nations
(established after WW I to prevent wars) failed to stop
Mussolini's Italy from invading and conquering Ethiopia.
It failed to stop Japan from invading and conquering
Manchuria and much of China. Their committees wrung their
hands spoke in platitudes but did absolutely nothing to
stop war.
At France's coaxing Britain's prime minister
Nevil Chamberlain met with Adolph Hitler in Munich and
surrendered the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in
the interest of "peace in our time." The
French and British watched as Germany took Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia. They all had committee
meetings and wrung their hands and talked of peace.
World War II erupted when Nazi Germany
invaded Poland. Britain had a mutual defense treaty with
Poland so they couldn't escape. They declared war on
Germany. Germany had a mutual defense treaty with Japan
so Japan declared war on Britain. France wet their pants
and surrendered to Germany as fast as they could and
gleefully shipped all the Jews they could find to death
camps in Germany to prove to Adolph that they really were
on the side of Germany.
Japan attacked the United States and, because
of Japan's mutual defense treaty with Germany, Germany
declared war on the United States.
Up until December 7th and the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor, a large number of our people were
wringing their hands and saying, "Appease Hitler. He is
really a good guy who just needed a little more land for
his expanding population. The dear man just wants peace.
And World War II was in full swing leaving better than
50,000,000 people dead including about 450,000 American
soldiers and sailors.
Three cheers for the League of Nations!
After World War II it was decided to do the
whole thing all over again. This time we would call it
the United Nations and we will have committee meetings
and hand wringing parties and make sure peace prevails
throughout the land.
While that august body wrung hands the Soviet
Union split Germany, invaded Poland and Yugoslavia,
Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria along with Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia. The peaceful world saw Korea with
37,000 American soldiers killed, over 1,000,000 South
Korean soldiers and civilians killed and the country
nearly destroyed.
Since then we have had over 50,000 American
soldiers killed in Vietnam and have fought wars in
Somalia, Herzegovenia, Panama, Granada,plus the Gulf War
when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
We should have gone into Baghdad and taken
out that evil regime then but the United Nations would
have no part of that. All they would allow was for us to
chase the Iraqis out of Kuwait, then peace would prevail.
Now, here we are with Saddam violating all 17
United Nations resolutions while he has massed poison gas
and bio weapons.
He is frantically trying to develop a nuke
and his buddy, Kim Jong-Il of North Korea may give him a
few. (It was the United Nations who prevented us from
taking North Korea when the war was hot and we had the
means to do it.)
Peace!!!!!!!! Sure.
France is wetting their collective pants in
fear that the United States will take Saddam out and
along with him, France's 60 billion dollar contracts with
Iraq. Russia hedges because Iraq owes them 6 billion
dollars that they sorely need.
In answer to your question....... hell yes we
should go to war with Iraq. We should have done it six
months ago. We should also get out of the United Nations.
Can you believe that the United Nations has appointed
Iraq and Syria to head up the United Nations Disarmament
Committee? Can you believe they have appointed Libya to
head up the Human Rights Committee?
All three of these countries are on the UN
List of Terrorist States..........Absolutely
unbelievable.
Just don't get me going. Throughout recorded
history the only time peace has prevailed is when the
good guys have militarily whipped the bad guys. Who are
our best friends in the world? Japan because we whipped
them. Germany because we whipped them. Italy because we
whipped them. Britain because we whipped them.
This is one opinion, on the War but this is
the eyes, ears and heart of an American Veteran... |
