Bush apologist calls for pullout of American troops

This is a war, and there should be no limits for our troops to winning it!

As much as I have supported the war in Iraq (my brother just went over two days ago for his second tour) I have found that I don't even care about the Iraqi people anymore. I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and I will do so again in November but I don't think the Iraqi people are worth one American life and sometimes I really wish we would withdraw our troops and be done with the place. Let those ungrateful, hateful people self-destruct. I'm just sick of it.

I'm sick of the liberals whining and crying about Abu Ghraib while ignoring the massacre of innocent children in Beslan and the beheadings of innocent men who were kidnapped and slaughtered. The enemy we face doesn't wear a uniform. The enemy we face murders innocent people with pleasure. In fact the innocent are targeted! And yet the only bitching I?ve read from most libs is how our soldiers are killing innocents in Iraq. Can they not see their own hypocrisy? We don?t target innocent civilians but in all war such causalities happen and it?s always unfortunate and sad. The difference is that terrorists HUNT the innocent and rejoice at their destruction. Who do you defend? I say take them out before they take us out...and always remember who struck first.
© 2004 Donna Schoenrock aka Nativeborn

Who struck first? It seems to me that the United States decided to invade and occupy Iraq in the name of regime change (or was it WMD or 9/11 or Saddam is evil). The United States waged an illegal war after failing to win the support of the rest of the world. Now they are having a harder time trying to establish a foothold in the Middle East because the Iraqis are using any means necessary to fight back. Do I think it is right for Iraqi insurgents to take and kill hostages? Absolutely not. But is it right for the United States military to fire rockets into a crowd of civilians or to torture prisoners of war? No.

Those of us who have oppsed this war from the instant that Washington started suggesting it have nothing that we have to explain away. We have been pointing out that Iraq was not involved in the 9/11/2001 attacks. We have said from the beginning that Saddam was no immediate threat to the United States or Western Europe. You call us hypocrites? Ms Pro-Life says, "take them out before they take us out," yet she calls us hypocrites.

"Who do you defend?" she asks. Well, one can't really defend murderers on either side. I think that the world has a duty to defend the civilians of Iraq. They have gone from being ruled by a brutal dictator to being invaded by the Imperial West and they have seen their cities destroyed and their neighbors killed.

Mrs. Schoenrock also posted a link to video of the latest beheading. A shocked Amy Proctor commented that the web site on which beheading video is hosted "is full of porn and perversion". Really?! I replied that a video of a beheading is itself pornography. My comment was quickly deleted.

Anyhow, Donna writes, "I really wish we would withdraw our troops and be done with the place. Let those ungrateful, hateful people self-destruct." Ungrateful? What do they have to be grafetful for? Before March 2003 they could walk to the market without dodging bullets. Their children had schools to go to. They could lead relatively normal lives. Now they live with an occupying army. There are bombs exploding around them. Thousands of civilians have been killed. I'm sure many Iraqis would be happy to see the Americans leave.