Now let me state: I love my country. Many things we do for
the world at large no other country would. We are blessed with freedom from
tyrannical rulers and despots, we don’t like a president, we don’t re-elect
him. Millions of dollars are given in foreign aid and everyday people in other
lands are safe from aggression because we wield a large stick.
When we terminated our presence in Iraq, the damage of war
was such that many American soldiers returned home sick, cripples without limbs
any kind. The worst part is many of these poor guys are unemployable and have
become homeless with no help from the government, the very same government that
sent them into battle.
But there is another shame of this country that has gone
almost unheard of. The citizens of Iraq, their homes destroyed and their bodies
and those of their children maimed and infected by cancerous agents and
poisonous metals from our munitions. Many of these children are dying everyday
being born after the war ended. Our munitions have contaminated their country.
The city of Fallujah in Iraq was the scene of a major battle
between U.S. forces and the Iraqi army. Material was expended and the deadly
battle claimed many lives. The lives were not only the lives of the military
men from both sides, but also the citizens of the city, and worst yet, the
unborn. Birth defects surpass the rates suffered at Hiroshima or Nagasaki,
Japan after we dropped the Atomic bomb on them. This is unintentional genocide,
but it is genocide.
We have abandoned Iraq, and the devastation we caused, we
need as a country to fix that. Granted, we rid them of oppressions, but we left
them worse off than Saddam Husain did. The ‘Freedom’ they are enjoying for many
will be short lived. We should also ask the rest of the so-called coalition to
chip in their fair share too, we can’t afford to have innocents die because of
us, nor can we afford to pay their responsibility as a member of the coalition.
1 comment:
Great blogue. It's a shame you have to state that you love your country before criticizing what happened in Iraq. It is very possible to love your country and also want it to be better at the same time. That's how parents love their children -- I don't understand why this shouldn't apply to patriotism as well.
People who were critical of the War in Iraq at the time of the initial invasion were called "Un-American" and "un-Patriotic" and accused of not loving our country. Maybe if we weren't so fired up in jingoism and wrapping ourselves up in the American flag and had listened to some of these people, we would have been more cautious and waited for actual intelligence. We would have saved so many lives -- both American and Iraqi. We created a mess in both countries that will take decades to clean up... if it is possible to clean up such a thing.
-#1 Son
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