Conervatives are not pro war and anti peace

Despite what the liberal press will have you believe, conservatives are not pro war and anti peace. More accurately, many conservatives believe that the best way to obtain peace in some rare instances is via war.

When I hear anti-war liberals carrying that infamous symbol of peace, and shunning every time a conservative politician is mentioned because, "those guys don't want peace," I shutter. I shutter because we conservatives do to want peace, we just sometimes believe in a different strategy to obtaining peace.

My dad and I have had this discussion just this past winter as we were both sitting on the back porch of his Florida home. We reminisced about how wonderful our lives are, and how wonderful it is to simply sit here and enjoy the warm, refreshing breeze. Because of the sacrifices of our fathers, we able to enjoy many moments in our lives that even our grandpa couldn't have even dreamed of.

Dad is retired and lives the life. He gets up in the morning and golfs for a living every day, and then he has happy hour amongst his wife and all his friends (and family if one of us kids is visiting), and then has dinner and goes to bed only to do it all the next day. Every day is not unlike the one before. "And I'm happy," he tells me often.

I tell him how happy I am. How wonderful my life is. How stress free my life is except for a few rare occasions when work gets busy, or shit happens, I have it made. I'm not rich by no means, as ever was my father, but I have my priorities straight. And I'm frugal with my money. And I smell the roses often, as per that old classic poem.

Life is great. However, I am aware it wasn't always this great. I've heard stories of how my great-great grandfather had to travel across the state by wagon pulled by oxen to Shoreline with his family because he knew he could find work here. These men back then were farmers who lived off the land, built their own homes, and pretty much made everything that went into that home. Those people worked hard from sun up to sun down. There was hardly time to smell the roses.

So here dad and I were, enjoying that refreshing breeze. I was on vacation, away from my job as an RT, which isn't really stressful at all except for on occasion. Heck, I'm blogging right now from work. What a job this is, hey. This is the reason our great grandparents worked so hard, sacrificed, knowing that they would have little time to actually enjoy what they were working/fighting for. Now we get to enjoy often what they gave us.

We don't have wars often. And dad told me that he thought war was stupid. I agreed. He said that life is so precious and so fun and enjoyable, that he just can't understand how people could want to take it from other people, let alone themselves. I agreed. He said it's stupid that people fight over religion. I agreed. He said it is stupid that people fight over land. I agreed. He said it is stupid that people can't just shake hands and get along; to stop and smell the roses.

I agreed.

"To be honest with you," my dad said, "While I have a preference who runs our country, all that really matters is that they don't take this away from me." He was referring to his ability to enjoy life; to be happy. And this perhaps explains why I never saw him sweat it at election time. "As long as they don't take this away from me, I'll be happy."

However, we both decided that sometimes war is a necessary bad. You have people out there who don't appreciate life the way we do, and we need someone to protect us from those thugs. It is not our fault that they are trained from birth to destroy people who don't agree with their politics or religion, but we sometimes have to feel the brunt. That is what happened on 9-11.

We were so relaxed on that day, so busy smelling the roses, that we turned a blind eye to those who wished to kill us. In fact, my eyes were so blind I didn't even know what a Muslim was until 9-11, let alone that there were radical Muslims who wanted to kill every last one of us because we are not Muslim, or because we backed Israel. "How stupid," I thought when I found this out. "How stupid."

I hoped and prayed that we didn't have to go to war with them, as all good Americans did -- even conservatives. We do not want to see our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers injured or killed by another stupid war. But we can't be wusses. When there are no other choices, war sometimes is the only option; the only way to change the minds of thugs. However regretful it is to say that, it is true.

A coworker of mine said one day after I arrived at work that she thinks that we have it made so easy here in the U.S., that we have seen so few bad things in our lifetimes, that we have forgotten how to fight. And, she said, that even if a man like Hitler were to rise again, she wondered if we'd have the will or the desire to rid the world of him.

I'm not sure I feel the same way necessarily, but I see what she means. I see it every day when I hear people in Washington belittling the war effort, and everything our troops over in Iraq are trying to accomplish. I think that my friend is right, that many of us Americans have become wusses. I'm not just talking about democrats, but many republicans too. We have lost our nerve to fight when the need arises. Sometimes we even forget how to be vigilant.

I just want my fellow readers to know that I am not pro war, anti peace. We conservatives (or whatever the heck we are) do not want war like every other good person does not want war. However, sometimes the thugs leave us no choice but to go to war with them -- unfortunately.

My point is that conservatives hate war and want peace just like all the rest of the good people of this country, but we are also not willing to turn a blind eye to to those who wish to take away what our fathers, our forefathers, worked so hard to obtain. We do not choose to take it for granted.

We have not forgotten that our history was shaped by war, and that war is something that we need to at least consider in certain situations. Sometimes just the idea of maintaining a valiant military, or of building up arms, is a good enough method of deterring others from messing with us. Sometimes, though, we need to strike. We hope those instances are far and few between, but we need to be prepared and willing just in case the need arrives.

So, when I see that infamous symbol of peace carried around by the anti-war crowd, I tend to think along the lines of, "I want peace too."

It's time for new strategy for peace in Middle East

As I'm reading the NYtimes today and learn about a mother and her four children being killed by an Israeli missile, I feel for her and wonder if there will ever be peace in the Middle East; will there ever be peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

I get so tired of hearing about Israel's attacks on the Palestinians, and hearing so little about the Palestinian attacks on Israel. It's almost as though there's an effort here to make Israel look like the bad guy.

I get tired of hearing about Innocent civilians getting wounded and killed all the time in the Middle East in general, as are the majority of people in the world. All my life I've heard about efforts to create peace in the Middle East, and yet there is still violence there. It appears obvious to me that whatever efforts at peace are going on over there, it is not working. It's time to try something different.

According to a NYtimes.com article released today, Israel is constantly on watch for militants in the Gaza strip because, in the past, Hamas has send several missiles into Israel in an attempt to terrorize Israel. As we all know, Hamas is a terrorist group with the intent of refusing to recognize Israel as a Nation State and not being satisfied until Israel is destroyed.

The Times writes that "The killings prompted vows of revenge and seemed likely to complicate Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire between Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules Gaza, and Israel."

Likewise, the Palestinian Authority condemned the killings of the mom and her four children (as it should), and confirmed that this would hurt the recent efforts of Egypt to negotiate a six month cease fire between the Palestinians and Israel.

Let me make a side note here and state the obvious so I don't get attacked for not caring. I think Israel should make every effort not to harm civilians like the mom and her four children who were killed today. And Israel must always make every effort to make sure civilians are not killed in the crossfire, especially when the Innocent aren't always so Innocent

However, I am also aware that it is a common strategy of terrorists to make their bases in highly populated areas, and to use innocent civilians (churches for example) as cover. In these instances, it is often impossible to not involve civilians in the crossfire if the terrorists are to be taken care of.

Of course, we here at Freadom Nation know that if the Palestinians truly wanted to end violence between itself and Israel, all they'd have to do is stop terrorizing Israel and vow to accept Israel as a Nation State and start working with them as peaceful neighbors. But, the truth be known, the Palestinians are not interested in Peace with Israel. If they truly were interested in peace, they would have signed the Oslo Accords offered by Bill Clinton, where the Israeli's offered the Palestinians every thing they wanted.

While a peace treaty is still in the workings, " Israeli officials have been exceedingly cautious in their public statements about such a truce offer because they do not trust Hamas and fear that it seeks a truce simply to give itself the time and breathing room to arm more heavily."

Nonetheless, Condeleeza Rice and George Bush will be in the area soon to push forth efforts for peace in the region. Personally, I think this is basically just a political front, because no American can possibly still believe peace is still possible in Israel by the current means of negotiations. As we know, You cannot negotiate with terrorists. All they will do is stab you in the back.

How many clashes between nations as severe as those between Israel and the Palestinians have been resolved by negotiations anyway? Did the Japanese and Germans conform to modern ways before they were forced that way by war? Would Britain have handed over Independence to the Colonists without war? Would the Southern States have willingly given up slavery and gave up the foolish idea of seceding the Union without war?

The logical answer is a big fat NO.

Thus, the people of the world need to stop being wusses and allow the Israelis to duke it out with those who wish to destroy their nation. Israel can make a statement like, "If you terrorize, we will hunt you down and destroy not only you, but the organizations that sent you (Hamas), and any Nation State that harbors your kind (Syria)."

One of the main reason why organizations like the U.N. will not allow this to happen is because there are many nations in the U.N. who are anti-Sematic (that means they hate Israel and what it stands for.)

However much all people of the world do not like war and the consequences of it, I believe that the only way to peace in the Middle East is to allow the Israelis to destroy the organizations and Nation States who constantly terrorizing its people.

If Israel wins this war, (of which they probably would) they would control the region and there would be peace between the Israelis and any Palestinians who chose to stay in the region. If the Palestinians won, then the Israelis will more than likely either be forced to conform to the Palestinians way, or leave.

Either way, there would finally be peace in that region.

We must see the big picture in Middle East

Again, setting aside the reasons for going to Iraq for now, the polarization of views by political groups in the United States, the success of the surge, and the report that Iran stopped it's weapons of mass destruction program in 2002, we know from history that we must not turn a blind eye to Iran.

I'm not saying it's not possible to change course regarding our policies regarding Iran, or Iraq for that matter, but we must continue to be vigilant not just to what is obvious, but to what is not obvious. We must continue to see the big picture, and we must also use history as our guide in doing this.

With history as our guide, we can see two other things happening as soon as this new Super Iran described in my last post is created.

The first will probably happen right when we pull out of Iraq. That is, all the Iraqi people who stood on the side of the U.S. and its allies and refused to reject the idea of democracy and freedom will be murdered.

There would be a mass murder of 3,000 plus, maybe up to 10,000 or 250,000 or even a million or two million Iraqi civilians. And you think it’s bad now that democrats keep tabs on the 3,000 plus Americans that have died in Iraq.

Why do I think this way? History!

Winston Churchill once said, “The further we look back into history, the further we can see into the future.”

If we look back to the first gulf war as an indicator, we will see what will happen to the U.S. backers and the backers of democracy in Iraq. In 1991, 300,000 Kurds in Iraq were gathering up their arms to help us remove Saddam from power. See, they believed we were going to take out Saddam back then.

But, considering our goal back in the first gulf war was to get Saddam out of Kwait (and stop him from creating a Super Iraq), and not to remove him from power, the U.S. and its allies pulled out of Iraq in 1991, leaving Saddam in power and the Kurds to fight for themselves.

What happened? In 1993, Saddam gassed all 300,000 of those Kurdish Iraqis for betraying Iraq, and of course the Super Iraq or Iraq without a Super Iran, would be involved in a Super mass murder. They would justify this as “What Allah would want.”

Of course it wouldn’t be as easy for the Super Iran to kill the people who betrayed Islam because there would be so many of these so-called betrayers. Perhaps there would even be a giant civil war between democracy hopefuls and the radical Islamists in the Middle East.

Would the U.S. be able to stay out of this and watch as this Super Iran succeeded in the Middle East in slaughtering all the innocent people? Would the U.N.? Well, we know the U.N. probably would because historically it has already proven to the world it has no balls.

You know what would happen here? The Iranian nation would blow up the traders in a mass execution with whatever arsenal of weapons they currently have, or they would surruptitiously re-start their WOMD programs with this intent in mind. Even Saddam said that while he halted his WOMD program, he always intendedto re-start it as soon as eyes were off him. He said this while he was being interrogated.

What would happen next? The Super Iran would blow up Israel.

Well, if Israel didn’t already destroy this Super Iran.

Iraq’s leaders have already gone on record saying Israel should be blown off the map; and Israel has already gone on record saying that it would stop Iran from getting nuclear power. When this war is started, how many millions of civilians will die then? It would be a hell of a lot more than that have died in the War in Iraq.

Whether this was starts of not, one thing that would happen if we pull out of Iraq is the terrorists would follow us home. Instead of our U.S. military fighting these thugs on their home territory, our civilians would be fighting them here at home. Is that what we want?

I don’t think people realize this, but the War in Iraq, for whatever errors have occurred there, has been the most humane war ever.

General Patton said in WWII that the only way to defeat the enemy is to destroy the enemy – to wipe them out. That’s what we did in WWII to Germany and Japan.

In the Iraq war we took out the leaders and left the rest of the nation standing—which meant that the radical Islamic cause still had a footing. That, if anything, may have been our biggest error in this war – WWIII we should call it.

In Iraq, fewer people have died than any war of this type in history – in fact, the numbers aren’t even close. 10,000 people died in one day just preparing for D-Day. In Iraq, we didn’t even destroy the city – we stunned it.

But we didn’t want to destroy it. We didn’t’ want to kill the Iraqi people who were not involved, or did not support, this evil regime of Saddams

Likewise, because we didn’t wipe out Saddam’s armies, merely told them to set down their weapons, and run. These thugs have since returned to continue the fight. The, along thugs from Iran and Syria and many more who have come out of hiding, are the insurgents we are still fighting today.

What I’m saying is: We sacrificed our good men to save their men. What war ever in world history did the Victors ever allow that to happen? The answer: never.

Yet, still, people say we are the evil ones.

I call this the insidious response. We are the only nation in the history of the world to be attacked from within. We have people, both republicans and democrats alike, who bad mouth this country because of this most humane war ever.

They have not only bad mouthed the U.S. inside the U.S., but outside the U.S. as well. It’s no wonder so many nations hate the U.S. It’s no wonder support for this humane war is waning.

The only people who benefit from this anti-Iraq War talk is the enemy. The terrorists want nothing more than for the U.S. to pull out of Iraq. Heck, better yet, they want us to set a timeline for a pullout. Why? Because then they know exactly how long they have to lay low.

Yet, there are people right now in our Congress who are trying to stop this war. And there’s a bill rolling around with dates on them regarding an Iraqi War pullout date.

This is absolutely stunning to me.

Yet today, many people in the U.S. and the rest of the world wonder why the U.S. is still in Iraq. “Why are they involved over there?”

And many people criticize the Bush Administration for stating prior to the 2000 election that the U.S. should not be involved in nation building and yet that’s what they are doing now.

Listen, plain and simple, the reason we are in Iraq is simple: things have changed since 9-11. We are now in a post 9-11 world and we need to be constantly vigilant to the threat of terrorism from the radical Islamists of the world.

Right now, however, Americans feel comfortable. They don’t feel threatened because President Bush has protected them. And, now, they are taking that peace for granted.

It is a well known fact that people in this country have short memories. They have already forgotten what happened on 9-11-2001. They have forgotten how many terrorist attacks there were prior to that date.

There have been ZERO since 9-11.

Because there have been ZERO, the war has ended to them. They don’t realize this war, the war in Iraq as part of the War on Terror (better termed WWIII), has granted them peace.

Need I say, this is not a war of Christianity versus Islam. This is not a religious war, and Bush has stated this many times over the course of the past five year. I will continue to preach this when I become President.

This is a war only against the few Islamic people pent on forcing their views on the free world. The goal of WWIII is to stop Radical Islam; to stop terrorists from terrorizing the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world.

Most of the people in Iraq are good people. Most of the people in Iran are good people. Most of the people in Syria are good people. And it’s the good in all these people, who are dire to fend for their God given freedoms that we need on our side in this terrible War on Terror.

It is for these good people, and all the good people in the rest of the world, that we are sacrificing lives for.

War will always be terrible, but the cause in this case is good. It may sound ironic, but the only way to peace is through war.

That is why this the next president must be pent on staying the course in Iraq until a stable democracy is created, and the good people of Iraq are able to defend their democracy and their God given freedom.

And, to the best of my ability, educate Americans on the need to continue this fight.

The U.S. must not and will not fail in this mission. Too many lives are at stake.

We must go full out, WIN the war, and then pull out.