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Remember the old poster from the 1960s – "War is not healthy for children and other living things"?
I think it's time to revise that for the sake of the misguided peaceniks of this era – "War is not healthy for tyrants and other living thugs."
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not a warmonger. I respect those who want to try to keep the peace at almost any cost.
I have opposed 90 percent of the military adventures this country has carried out in recent years – Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Somalia, the pointless and never-ending bombing campaigns in Iraq throughout the Clinton administration, the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, the misdirected bombings of terrorist bases in Afghanistan that persuaded al-Qaida the U.S. was nothing but a paper tiger, etc.
What I can't understand is where all the outrage was when these abuses were being carried out? Where was the righteous indignation when America was bombing countries that were absolutely no threat to our national security? Why, suddenly, this explosion of pacifism – even after the U.S. experienced the worst attack on domestic soil in its history?
How could someone be in favor of attacking Serbia in 1999 while opposing this war in Iraq?
Serbia posed no threat to the United States whatsoever. Serbia had no weapons of mass destruction. Serbia did not support international terrorism. Serbia had no ill intentions toward the U.S.
Yet we intervened in a conflict that was none of our business. While I was denouncing that engagement, I don't remember getting much in the way of support from those protesting today.
So, why the massive outburst of conscientious objection to war?
I'll tell you what I strongly suspect: There's a money trail yet to be discovered behind this opposition to the war in Iraq.
It took us many years to prove foreign money was behind the anti-war movement of the 1960. When the KGB archives were opened up after the fall of the Kremlin, we learned what some of us suspected for a long time – that Moscow was funding the U.S. "peace movement."
Who do I think is behind the new "peace movement"? Someone with lots of access to Middle East petro dollars, that's who.
Secondly, much of the outrage is simply thinly veiled anti-Americanism. There are plenty of people in this world – even right here in America – who do not want to see America victorious. They do not want to see America use its might. They do not want to see America exercising its moral authority.
Here's the case for war in a nutshell (and, believe me, a nutshell is where many of these protesters live):
- Saddam Hussein is a direct threat to the security of the United States because he is one of the world's pre-eminent sponsors of terrorism against us. He supported al-Qaida for more than a decade prior to Sept. 11. And he provided terrorists with something no other leader in the world gave them – a Boeing 707 fuselage that could be used to practice airline hijackings. He is linked directly to the first World Trade Center bombing and is still harboring one of America's most-wanted fugitives in that attack.
- Saddam Hussein continues to develop weapons of mass destruction that will someday be used against us. If we allow him to continue, there is almost 100 percent certainty that someday a nuclear weapon will go off in America that was created in his bomb factories.
- Saddam Hussein has killed more people – more than 1 million – than anyone else in the world today. He will keep on killing them as long as we allow it. He will keep on oppressing his own people – subjecting them to systematic torture most of us can't even imagine.
- Saddam Hussein has already forced us to fight a war to expel his army from neighboring Kuwait. If unchecked, he will invade and attack his neighbors in the future.
Is he the only threat in the world? No. Are there other nations in the world posing grave danger to the security of the United States. Yes.
But we're prepared for this conflict, and we don't want to fight on more than one front if we can help it. Let's clean this tyrant's clock once and for all and finish the job we should have completed in 1991.