Posted on 04/01/2004 2:14:52 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WITH ALL the news coming out of the Middle East, here is a detail you might have missed: A few weeks ago, the United Nations shut down the Ashrafi refugee camp in southwestern Iran. For years Ashrafi had been the largest facility in the world housing displaced Iraqis, tens of thousands of whom had been driven from their homes by Saddam Hussein's brutality. But with Saddam behind bars and his regime crushed, Iraqi exiles have been flocking home. By mid-February the camp had literally emptied out. Now, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports, "nothing remains of Ashrafi but rubble and a few stones."
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The media is trying to portray those soldiers and contractors as having died for nothing. It's important to realize how much good the coalition (including the USA) has brought to Iraq.
It's also helpful to know that most Iraqis do think they are better off now than they were under Sadam, and that most Iraqis support the liberation of Iraq by the coalition.
It doesn't hurt to inform people back in the USA that Iraqis are volunteering for their police forces and defense forces in record numbers, too. They want to be able to defend their new freedoms from the thugs that are killing our soldiers and civilian contractors. Most Iraqis want to help us find the few killers in their midst and rid them of these criminals.
That said, as soon as the crowd started burning and mutilating the bodies of our fallen men, the area should have been cleared by a helicopter gunship or some other massive weaponry to protect our forces and kill the attackers. Hopefully, we will put some guns in the air and make some adjustments to the rules of engagement to allow for massive, immediate protective and retaliatory strikes when something like this happens again.
A major offensive is in the works.
The U.S. military doesn't function on emotion (as many apparently do here on FR).
It uses brainpower as well as strength. Justice will be done.
When Fallujans are no longer polled, the numbers will be even better.
I believe that as well. I don't know when, or how, but I do know that W promised both Al Qaeda and Saddam that they would meet justice, and although the process is not complete in either case, it is well on its way.
These evil people have just had their last good night's sleep.
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