Posted on 03/06/2003 7:58:22 PM PST by Tactical
Explaining Iraq to Liberals: A Short Story
The Smith family has purchased a new home in a very rural subburb several miles outside of the nearest town. After residing there for several months, Mr Smith see's his nearby neighbor in his front yard, as Mr Smith is mowing his lawn, minding his own business. Mr Smith waves hello to the neighbor whom he later finds out is a Mr Jones.
Mr Jones comes across the road with several of his friend and begin pushing Mr Smith around and eventually beat him up. They go into his house and one of them rapes Mr Smith's wife and abuses the children inside.
Mr Jones and his friends are removed forcibly from the Smith house by the local Sheriff and taken to jail and charged. However to help keep peace in the neighborhood, Mr Jones is charged with a lessor crime and set free to return to his own home. It appears that Mr Jones had many friends in the neighborhood who did not really like him but feared his anger and wanted the neighborhood to return to it's original nature. Mr Jones of course agreed to be a good neighbor from then on. Except, Mr Jones lied.
Again Mr Smith see's Mr Jone out in his front yard, and has heard that Mr Jones is now carrying a pistol with 18 rounds of ammunition, maybe more? Mr Smith thinks he has valid info on the weapon and ammunition and fears for his and his family's safety. Mr Smith also fears for the safety of Mr Smith's other nearby neighbors knowing that Mr Jones is fully capable of doing violent and deadly acts against his neighbors.
Mr Smith calls the Sheriff once again and the Sheriff agrees Mr Smith is trouble and a danger to the community. He calls for reinforcements, but some of the other agencies don't want to get involved. It seems they believe that Mr Jones is better left alone and that Mr Smith and the Sheriff shouldn't stir up the pot and make things worse than they are. The Sheriff gets help from another county and they surround Mr Jones and his friends at his house. They demand that Mr Jones disarms himself by giving up his pistol and ammunition. Mr Jones denies he has any weapons, let alone ammunition. Mr Smith shows the Sheriff photos he took of Mr Jones with a pistol on his hip and at least 12 to 18 rounds of ammo in his gun belt loops.
Confronting Mr Jones with this information, Mr Jones admits he has the pistol but no ammo. The Sheriff enlarges the photo and show Mr Jones the ammo in the belt loops. Mr Jones admits he had only 18 rounds of ammo but just found 6 rounds. He doesn't want to turn it all over to the Sheriff, saying that he has a right to defend himself in case someone wants to attack him.
He tells the Sheriff after a long time of negotiating, that he is willing to give up 6 rounds of ammunition that he thinks is in pretty good shape. But that he has destroyed the remaining rounds. The Sheriff asks when he destroyed the rounds? Mr Jones say he can't remember and that he'll look into it later. The Sheriff asks Mr Smith if he is willing to accept this offer.
The Problem and the Decision:
Should Mr Smith be willing to accept such a deal, or should he demand that Mr Jones be removed and disarmed as a matter of safety for those he cares for. Afterall Mr Jones could always buy more bullets.
This my friends is the most simple method I can find to explain Saddam and his neighborhood relationship. Maybe by putting it in this type of story line, the liberal and peacenik-appeasers can finally understand the dangers involved? But then the liberals probably can't relate to living in a house and having a family? Maybe I should clarify that too? Naw, nevermind it's all a waste of time trying to explain anything to a liberal!
Saddam Hussein is a socialist.
George W. Bush is a conservative.
Therefore, Hussein is right and Bush is wrong.
I certainly appreciate your contribution to the many, many, many valid explanations of the Bush administrations Iraq policy, but would imagine that you might have a more productive time attempting to explain macroeconomic theory to a chicken.
Slight modification on liberal viewpoint...
Anyone who is a socialist is right, every conservative is evil and always wrong.
Nothing personal to GWB...
With those with a LEFT leaning nature, the truth doesn't really matter, unless it benefits their cause. What is their cause. Personally I think they're trying to build some utopian society that can never exist.
Free medical care for all Americans isn't free. Someone has to pay for it. It's called taxes.
Helping the poor and homeless is noble, but taking from others that work their butt's off year after year to help those people isn't. Nobility comes from character and deeds done from the heart. It's obvious that is something liberals can never understand.
No matter what happens in Iraq, the liberals will not support Geroge W. Bush. They hate this man and say so publicly. Tom Daschle's comments when interviewed come across as hateful and vengeful as well.
I've never seen an America like this before. And I don't like it one bit.
I didn't like how I was treated when I returned home from Vietnam, I'll be damned if I want today's young military men and women to face the same bags of piss and crap being thrown at them or the denial to sit next to everyone on an airplane as happened to me. This anti-American attitude needs to stop and stop real quick.
Off my soapbox for now.
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