Battlefield Iraq

Apparently, the media thinks that Iraq is President Bush's "war" and thus, as Ted Kennedy would say, is President Bush's Viet Nam. Everthing concerning the comparisons between Viet Nam and Iraq are completely imbecile and moronic. I'm really get tired of people who know nothing of war nor its history lecturing the American People about our abilities and capabilities regarding the way we are waging this global war. The entire operation in Iraq is but one of many fronts we are fighting in Operation WARTS (WAR on Terror States). We are on the offensive, even though there may be an "operational pause", I assure you the surrounding regimes in Syria and Iran had better fasten their seatbelts. We are not done reshaping the Middle East in our favor.

Iraq is voting for their own government for the first time in 50 years. This is a great occasion for them and should not be ignored by the media/liberals/Ted Kennedy for all its implications for the entire Islamic world. Islamic dictatorships were overlooked during the Cold War due to the importance we placed keeping Russia in check throughout the world, especially in the Middle East. We felt we could ignore their unsavory and intolerant form of rule because the stakes were too high to demand a more democratic form of government.

However, after the Cold War unofficially ended in 1989 there was now no great threat from a conquering foe other than the squabbling states of Dar Al Islam to destabalize this strategic region of the world. America and Britain have been the Overlords of this region since WWI and without a threatening presence to keep the Islamic states "busy" they now turned their attention to the West.

The 1990's saw an exponential increase in the use of "assymetic" warfare, traditionally known as "terrorism" to achieve certain political objectives against the west and the world by Middle Eastern states. And really this has been a successive alternative than the traditional way of war, which they are quite miserable at conducting. Through terrorism, Islam has pushed Israel out of Lebanon. They have installed a terror state in Gaza and West Bank and in turn have forced Israel to abandon any settlement activity in these two areas of Palestine because of terrorism. The Israeli equation was brought to fruition because of the terror dispensed by the PLO (Palenstine Liberation Organization) with the full blessings of the Middle Eastern states of Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon including Saudi Arabia. Assymetic warfare has been deployed against India and Russia with less success although they are able to keep their erstwhile enemies in a constant state of agitation in Southern Russia and Western India.

Assymetic Warfare has brought America to the Middle East. We are there to destroy not only states that support it but to dispel the will to use it. Democracy/Republican government tend to not wage war with each other and thus is our prescription for this very sick region of the world. Some will say, we have always supported dictatorships and thus are being hypocritcal today to "impose" democracy on them. However, those that believe this are not paying attention to history. We imposed democracy on a Nazi Germany and a Militant Japan. We did this by defeating them at war. We lost hundreds of thousands of brave men to this effort. As a result, we have had peace, at least with them, for 60 years now. Democracy imposed by the tip of the spear is a workable solution and in fact may be the only solution to this volatile region of the world. Therefore, Iraq is but another stepping stone in our "war for democracy".