I am writing this because someone confronted me about the money spent on the war.  They said that it could have better been spent here.  So I wrote back the following:

You brought in an interesting point, even though a bit off topic.  It may be interesting to observe the human heart a bit in all this “money” talk.   The US economy was not the main topic when we entered into a war with the Iraqi tyrant Sodom Hussein.   At least it wasn’t with me or any of my Republican friends, regardless of all the “No war for oil” crap being bandied about by those who, I feel, care nothing for the oppressed.  They care only for themselves and their beloved Democrat Party rising in the poles and the “Mean old Republicans” lowered in the poles.  The reason I and my friends were in favor of going to war in Iraq were several. 

1)      People forget that the mission at the time was to get those weapons of mass destruction.  Now I know that anti-war people kept screaming “Bush Lied” and “There were no weapons of mass destruction”, but they were just wrong.  You really, to be fair, don’t hear much of that anymore ever since we learned from eye witnesses that, while we were busy with one UN resolution after another (14 in all), to placate our unplacatable left-leaning friends (you know the ones – the ones who screamed “Bush Lied” and “There aren’t any…bla, bla, bla”), Sodom was busy shipping them out in truck-loads over the border to Syria.

2)      We felt it was absolutely necessary to help those poor people; to deliver them from the rape-rooms, the tree mulching machines, from mass murder, and yes, from the chemical weapons that that Hitler of a dictator used on his own people.   And when people say well why then Iraq and why not here or there where these things are also happening.  The answer is a simple one.   Iraq fit snuggly into number 3.

3)      The war on terror, as defined by the President and adopted by all those in congress that voted for it (before some of them voted against it), was against not only the terrorists themselves, but against any government that gave aid and comfort to them.  Enter Iraq.  Not only did Al-Qaida have terrorist training camps in Northern Iraq, but Sodom Hussein was also paying $25,000 to any family who would strap a suicide bomb to their child and send them out to kill themselves along with innocent Israeli women and children.  And…

4)      We thought and still think that bringing freedom to any people is a worthwhile thing to do.  Especially for such a people as the Iraqis.  They suffered much and had been pleading with us for years – even during Bush 1’s term to “Come save us.”

5)      We think also that it’s not such a bad idea to have another ally in the Middle East.

6)      Before the President declared war on terror there was only one democracy in the Middle East.  Now, only about seven years after 9/11, thanks to George W. Bush, we have three independent democracies in the Middle East.  Quite a legacy, if you ask me and my Republican friends.  They can’t take that away from him and they (The Dems) can’t claim it for themselves because they fought it every step of the way.