[GCFL-discuss] Why We're In Iraq - a MUST READ! Tearjerker story

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            wow Frank You're a Repub. ?  I thought you were the
opposite.\
Jeff

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:10:12 -0600 gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net writes:
I know this will start another argument, but, I think it is worth
thinking about.  Let's try to just read it and if you must comment, let's
just give our opinion and let it go at that, OK?  Thanks.  I don't know
who wrote it or if it even happened.  BUT.  It makes you think (and
hopefully be a little grateful for the fact that  SOMEONE is doing
something.  I know I wish we would just pull out and come home myself.  I
have a reason to feel that way (my son.)  He says that there is a lot of
good that has come from everything, but, he doesn't know if they will
ever be able to take care of themselves.
Frank


Why we're in Iraq 

As we all know, there are many young men and women in the military as
well as 
civilians who are sacrificing their lives for the sake of bringing
democracy 
to Iraq. Hope this will touch your heart. 
********** 
Hope  this sums up the situation in terms we can all understand. 

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at 
war. 
My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were

in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and
defend 
our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good 
explanation. 
My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go 
stand 
n our front living room window. He told him: "Son, stand there and tell
me 
what you see?" 
"I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses." He replied. 
OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the 
United States of America and you are President Bush." 
Our son giggled and said "OK." 
"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every 
house and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said. 
"OK Dad, I'm pretending." 
"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and see that 
man 
come out of his house with his wife and he has her by the hair and is 
hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he

throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their 
children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying, they are 
watching this but do nothing because they are kids and afraid of their 
father. You see all of this son.... what do you do?" 
"Dad?" 
"What do you do son?" 
"I call the police, Dad." 
"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take 
your 
call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do
you 
do then son?" 
"Dad, but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine. 
"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place 
or 
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
husband 
says. 
"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims. 
"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I 
want 
you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're 
pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children." 
"Daddy...he kills them?" 
"Yes son, he does. What do you do?" 
"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next 
door 
neighbor to help me stop him." our son says. 
"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to 
get 
involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my 
husband says. 
"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!" 
"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" 
Our son starts to cry. 
"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask 
for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller
and 
puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?" "What Daddy?" 
He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down 
her 
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire
and 
then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in he window
and 
laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?" 
"Daddy..." 
"WHAT DO YOU DO?" 
Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I close the 
blinds, Daddy." 
My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him... 
"Why?" 
"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help...people who 
needs 
it....and they won't help....You always say that neighbors are supposed
to 
HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop 
him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself .Daddy.....I can't look out
my 
window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do 
nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....so I can't see what

he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening." 
I start to cry. 
My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, 
looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husbands questions and
he 
tells him...."Son" 
"Yes, Daddy." 
"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front 
door..."WHAT 
DO YOU DO?" 
My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls 
up 
his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
hesitation 
he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY

SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!" 
I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his 
chest and hugs him tight, and cries..."It's too late to fight him, he's
too 
strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have
stopped 
him BEFORE he killed his wife. You have to do what's right, even if you 
have to do it alone, before......it's too late." my husband whispers. 
THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When 
good 
men stand by and let evil happen is the greatest EVIL of all. Our
President 
is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand that this
war 
is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men from power so that we can 
continue to live in a free world where we are not afraid to look out our 
window. So that my nine year old son won't grow up in a world where he 
feels that if he just "closes" that blinds the atrocities in the world 
won't affect him. "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF 
YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!" 
BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! 
BE PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT! 
BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! 
SUPPORT THEM!!! 
SUPPORT AMERICA!! 
SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR 
BLINDS...." 
To quote President George W. Bush 
"The liberty we prize is not American's gift to the world, it is 
God's gift to humanity." George W. Bush 



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