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thedrifter
07-07-05, 05:04 AM
Who is Right About Iraq?
Written by Evan Sayet
Thursday, July 07, 2005

We find ourselves, yet again, with an issue on which there can be no middle ground. Are the Democrats right and the war in Iraq is unjust, with great degrees of carnage and America’s defeat at hand? Or are the Republicans right in seeing the cause as noble, victory real and the benefits of a safer region, a more secure America and a more peaceful world already being realized?

Anyone who cares about America needs to care first about the truth. If America is in the wrong then only the truth will help us right it and thus remain the greatest nation in human history. If America is in the right, only the truth will help us sustain our greatness and stand up to – and defeat – our foes. Thus knowing the answer to who is right about Iraq is of no small consequence.

Truth is not defined by who shouts the loudest, repeats their claims the most often or engages in the greatest degree of vitriol, hyperbole, and propaganda. Those of us who seek the truth need to do so by rejecting these things and putting our faith in the collection and critical evaluation of the facts and evidence.

It is this process that has led me to believe beyond any reasonable doubt that the war in Iraq is right, our victory real, and its benefits profound.

I come to this conclusion by giving great weight not to the political partisans safely ensconced in Washington – isolated in their Georgetown mansions and protected by incumbency and gerrymandering -- but rather to the testimony of those most in the know: the almost one million American and coalition soldiers who have rotated in and out of Iraq over the course of this war on Islamic fascist terrorism.

These are the people who have nothing to gain and quite literally everything to lose by backing a policy that is wrong-headed and failing. Thus, their near-unanimous support for the mission and their descriptions of the realities in-country are of great import to me.

One of the responses I typically get from Democrats when I try to convey this is “well if you love the war so much why don’t you go fight it?” Little do these people recognize that in their non sequitur they are debunking their own positions for those who ARE fighting the war – volunteers all – who overwhelmingly recognize the mission as good and the results as historic.

In fact, given the choice between President George W. Bush and his very clearly stated “stay the course” policy and the just as clear promise of John F. Kerry to quickly exit the Middle East, those with knowledge of and experience in Iraq supported the President in landslide fashion.

This conclusion of one million of our fellow countrymen – those whose very creed is “honor”—is the same as that of the other group with firsthand knowledge of the goings-on in Iraq – the Iraqi people themselves. With twenty-five million Iraqis, the number of terrorists – euphemistically called “insurgents” by a sympathetic American media – is but a miniscule fraction. And even that number needs to be bolstered by importing non-Iraqi killers from Iran, Syria and elsewhere.

Like the American servicemen in Iraq, the Iraqi people have nothing to gain and quite literally everything to lose by siding with bad policy and a failing campaign. Clearly, if the Iraqi people believed what the Democrats claim, they would not be sitting by and allowing the terrorists -- those whose first target after their “victory” would be these “infidels” and “apostates” who failed to fight against the “Great Satan” -- to get the upperhand.

Events in the greater Middle East serve as even further evidence of the rightness of our mission and the victories we have achieved. Surely it is beyond even the most hysterical on the left to suggest that the reason the Lebanese people took to the streets to demand the same democracy for themselves that they saw flourishing in Iraq was either because they believed democracy to be unjust or they knew it to be failing.

And it requires just as much lunacy to argue that the Ba'athists in Syria suddenly ended their three-decade long brutal occupation of Lebanon because they were witnessing their ideological brethren and allies in terror in Iraq winning.

To counter this overwhelming evidence, logic and testimony from those in the know, the Democrats offer little. In the Democrats’ pro-defeat cause hysteria takes the place of reason, partisanship trumps patriotism and slander becomes the rule of the day. The Democrats’ strategy is best exemplified by Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” in which cherry-picked “facts,” manipulated evidence, and outright lies are combined in an effort to undermine America’s will to fight for freedom.

Rather than offer thoughtful and reasoned argument, the Democrats’ “war plan” is simply to slander our troops, ignore the testimony of the Iraqi people, sell the notion that democracy’s spread to Lebanon and Egypt and beyond was just dumb, blind luck or coincidence, and to harp on anything less than utter perfection in strategy and execution as if it were a conspiracy by the Democrats’ enemies in America toward some dastardly end that is never quite named but is so self-evident in the inherent evil of their fellow countrymen that naming it would be the crime of redundancy.

In the Democrats’ campaign the misdeeds of a handful of night guards at a prison for suspected fascist terrorists is sold as “the new Holocaust,” children are taught that the victims of 9/11 were nothing short of “little Eichmans” deserving of their fate, and unpleasant room temperatures in an interrogation cell for enemy fighters is read into the Congressional record as being on par with the killing fields of Pol Pot or the gulags of Josef Stalin.

As every misstep of strategy or execution is used by the Democrat to bludgeon America and Americans real atrocities committed by the Islamic terrorists are portrayed as some sort of military victory for the powerful “insurgency.” In reality, however, these pitiful acts of suicide and murder have not achieved a single victory for the fascists as the Iraqi people have created a constitution, held a democratic election and are forming a government of the people, by the people and for the people all exactly on schedule. In this war between fascism and democracy only the most partisan could seek to portray the enemy’s utter failure as victory.

Yet even in the leftists’ disinformation campaign the rational thinker can find overwhelming evidence that the Democrats’ position is folly (if not fraud), for as CNN and al Jazeera focus on the handful of car bombs in Baghdad they are tacitly admitting that there was nothing negative they could find to report from Basra, Fullujah or any other city or town in a country the size of the state of California. Similarly, as Democrats Dick Durbin and Joe Biden seek to portray a lack of air conditioning in interrogation cells at Guantanamo Bay as the killing fields of Pol Pot or Ted Kennedy attacks America’s troops because a couple of people put panties on terrorists’ heads, it is clearly because they can find nothing of substance to use in their pro-defeat campaign.

And it is from CNN and their “experts” -- as well as the Democrats like Durbin, Biden, Dean and Kennedy -- that the rational thinker can find even more reason to reject the left’s arguments, for their cries of defeat are only the latest in a long line of illogical – and ultimately wrong -- claims stretching all the way back to before the first shot in this war for democracy was even fired.
Remember, it was these same “experts” who attempted to sell a dust storm as evidence of America’s defeat to Saddam’s armies even as American troops were soon to enter Baghdad in the swiftest military victory in human history. It was these same Democrats who tried to peddle the notion of an Iraq in such utter chaos that elections couldn’t possibly take place even as the Iraqi people were heading to the polls in numbers (percentage) greater than those in even America’s most recent national elections. And it was these same leftists who promised the overthrow of every “moderate” Arab regime and the spread of fascism and terror throughout the Middle East when, in reality, the only leaders overthrown were Saddam Hussein and those of the Taliban, while Syria’s cruel occupation of Lebanon was ended and terrorism against our democratic ally in Israel has dropped by over ninety percent.

A history of dire – and utterly wrong – predictions is the legacy of these leftists because their claims aren’t based on the facts, nor on the evidence or testimony of those in the know. They are partisan arguments made by those who put their personal agendas ahead of what’s right, true and good. Their spin on the current situation in Iraq is no different and those who seek truth by the reasoned evaluation of the evidence need to recognize the case is clear and the war that has liberated Iraq, spread democracy throughout the Middle East, and made America safer is noble, right, and being won.

About the Writer: Evan Sayet is a writer, speaker, and pundit in Los Angeles and former communications director for LA for President Bush. He has been a TV and movie writer with credits ranging from "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" to the cult classic "Win Ben Stein's Money" and the Discovery Channel documentary "The 70's: When Decades Attack." He is currently working on a book: "Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals 'Think.'" Evan’s blog is SayetRight.Blogspot.com. Evan receives e-mail at ESayet@Socal.RR.Com.

Ellie