restoring our honor, page-48

Flats

You repeatedly make reference to our "invasion" of Iraq with all its negative connotations.

Yes, the US and its Allies did invade Iraq, just as the US and its Allies "invaded" France in 1944, the Netherlands, Belguim, Denmark in the same year, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo etc under McArthur between 1943-45 and so on.

Ask any person who lives in any of those countries today if they preferred being invaded to the Allies staying at home.

Are Iraqis better off being freed of the oppression of Saddam? A rhetorical question, surely. Whilst the anti-American brigade like taking the high moral ground and don't like being toppled off it, the simple fact is that if one opposes the US led liberation of Iraq, then one, either expressly or impliedly, prefers Saddam had remained in power. They are flip sides of the same coin. There is no escaping the fact.

Most Iraqis are moderates and want a peaceful coexistence. Do the US haters ever stop to ask them whether they prefer being oppressed by Saddam or occupied by the US? To do so doesn't fit into many people's agendas.

One man's invasion is another man's liberation. Ask the French, Dutch, Thais, Malays etc etc ..........and the Afghans and Iraqis for that matter.