by James Glaser
July 12, 2005

I am starting to get fed up with George and the rest of our government thinking that we in America are some privileged class of people who are better than the rest of the world. Every time I hear that we are fighting terrorists over in Iraq so we don't have to fight them over here, I have to ask where we get off doing that?

Here we are, fighting an enemy in the homeland of people who never attacked us, in the homeland of people who never could have attacked us, and we want to continue this war in their country so our country will remain safe.

George Bush and our government feel we have some sort of right to continue this war in Iraq with our enemies. The terrorists in Iraq were goaded into coming by President Bush in his "Bring em on" speech, and they came. We continue to use American soldiers and Marines as bait, so we can kill more terrorists. We have pretty much destroyed the country. The people in Iraq still do not have safe drinking water or reliable electric power. No electric power equals no sewage treatment and no flush toilets. Baghdad has 5 million people living there, with an infrastructure that is broken.

Every day in Iraq there is more carnage than what happened in London this week, but it is old hat, and the world doesn't even get upset. Iraq is now our own private battlefield, because we don't want to fight our own war, on our own land. Washington feels that it is OK if Iraqis get killed while we fight our war in their country. Somehow we have decided that an Iraqi's right to life is less than an American's right to life.

Right now today, it is honest to say the Iraq has become America's Killing Field. Half the world now believes that we are the terrorists, and photos from Iraq prove that point. Every terrorist recruiter can show before and after photos of Iraqi cities. Every recruiter can read the speech where the President says we will fight them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them in America. Honest people the world over know how terribly unfair those words are to the Iraqi people.

America is "Land of the Brave" and "Home of the Free," and I don't feel it is right for us to hide behind the poor pitiful people of Iraq who have suffered so much.