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    American Daily, OH
    Aug 3 2004

    A Just War
    By David Huntwork (08/15/2003)


    The justifications of the Iraq War should be old news by now but
    still the shrill cry of `Where's the WMD's?' continues to reverberate
    across the political landscape. Presidential hopeful Howard Dean
    threatens to lead the Democratic Party to the brink of political
    oblivion by attacking the war and advocates the `cut and run' policy
    if he were to be elected.

    The rest of the nine democratic lemmings, as well as many in the
    media, have desperately joined the scramble to disavow the war in
    spite of the fact that many supported it. While the rest of the
    nation has moved on, the Democratic Party is preparing to make the
    Iraq war their major issue in the coming presidential election. It is
    embarrassing to watch a major political party seek the sissy vote.

    In spite of the the buried centrifuges, banned missiles, mobile
    biological weapons labs, the testimonies of defectors and captured
    officials, captured documents and thousands of gassed Kurds and
    Iranians moldering in the grave the there are still those who
    question whether Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction in the months
    and years leading up to the Coalition invasion and the inclination to
    use such weapons. I suspect that most are really asking whether the
    destruction of the Baath regime and the ousting of Saddam Hussein was
    the right thing to do.

    It is indisputable that the Iraqi's developed, possessed, used and
    coveted WMD's , and were planning to develop the nuclear form of them
    as soon as United Nations sanctions were lifted. As to whether they
    were an undefinable `imminent' threat is irrelevant and a red herring
    argument at best. The real question is whether the Iraq War was a
    just war. Was liberating the Iraqi people the moral and right thing
    to do and will history regard this as a suitable, just and deserved
    ending of the despotic Saddam regime?

    History has recorded in stark black and white the tyrants and mass
    murder of the last century. The slaughter of Armenians by the Turks,
    the insanity of Idi Amin, the apocalyptic terror of Pol Pot, the
    ethnic orgy of death in Rwanda, the horrific war against Christians
    in the Sudan, and the countless lives sacrificed by Lenin, Stalin,
    and Mao on the Red altar of Communism. These are just a few on the
    list that reads as a nightmarish record of mans' inhumanity to man.

    Only rarely do tyrants meet the end that they deserve. The world
    defeated and destroyed the triple evils of Nazism, fascism and
    Japanese militarism but only after the organized slaughter of tens of
    millions had run its course.

    Saddam and his sons have served as just the latest Middle Eastern
    incarnation of such terror, war and death. The thirty years of
    Baathist rule in Iraq produced wars, invasions, and attacks on three
    neighboring countries, the direct deaths of over a million people,
    and ethnic and religious civil wars with the obligatory torture
    chambers, execution squads, rape rooms, and chemical attacks on
    civilian populations. The laundry list would not be complete without
    mentioning the funding, arming and training of terrorist groups of
    all political and ideological stripes and the attempted assassination
    of a former president of the United States.

    Perhaps the most premeditated diabolical act was what occurred after
    the imposition of UN sanctions. The Saddam regime embarked upon the
    deliberate starvation and medical neglect of the Iraqi people for
    political purposes. Tens of billions of illegal petro dollars funded
    WMD programs and was hoarded or spent on lavish lifestyles for the
    elite as the children of Iraq died from neglect, malnutrition, and
    lack of medicine. All played out for the eager lenses of the world
    press and the benefit of the pacifists here at home.

    In the end it should be a moral outrage that it took this long for a
    `coalition of the willing' to finally end the reign of yet another of
    histories monstrosities. When the Iraq War first started what was
    heard from the average American was not `why are we doing this?' but
    `what took us so long?' and `we should have taken him out the first
    time'. The blood soaked sand of Iraq deserves better.

    The name Saddam will become just another one word term symbolizing
    the utter cruelty humanity is capable of inflicting on itself. His
    shadow will always be with us and be remembered for its own
    particular horrors and the unique terror he brought his victims.

    The members of the Axis of Evil, Al-Queda, and their allies have
    shown no mercy to their victims and should be shown none in return.
    With a little luck some native Kurd will mete out some true justice
    and display the head of Saddam on a pole in a village square
    somewhere. It would certainly simplify the worries of providing a
    `proper Muslim' burial for a mass murderer and spare the ever so
    sensitive sensibilities of the Arab street.

    Those that bemoan the use of force against the Saddam regime or mourn
    the killing of the `Hussein boys' share a portion of guilt for the
    horrific crimes committed by such criminals. To prevent rape,
    mutilation, torture and the shedding of innocent blood, to civilize a
    people, to kill a sadist, to liberate a country, to bring peace to a
    region wracked by war and help heal an ancient land is a cause that
    is noble and worthy of respect. Civilized and free people have a duty
    to do what we can to make the world a better, safer and more merciful
    place. It is certainly reasonable to prevent rogue ideologies and
    psychotic personalities from unleashing their holocaust of terror and
    vision of destruction on the rest of us.

    When you add it all together; a vicious tyrant, nuclear ambitions,
    torture, genocide, sponsorship of terror, user of WMD's, combined
    with a vicious hatred of Israel, America and Western Civilization,
    there can be no other conclusion than that the Iraq war was a just
    war. Untold thousand of future Saddam victims have President George
    Bush and the iron resolve of the American people to thank for their
    lives. In the course of history few nations have destroyed tyranny
    instead of imposing it and liberated nations instead of enslaving
    them. A nation founded in Liberty has given that blessed gift to the
    Iraqi people.

    David Huntwork is a long time conservative activist and occasional
    columnist in Ft. Collins, Colorado where he lives with his wife and
    two (soon to be three) young daughters. He strongly believes in the
    importance of Faith, Family, and Freedom as the formula of success
    for a good life and a healthy nation.
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