Why Are We There?

This morning, I awakened to an email from one of my readers, Shelby, who had copy and pasted an article on how Iran has decided to make it law that anyone involved in the production of pornography should be put to death.

Shelby added to the article: "Reading this may shed some light on why liberals like yourself may be wrong about the President and the war..."

Well, first of all, Shelby, thank you so much for sending this article along.

I had no idea things were so awful in Iran for the pornsters. Though I'm sure it's probably the least of Iran's problems.

You see, Iran is truly a corrupt area of the globe that has posed a legitimate threat to us by developing nuclear technology and refusing to give any information on what it is that they are creating. And despite the fact that we put their leader there, Iran has severely turned on us. Scary, right?

So yes, Shelby, it would make some semblance of sense that we be at war with Iran.

But we're not.

Instead, we're at war with Iraq. The two have nothing to do with each other.

So why are we there? Because Osama "might" have "a few" of his people there? (The words "might" and "a few" are in quotes because that's all we've been able to confirm from Bush or his staff. Those are their words, not mine.) So "might" and "a few" is supposedly our green light for killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq? That makes very little sense to me. We invaded Iraq illegally and against the advisement of the United Nations. Why did they tell us not to? Why did even the U.N. consider it illegal?

Because Iraq never did anything to us.

They had nothing to do with 9/11. They had nothing to do with Osama. They had nothing to do with nuclear warfare. Iraq posed no threat to the United States of America.

Now, if you were an innocent Iraqi civilian who had your family killed and were fearful for your own life and the Taliban came to you and said, "We will help you in this war, if you join us," what would you do?

Before the Iraqi war, there were about as many members of the Taliban hiding out in Iraq as there are currently hiding out in the United States. But by invading a place that did nothing to us, we have managed to help the Taliban in recruiting people with hatred against America -- both out of honest anger and out of having no other choice for survival.

Find me a reason why we went into Iraq in the first place, Shelby. Find me a reason why we decided to kill 70,000 innocent civilans. Please. I am begging you. Please find me a reason other than that Iraq has oil and Iran does not. Because I have been searching high and low and would do anything to feel safe in my own country again.

I would love to be wrong about the President and the war. That is what I want the most.

Unfortunately, our government has yet to offer anything substantial to that affect. If I'm missing something that you could shed light on, it would be greatly appreciated.