Reflection by Iraqikurd

As a four year old, Iraqikurd, was hidden away in the family home as his mother and father were killed just before the Gulf War by Saddam's Fedayheen. He was rescued by a United States special forces team operating in the area at the time and eventually adopted here in the United States. I have met Iraqikurd once at an anti-war demonstration where I saw him cursed and abused for supporting the War in Iraq and President Bush, have read other articles he has written and have met a few of his friends. He is the real thing. He has given me permission to post this on the UCV blog.

The other day while on my way to one of my class at GWU I was approached by one of my professors. He had asked me what I felt about the Iraq war and some other questions related to the conflict. I gave my typical responses and justifications for my support of the war but this time I was asked a question that I had never before been asked.

How do you reconcile your support for a campaign where you have witnessed your fellow countrymen die from?

I paused for a moment and then asked my professor to elaborate.

He was baffled at how I could support a war where I had to watch my fellow neighbors, young children, elderly, innocent men, and infrastructure destroyed.

I stopped in the hallway and thought for a moment. All I could see were the images of the wounded and dead, both Iraqi and American. I began to remember the images of the attack on Halabja as well as the images ingrained in the back of my mind of market places littered with bodies of the innocent.

I turned back to my professor and asked him, "How could you sit idely by and allow Saddam to continue with his mass graves."

Obviously he gave me the typical response of how he didn't support the atrocities of Saddam nor his regime in power, yet he couldn't reconcile the opposing of his ousting and "de-Ba'athification" of Iraq with equal copability.

So I sat down with the professor and explained to him that this really is a "with us or against us" type of campaign. Now I know being an ex Vietnam era hippie and openly professed radical socialist, that it may be hard for you to grasp such polarizing terms but this is no different than dealing with NAZI Germany.

I have never been one to compare any two wars but for arguments sake we all knew that WWII was going to cost us millions of lives. We also knew that a lack of action would cost the existance of entire groups of people and the domination of an evil regime. Which is more important, trying to protect human life or be willing to stand up and greet death if need be to do what is right?

To hap hazard, self centered, utopia invisioning liberals it is neither. For one that opposed the war in Iraq yet still openly admonishes Saddam Hussein and his brutal regime can not even be classified as on the right or wrong side of the issue. Rather they are on the side of the wicked in which they don't stand with justice yet do everything within their will to oppose justice if it doesn't fit within their construct for political wielding.

I turned back to the professor and told him, "If I have to sacrifice every man, woman and child to protect the integrity of ourselves and to stand up for liberty and justice where ever she cries, you bet your ass I will support a campaign where I must watch helplessly while I watch my countrymen die at the hands of the most diabolical elements within our world. I can't imagine a world where the 'just' no longer stand up for justice because I would no longer be in that world because I would have marched to my own death with the others in the cause of such a noble thing."

As I thought about the conversation that night with some very close friends of mine we all held each other in confidence knowing that we are the future of the middle east and thank God that people like my professor are not. John Kerry is not, John Murtha is not, Jane Fonda is not, Hillary Clinton is not... we are the future and the future is bright. It is bright with hope and bright with the comfort in knowing that our moral clarity is clear and not clouded with the goggles of political partisanship or wicked campaigns of immorality in which we backstab justice and liberty just so that we can hold the title of 'The Elite'.

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