Perspective Alternative

In response to : http://sineman.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-much-more-barbaric-can-peace.html

The main reason (not one of reasons, not "the ostensible reason") for invading Iraq was to topple a dictator, plant the seeds of a democratic government, and thereby remove a military thread to the region and the world. This threat was evidenced by the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the decade of Iraq's refusal to comply with U.N. resolutions. These are by way of example not limitation.

Has this threat been removed? Let's answer this by looking at a neighbor of Iraq that, over the same span of time, has been bartered with, pandered to, negotiated with, and "dialogued" with. Iran. Iran is building nuclear weapons by all accounts. Iranian agents observe North Korean missile tests. Iran funds, trains, and insights international terrorists by all accounts, including the current crisis between Hezbollah and Israel. Iran refuses to comply with U.N. resolutions and is nearly completely isolated from the international community. Iran is an immense regional and potentially world-wide threat.

Iraq does not fund, train, or insight terrorists. Iraq is not developing *any* weapons nevermind nuclear weapons. True, Iraq is a struggling country facing many, many problems but, it does not threaten is neighbors with destruction.

When a gunman enters a Jewish Community Center in Seattle and shoots six people because they are jewish that's a hate crime.

When Hezbollah fighters launch unguided rockets filled with ball bearings into Israeli towns as part of a two decade old effort to wipe Israel off the map (because they're jewish)...it's part of the resistance?

No, it's hypocrisy, plain and simple.

Everyone MUST remember that Hezbollah's goal is the destruction of Israel. And it's not because of some dispute over land. That's a mere pretext. It's because of deep anti-semitism.

Matthias Kuntzel (a German politcal scientist) studied and explains how the Nazis steadily grew a loose relationship with dissatisfied Arabs, particularly in Palestine, until they actually began broadcasting Arab-language propoganda in 1939. Now, you tell me, what sort of messages do you suppose the Nazis sent them???

You can probably figure it out for yourself but, I'll give you a hint: Anti-semitism wasn't big in the middle east until around this time...