What if the Iraqis aren’t terrorists?
August 10th, 2004 by Mark
So, I’ve been thinking a little bit about that whole war thing. Oh yeah – we’re in a war. That means that our soldiers are getting killed and killing other people as you’re reading this. War. So, I was thinking about it, and I started thinking about the Iraqi people. I started thinking about the Iraqi people and what it would be like to be one of them. Now, I’ll have to give some background information so that everyone (anyone?) reading this will be able to understand where I’m coming from. We have yet to find any link between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and any major terrorist organization. Even if we did, I doubt the link would be any stronger than our link to Iraq in the late 1980s … or our link to Al-Qaeda in the late 1980s for that matter. We have yet to find any ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in Iraq, and we haven’t been able to prove that they were removed at the last minute or anything like that either. Iraq has never attacked the United States. Iraq has never threatened to attack the United States. So, with all of that settled, I find our war against Iraq to be entirely unprovoked. I’ll have to ask you to try and ignore your patriotism, your American-view, your fox news propanda, and your fear of thinking for yourself for a minute. The only way to understand your enemy is through empathy. If you can’t feel the way your enemy feels, if you can fear what your enemy fears, if you can’t understand where your enemy is coming from, you won’t be able to understand your enemy’s actions. The Iraqi insurgents, whom I will refer to as the Iraqi people, are fighting our soldiers because they don’t want us to be there. But, what if these people aren’t terrorists? That’s right – people can dislike the United States and even try and kill our troops and not be terrorists. What if these people are just trying to protect their land? I really think that if I was an Iraqi citizen, I would be fighting the American troops that were trying to conquer my land. Hell, I know I would do the same if people were trying to take over America. What if the European Union decided to come over here and stop us from fighting unjust wars? They decided that they wanted to end the regime of George W. Bush and put a stop to the war crimes that our leader has been committing. Well, even after they remove George W. Bush, I would be fighting for my country. I love my country. I love my country and I hate my government for turning my country into something that it was never meant to be. Well, to put an end to a long post that I didn’t want to be so long, I think it would be really great if we thought about the Iraqi people as if they were ‘people’ and not just ‘insurgents’. The Iraqis are real people with real emotions and real motives. They’re not just fighting our troops because they hate the American way of life, it’s much simpler than that.
