Why we are at war

[sfc_darrel]

Why we are at war

Some of you may not approve of the Iraqi war, and I hope this email
doesn't offend anyone, but it's the BEST explanation the war that I've
ever read, and I feel I must pass it on.


This is the BEST explanation of WHY we are AMERICA, the Home of the
Brave and the Land of the FREE!

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war.
My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve
and defend our country again today. I knew that my husband would give
him a good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in
our front living room window. He told him: "Son, stand there and tell
me what you see?"

"I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses." he replied.

"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
States of America and you are President Bush."

Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and see that man
come out of his house with his wife and he has her by the hair and is
hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face,
he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying, they are
watching this but do nothing because they are kids and afraid of their
father.
You see all of this son.... what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do son?"

"I call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take your
call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do
you do then son?"

"Dad, but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.

"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
husband says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want
you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."


"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door
neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get
involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him,"
my husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?"

Our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for
help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire
and then..he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in he
window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

"Daddy..."

"WHAT DO YOU DO?"

Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I close the
blinds, Daddy."

"My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him...
"Why?"

"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help...people who needs
it....and they won't help....You always say that neighbors are supposed
to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop
him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself ..Daddy.....I can't look out
my window and just watch him do all these terrible things
and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the
blinds....so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend
that it is not happening."

I start to cry.

My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window,
looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husbands questions and
he tells him..."Son"

"Yes, Daddy."

"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door..."WHAT
DO YOU DO?"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up
his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM
HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA
FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his
chest and hugs him tight, and cries..."It's too late to fight him, he's
too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have
stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife. You have to do what's right,
even if you have to do it alone, before......it's too late." my husband
whispers.

THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good
men stand by and let evil happen is the greatest EVIL of all. Our
President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand
that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men from power
so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are not afraid
to look out our window. So that my nine year old son won't grow up in a
world where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds the atrocities
in the world won't affect him.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO
IT ALONE!"

BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

BE PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT!

BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!!

SUPPORT THEM!!!

SUPPORT AMERICA!!


SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR
BLINDS...."

"The liberty we prize is not American's gift to the world, it is God's
gift to humanity." George W. Bush

[williams919]

Darrell
That is the reason we be there. Below is the reason we will stay.

Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper




> > OLD VERSION:
> >
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
> long, building his house and
> laying up supplies for the winter.
> The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and
> dances and plays the summer
> away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
> The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies
> out in the cold.
> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
> >
> MODERN VERSION:
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
> long, building his house and
> laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper
> thinks he's a fool and laughs
> and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter,
> the shivering grasshopper calls
> a press conference and demands to know why the ant
> should be allowed to be warm and
> well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS,
> NBC, and ABC show up to provide
> pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a
> video of the ant in his comfortable
> home with a table filled with food. America is
> stunned by the sharp contrast. How
> can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
> poor grasshopper is allowed to
> suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
> grasshopper, and everybody
> cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
> Jesse Jackson stages a
> demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
> news stations film the group
> singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the
> group kneel down to pray to God
> for the grasshopper's sake. Tom Daschle & John Kerry
> exclaim in an interview with
> Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the
> back of the grasshopper, and
> both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to
> make him pay his "fair share."
> Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
> Anti-Grasshopper Act,"
> retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant
> is fined for failing to hire a
> proportionate number of green bugs and, having
> nothing left to pay his retroactive
> taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
> Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
> grasshopper in a defamation
> suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a
> panel of federal judges that
> Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
> recipients. The ant loses the
> case.
> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
> up the last bits of the
> ant's food while the government house he is in,
> which just happens to be the ant's
> old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
> maintain it. The ant has
> disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found
> dead in a drug related incident
> and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a
> gang of spiders who terrorize the
> once peaceful neighborhood.
> MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican

[reconeil]

TRULY GREAT EXPLANATION OF CURRENT REALITIES!!!!!!!!!!

Still, sadder than what's actually occurring these days,...is that some American Leaders and wannabe leaders aren't as up front, wise, questioning and courageous (profound also) about it all and/or warfare, as was a child (plus parent).

Those leaders and wannabe leaders alluded to act and react exactly like those timid people with heads-in-the-sand of: "The neighborhood houses", used for describing some foreigners, The impotent and/or: "I see nothing"UN, and even some foolishly like-minded American Leftists,...whom as their foreign counterparts act as if: "9/11" never happened(?), America isn't even under attack(?), and muslim terrorists haven't declared war on every infidel supporting democracy instead of RELIGIOUS RULE, on earth?

Absolutely amazing! Even with so many fools ALSO in Europe and UN aside, apparently ALSO running for office here and/or desperately wanting Party to regain power and control over all and/or: "Recapture The White House",...such must ALSO have mass-scrambled the political brains of some American Politicians ALSO? That's truly sad,...since QUITE DIFFERENTLY America now needs all the help it can get, INSTEAD.

Neil

[Boats]

Nice work guys a little chest bearing is always good!

[MORTARDUDE]

The reasons we are in Iraq are equally as ludicrous and wrong as those that got us into South East Asia in 1964. The SAME companies are reaping the obscene blood-soaked profits while honorable men and women fight and die, and our country is over run with illegal aliens, crime, and government spending which is going to hit us all in one way or another, sooner than we would suspect. Eventually we will have to leave Iraq, and the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites will resume the blood-letting until the strongest survives and any progress we have made will be lost....Just like in 1975 in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos...>>> Just IMHO. <<<

Larry

[nang]

Excellant post Sfc Darrell.

[Stick]

Stores, gas stations and restaurants have problems with graffitti and Jo and I both look out for things to tape on the walls and both "Why we are at war" and the "Ant and Grasshopper" will make it to the bathroom reader wall. Thanks Darrell and Willie.