TweetThe 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 neighbor's 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, and 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!"

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Originally Posted by T-Man007

Ryker,

You are right, it is costing us a lot of money. But, and I honestly feel this way, it's a lot better than having 3 more jetliners flown into major cities or a football stadium during the Super Bowl. I know we will pay for it and I'd rather pay for a war out of my own pocket than have to pay any higher insurance premiums because of another attack. Insurance went through the roof after 9/11. I'm self employed and I get hit hard on insurance. What did I have to do with 9/11? Nothing. So why do I have higher home, health and auto insurance? Because of 9/11.

I honestly wish we could have gotten more support from our allies in the expense of this, but we didn't. And, we have to deal with it. It sucks. I'm not disagreeing with that but the right thing must be done. If we leave now we will lose all respect from the few allies we actually have and have that much of a hared time gaining the respect of other nations. We need to finish it. We need to get them trained and staffed and then get the heck out. There is no reason to stay after they have a trained military. And, I do feel we should have put more effort into Afgan before we went to Iraq, but that's now. Back when we heard the same misleading info the President got I was in full support of taking Suddam out. I, as did most of America, feel Saddam was a threat. The intel was bad and now we are stuck in this mess. What do you do? Some say leave, some say stay, and I can see both sides to some degree.

Well, catching Bin Laden is one thing that NEEDS to be done. As for the war in Iraq, well, we do need to finish it now, but you can't play world police for everyone. There are many more countries out there that need our help even more than the Iraqi's did, but it's just not feasible to help everyone.