All The More Reason to Liberate Iraq

The tragedy in Iraq today is well reported in the New York Times. I am sickened by the hatred of people who find pride and victory in parading and hanging the charred and dismembered corpses of those they call enemies. America is horrified by such base behavior, and rightly so, but we will not falter in our determination to free Iraq.

From the war’s beginning, the Democrat party and the anti-war movement have used derogatory language to describe contracting companies working in Iraq. The strategy has been to portray contracting as an arena for political favors, and contractors as price gauging corporate behemoths. In fact, the dead so horribly abused by Iraqis today, were contractors. They were working for money, but also for American national security and a better life for the Iraqi people. They paid the ultimate price, and more. The next time John Kerry thinks of deriding Bechtel or Halliburton or any other contracting company working in Iraq, he would do well to remember that those companies are represented on the ground in Iraq by Americans who, like our military, are subject to attack from hatred’s foot soldiers.

The horror in Falluja today underscores the importance of liberating Iraq. Falluja is a Baathist stronghold for people who would take power and rule in the manner of Saddam Hussein, a man who killed more Muslims than any other in history. Would you expect civilized behavior from his supporters? We were right going into Iraq to deliver a people from such monsters, and we are right to stay the course.