Posted by
JayPeriod on Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:06:16 PM
For more than five years, the rallying cry from the left has been that the Iraq war is an illegal, unjustified and wrong war. They have carped that no WMDs were found, that Iraq didn't attack us or have anything to do with those who did, and that we had no right to be there. They have made a war of fighting against this war. Hypocrisy!
In December 1995, then President Bill Clinton shipped our soldiers to Bosnia for battle. Now, when did Bosnia attack us? Oh, yeah, I remember, it was...no, that's not it. In fact, Bosnia did not attack us, nor did they even threaten us. No, Clinton sent troops to Bosnia for the express purpose of covering up his own mistakes and scandals. In fact, as a friend of mine from the region puts it, he sent troops to an area of the world where he had no business sending them. He sent them to fight for a people who had no right to land they claimed and disrupted a government selected by its people. His only excuse was that the government of Bosnia was involved in ethnic cleansing and gross atrocities and needed to be stopped.
In Congress in recent months, there have been loud calls for the US to send troops to Sudan to stop the genocide going on in the Darfur region. The government of Sudan has never attacked us, nor have they been shown to support those who attack us. They are involved in driving people from their homes and killing them in large numbers. It is a battle over who will control the country, a civil war, of sorts.
In both of these instances, Democrats and Leftists have justified the sending in of troops, even war if necessary. They have claimed that the massive loss of life and gross human rights violations demand that a country of our stature and strength do something. Interesting.
As I recall, Saddam Hussein and his regime were dedicated to any cause that brought harm to the US. They were also guilty of gross human rights violations and genocide. They had mass executions of those who were opposed to their rule as well as being responsible for gassing hundreds of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq. They were acting almost identical to those in Bosnia and Sudan, except they were actually funding terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
So, why again is it that the Left opposes the war in Iraq? Surely if they are interested in protecting human rights they would support the removal of a dictator so cruel as Saddam. Surely if they are interested in stopping genocide, Saddam would have been somewhere on their radar.
The simple truth is that they oppose the war in Iraq, not because it is an illegal and wrong war, but because it is George Bush's war. They see their own President as more of an enemy than a tyrant dictator such as Saddam Hussein. They are so blinded by hatred of a fellow American that they have no sight to see what is truly right.
There were no hearings regarding the sending of troops to Bosnia, even a short two weeks before Christmas. There will be no opposition from the right to trying to stop the genocide in Sudan. Why? Because the Right is able to see the world subjectively, through the eyes of right and wrong. Genocide is wrong. Rape rooms are wrong. If they are wrong in Bosnia and Sudan, they are wrong in Iraq. The Left, though, sees through their own eyes no such firm definitions of right and wrong. They only see what's right for them, what's wrong to them. This is hypocricy, but then again, they don't see it that way.