Quoting KCVT:

I have been doing an awful lot of thinking lately. About life, the war in Iraq, the Military, the politics of it all.

I get sick and tired of hearing the news report over and over that US support for its troops in Iraq is waning. That they think President Bush should just bring them all home and be done with it.

Do the people not see the good that the troops have done over there? Not just US troops either, but Canadian and British and Danish and Polish and Japanese and every other country who has troops over there supporting the Iraqis.

Schools are being built. Police stations too, with the military helping to train the Iraqi police so that YES there will come a time when we can pull out of Iraq and be confident in knowing that the Iraqi nation's own can handle anything put up against them.

Most importantly though, is that FREEDOM is being given back to a repressed people. No longer under a man who was a self-appointed President using terror and bombings to control a country. The Iraqi people are voting, creating a democracy and a constitution and giving more rights to its women.

And yet OUR nation doesn't think we should be over there? Doesn't think that we have really done much to help? That all we can focus on is the death toll of our troops?

Yes, men and women have died and I am not trying to downplay the tragedy of it. But do you not realize that they died fighting to free a Nation that was under siege?

You may argue that the insurgents are working harder now than before. But truly think about it? They know they are LOSING. They know that they no longer control the people. They are desperate. But when you look at the number of attacks they are much fewer than when this war started.

Anyways, I've said my peace. I didn't write this to stir up a political debate, nor to preach on war. This is simply how one Canadian woman views what's going on in the world. Maybe it's naive, who knows. But it's how I feel.

I salute those in the Military willing to stand up for those who can't. I honor and respect their integrity and their courage.

And I thank them.

KC.

I have been doing an awful lot of thinking lately. About life, the war in Iraq, the Military, the politics of it all.

I get sick and tired of hearing the news report over and over that US support for its troops in Iraq is waning. That they think President Bush should just bring them all home and be done with it.

Do the people not see the good that the troops have done over there? Not just US troops either, but Canadian and British and Danish and Polish and Japanese and every other country who has troops over there supporting the Iraqis.

Schools are being built. Police stations too, with the military helping to train the Iraqi police so that YES there will come a time when we can pull out of Iraq and be confident in knowing that the Iraqi nation's own can handle anything put up against them.

Most importantly though, is that FREEDOM is being given back to a repressed people. No longer under a man who was a self-appointed President using terror and bombings to control a country. The Iraqi people are voting, creating a democracy and a constitution and giving more rights to its women.

And yet OUR nation doesn't think we should be over there? Doesn't think that we have really done much to help? That all we can focus on is the death toll of our troops?

Yes, men and women have died and I am not trying to downplay the tragedy of it. But do you not realize that they died fighting to free a Nation that was under siege?

You may argue that the insurgents are working harder now than before. But truly think about it? They know they are LOSING. They know that they no longer control the people. They are desperate. But when you look at the number of attacks they are much fewer than when this war started.

Anyways, I've said my peace. I didn't write this to stir up a political debate, nor to preach on war. This is simply how one Canadian woman views what's going on in the world. Maybe it's naive, who knows. But it's how I feel.

I salute those in the Military willing to stand up for those who can't. I honor and respect their integrity and their courage.

And I thank them.

KC.