Thank You, 4000!
The media right now is thanking the Maker for the artificial 4,000th “milestone” death in Iraq. It gives them something to talk about and the ability to refocus their agenda so that the candidates have something to talk about to win office. What you don’t hear them doing is sickening and appalling.
We here at ASP want to thank those 4,000 brave men and women who have paid a steep price for freedom. We honor them and their families who pay a deeper price for their sacrifices. Because of these 4,000 heroes, millions of Iraqis are enjoying true freedoms for the first times in their life. They no longer need to live in fear that their opinion about their leader will get their tongues cut off, their family killed, or their job lost.
Because of these 4,000 Iraq is more stable and secure with an “audacity of hope”, reconciliation, and optimism. Democracy is taking hold and the surge has allowed unprecedented progress in the government. Iraq has passed more laws in one year than our country has the past three!
We continue to be burdened by the terrorists who are clinging to every ounce of determination they can muster, despite their problems recruiting and staying alive. None of these Soldiers has died in vain, regardless of what the Code Pinkos, IVAWs, and other extreme left-wingers of this country want us to believe. They deserve to be honored, not splashed across our television sets and front page newspapers as lost causes.
Ladies and Gentlemen, as a Soldier I grieve at the loss of even one of my fellow brothers or sisters in arms. But let me tell you something having lost some good friends and people I knew in this war: there is nothing “grim” about these losses. They are the price to be paid for freedom from tyranny and terrorism. I would love nothing more than be able to defeat a violent, ruthless enemy and never lose one Soldier. Never suffer one casualty. Never fire one shot. The “grim” reality is that making peace possible doesn’t happen that way.
The anti-war movement and mainstream media did a good job promoting the “5th anniversary” of the start of the war in Iraq on March 19th. Now, let’s see if they are equally as zealous promoting April 9th as Iraqi Liberation Day and give some of those 4,000 the real credit they deserve!!
“One day people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,’” Bush said after a State Department briefing about long-term diplomacy efforts.
“I have vowed in the past, and I will vow so long as I’m president, to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain — that, in fact, there is an outcome that will merit the sacrifice,” Bush said.
Congress, as always, continues to be pessimistic and refuses to see reality for what it is.
“Americans are asking how much longer must our troops continue to sacrifice for the sake of an Iraqi government that is unwilling or unable to secure its own future,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Ms. Pelosi, what is the result, then, of removing troops from a country “unwilling or unable to secure” itself? The answer to that question is why we Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Sailors are so necessary and that our presence be maintained until they are “willing” AND “able”!!
