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Hard to answer questions this simple:
March 20, 2002, my 9-year-old son finds me glued to the television, and as he squeezes in next to me on the couch to watch all the exploding bombs and missiles, asks what am I watching? I tell him that we just started a war against Iraq. He quickly asks, "Why, what did they do to us, or are these the people that flew the airplanes into the buildings?" I told him no, these are different people in a different country and that they had done nothing yet, but that they have a whole bunch of very bad weapons that they could use on us. I went on further to explain that it wasn't all of Iraq but just Saddam Hussein and his army of bad people. I then lose him for a moment while trying to explain the UN Resolution, but he caught the part about them not allowed to have them. With the wheels of his mind spinning fast now, he wants to know why we just didn't go ask them to give them to us and then they wouldn't be breaking the law anymore? I tried explaining that they keep saying they do not have any of these really bad weapons, but that our intelligence people say they are lying and that they are hiding and storing all these weapons all over Iraq where we cannot find them.
Here was his first simple question:
If we just want to blow up that Husamm guy and his army because they are hiding a whole bunch of really bad weapons that kill people, and we don't want to kill everybody in Iraq, won't we do that anyways if one of our bombs or missiles lands and explodes on one of their hiding places?
I told my son that he had such a good question that he had stumped his mommy and I had no answer for him. I promised him that when I found out the answer I would tell him. He was so tickled with himself that during the following weeks, had told half the town how he stumped me.
Time passes to December 14, 2003
The cake is done, table set and I am blowing up the last of the balloons for my son's 10th birthday party today when he comes racing down the stairs screaming, "They found the weapons Husamm guy." "They did, and how do you know this," I asked. Although I am aware of this already, he goes on to say that, he had just seen it on television. Then he nailed me with the BIG question. "Did he tell us where he is hiding the weapons or did we already find them?" I told him no and not yet but we are still looking. Then he asks, "What if we never find them, can we still keep him under arrest?"
"Sweetie, today is your birthday party; let's talk about this stuff another time," I said to him while trying to dodge yet another mommy stumping question.
My son asked two very simple questions, and to this day, I still could not answer them for him.
~My bottom line: Our administration explains to us, that Hussein, his sons and the others of Saddam's regime have committed mass genocide to 100's of thousands of their own people with chemical warfare. We all agree that their actions were cruel, wrong and of a terrorist act.
I agree Saddam and his regime needed to be stopped and removed from power, but not because he was any kind of a current threat to the USA, but because he was a threat to his own country and those on his borders. Nevertheless, I wish we had chosen another option to accomplish the task of removing him from power. I regret to say this, but our administration is NO better than Saddam himself, in that they both acted with no regard to HUMAN LIFE.
May the GOD in which you believe in continue to watch over you and those still over there and bring peace and answers to those families here and abroad who have lost a loved one because of this Iraqi Occupation.
This article is only my opinion and reflects no actual knowledge or official information on why things were being done the way they were.
I originally tried to get this published back in 2004 but to no avail as far as I know.
