Fat Lady Tuning Up

On this 12th day of April, we are seeing amazing events in Iraq. President Bush has been vindicated in his decision to go forward with a forcable regime change in Iraq, and the nations who were looking to profit by obstructing what needed to be done are starting to feel the cold of being left out.

These same nations are now crying for a major role in the profitable reconstruction of Iraq, they claim the UN needs to control the country of Iraq until free elections are held by the people of Iraq. I wonder if they are proposing the free election process they presided over in Cambodia or Haiti? Or the move to free elections they are still trying to get to in Kosovo? No, I don't think we want to turn over the future of the Iraqi people to the UN and the EU, we can guess where that will lead.

While our track record is spotty, it is a darn site better than anything the UN has been involved in. The UN tends to put the country they are helping into a shark tank and then lets the sharks of the UN play games and profit from the process while never getting to the resolution which improves the lives of the people in these countries.

Then there is the issue of the ex-patriots returning to Iraq, seems they feel they need to run things and the US owes them an opportunity to be placed into power. They feel they are better able than the citizens who have been suffering while they lived the free life in the US or England. No, I feel they are better served as advisors, as examples and teachers, but the new governement needs to be made up of the citizens inside of Iraq, made up of different tribal groups, religious sects, ethnic sectors, etc... all the people need to be represented. Whether it's a government patterned after the US example or the British parlimentary procedure, or some other democratic process, I don't care, but the PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE A VOICE!

No, the fat lady isn't singing yet, but the US is returning naval carriers to US waters. Combat forces are being reduced and replaced with medical, public affairs and law enforcement forces, stability and freedom are being introduced into Iraq.

Judical and police advisors are on their way to Iraq, as well as aid workers and humaitarian supplies. Yes, a new day in freedom and liberty is dawning over Iraq.

In the meantime, I am amazed at the amount of ammunition and arms cached around the city. Hidden in schools, medical facilities, and in underground bunkers. Too bad the Iraqi military had no stomach to fight for a repressive regime. I guess patriotism can't be instilled through fear and intimidation.

No the fat lady isn't singing yet, but I do hear her tuning up...