THIS CAME FROM A RETIRED MILITARY MAN.



I asked this man who is in his 80's who was in the Korean War and World War

II to give me a little history lesson and his thoughts today on War. I am

sharing this because it is a different look at the War. It is not my

opinion, just thoughts from an honorable man that lived through two Wars and

that I have a great respect for. Thoughts to think about:



Question; Should we go to war with Iraq?



This Veteran's comments:



I'm not going to get into a history lesson. The short, short version is

that the League of Nations (established after WW I to prevent wars) failed

to stop Mussolini's Italy from invading and conquering Ethiopia. It failed

to stop Japan from invading and conquering Manchuria and much of China.

Their committees wrung their hands spoke in platitudes but did absolutely

nothing to stop war.



At France's coaxing Britain's prime minister Nevil Chamberlain met with

Adolph Hitler in Munich and surrendered the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in

the interest of "peace in our time." The French and British watched as

Germany took Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia. They all had committee

meetings and wrung their hands and talked of peace.



World War II erupted when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Britain had a mutual

defense treaty with Poland so they couldn't escape. They declared war on

Germany. Germany had a mutual defense treaty with Japan so Japan declared

war on Britain. France wet their pants and surrendered to Germany as fast

as they could and gleefully shipped all

the Jews they could find to death camps in Germany to prove to Adolph that

they really were on the side of Germany.



Japan attacked the United States and, because of Japan's mutual defense

treaty with Germany, Germany declared war on the United States.



Up until December 7th and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a large

number of our people were wringing their hands and saying, "Appease Hitler.

He is really a good guy who just needed a little more land for his

expanding population. The dear man just wants peace. And World War II was

in full swing leaving better than 50,000,000 people dead including about

450,000 American soldiers and sailors.



Three cheers for the League of Nations! After World War II it was decided

to do the whole thing all over again. This time we would call it the United

Nations and we will have committee meetings and hand wringing parties and

make sure peace prevails throughout the land.



While that august body wrung hands the Soviet Union split Germany, invaded

Poland and Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria along with Latvia,

Lithuania and Estonia. The peaceful world saw Korea with 37,000 American

soldiers killed, over 1,000,000 South Korean soldiers and civilians killed

and the country nearly destroyed.



Since then we have had over 50,000 American soldiers killed in Vietnam and

have fought wars in Somalia, Herzegovenia, Panama, Granada, plus the Gulf

War when Iraq invaded Kuwait.



We should have gone into Baghdad and taken out that evil regime then but

the United Nations would have no part of that. All they would allow was for

us to chase the Iraqis out of Kuwait, then peace would prevail.



Now, here we are with Saddam violating all 17 United Nations resolutions

while he has massed poison gas and bio weapons. He is frantically trying to

develop a nuke and his buddy, Kim Jong-Il of North Korea may give him a

few. (It was the United Nations who prevented us from taking North Korea

when the war was hot and we had the means to do it .) Peace!!!!!!!! Sure.



France is wetting their collective pants in fear that the United States

will take Saddam out and along with him, France's 60 billion dollar

contracts with Iraq. Russia hedges because Iraq owes them 6 billion dollars

that they sorely need.



In answer to your question....... hell yes, we should go to war with Iraq.

We should have done it six months ago. We should also get out of the United

Nations. Can you believe that the United Nations has appointed Iraq and

Syria to head up the United Nations Disarmament Committee? Can you believe

they have appointed Libya to head up the Human Rights Committee? All three

of these countries are on the UN List of Terrorist States.............

Absolutely unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!



Just don't get me going. Throughout recorded history the only time peace

has prevailed is when the good guys have militarily whipped the bad guys.

Who are our best friends in the world? Japan because we whipped them.

Germany because we whipped them. Italy because we whipped them. Britain

because we whipped them.



This is one opinion, on the War but this is the eyes, ears and heart of an

American Veteran...