Why?

As if the world were not already perceived as messed up by those of us with a right leaning political tendency, a new charge that has been filed will get our blood boiling. What happened is that a consortium of liberal lawyers have decided to file charges against Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet and Alberto Gonzales. What fro you may ask, war crimes. Yes, the policy makers of a legitimate state are being charged with war crimes for bringing down a brutal despot. Granted that all that the war did was destabilize the Middle East is neither here nor there. However, one can not dispute that the crimes that Saddam Hussein committed were atrocious. All that I have to say is that these out of place hippies should learn that in war innocents die. It is a simple fact. The term that is used is collateral damage. In an ideal world this would not occur, however, we do not live an ideal world so these anti-American “lawyers” should learn to deal with the reality of war, or move out of the country.

There was another time in history that a similar event occurred. It was during the Vietnam war. The press were showing horrific images of little children tha were killed along side other innocent civilians. One must keep in mind that this was the first war that was covered in the sense that the public saw the images of what was happening very quickly after they occurred. The general population of the time then turned radically against the soldiers and even labeled some as “baby killers”. however, as time passed they have been exonerated in the public eye. This is because hindsight changes everything. All that I can say to these lawyers is that when bringing up a criminal case, consult your history book first. War has and always will require innocent lives.