Your Child

Psychologist, Drew Westen’s book “The Political Brain” states: “The question Democrats have never asked Republicans since the war began is the only one that really matters: Would you send your own child to die in Iraq?  And if so, have you done everything you can to convince your children that if this is truly the war you say it is, for our freedom, for our very way of life, to keep the terrorists over there so that they won’t fight them over here, they should drop their lucrative investment banking careers and be all they can, all they can be over in Baghdad?”

Westen further suggests: “The Democratic leadership needs to ask themselves whether they would send their own children to die in this war.  And if the answer is no, they need to vote as if every soldier were their child.  That’s what it means to support our troops.”

Democrats are taking a calculated risk, by positioning themselves in the middle. Anti-war voters may not vote in the 2008 election, until Congressional Democrats admits the war is all about oil.

They wouldn’t let their child die in a war that was not worthy of that sacrifice, and Iraq is not worthy of the sacrifice our troops are making and that’s the reason we shouldn’t be fighting it.

We’re going to end up with a Shia theocracy far more loyal to Iran than it is to America, and equally repressive of women’s rights and human rights.  With half the troops that we’ve put in Iraq, our military could have gotten rid of al Qaeda in Pakistan, and eliminated the real jihadist threat from those, who actually did attack us on September 11th. We should have stay focused on the headquarters of al Qaeda, which has never been in Iraq.