LETTER: Pres. Bush’s experience means a lot

Editor,

I don’t understand that at this time we are questioning our leaders. We have a president who brought us through 9/11 and whose biggest flaw, some people say, is that he worries too much about people from another country.

Is that really a bad thing? Would it be better for our commander in chief to be more worried about what’s happening in his own bed than for people who are being oppressed half a world away, like the previous president?

Or should we listen to celebrities who have attended some college and who get their information from CNN, instead of a man who has lots of experience and all of the resources of the U.S. government at his disposal? We have people protesting not just the war, as they say, but the brave men and women who are fighting for freedom for the Iraqi people.

These people are also protesting violently, which makes a lot of sense. For you people that say that this war is an “idiotic exercise” but that you support the troops, what you are actually saying is “Who cares what happens to the Iraqi people?”

Are we really that selfish? Maybe that’s why we have so many problems here at home; we are too busy thinking about ourselves. I listened in on a conversation recently that involved a person who had escaped Iraq in order to live here in the United States.

This man said these protesters don’t know what’s going on in Iraq. It seems the man’s brother was out for a walk one night with his fiancée when a black limo pulled up. Saddam Hussein’s son got out, took the fiancée, and left.

He hasn’t seen her in the 18 years after that event. The man told the other member of the conversation that “Saddam has been killing his own people for 28 years, and someone has to stop him.” His next statement hadn’t really occurred to me, but really hit home. He said that “America is the ‘sheriff’ of the world, and if we don’t stop Saddam, then who will?”

Perhaps France will talk Saddam to death, because it worked so well for them with a dictator named Hitler. I pray for our troops every night, which by the way, is what God has to do with this war. I know everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but I hope that when we are expressing it, we realize that thousands of people died in “idiotic exercises” so that the Dixie Chicks aren’t killed when they express their well-informed opinion.

Scot Stacey