Strife in the Middle East

Amnesty International is hardly a conservative organization. But the mainstream media has conveniently forgotten their liberal ally, since Amnesty voiced outrage at the significant human rights violations that are taking place in Iraq. Even before the war, Amnesty put together a dossier citing evidence of these offenses. Other reports are widespread.

The problem I have with our government is not that we’re going in to Iraq to hopefully create a true democratic state and thereby ease tensions in the Middle East, but why did it take so long?

Hussein and his conspirators have used fear, like any other dictator, to quell any potential opposition to his power. And the techniques? Oh, the typical stuff like arrests, torture, rape and murder. I’ll only guess that the reason we waited so long to start a war to remove Hussein was because we were trying to diplomatically build global support for effort. How did we know there’d be so few countries with a moral compass that would help them understand the truly evil nature of this regime