To this day, no one has given a justifiable reason for all this death and misery. Because there is no justification for this endless war in Iraq.
There were no Iraqis on those planes on September 11th.
Hussein was being contained within his own borders. In the early 90’s he was not allowed to fly planes within his own airspace except for the helicopter gunships he was allowed to use in early ‘91 to kill Kurds in the north, he was also allowed to suppress the Shi’a rebellion in the south. He was under an economic embargo and the population had a resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases like polio diphtheria and measles. The oil for food program was a bust from the start. He was being secretly monitored. Children were dying in huge numbers each month because of the sanctions. He was forced to disarm and allow weapons inspections. His country was bombed repeatedly. More civilians suffered and died. All in all Iraq was no real threat to anyone, especially not America. And it’s civilian population continues to pay the highest cost for this and all previous wars against it.

We have been mired in this occupation for 5 years now and Osama Bin Laden has yet to be found when HE claimed responsibility for September 11th. Of the 19 men who have been named as the attackers that day, 15 were Saudi, 2 were from the UAE, 1 from Egypt, and 1 from Lebanon. It would seem that Saudi Arabia would have been a more likely target than Iraq or Afghanistan.

But what do I know. I’m just the mother of someone who is in harms way right now for reasons that change each season. I’m just an American citizen who can not believe what her nation has become in the last 7 years. And, of course, there is no way I could possibly understand the logic behind attacking an almost prostrate country while what appeared to be the obvious enemy has it’s nationals within our borders allowed to leave on flights when even American citizens couldn’t fly. And we continue to maintain relations with Saudi Arabia. A monarchy with the Qur’an as it’s constitution that is the 9th most authoritarian regime in the world.
No, I can’t ever be expected to understand how we ended up in Iraq and Afghanistan on fruitless hunts for a ghost while our Constitution is disregarded and our way of life is permanently altered to suit the current administrations whim.
We, the People’s wishes are “not important”. And the people that we elect to represent us get into office and decide that they will be guided not by what we have asked them to do and what they promised they would do if we elected them but by their own personal desires and beliefs. Elected officials who are more concerned about being re-elected and being “popular” than doing the JOB they were elected to do.