Operation Eduring Freedom!!!!!!?

Question

WHY WE ARE AT WAR...What would you do?

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window.

He said "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"

"I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.

"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush."

Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, and then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this, son....what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do son?"

"I'd call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then son?"

"Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.
"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."

"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

"Daddy..."

"WHAT DO YOU DO?" Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the blinds, Daddy."

My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him. "Why?"

"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who needs them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself Daddy.....I can't look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds.... so

I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."

I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and he says...

"Son"

"Yes, Daddy."

"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door... "WHAT DO YOU DO?"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his chest and hugs him tight, and says... “It’s too late to fight him, he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across the way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before its too late." my husband whispers. THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good men stand by and let evil happen son THAT is the greatest atrocity in the world. "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."

MUST WATCH VIDEOS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6OBMr-1Ocg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO70cKWw2VE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WvL8tMsoTI

Answer 1

Your story made me cry. I hope it is ok that I sent it to my friends.

Answer 2

Beautiful story and I can see why you need to tell it so that you feel worth going on. If we had the justification base on WMD, if we had the proof of Suddam's linkage to Al Qaeda, it may be argued that the end justifies the means. So far, we send our man and woman into harms way that turned out not to be true. Nice depicting wife beating and child murderer.
Guess what, as of last record, more than 150,000 Iraqi's died since we took action. That was more than Saddam allegedly killed his own people.
I bet to differ and offer to give my son the facts of life. Yes, I support our Troops and they do a good job. Unfortunately, our legislature did not do as good a job and checking our current administration in making a war on false premises.

Answer 3

"Operation North Korea Freedom is still going on and has been for the past 50 years or so we had a very long cease fire but were still technically at war with them" thats bs we're not still "techniqly" at war with north keroa how can u be "techniquely at war with anybody. funny how all the cons that supported freeing the poor ole oppressed iraqsi freedom don't make a case for freeing the poor ole oppresed iranians or north koreans when the north koreans are starving to death in their own country and are as worst off as the iraqi under saddam was. but no i don't support either of those i didn't even support operation iraqi freedom because the iaqis didn't rise up and make the case they wanted to be freed. we invaded iraq under the impression that had wmds but they didn't,north korea tested and exploded a nuclear bomb a weak bomb but a nuclear bomb at that,so why are we not invading their country and freeing the poor oppressed north koreans,oh wai they're sitting on rice fiends not oil fields

Answer 4

Well the truth is that we did it because he just looked like the sort of a person that would commit horrendous crimes, so we went and killed him before he could do any of that stuff, then we killed his wife and kids, and his relatives and their families and are busily eliminating the neighbours because they might testify and dead people tell no tales.

Now what if that neighbour was not called Saddam but was called George and was part of a heavily armed gang of criminals that included Blair and Israel.

Answer 5

A nice story....
The only problem is... the story portrays a very simplistic and naive view of the real world. The video clips, too, are very simplistic and designed to make you "feel" proud to be American... I find them very deceiving. We are going into Iraq, kill their people, put up a government that we like, take control of their oil, rebuild their roads and infrastructures with their oil money while pocketing the profits. Their country is in a big mess, worse off than before we went in there. Civil war is tearing Iraq apart...Sunis and Shiites are killing each others. At least with Sadam there, he kept them in control. Now, it's anarchy! Perhaps, that's what's missing from this nice story: some reality... yes, we are going across the street and beat the s..t out of that guy, but we also burn his house, kill his kids who oppose us, and threaten the neighbours who come out to tell us to slow down. That's what missing from this nice story.

Answer 6

To be honest, I felt your husband is causing trauma to a nine year old boy.

Answer 7

This is the biggest load of garbage I've seen this week

Answer 8

And then ask your son, "So, Mr. Bush, why did your dad and his friends help put such a bad man in power in the first place? If your dad hadn't done that, and then sold him chemical weapons, maybe he wouldn't have been able to kill all those people."

So we should lie to our kids and tell them that that's why we went into Iraq? Do you really believe it had anything to do with that? Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, I guess.

Answer 9

Sooo true, I really like this story.

Answer 10

Good analogy...spot on.