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Reality Stuns the Stupid Ones

By Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com

Millions of Americans were stunned as they watched millions of Iraqis troop to the polls to vote on their own constitution, something Americans did not do in 1787.

Considering that only 13 election day “insurgent” attacks (according to news reports) took place in contrast to over 300 on Election Day, January 30th, one must ponder, is the “insurgency” over?

Finally, have Iraqi voters and their millions of freely cast votes silenced the emotional and fanatic critics of President Bush and the war? No, nothing will silence these people.

“Our nation is evil” —In the North County Times, a daily newspaper.

“So now our invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan compare in significance to the decades-long Cold War against communism, according to the fanciful imagery of our fearless leader. As thousands of innocents are slaughtered and our warriors go door to door arresting young Iraqi men in their own hometowns, people are advised not to bring backpacks or baby strollers on the subways of New York.

We shiver in fear of frowning boys with dark complexions (sic) as well we should. The moral and karmic consequences of our waging war for power and profit will be staggering when they come around to hit us.

And the monetary cost of Bush's wars? The latest figure is more than $350 billion so far, money for our bloated military so they can justify their existence by making us hated worldwide.

The only word I can use for this nation and its government today is evil, and the only feelings I have for her lately are disgust and shame. Sadly, I am not alone.”

ERIC PARISH, Vista

“Stop the war madness” —In the North County Times, a daily newspaper.

“The war is a farce. It only serves to make Bush and his cronies richer at the expense of U.S. reputation, military lives and enormous cost (which will be borne by future generations). Stop this madness! Stand up for the people who put you in office. Protect us against this ever-increasing insanity.”

SHIRLEY PUGA, Encinitas

“Bring our troops, bring them home now” —in the North County Times, a daily newspaper.

“Please stop this insane war. The majority of Americans can now see how futile it is to attempt to force democracy on any other country. We must lead by example in our own land, and at this juncture our leaders are poor examples to follow. Greed and hate are the order of the day in Washington.

We must bring our troops back home and rebuild our own land.”

ROBERTA VEATCH, Del Mar

Oakland Tribune -- Oakland, California.

“A call to pull the California National Guard out of Iraq should be put forth as a November 2006 ballot measure if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't back such legislation, a Bay Area lawmaker said Friday.”

"The people's governor should speak on this issue," Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said during a press conference... Gulf Coast hurricane devastation proves "we need our National Guard here in California," he said.”

“Leno is a co-author of Assembly Joint Resolution 36, introduced Sept. 2 by Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley. AJR 36 would urge the federal government "to restore the balance between the federal government and states by limiting federal control of the California National Guard to cases where there is an insurrection or a declaration of war" — in other words, not Iraq.”

“Hancock…aide Armando Viramontes said the California National Guard is meant to secure California and "not intended to fight an illegal, illegitimate war halfway across the globe."

My, my, how some around us are stuck on “Stupid.” Forcing democracy of millions of Iraqis in an “illegal, illegitimate war,” is that what we did on Saturday, October 15? I saw smiling Iraqis being frisked before they entered voting places; I saw Iraqi women, draped from head to toe in black, carrying Iraqi flags into the polling places; I saw smiling Iraqi women proudly voting, something most Arab women cannot do.

I saw millions of Iraqis voting to ratify a constitution that mandates that women comprise 25 percent of a new parliament and guaranteeing them the right to vote. Forcing democracy on Iraq? Please.

Arresting Iraqi men in their own “hometowns?” Please, terrorists are terrorists and must be hunted down, arrested or killed. Foreign terrorists are in Iraq and they must be rooted out, as must the locals who join and support them. These people are criminals of the worst sort.

They murder women and children and innocent men looking for jobs. These are not patriots; they are criminal murderers.

“…when they come around to hit us...” is the most interesting statement by the stupid ones. They hit us in 1993 at the World Trade Center and President Clinton filed court cases. They hit us in Saudi Arabia at Khobar Towers and President Clinton didn’t even ask for Saudi cooperation, according to the head of the FBI, Mr. Freeh. They hit us on the U.S.S. Cole and President Clinton did nothing. They hit us at embassies killing and wounding thousands of innocent non-Americans.

They hit us on September 11th and, finally, we hit back, squashing them in Afghanistan and now in Iraq. Are we “evil” to have done so? No, we reacted and carried the battler to their lands. We didn’t create terrorists in Iraq, nor in Palestine, nor in Indonesia, Madrid or London. We didn’t create the Moslem terrorists who slaughtered hundreds of Russian children.

We didn’t create these evil people; they created themselves using the Koran as their foundation. The terrorists are the “evil” ones, as are the people who support them. The people who support them are the people who write letters to the editor or introduce resolutions that are profoundly stupid and disbelieve the facts they see with their own eyes.

Millions of Iraqis have trooped to the polls twice and voted more and more democracy into their lives. They have done so protected by our M-16 rifles, not compelled by them. Every vote they cast is a resounding cheer for American liberation from the terrorist government that slaughtered more Moslems than any regime in history.

More importantly, it sends a loud and clear message, delivering freedom is not evil -- it is a priceless gift. Even Sunni Moslems voted in the election, something they didn’t do in January. Even the Sunnis are discovering democracy.

One only wishes that the stupid ones around us would also discover democracy and how we delivered that gift to Iraqis, just as we delivered it to Germany and Japan after killing them en masse.

Freedom and democracy are not cheap. More expensive, however, are the stupid ones like Leno, Hancock, Viramontes, Parrish, Puga and Veatch and the profound evil they support.

Contreras’s newest book—THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA published by Floricanto Press is available and reviewed at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com