A good friend of mine emailed me the other night and asked me to post this link to a thread on a discussion board that talked about the war in Iraq (it is a Christian speculative fiction writer’s forum). Specifically, my friend asked me to point out what user Christian Soldier, currently stationed in Iraq, had to say about why we are there. An excerpt:

Does the news report any of that? No. Do they report the thousands of schools we’ve built and paid for? Nope. The roads we’ve built? Never. How about the orphanages we support? Oh..surely they’ve mentioned the hospitals…surely that. No? See the problem here? They only report the negative, only the sensational.
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Give us two more years, and we can pull out safely. Give us five, and we’ll give you a permanent strong hold in the middle east. Give us ten, and this country will be our stead fast allies throughout the years to come, and we will need them. Trust me.

Kids, if nothing else, go read Christian Soldier’s thoughts. But, really, it won’t hurt for you to read the entire thread.

Thank you to K for bringing this to my attention. I’m sorry it took me so long to post.

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