We are only the good guys when we do our duty

A close friend recently opened my eyes to a new simplicity, regarding the war in Iraq. He is a former Marine, who fought in Iraq, and he is now a public servant, working as a firefighter. He said simply, we’re the good guys. It’s our job to help the little guys who can’t help themselves. Saddam is out of power. One less bad guy, how can that be wrong? This simple truth burned in my mind with an intense fervor. Most of us who are stateside, most of us who haven’t served in Iraq, most of us who didn’t carry an M-16 and didn’t see their brothers die to depose this despot, this murderer, have over complicated the issue to support their own theories and points. Don’t get me wrong, the details have their place and are indeed important, but a sand packing grunt knows the real score. The fact is our forefathers did to. They saw it in the same simple way, when they said the following.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Original Declaration of Independence / dated 4th July 1776

In essence this states that it is the right and duty of those who have the means to depose a tyrant leader who abuses his people. A man who usurps the authority of civility and morality by using weapons of mass destruction on the people whose lives he has been entrusted to protect. Saddam was an example of such a tyrant. Saddam was an example of such a murderer. Saddam was deposed as a direct result of the United States of America, United Kingdom and other coalition forces being willing to sacrifice in order to fulfill the rights of the Iraqi people and to fulfill their own duties, the proud duties of the Good guys.



***Definitions***
Usurpations - 1. To seize without right
Despotism - 1. Rule by a despot or tyrant 2. Abuse of power
Evince - 1. To show clearly or reveal