While thinking in the shower.

I was thinking of a path in my mind that I think I should write. If nothing else to clarify my thought process.

If there is one thing more important then life, it has to be the freedom to choose the right way. Freedom, it is more important than life is it not? Is that not true? Do I not justify killing in self defense? War in defense of your homeland is defense of your life and others. Your life, your wife , your children, others wife’s and children. Is this not why we like and support our soldiers?

Well what was the war in Iraq, what was the explination? What was the reasons again, 1) WMD. Essentially these guys are crazy enough to use these things and state we are their enemy. Colin Powel was convinced, so was congress. Saddam was bluffing, he had the capabilities, he had prototypes, he used the prototypes. Not even Iran can have that said about that. And Iran is the biggest threat. 2) WMD not there. hmm. So we are there for the Kurds and Iraqs, So they can be free from Saddam who was a very bad person who restricted said freedoms. 3) So we can fight the terrorist are over there instead of over here. All but the last falls into well we are there because we are fighting for freedom. Notice what is not there. Oil was not a reason, neither was He shot at my daddy. Oil was getting out of Iraq before the war. The profits were going to an absolutely corrupt UN, Saddam, and as I just finish reading about in Comrade J, Russia. Oil for food was a wonderful program to stop. It would have been better to fly planes over Iraq even with fuel prices and parachute supplies into Iraq. The 60 billion would have bought a lot of those supplies. The Idea was a good one but the UN was (and still is) incompatant. And yes the US woke up to that program way to late. I used to think the UN did no good anywhere. I have softened my stance but I still don’t like the Organization. The problem is that I am not sure how to replace it. I wonder if the world would be better off without it. Don’t know.

How about abortion. What is more important than life. Freedom to choose the right thing. So if the baby endagers your life and hence your freedom is endager. Rape and incest especially of an underage or teenage female I could see an abortion. Because I can’t take care of the baby is not necessarily a choice because there are people that could adopt.

What about what is right. Moral laws come from religion. So should a government chose the best religion? I don’t think so. I think the Founding Fathers were inspired by God. God didn’t reveal what was the best path to them but created a place on the earth where religion would not be shoved out the door. And allowed the people to make the rules. It gave us a chance to choose good over evil with out government interference. It allows us to learn from mistakes when we choose we learn from our mistakes. Look at prohibition, its still there in the constitution. Is drinking a good think to stop, think of the advantages! I don’t drink. Yet it failed to make this country better and made it worse. Via the mobs. The government took on something that may have been good and choose for us. That violated freedom to choose the right thing, it took that choice from you. IT screwed things up. Things like religion are not forced on us and hence can not be used for political purposes. We because we can tell others to jump off the nearest cliff. Even if we say jump politely because we gain something by being polite and by helping others to be polite. We also gain alot by learning persuasion. Now if the government forces a good thing on us like politeness what do we get? Politically Correct theology or political correctness from a government. That term sounds familar where did I hear it hmm… Oh yes Stalins reeducation camps. Political Officers on subs. KGB spys secert police for internal maters. Remeber in Russia you couldn’t choose the right thing it was choosen for you. Socilism may be a better way do things as a community, have a tax thats voleentary to help what ever but it has to be an indivduals choice or basicly you lose something more important than life.

Read the decleration of independence. What greviences violated that freedom. What system was there to fix those violations, just war. What is the genius of our system there is a system to fix things with out war. What is the guarantee of that system. Our selves, our guns, and our sacred honnor. But our system was so good that we only had to do that once,the civil war, with slavery to fix that. Even the civil rights movement was within that system.

You want America to be the leader of the world in freedom, teach the world how to use persuasion without the force of arms. I know I just said that Iraq was justified and it was by force of arms. I know that our solders and even more Iraq’s solders whom we teach so we can get the , well leave, but how long should we persuade Saddam, 14 years? Should we have ignored the situation there are good reasons for doing so. How can we do that every where. If we teach or promote freedom (same difference in the words) will government take us seriously if we never stand up for someone nether can we promote freedom with out allowing others to make mistakes. Iraq (some) resents us for interfering. Yet they are better off. Isn’t interfering, or invading taking people’s freedom of choice. So what helps more people, the answer isn’t force or God would use that on us. The answer isn’t a lack of force or what is Justice. I think it is delaying instant justice, and in the mean time use propaganda (persuasion).

Now speaking of justice. I don’t think the US should be out there always persuading and provideing justice. I think it is a valuable service to the world, to be sure, but why should we be in Iraq and Darfur and Columbia. We also can not afford to persuade or force the world into freedom. Leading them via propaganda isn’t horribly expensive, but not trading with countries that are being absolute #*$(*@ is. (fill in your word, but use your imagination and try something that isn’t profanity but gets across the point) So as we are weighing peoples lives in the balance what should we do? I weighed lives and money and ability in this decision to say that going to Iraq was the right thing. Now I also think that no one else is doing any such thing. I think that they feel that no good has come from Iraq. I think that they don’t respect Bush for doing that because he is a republican. I think that is stupid. What does parties have to do with this? Why are democrats always against war and republicans always for it? Is that last sentence true? No. That is an insult to both. Or course when I look at Congress and their approve rating of 22 percent on the high end maybe we should find out why both parties should be insulted. And what the east coast was thinking when they chose our candidates.

I am sure glad I have the freedom to ponder those questions! I hope that Iraq will gain that. I hope that political Islam won’t take over the middle east like it has in Iran and Syria. I hope the Israel will remain free and alive because they are free. I see Palestine and morn because they are not free. They are enslaved by Hamas, Syria , Hezbollah, and yes even the UN as there only source of income and are forced to follow those organizations. Yes I will admit that each of the above helps the poor. I will admit the UN feeds millions of “refugees” and that out of all of the groups is the best force there is. The UN also acts as a government dole and all of the shackles that offers. If you want to see those shackles, read about the Soviet Union with their constitution that reads darn near like ours with respect to freedom. If you don’t like non fiction read fantasy. The Honor Harrington Books by David Weber. The Peoples Republic with their BLS (basic living Stypind) and there Economic bill of rights give a good idea of what freedoms this type of thinking gives.

To conclude America’s experiment is a success. Even with our warts. We are still learning. I am human and something I said probably was not the whole truth. Probability of that is 1. I enjoy comments and corrections. I also just tried to kick over every political anthill I could, for other wise we won’t learn and you or I will get locked into a false thought patterns. Also this stuff deals with religion. The basic underlying theory of this comes from religion, not preached doctrine but my interpretation of preached doctrine. I have talked about justified killing. I hope someone will refine a point or two of this before it becomes policy of the US. I am open to learning but I still think that every thing I wrote here is a conservative view point. Yes this all seems black and white. So I won’t be surprised to see a different point.