September 27, 2005
Iraqi Anti-War Protestors Are Misguided
With the recent arrest of Cindy Sheehan in Washington for yet another anti-war protest has finally prompted me to post my thoughts on this issue. To start, I don’t want to belittle the beliefs of Mr. Sheehan as, unlike most protestors, she had a lose in her family directly because of this war. However, in the fight to protest this war and the policies of the US, these protestors are missing a very important issue, they live in a democracy that allows them to protest, unlike the people in Iraq to whom the protestors are supposedly standing up for.
The beauty about a democracy is that we can express different opinions, talk about sensitive issues and slam our governments when we think they are wrong. The problem with dictators is that if you happen to do any of those things, you die. How can any person, living in a democracy, actually believe for a minute that the people of Iraq are in a much worse situation today as opposed to when Saddam was in power? (Read the article)
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