Hi,

So if someone asked you why we were in Iraq what would you tell them?

I would have said to fight the terrorists.

Then I would ask myself who are the terrorists?

I would say Osama Bin Laden?

I would then ask myself is Osama Bin Laden in Iraq?

I would say no.

Then I would ask myself why are we in Iraq?

You know I am reading this book about the beginnings of America. Thomas Jefferson talked about all men are created equal. Yet what the colonial army did was offer 300 acres of land (voting rights) and one negro slave as payment for serving in the army. Yet Jefferson talked, even openly, about letting slaves go. But when some other people objected to the freeing of slave in the Declaration of Independece, Jefferson quickly dropped the idea. He kept slaves and never let them go. He gave lip service to the idea.It seems like as long as it doesn't affect us personally Americans are content to look the other way and go with the flow. Americans are doing that again with the war in Iraq. Although it's not about independece. It's not about the terrorists. If we were fighting to free people we would be putting the one billion dollars we are spending a month on the war into education. Education is the only real way to free any society. America would have never been free if it hadn't been for the educated people in the House of Burgesses who listened to Patrick Henry. America would have never been free if the Virginia Declaration of Rights had never been printed.

That's my rant for now.

Thanks. God Bless.

Aaron.