Friday, February 27, 2009  A Great Day ... and A Day of Infamy
Today is a great day for America, and a day of infamy. Do you
want the good news or the bad news first?  The good news is that
today is the beginning of the end of the Iraq War. This war has
been going on for so long, and has mostly faded into the back of
people's minds. This is especially true these days as people are
more concerned with the economy than anything else. But let's
not forget how this war started.  The Iraq War became a
certainty on 9/11/2001. On that day, just hours after terrorists
from Saudi Arabia killed 2,974 Americans, the US government
began preparing to attack Iraq. There was only one problem. Iraq
was not involved in 9/11. The US is an ally of Saudi Arabia,
where the terrorists has come from, so nothing could be done
there. All that could be done was to go after the leader of the
al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and he was in Afghanistan. Luckily
plans for attacking Afghanistan had been drawn up before 9/11.
Those plans did not