Liberalism Seeks to Weaken Our National Sovereignty

2. Liberalism seeks to weaken our national sovereignty. While I am in favor of having allies in like-minded nations that are pursuing liberty, capitalism, and common security goals, I am not in favor of backing away from protecting America if someone in another country doesn’t agree with our position.

Take the Iraqi war, for instance. President George W. Bush (who I don’t always agree with) was acting in the interest of our country and the world when he sent troops into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Many liberals say the war wasn’t a good idea because we couldn’t get France, Germany, and Russia to go along with us. As it turns out, these countries were caught up in the Oil-for-Food scandal. This far reaching scandal involved high officials from all of these governments and the son of the Secretary General of the United Nations (a worthless organization to say the least).

Basically, this is what was happening: The U.N. was allowing Iraq to sell oil to these countries to buy food for Iraqis that were starving under the rule of the ruthless dictator, Saddam Hussein who was even under U.N. sanctions for an illegal weapons program, thus preventing the import of many food goods for the Iraqi people. What actually happened rather than the U.N.’s “good intentions” was that the oil was given at a discount, along with some cash, to the leaders in these nations as insurance of their vote against war in the Security Council of the U.N. Saddam then pocketed the discounted proceeds that was meant for humanitarian relief and further built his weapons program instead.

So where are the weapons of mass destruction? This is the liberal question that blows my mind. Saddam knew months in advance of the invasion that we were planning war with him, so he had plenty of time to rid Iraq of WMD’s by way of Syria and other allies. He would’ve been stupid not to get rid of them. But there is no doubt that he had them. Not only did every bit of available intelligence information in the world indicate that he had such weapons, but he used them against his own people. Tens of thousands of Kurds died at the hand of Saddam and many mass graves were uncovered after Iraq’s liberation.

Oh, and on a side-note, you may not know this because the media doesn’t talk about it, but the Secret Service uncovered a plot by Saddam Hussein to assassinate the first President Bush (41) as revenge for Operation Desert Storm. War (or at least a regime change) was justified for numerous reasons, but liberals think we should have gotten the O.K. from France (who was bribed into opposing the war) first. This is bad for America.