"O’DONNELL: …… I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are
dead. Who are the terrorists?
HASSELBECK: Who are the terrorists?
O’DONNELL: 655,000 Iraqis — I’m saying you have to look, we invaded –
HASSELBECK: Wait, who are you calling terrorists now? Americans?
O’DONNELL: I’m saying if you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United
States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of
your citizens, what would you call us?
HASSELBECK: Are we killing their
citizens or are their people also killing their citizens?
O’DONNELL: We’re
invading a sovereign nation, occupying a country against the U.N."
I will tell you why they are terrorists and we are not, and it is a simple answer. The answer is intentions.
I would agree that Iraq has turned into a deadly place for Americans and for Iraqis, I dispute your numbers, but numbers aren't that important. You are claiming in your statement that the American troops in Iraq operating under the orders of the men who sent them there are terrorists. I know you say that it is only the people who sent them, but that would be like saying the Ussama Bin Laden is a terrorist, but the men who flew the planes into the twin towers aren't. Either way, if the leaders are terrorist or the troops are terrorist or both in your view, you are wrong.
When America invaded Iraq, it did so with the intention of setting the Iraqis free and eliminating a threat in the region. There was a concern in a number of countries and the UN about the presence of weapons of mass destruction, the intention of the leadership was to stop Saddam and these weapons from being a threat. I didn't support the start of the war, because I don't think that they went through the right steps. Taking down Saddam was something that needed to be done, not only for American interests, but the region as a whole and Israel. Saddam was sending aid to the families of bombers who killed Israelis. Our intentions were not to go there and create chaos and kill Iraqis. That has happened and it is sad that it has happened.
Now lets look at the terrorists in Iraq and around the globe. What are their intentions. They have said that they intend to extend the rule of Islamic law to all lands that have ever been ruled by Islam. They have strove to create chaos and death in Iraq, so that America will fail. The number of people died not because Americans attacked them, but because they were attacked by terrorists. The intentions of the terrorists when the flew the planes into the world trade center was to kill as many people as they could. The intention of the terrorists reminds me of a line in a Leonard Cohen song, "what eve makes a soldier sad, will make a killer smile". Well the soldiers in Iraq which are American and Iraqi are saddened by the death and the chaos. The killers in Iraq, which are the terrorists are happy about it, they smile, because it makes them feel important, like they are winning.
American stands for freedom, and it does a poor job of doing so sometimes. Terrorists stand for fear and control and the extermination of those who stand against them. I don't see how you can be so blind to think that there is any connection between the terrorists, and American troops. I don't even think that the President of the United States, who I don't agree with, should be called a terrorist because his intentions have never been death and chaos. When you come out with questions of this nature it inflames the public debate and does nothing to assist us in finding truth.
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