Osama and Saddam, Eternally Connected

Well, that’s that.  Long awaited, meagerly celebrated and overly debated, the two most infamous villains of my generation can inarguably and finally be linked together.  In death.   

I’ve always had a feeling that I would see this day come, but the long wait was really beginning to create some doubt in my mind.  This is certainly a huge victory, but only those behind the scenes really know how much better the world is without Saddam and now Bin Laden.  The college students celebrating outside the White House on Sunday evening were only about 10 years old when his name became globally and permanently imprinted into our minds. But on Monday morning, I, like the rest of America got out of bed, ate my breakfast, and went about my day.   As I arrived home from work the news continued to cover the story as it developed, but the celebration in the streets had been short lived. 

Have we as a nation become so ADD that we quickly move on to things like Zhu Zhu Pets, bacon double stacks and the unneeded sequel to the Hangover?  Or is it that for me, a conservative, working in a place saturated with liberals, I would only have been wasting my breath.  I didn’t even attempt to bring the topic up until Wednesday.  The American unity that was disassembled by liberals after 9/11 is what made this event all the more anticlimactic. 

I was a liberal on 9/11, and cringed at the sound of President Bush falling over his words right after the towers came down.  But I followed the facts, let go of my conspiracy theories and went with my instinct on what I thought should happen after this life changing event.  When I heard the opinions of those closer to the right, it became clear, I wasn’t a liberal after all.  I realized this when I started to see how the liberals I was speaking with ignored facts, changed things around or didn’t know what actually happened in history (unless it suited their argument). I also noticed how they yelled over others or easily accused people of being racists and jingoists.

The connection between Bin Laden and Saddam didn’t need to include a video of them discussing plans for 9/11 at some Paris café.   For anyone paying attention to the most recent history at the time, the connection between these two individuals was indirect, yet solid.  Bin Laden hated America as well as many other things for many reasons.  But his reason for 9/11 had everything to do with the U.S. military presence in what he believed was the holy land.  And so for one last time I ask the simple question, why were our troops deployed in the so called holy land?  The only answers I can ever get have to do with Halliburton, Dick Cheney, oil profits and American imperialism.  The true answer, as simple as it may be….. Saddam Hussein brought us there.  If he hadn’t decided to invade Kuwait and amass troops along the Saudi border, our troops would have never been sent there.  So who is the real culprit, the person who started the party, or the one who burned it down?  I say both. 

And as new terror plots and conspiracy theories unfold, we will all soon have plenty of writing material and much more to argue about.  Just remember libs, to please be fair.  Lift the lid once in a while, be sure to put it back down when you are done, and if you sprinkle while you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seaty.