No matter what happens from this point forth, the fact remains that if the anti-war forces had their way, if the U.N. had its way and we gave the inspectors two or seven or ten more years to do their job, then these imprisoned children would have been in jail for two or seven or ten years more. Most of them would not live to see the end of inspections. Freedom would never come.
Now, they are free. Their neighbors are free. A new world awaits them. A world where their leader does not take a crap on a golden toilet bowl while his citizens starve to death.
How dare you try to deny these people that life.
Go ahead, read that story again.
More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom Tuesday as US marines rolled into northeast Baghdad amid chaotic scenes which saw civilians loot weapons from an army compound, a US officer said...
"The children had been imprisoned because they had not joined the youth branch of the Baath party," he alleged. "Some of these kids had been in there for five years."
Had you stopped the war, you would have stopped that moment when those kids ran free from their dark, ugly prisons to the arms of waiting relatives.