Let's Get The Troops Out of Iraq!

Yes, you reading the headline correctly. I am calling for the withdraw of U.S. Troops from Iraq.

What prompted this? While away for Christmas at my parents I saw a couple new bumper stickers calling for troop withdraws from Iraq. My parents live in a small town with a lot of "artistic" type people who tend to be very liberal.

However, I want to slightly modify that bumper sticker to add one condition on this: We will withdraw troops from the Middle East as soon as the Islamic terrorists leave other countries and return home.

That seems like a simple condition to me. Why don't liberals call for the withdraw of terrorists from countries? (especially the U.S.)

Over the past couple of decades, we have the demise of several terrorist groups like FARC, IRA, Sendero, and UFF. Now Islamic terrorist groups account for the majority of the terrorism in the world today. However groups like al-Qa'ida, Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah al-Islam, and Taliban continue to "wage war" against others who do not fit into their views.

Through the years, terrorism has taken the lives of countless people. The U.S. (and other countries) need to step up and take them out if they will not live peacefully with others. This is basically the same view as Winston Churchill's call to resist Adolf Hitler before the start of World War II.

I am not advocating being the "world police", but we need to do it to protect ourselves. They have a right to their own views and how they want to run their own countries (as long as we do not see the genocide of Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein). But when they threaten and harm others they step over the line in my opinion. That is when they must be dealt with.

This is a problem that has been going on for centuries and will not be solved overnight. However, we must remain firm and resolve not to let them terrorize the world.