In the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust, in which about ten million people were murdered for being Jews, Polish Catholics, Gypsies, Slavs, or other so-called undesirables, the world resolved, “Never again.” We have seen that “never again” does not apply to Cambodians, Rwandans, Ugandan Christians, Sudanese Christians, and so on. Leftists who accuse the United States of “illegally” invading another country while demanding President Bush’s impeachment apparently think “never again” does not mean Kurds or Iraqis either. Genocide and crimes against humanity are acceptable to the Left, while the use of armed force to terminate those activities are not.

“Criminal Against Humanity” by L. Paul Bremer (Wall Street Journal, November 6 2006, A14) reports,

Iraqi Army units [acting on the orders of Saddam Hussein] went into Shiite towns south of Baghdad and rounded up men, women and children indiscriminately, threw them onto flat bed trucks, drove them into nearby fields, and machine-gunned them to death. Their bodies were thrown into common graves and covered over.

This sounds exactly like what the Nazis did to Jews before they built gas chambers and crematoria, but the Michael Moore and MoveOn.org wing of the Democratic Party seem to think “Never again” means “Never again unless Republicans and centrist Democrats like ‘Jew Lieberman’ are the ones intervening to stop it.” The article continues,

In an area about the size of three football fields, bones and clothing had been collected into little piles. Women in black robes, ignoring the sweltering heat, were scrabbling through the dirt and bones with their fingers, desperate to find a scrap of clothing, a faded ID, or a piece of jewelry which would identify the remains as those of their mother, or husband or daughter. ….By the time I left Iraq 14 months later, we had found over 300 mass graves.

Yet, according to the strident Howard Dean/ Michael Moore/ MoveOn.org branch of the Democratic Party, the United States violated international law and committed a war crime by using force to put a stop to this sort of thing. Meanwhile,

For a decade, Saddam’s army tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of Kurdish men, women, and children. …A few months after I arrived, Secretary of State Colin Powell and I visited this village and spoke with the horribly scarred survivors of this chemical attack. They were living proof that Saddam had possessed weapons of mass destruction, and had been prepared to use them, even against his own countrymen. …The most conservative estimate is that during his regime, Saddam killed over a half-million of his countrymen.

Nonetheless, here is what Michael Moore has to say in his own words while accusing President Bush of killing 2800 American troops by sending them to Iraq. Per the following, we suspect that Jabba the Moore carves a notch in his desk every time we lose a man or woman in uniform, so we are not sure what he is complaining about.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not “insurgents” or “terrorists” or “The Enemy.” They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?

While John Kerry and Dick Durbin help the enemy recruit more terrorists by comparing our troops to Nazis and accusing them of “terrorizing” Iraqis, they find it convenient to ignore the following as reported by Bremer:

Visiting police stations in towns all over Iraq, I saw that each one had a torture chamber– because under Saddam torture was legal. Most stations… also had a rape room. I saw the human shredding machines into which Saddam ordered his enemies to be thrown.

The necessity of the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a reasonable subject for discussion, as is the manner in which the war against the terrorists is now being waged. Our position is that the Bush Administration’s policy of restraining our troops from responding to terrorist attacks with the kind of force that would not have even been questioned during the World Wars is costing us unnecessary casualties, as is the lack of proper armor and equipment. The same goes for second-guessing and even court-martialing soldiers who, while acting in good faith and reasonable fear for their safety or that of other soldiers, kill suspected insurgents. As shown above, however, the inherent justice of the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power is not debatable except by those to whom genocide is still an acceptable activity, at least if it is done by enemies of the United States.