...We make every effort to avoid civilian casualties during major conflict, utilizing the latest in technology, while our enemies use women and children for cover, hiding out in mosques, and using ambulances as their means of escape.

We build and rebuild roads, bridges, utility plants, schools, and various other things to improve their way of life and to insure equality and freedom for all in the pursuit of an education, occupations, and overall happiness.

We make every effort to treat all with respect and kindness, quick to forgive and quick to trust. For this we are blown up by suicide bombers and road side explosions.

We came to their aid with a gun for protection in one hand and the hammer of reconstruction in the other, with the dove of peace flying over head. Our intentions were good, as we gave hope to the Iraqi people for a brighter future and the happiness of freedom to their children. We are perhaps one of the few nations that cares enough to spill our own blood on their soil in order to cut the chains of tyranny and repression, to give the people hope in the future.

If not us who? Who is going to step forward to be the bastion for peace, the supporter of the weak, and keeper of the flame of equality? Who will give hope for a different life to the enslaved millions of the world?