Iraq is the new Civil War

Dear Diary,

I am so tired of having to defend the war in Iraq. In my interview in Essence Magazine, I tried to help people put it into perspective:

Iraq War = Civil War

I think my analogy is pretty good, because it seems pretty clear to me that if it is Right and Just to use war to free people from tyranny, then it is also Right and Just to free people from tyranny (by using use the subterfuge of WMDs and threats to national security in order to justify said war).

I’ll admit the Iraq War, just like the Civil War, has the heavy price of many lives; however, in the end, you have to do what is Right and Just for future generations. How would it have been if the North’s real interest in ending slavery was to eliminate the South’s labor source in order to benefit industrial factory production and decrease marketplace competition? That would be like saying America’s real interest in Iraq is for Halliburton to benefit from the requisition and consequential subcontracting of Iraq’s oil fields – which is just so not true.

I’m just glad that, despite the critics, both wars have Justice on their sides – and that is what really counts!

PS- Today I had a meeting with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and it was totally boring.