"How DARE you imply that we hate freedom?"

That's what red-faced Liberals say, even as they protest against the war for freedom in Iraq and call our President a war criminal.

Liberals are such hypocrites, and I for one am sick of it.

Our brave men and women in uniform are fighting and dying on foreign soil, thousands of miles away from their homes, so that these misguided, misanthropic Liberals can exercise their Constitutionally protected rights to whine, moan, and protest in public.

It reminds me of a flashback to the radical anti-war protests of the 1960s and 1970s. These modern radical Leftists might not be wearing their old-fashioned Birkenstocks and tie-dyed t-shirts, but their cowardly, anti-American mentality is the same as it has always been. They don't want to pay the price for their own freedom, let alone anyone else's. Their last presidential nominee even threw his own Vietnam War medals away. Yet they assume an obnoxious air of moral superiority because they are supposedly "anti-war."

Conservatives, on the other hand, truly love freedom -­ so much so that when necessary, they are willing to fight to preserve and protect it, as well as to export it around the world and extend it to other peoples less fortunate than we are. 

Let me give you a few examples of how patriotic Americans should support our troops.

Bill Clinton was one of the worst Presidents in American history. He disgraced the Oval Office, and he spent more time hiding his numerous girlfriends from Hillary than he did working on foreign policy matters -­ except maybe when he was cutting shady deals that would benefit the Chinese and Indonesians and other foreigners who were making sizable illegal contributions to his campaign coffers.

Yet when newly elected President Clinton launched his 1993 "nation-building" experiment in Somalia, by turning U.S. troops over to incompetent United Nations commanders, most Conservatives supported our soldiers ­- even though they disagreed with Clinton's unconstitutional action and the deadly disaster that it ultimately produced at Mogadishu.

When Clinton later sought NATO military action in the former Yugoslavia, intervening in behalf of the allegedly desperate Bosnian Moslems who claimed they were being slaughtered in a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Serbs, most Conservatives did not protest -­ despite the fact that no vital U.S. interest was being threatened in the Balkans. (If you remember, Clinton completely bypassed the UN on this one.)

When Clinton invaded Haiti with UN approval, supposedly to restore law and order and democracy, most Conservatives didn't protest ­- even though the Marxist dictator Aristide was restored as ruler of Haiti through the intervention of our American military.

Finally, when Clinton decided to bomb Iraq and obliterate its infrastructure with cruise missiles, merely to deflect attention from his own proven perjury and pending impeachment trial, there was no outcry from most Conservatives. 

Why? Because Conservatives love freedom!

But when newly elected President Bush responded to the devastating 9-11 terrorist attacks by deposing first the Taliban's misogynist mullahs in Afghanistan and later the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the clueless Liberals literally screamed bloody murder.

Where are the NOW-NARAL feminists protesting against Saddam for his brutal campaign of rape and murder against the women in his own country? Are the feminists thanking President Bush for liberating their sisters half a world away from the Taliban's rigid repression? 

Where are the Liberal gun control freaks thanking Bush for disarming Saddam's war machine and for making absolutely sure that no weapons of mass destruction can be exported from Iraq for terrorists to use on American soil?

And just where were all of these bleeding-heart Liberals during the eight long years when Clinton was carrying out his unconstitutional military misadventures all over the world? If they hated war so much, why didn't they protest against Clinton?

The answer to all these questions is simple. Liberals don't really hate war. They hate freedom. It is time for these misguided, guilt-ridden, hypocritical Leftists to 'fess up and just be honest with the American people.

Here's the hard truth: Liberals are pro-abortion, pro-death, pro-gay, and anti-American. They don't love our freedoms, let alone the Constitution that guarantees them. And they don't really mind the State's using war to advance their utopian goals of universal peace.

Listen up, Liberals! Why don't you want the women and children of Iraq to have the same freedoms as you do here in America? If you don't love freedom, move to Cuba. Then you won't have the rights you now enjoy, and you won't have to worry about your spoiled, pampered children having to go to war to defend them.

Copyright © 2005 by Nathan Tabor. Author's email

Nathan Tabor is a conservative political activist based in Kernersville, North Carolina. He has his BA in psychology and his MA in public policy. He is a contributing editor at The Conservative Voice. 

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