Most Americans are suffering from a lack of adequate information when it comes to the issues surrounding the war in Iraq.

It seems the Iraqi government simply can not solve their own problems. I believe this is why most of the leaders of the Democratic Party are trying to force the Iraqi government to stand on their own by advocating the withdrawl of troops from Iraq.

Sen. John Kerry D- Mass said in a debate with Sen. John McCain on NBC’s Meet the Press, “If we don’t begin to change the equation; where Iraqis now have the ability just to rest on American presence and make no decisions, nothing is going to happen.” It seems like Americans are doing all the hard work that the Iraqi government should be doing themselves.

The problems is that the country is divided. There are three primary factions that live in Iraq: the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish people. The Sunnis were once the ruling faction under Saddam Hussein. And they ruled with an Iron fist.

The Sunni and the Shiite have been warring with each other for over 200 years, like the Isaraeli and Palestinians.

In order for the Sunni and Shiite to come to some form of reconciliation, change will have to come from within the warring factions themselves. America cannot force this change. Iraq is a country that is in desperate need of leaders to be more along the lines of Gandhi or Martin Luther King, rahter than those who use the rhetoric of revenge.

These warring factions in Iraq have to figure out a way to get over their hate for each other. A perfect example of this can be done is the story of John Bul Dau.

According to the National Geographic, Bul Dau escaped troops who were sent to exterminate them. As his village was burned, women raped, children enslaved, and young men murdered, Dau began a perilous journey spanning more than 1,000 miles and 14 years.

He was blessed to survive some of the worst forms of inhumane conditions while escaping a government that wanted to remove his tribe from that region by any means.

Unfortunately, this type of ‘ethnic cleansing’ is far too common in war torn countries like Africa and the Middle East.

Bul Dau, a Christian, said he forgave the murderous Sudanese government because he understood that if he did not forgive the Arabs, he would be held hostage by his hate for those who wronged him and his tribe.

“I say let the revenge be for the lord, let God take care of that,” said Bul Dau.

So is the war about revenge? Many Americans who supported the war in Iraq didn’t never thought it would last as long as it has.

Now, we mourn as the best of our best fighting in the military are killed, wounded or suffering from mental conditions because of what they have endured.

I believe that the war was originally a mass marketing sceme to help grow the Republican majority in 2002. Conservatives were manipulated to support the actions of the government. Seeing America as a ‘Christian’ country, they believed in the claims. But, now I challenge those same conservatives to explain why God wants America to continue creating refugees and causing mass murders of innocent people in a country that had nothing to do with Sept. 11th.

During the 2000 election, many Conservatives clamed the president would bring back honesty and integrity to the White house. I believe the they voted for one of the worst liars in the history of the U.S.

I can remember hearing Conservatist loyalists over the radio, and televison spewing thier hate for the Democratic Party. Basing thier evidence on emotion rather than logic.

CLAIM: Evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. – President Bush, 10/7/02

CLAIM: “Saddam is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time.”- VP Cheney, 3/24/02

CLAIM: “We know where the WMDs are.” -Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 3/30/03

FACT: Kay: No evidence Iraq stockpiled WMDs- Bush Administration Weapons Inspector David Kay, 10/2/03

CLAIM: The war could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 2/7/03

I believe, Conservatives have been blindly following the Bush administration’s lead regardless if it was logically best for the country or not. Why should we believe them anymore?

Don’t forget the most convincing evidence shown to the world by Colon Powel at the United Nations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an imminent threat.

Powell told Barbara Walters that he feels “terrible” about the claims he made in that now-infamous address — assertions that later proved to be false.

I am willing to bet that most of Fresno City College’s students were in junior high or high school when all of that transpired.

Like Jinhow Long, who is a sophomore majoring in Auto mechanics. He said he believes the war in Iraq is about world dominance, “I think President Bush attacked Iraq because America is trying to gain more power.”

Both freshmen Pheaktra Sim, an Automotive technician and Sokphen Sam, a Radiology student agree with Long’s opinion.

In 2006, the Republican Party lost their majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives by creating the situation that we are dealing with today.

Bush and the Neo-Conservatives were saying ” stay the course” while the Democratic Party came with a two-prong approach by pointing out the culture of corruption in the Republican majority and effectively refuting Bush’s assertion that we were winning the war in Iraq.

President Bush and his Conservative supporters are now trying to accomplish a new goal by using the same type of manipulation they have used in the past

Sen. John McCain R-AZ. was one of the leaders who convinced the president to send more troops to Iraq in a strategy that they call The Serge. Then recently on “Meet the Press,” he said the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s strategy was doomed for failure.

“We had to adopt the strategy that we’ve now adopted. And it is now succeeding,” said McCain.

In my opinion, he went on blend a fallacy with a fact; manipulating the two for political gain. Either go back to the previous so-called failed strategy, which some Democrats want to do, or set a date to pull out.

Republicans want to try and convince voters that the Democratic Party want to pull out 100% of the troops in Iraq, leaving the country to genocide or chaos.

I consider these individuals the worse liars in the history of the U.S. because their assertions are simply untrue.

All politics manipulate the truth, but this is one of the worst forms of manipulation since Richard Nixon’s resignation.

The sad thing is that they have convinced many Christian Conservatives to agree with their perspective.