I was watching a program yesterday that highlighted the anti-war sentiments in the US, and President Bush admitting "mistakes in intelligence". The program touches a string in heart when it showed a young crying in front of the grave of a soldier, possibly her husband or boyfriend.

The message in the program was clear, that the Iraq war was unjustified and Bush himself admitted mistakes. But one thing Bush never admits was that the war was needed and justified.

For one, I agree that was against Iraq is needed. Why? BEcause of the astrocities that saddam was carrying out in Iraq against his own country men (I saw this in CNN). Surely no one could have committed an act so vicious as to warrant wiping out of an entire village? Yet this was happening in Iraq under Saddam's rule.

Looking at images of Saddam's rule reminds me of a very famous dictator who brought war to an entire continent - Hitler. The similarities are plenty. Both hold complete power over their country. Both engage in enthic cleansing of some sort against part of their countrymen. Both are ambitious (kuwait invasion and war against Iran). Do we have to wait for another world war to understand that dictators cannot be allowed? That fellow men have a mission to oust an obvious warmonger dictator? DO we want a repeat of World War II? "The greatest evil of men is to do nothing to stop evil"

Of course it's easy for me, an outsider to talk about sending soldiers to harm's way. I'm not the one serving! BUt I did serve obligatory national service and I can understand the sense of duty that soldiers must have felt as they embark on their mission everyday.

"Soldiers are the ones who hate war the most". But if not for this very special breed of people, many innocent will die and suffer. Sometimes, very sadly, only through arms and force that we can bring peace to this world we live in.

Let not the soldiers die in vain, let not their cause be in vain. The soldiers knew their duties and had valiantly put their lives on the line to fulfill their duty, honour them.