Are you really ready for another war in Iraq?

[Liberty Belle]

123. I have many Iraqi friends, livnig in an area with 40,000 Iraqi Chaldeans as well as Kurds.

Their family and friends face massacre and starvation. So I do support the humanitarian aid drops and the air strikes. I would not support ground troops. But if we can save thousands, maybe tens of thousands of lives, I believe it is the right thing to do. And in this case, we are not bombing innocent civilians, at least thus far -- the targets are ISIS terrorists' artillery and perhaps coming up, the ISIS invaders who are slaughtering innocent people who refuse to convert.

I am a pacific generally, but also believe we need to stand up against genocide wherever it occurs, if we can do so without ground troops or a large loss of life of our own soldiers. Especially after we bombed Iraq into oblivion before with NO justification, contributing to the destabilization. (And if anyone doubts there was no justification for the invasion before, I once interviewed Scott Ritter, the UN weapons inspector, who said there were no weapons of mass destruction and his superiors falsified his reports to make it appear that there were.)

This time I am confident that we are not being fed misinformation on the slaughter of civilians under ISIS. I've talked with enough Iraqi Americans first-hand, some of whom had photos of the carnage, calls from relatives to relate, etc. that sadly there is no doubt that these people face extermination if nothing is done. ISIS is even taking food and water at the border from those attempting to flee, forcing them to walk across the desert, and many are dying along the way -- if they're not beheaded first for refusing to convert.