Certainly the cost will be high. Some estimates say Congress will be asked for $80-billion dollars to supplement the war. Hopefully the cost in lives will be low among the coalition of the willing. But whatever the cost we must remember 9/11 and understand that to do nothing now would certainly risk an even greater cost in the future.
All patriotic Americans should rally around the flag and support America in the effort to oust Saddam Hussein and his regime of murdering thugs. This is especially true of creative and intellectual people, of artists, writers and musicians. Those who have the courage to speak out and who believe in individual freedom and rights are the first to have their voices silenced in a dictatorship. Therefore it makes only common sense that the brightest minds of our nation would support the liberation of Iraq, even if it means war.
Now is the time for all Americans, black or white, red or yellow, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Christian or Moslem, to stand up and show their true colors. Now is the time for all Americans to show their faith and love for freedom by coming together to support America and our endeavor to liberate Iraq and bring freedom to an oppressed people.
The Black Birds will be flying soon. Think not of them as silhouettes of death, doom and destruction, but as symbols of a free people bringing freedom to the oppressed. The cost of freedom is no easy measure, for whatever the final tally in dollars and cents or lives of our brave soldiers, to not pay the price would be the higher bill.
The Black Birds will be flying soon. Our airmen and women doing duty overseas, out citizen soldiers, are paying the high cost of freedom in their sacrifice for God and country. Thus if we cherish freedom, especially freedom of speech and freedom of religion, we must support their efforts and cheer the Black Birds on to victory!
Sincerely,
Terry Lynch
Date: 18 March, 2003
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