Why We Fight Page #3

We were going to maintain dominance not just of

Europe, not just of Japan,

but of the entire globe.

'Oh gee I wish, that I

could be with you tonight.'

'Gee I wish'

'And gee I know, that

everything will be alright.'

'The crickets are singing a love song.'

What are we fighting for?

Fighting for continued freedom.

That's the only way we're

gonna have it, I think.

Why do we fight? I think that the...

I honestly don't have an answer for it.

It's just... the people who start the war,

who know what they are fighting about.

I think we fight for ideals and what

we believe in. I hope that so what it is.

Today we don't have a broad based American

feeling about why we are fighting in Iraq.

People's confidence in the United

States is not what it was...

was during the World War ll.

Yesterday USA precious celluloids, such as...

'Why we fight' orientation

films, depicting our soldiers...

You know it's interesting 'Why we fight' was...

actually the title of series

of World War ll films.

They were done by one of the great directors.

Master of the of the art of motion

picture entertainment, Frank Cappra.

The Frank Cappra films, even

back then were propaganda.

To kind of build up a war fewer.

Americans fighting.

But given that it was

during a global Word War...

there were a lot of reasons

that Americans embrace.

We are fighting for liberty,

the most expensive luxury known to man.

Today, if you went downtown, to

my local town and you ask five...

people 'Why we are fighting in Iraq?'

you get five different answers.

Why do we fight? I 'm not quite sure,

but I think it's for

powering control, for greed.

I'm not sure if we are fighting for the

oil or not. We could be, we could not be.

Our government has more knowledge than I know.

I think everybody has the

different idea why we are there.

And a lot of people think we shouldn't be.

What we're seeing is a disconnection

of our American foreign...

policy from the citizen, from

average American citizen.

Why do we fight?

I wish we didn't.

Sometimes you have to though.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time.

Smiling with his two teeth.

Man Jason.

What can I do for my son's memory?

I'm not a millionaire.

I can't build schools and libraries.

We're just a regular couple on pension.

I want to be able to do something.

So that hopefully one day,

I can go over to my son's grave...

and tell him that I've done

something in his memory

that hopefully will be a step in

preventing another attack like that.

After September 11, the Pentagon unveiled

a new weapon for use against terrorists.

The bomb is designed to be

delivered inside a target.

My expertise is an explosive technology.

And so are a lot of my

colleagues here at Indian Head.

When Pentagon called, my position then was

the head of what we call 'the pay load team'.

A bomb, it's the Norman cliche for bomb.

I find it's sometimes

amusing when people ask me,

'where do you work?' and I would

say explosive. And they would...

But our mission was to quickly weaponize

what was called a 'penetrator'.

It basically was a big bomb, engineered

to enhance its blast effect...

inside confine structures, such

as tunnels, caves, et cetera.

We're gonna attack somebody, we're gonna

bomb some place, there's no question about that.

The question is, where are

we gonna do it and why?

Do you think that after an

advisory gets nuclear weapons...

is a better time to engage that

advisory then now without?

Iraq continues to flaw in its hostility

toward America and to support terror.

This is a regime that has something

to hide from the civilized world.

The invasion of Iraq in 2003, is to

a very considerable extent about...

repositioning the United States as

the country that must be obeyed.

It's an easy way to send the

signal to the planet, that the

United States is in charge and

it's going to what it wants.

And anybody who defies the

United States will be punished.

The decision to attack Iraqi

leadership at the opening selva,

it was a bold new, it was

a new way of making war.

And technology was able to provide

our leadership that opportunity.

Now we have received this new weapon,

called the 'Enhanced gutter bomb unit 27'.

And it was like the new

candy at the candy store.

We needed something that was gonna give us

a capability to strike through the weather

and don't worry about having

to bring the bombs home.

The whole of the city is

still lit very brightly.

But nobody's moving on the streets whatsoever.

It's like everybody here

is holding their breath.

We really didn't know who was there and...

who was gonna take the blow

of what we're about to do.

We both probably had our

suspicions about who it was.

We've got some indications that

maybe sons maybe Saddam himself.

Assassination, people sometimes

think with precision weapons

that maybe you can now assassinate

people from very hard place.

First of all, if it's a fixed

target like a building...

you have the time to understand its location.

The next hardest target is

one that moves around...

and a single hardest target

of all is a human being.

Sometimes, before you can

bring about democratic change,

you have to remove the

obstacle to democratic change.

You have to remove Saddam Hussein, because...

there is no hope for

democracy with Saddam there.

The point in many ways

for these guys wasn't just

to target Saddam, it was to

transform the Middle East.

They wanna take the US military and go in and...

show up American interest in

the key area of the world.

And that's their vision.

They wanna spread democracy around

the world on the point around Baghdads.

- Do you want Iraq to be like America?

What can I say? Some people

do and some people don't.

I want American streets,

her gardens, her buildings.

That's what I want.

In the beginning we stood against America,

but there are people...

...who were welcoming America.

They said, 'America is a democracy

and really they will liberate us.'

Before the war, frankly,

many of us were clapping.

'Live, Live Bush!'

'Die, Die Saddam!'

'Live, Live Bush!'

'Die, Die Saddam!'

I think most Americans don't

want to police the world,...

...but I think most Americans

understand that if we don't...

at least help to police the

world then no one's going to.

Where the debate and controversy begins...

... is how far does the United

States go, when does...

it go from a force for good

to a force of imperialism?

People complain a lot about American

arrogance and American power.

But the great threat for the future is not

American power or American strength.

It would be American weakness

and American withdrawal.

They do believe that this is not only for

the long term benefit for the United States...

... but it's for the long term benefit

for everybody else as well.

We'll bring them American values,

prosperity, peace, all the rest of it.

But the way we're gonna do that is to take over,

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