Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 4, 2007

President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently signed a Joint Security Declaration providing for a continued US military presence in Iraq. US forces would remain as long as necessary ?to combat all terrorist groups ... and all other outlaw groups regardless of affiliation.?

At the same time, the US occupation forces are arming Sunni Muslim militiamen and tribal leaders and organizing them into Concerned Local Citizens Groups. Prime Minister al-Maliki, who heads a government dominated by Shi'ite Muslims, objects that these Sunni militias are in fact terrorist groups that have attacked government officials and driven Shi'ite residents from their homes.

At the same time, Washington has been providing arms, training, and political support to Iraqi Kurdish groups in the northern part of the country.

Our Government has no competence or constitutional authority to fine-tune the balance of power among the three antagonists in a potential Iraqi civil war. And it has no right to leave our troops in the middle of the mess it's created.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.