On March 12, 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney delivered his update on the Iraq War to a packed house attending the 2007 Policy Conference hosted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In the speech, at the Washington Convention Center, Cheney criticized lawmakers opposing the war.

Cheney, the former adviser for National Security Affairs, was in a comfortable setting, because, according to Philip Zelikow, a member of President Bush’s Presidential Foreign Intelligence Board, Cheney’s war was never about U.S. national security. The United States began its war with Iraq to protect Israel.

After all, “Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us?” Said Zelikow. “I’ll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990 – it’s the threat to Israel.” Zelikow would know. He had a security clearance above that of top security; he wrote policy; he is Jewish, and he acknowledged, “This is the threat that dare not speak its name.”

Americans are dying and spending hundreds of billions of dollars for the national security of another nation. The proof is endless, but our media “dare not speak its name.” So while I acknowledge that many Christian Americans believe it is our duty to protect Israel wouldn’t it have made more sense to wait until Israel was actually attacked? After all, I don’t see Israel’s military fighting the war in Iraq but rather it is our young men and women who have their lives on the line. If this is indeed the case it is time for Israel to step up and fight along side of us or for us to bring our troops home and allow the Middle East to continue fighting like they have done since before the time of Christ.

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