The Iraq War is Just Like (a) WWII (Movie)

It occurred to me the parallels between the Iraq War and the movie Saving Private Ryan are just too amazing not be commented on.

Iraq under Saddam Hussein is just like a guy who has lost all his brothers in war. You see the Iraqi people were suffering, but they didn't know exactly how bad it was and they needed someone to rescue them.

The United States military is just like the...United States military (see, I told you!). The Army is just like those nine men that were sent out to get Private Ryan (Iraq) and give him the good/bad news (we liberated you from the dictator/we've completely destroyed your country and sparked civil war).

Along the way there is some grumping and groaning from the soldiers who have to go get Private Ryan, but in the end we (humorously) learn/realize that complaints only go down, not up, and that we (Democrats, liberals, and/or terrorist sympathizers) should shut up and follow orders, trusting in the wisdom of those that can see the bigger picture and quote Lincoln.

While the journey to find Ryan might take a while, with stops in Cherbourd (Congress) and a Nazi machine gun nest (the UN, where we take out all the nations that would stop us), we eventually find Ryan (liberate Iraq!)!

But Ryan (Iraq) doesn't want to leave his men (the Middle East) and the military realizes how important that darn bridge is (defeating evil), so we stay behind to help Ryan defeat evil, despite the fact that our mission was accomplished (mission accomplished) and we had really won the war (we had really won the war).

In the defeat of evil we lost a lot of men. But we also realized that maybe, just maybe, it was worth it to save Private Ryan, who seems like a decent chap, and if saving Private Iraq earns us the right to go home, well then, that's our mission.

I like to think that in 60 years or so, when Iraq is an old man, it will visit Arlington National Cemetery, maybe bringing the whole family along as a sort of vacation, and it will fall to its knees and beg its wife to tell it that it has been a good nation. And you know what, despite the fact that we will have been given absolutely no information about Iraq, other than it ability to produce fertile off-spring, deep in our hearts we will know that yes, Iraq has been a good nation and the whole crazy mission was worth it after all.