I feel that I must be missing something.  I can’t fathom that the President of the United States keeps a war going for political reasons.  When do we pull out?  The voices of the world have told us to get out of that bad situation.  I feel that this is a no-brainer.  Have you ever been at someone’s house and a fight breaks out.  You can’t get out of there fast enough.  We are in someone else’s country and they want us to leave.  A centralized government is not working.  If we stick around for a civil war, whose side do we take?  We have to pick.  We can’t fight for stabilization and not take sides.   In my opinion (which is what this blog is all about) our form of government will not work in Iraq.  Our constitution is Christian-based and is written for a Christian people.  The Iraqis are obviously not Christian.  Who are we to tell them how to run their own lives?  To say that these people hate freedom is a distortion of the truth.  They do not want the freedom that we have.  They do not want a country where playboy magazine can be sold at the quick-e-mart.   I really don’t either, but that is the compromise we make in a free society.  I you look at it that way, maybe I hate our freedom or maybe you do.  This society is not majority rules; but is based on the concept that majority rules if it does not infringe on the rights of others.  I believe that Iraq can survive as a theocracy, but not as a democracy. 

            I wonder what it would like to live in a theocracy.  In a country like Iraq, where almost a people are of one faith, it works, but here, in America, where we all worship differently, would we grant the power to set the religion according to the state?  We use the articles of faith as our constitution and Georgia use the Ten Commandments.  Would holy wars be fought amongst the states and the country fall into a civil war?

            I find that living in the valley, in this state, and in this country to be a great blessing.  I find that my religion provides the roadmap and the course that provides happiness for me and my family.  I believe that if the world would adopt just one small piece of my religion and live by it, how great we could all be together, this one line of scripture, lived by the LDS faith and others could create world piece.  I hope we all can learn to live by it: We claim the ^aprivilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the ^bdictates of our own ^cconscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them ^dworship how, where, or what they may.