What is the significance of the “Butcher of Baghdad” dieing at the gallows. The 27/7- cable news can’t get enough. FoxNews blared “Breaking News” long after the execution was over with the lure of video and pictures.

During interviews of retired military a split screen showed street celebrations in Dearborn, Michigan. Several things caught my. Large Iraqi flags were being waved, some people holding tiny American flags also. I saw one American flag attached to its handheld pole upside down. Others had American and Iraqi flags draped around their shoulders.

Many Iraqi’s brought their families to America and especially Dearborn. Who’s to blame them? However, are they assimilating to American culture, the video only tells us they are glad Saddam Hussein is dead but what does it say about sectarian violence in the streets of Baghdad? Do these people care so much about their homeland Iraq and at times publicly diminish the symbol of America?

If these folks are so concerned with strife in Iraq they should begin shifting their energy and return home to fight, reminiscent of Minutemen, to recover their country by joining the fledgling Iraqi army and fight the good fight. They should publicly denounce the clerics who support militias and the Iraqi Prime Minister for his feckless adherence to religious dictates while ignoring the new Iraqi constitution and rule of law.

Americans have given Iraqi and other Middle Eastern people the opportunity to live free in America through immigration and citizenship as well as establish Democracy in their home country. What has changed in Iraq, there are mass killings, bombings, torture and abductions. American military are targets of Saddam sympathizers and Shite militias. In central Iraq and new government there seems little respect or gratitude for American sacrifice in blood and billion upon billions of U.S. dollars.

It’s easy to dance in the streets, not so easy to return to the country whose flag you wave and fight for Democracy. A new government is hard pressed when they are afraid to enforce the law and a society that won’t fight against murderers while accepting our spilled blood and money is cowardice at best.

The political climate is changing in the United States but Iraqi’s have an obligation to stand up, once and for all, to the militias or they will find themselves ruled by Mullahs and dictators and no one to blame but themselves.