The war in Iraq is a surgery, or a transplant to replace what has rotted from a plague in the body of its people.
This is a Susan Sontag metaphorical description of war. It is one that has taken on new meaning in the first major conflict for democracy in the millennium.
President Bush has received acclaim for his surgical removal of tumors in Iraq without harming additional parts of its body.
The Tampa Tribune thoughtfully called Bush’s tactic “an impressive display of power and restraint.”
Bush has acted as a medicinal doctor to combat disease.
The United Nations has been tried as a remedy to halt Hussein in his harmful virus-like activity in the Middle East but has failed as a health care provider.
Like viruses can do, they spread to other parts of the body threatening to shut down its capacity to function normally.
Kuwait was a potential victim of Hussein’s disease in the spring of 1991.
Former President George H. Bush acted not surgically but medicinally to cure Iraq.
With all respect to the former president, he only halted a virus by containing it to the body.
Like an unhealthy child it was surrounded by others who could possibly be affected with the same sickness.
The New York Times and the United Kingdom’s Guardian reported in November 2001 that al-Qaeda had training grounds in Iraq.
The virus invited other bacteria to join and fester.
It began multiplying at a rapid pace from east to west and infecting all within close range.
The cells spread and festered in the form of terrorism.
The virus grew smarter. It became immune to the medicine and continued to spread.
Osama bin Laden became the agent carrying the disease and tumors were spread all over the world.
“Dr. Bush” came to the rescue and demanded to replace or remove what had been ailing the body for years.
Surgery is always the last option because it is dangerous to the body and the reaction can be deadly.
This past Wednesday, the doctor, as a last resort, ordered the rotting body into surgery for the purge of the illness.
All the precautions have been taken, Bush has prepared the family and the wait begins.
The body is in good hands because the doctor has proven himself in surgeries of the past.
Bush liberated Pakistan and Afghanistan and now their bodies have the chance to survive.
Survival is ultimately up to the body. It must take care of itself and make wise choices. It must live on a diet of freedom and democracy in order to have long life.
Like a doctor’s life travails, the gloves and tools will come off when the job is completed and he will head home humbly while the family celebrates the born again life of the oppressed member.

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