I am tired of many of my fellow conservatives unconditionally supporting President Bush in everything he does simply because he's pro-life. I thank God for President Bush's pro-life, pro-judiciously conservative judges, and family values but President Bush has a deep problem with pridefulness, arrogance, stubbornness, cronyism, and in intellectually understanding much of the world around him. The Democrats are not always wrong in their criticism of the President.
Let's take the issue of Iraq.

The issue for our military in Iraq is not about giving up or not giving up because the issue never was a military one. The issue is cultural.

Sure some progress has been made with more Sunnis helping the United States fight the militant fundamentalist jihadists, but this is not because most Sunnis embrace the democracy that we imposed on them or because most Sunnis have come to embrace the Shia dominated government.

The Sunnis don't wish to live under an Islamic fundamentalist government, which the jihadis want to impose on them. The Sunnis are beginning to hate that even more than the U.S. presence in their country.

Even if we destroyed all the Jihadis, the Sunni and Shia will return to fighting each other, which didn't happen under Saddam because of his dictatorial iron rule.

The nation should be divided just as the former Yugoslavia was along ethnic lines of Kurds, Sunni, and Shia. A U.N. monitored security needs to be firmly implemented. This is an appropriate time for a U.N. solution, not an American solution.

This war was unnecessary and thoroughly mismanaged from the very start. We already have done all we could to fix the mess that we created. We've lost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, welcomed home hundreds of maimed soldiers and made that part of the world even more unstable and a greater haven for terrorism.

And, just like in my native India, there is news of prevalent corruption in the Iraqi government. How many millions of our dollars are being pocketed away by officials and even bureaucrats in the Iraq government we cannot tell. Literally billions of dollars have been unaccounted for in Iraq since the war began.

There is some evidence that President Bush manipulated evidence to take us to war in Iraq. Saddam was evil but that did not justify invading the country. As evil as Saddam was he was not stupid enough to help terrorists attack the U.S. after what happened to him in the Gulf War of the early 90's and after what he saw we did in Afghanistan after 9/11.

Saddam gave financial aid to families of Palestinian terrorists who blew themselves up in Israel, but that's as far as his connections with terrorists went. He was not connected to Al Qaida. They both hated one another. Yes, they did hate the U.S. more than they hated each other but Saddam wasn't stupid enough to partner with Al Qaida. He had something to lose - a country. Again, he saw what happened to Afghanistan! In fact, Al Qaida tried several times to contact Saddam for his cooperation and Saddam consistently refused.

And now, several years after invading Iraq and imposing our democracy on them, we find that Iraqi security forces still are not ready to do their own fighting against the insurgents! The primary reason is because the different ethnic groups in Iraq don't feel as if they're one. Most Iraqis don't have a sense of nationalism because they're loyal, for the most part, only to their ethnic sect or tribe. We can't beat unity into them. It is not something that can be imposed on them!

In the 2005 Iraqi elections the people that voted, for the most part, were Shia Muslims and they did so only because their spiritual leader told them to do it. Why did their spiritual leader tell them to do it? Because the Shia are the majority and they would have pretty much control of the country in a democracy.

May God forgive us and help the Iraqis.

The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, is an experienced Christian writer. Mr. Ranganathan has his B.A. with academic concentrations in Bible and Biology from Bob Jones University. As a religion and science writer he has been recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis Who's Who In The East. The author's articles have been published in various publications including Russia's Pravda and South Korea's The Seoul Times. The author's website may be accessed at: www.religionscience.com.