DUCK!!! More Cow Pies are a'flyin'

Praise for the war...the war in IRAQ...not the war against the people who were responsible for the attacks against us on 9/11. Praise for being bullies...because whether we like it or not, America WAS the bully in Iraq.

On September 11th, 2006 it will be five years since the attack against America. We got Sadaam...did we REALLY want him?

This little demi-god who was contained by the nearly ten years of U.N. sanctions against him?

As I have said in earlier posts...YES he was a BAD man. There is no place reserved in the upper tiers of Heaven for Sadaam...Purgatory? Maybe...but although he caused Hell for many, he was not behind the 9/11 attacks against us. al Zarcowi??? (I KNOW that's not how his name is spelled, but phonetically it is as close as I can get.)...He was not a POWER in Iraq until AFTER we allegedly liberated Iraq....but we got him...only to have another head of that particular Hydra sprout from its serpentine body.

We got Sadaam's egomaniacal sons. Bad guys, true, but again NOT the ones responsible for 9/11. (I can imagine the wives, girlfriends, and young females in Iraq are glad we got those two...rapists, murderers, strong-armed hoodlums...yes...but egotists that were not any more willing to share their dubious powers with alQaida than their father would have been.)

So now that we have these four really not-so-nice men, do you feel safer?

The war in Iraq continues. Our death toll JUST for our own people since "liberating" Iraq (never mind the scores of innocent men, women, children, and civilians dead),is almost as high as the number of people killed during the 9/11 assault.

DO you feel safer?

The Bush administration says we ARE safer because there have been no attacks on American soil since he took up the reins against the Insurgent Dogs.

I may not be a world leader, or belong to a prestigious think tank, but common sense tells me that if we have lost almost as many of our citizens in the last three years inside Iraq as were lost in the 9/11 attack, we are NOT safer...just we have placed our citizens where it is easier for the terrorists to kill us in THEIR background. Why should they plot and plan an extravagant attack against us here, when it is so much easier for them to chip away at us with daily persistence in their own playground? They, not us, blend in over there.

I remember one of the biggest problems we faced in Viet Nam was knowing who the friends were and who the foes were because they ALL looked alike...and why shouldn't they have? They, not us, were indigenous to that area. The same is true in this debacle in Iraq. The alleged insurgents LOOK just like Joe-Abdul-Smith.

I have listened to the debates going on over ending this war and giving a date for withdrawal of our troops. Our troops should NEVER have been sent into Iraq. The Bush administration owes America one humongous apology. In its eagerness to finish what Bush senior started, it used the 9/11 attacks to gain entry into Iraq by becoming the bully.

Osama bin Laden has NOT been captured or killed. How anyone inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can celebrate and applaud is beyond me. No amount of spin can change the facts that IRAQ was NOT alQaida until AFTER we bombed the crap out of them.

Are we safer? We bombed a country not even remotely connected to those responsible for 9/11. Now that we know without doubt that they had NOTHING to do, what are we doing? Although they deny it, it seems to me that we are Nation Building. WE want Iraq to be OUR democracy attached to us by not-so-invisble chains of possession.

Prior to the onset of the OUR Revolutionary War, we had our own people plotting and planning the downfall of King George. We didn't have China deciding to come here with their firepowder to blast the Red Coats into oblivion. The people living HERE decided they wanted the change...and not ALL of the people here made that choice. There were plenty of loyal subjects here, but those who wanted their freedom wanted it badly enough to give up their OWN lives to get it.

Iraq wanted its freedom from Sadaam? Iraq wanted to be out from under the control of this megalomaniac? Then why didn't they do something about it?

We know that many Iraqis escaped to the West, set up new lives here and abroad while doing nothing to bring an end to the government they claim was so horrid. If freeing your Country means so much, as it did for the forefathers of THIS Country, why didn't they do something about it? The insurgency shows that death means little to the Iraqi people and the Muslim leaders. If freedom was truly what the Iraqi people wanted, why didn't they fight for it?

Bush claims we have done a noble thing in Iraq. Being a bully is noble? Allowing the very Jihadists that we claim were responsible for 9/11 into the vacuum left by ridding Iraq of Sadaam makes for a better life for the Iraqi people? HOW?

America was attacked. I do not know if our policies around the world fuel the anger that inspired alQaida to begin attacking us. I am not a politician. I do not have access to the information about our conduct around the world...but America WAS attacked. There is a huge festering wound that weeps within the very fabric of what is America because of 9/11. Innocent people died, and the rest of us are left to try to make some kind of sense of it. America was attacked....Not by Iraq. America was attacked by alQaida. AlQaida was not in Iraq...it IS now. Do you feel safer? Osama bin Ladin is still out there plotting and planning. For now his plots and plans do not require traveling...we are in his backyard...ripe for easy picking. We turned our backs on pursuing him with the tenacity Bush promised...we turned that tenacity on Sadaam...and we got Sadaam.

One would assume that once we got Sadaam, Iraq and our military would be safer. Al Zarcowi proved how naive'we were.

We got Zarcowi...within 12 hours the violence of the insurgency escalated and a new leader came to the forefront.

Our political parties need to look long and hard at Iraq. The area is unstable, they say so we dare not leave...who destabilized Iraq? By remaining are we not making it all the more unstable? When you consider that alQaida's recruitment numbers are up BECAUSE we are in Iraq, how can anyone believe our continued presence helps?

Our military deserve the finest minds determining battle strategy. They deserve the respect for their skills and willingness to die for OUR security. They deserve the best tools OUR tax dollars can buy...Have we given that to them in this debacle in Iraq?

To the Republicans I say...No amount of spin can alter the fact that your party is ultimately responsible for the multitude of mistakes made since 9/11. To the Democrats I say, get off your collective stools and start making real waves. Being against the war does NOT mean you are anti-troops, anti-America, or anti-homeland.

To those politicians who have actually SERVED,(and I KNOW there aren't MANY of you) I say...remember what being a member of the militaryy is SUPPOSED to be and make sure you fight so that today's military HAS what it needs and so richly deserves. I also say give our military the battle we all agreed should be theirs to fight...ending alQaida...not policing Iraq's civil war.