The Attack

We read and hear over and over that the United States should not leave Iraq because we don’t want people to think that the dead Americans in Iraq died in vain.
Of course they didn’t die in vain. They were in an expeditionary force, they fought, they died, they are heroes.
That doesn’t mean that the nation has to continue to pay for our military to be lolly gagging around in Iraq. Some of the men and women there are fighting. They are stuck in the sand or sitting in metal tanks armored with depleted uranium in 110 degree heat.
Most of the Americans in Iraq though, work in offices or in supply duties – pumping gas, fixing things or just standing around. Look at how many military ‘blogs’ there are. They have enough time to use government equipment and time to paint a rosy picture about a raw deal.
American fighting forces have been successful because most of the work and money goes into supply – and that makes for an effective fighting force. The guy in the field always has what he needs.
But today – Iraq is a lost cause – there’s nothing there for us and there is nothing there for America. The people of Iraq should be left to their own devices. Any soldiers, sailors or airmen that want to stay to fight for Bush’s dream of world conquest, should, of course, be allowed. Maybe they could join the Iraqi military and then be truly responsible for ‘Iraqi Freedom’.
In the meantime – it’s waste of money and the effort is in vain – though, I say again, the men and women that died in Iraq did not die in vain. They died in Iraq – far from home and with no good reason for being there.
Osama bin Laden is still on the loose.
The Saudi Arabians are still behaving in a perverted and vicious manner to the rest of the world.
The American economy is in a shambles – you know – part of the reason Bush is keeping all those guardsmen there is because their jobs are GONE. If the soldiers came home tomorrow they wouldn’t be able to find a job – even 165,000 jobs. Even the one they had.
There are millions of illegal aliens in the United States, our borders are weak and our military is in Iraq.
There are a flood of drugs in the United States – a lot of it originating in Afghanistan and coming through Iraq.
That’s the reality on the ground and here in the United States.