I've Had Enough

First of all I am tired of hearing when we leave Iraq, it will be a safe haven for al Qaeda…Bush has already provided a safe haven for al Qaeda on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan….the Sunni are only about 20% of the population of Iraq…and even the everyday Sunni are fighting the Sunni in al Qaeda in Iraq…the Shiite which are over 60% of the population will never sit back and let al Qaeda run Iraq…al Sadr’s Shiite militia will never let al Qaeda run Iraq…the Shiite and Sunni are life long sworn enemies…Saddam ruled Iraq from 1979-2003, the Baath party from 1968-2003, does anyone really think the Shiite are just going to sit back and let radical Sunnis rule Iraq after 35 years of Sunni rule??? The Shiite don’t even want the everyday Sunnis to have a say in running Iraq…more fear mongering by Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the 27% who keep drinking the koolaid….

The real al Qaeda, which Bush has let reform, Bush even said bin Laden is not a priority, are the real enemy in the war on terror…whether we win or lose in Iraq, the terrorists in the safe haven of the Pakistan and Afghanistan border will continue to plot against America while we waste resources and our military fighting a civil war in Iraq…remember, even the Pentagon stated Iraq and Saddam played no role in the 9-11 attacks…the al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan are the terrorists we should be fighting…Once we change our strategy in Iraq, maybe then we will start fighting the real war on terror not the imagined one in Iraq…

Secondly, The first amendment states American citizens have the right to express their grievances against the government…as a life long Independent, I am fed up with the lies, deception, and blatant disregard for the wishes of the American people from Bush and Cheney. I am tired of Bush and Cheney’s blatant disregard for the constitution. I have a constitutional right as an American to express my grievances against Bush and Cheney…How does that make me unpatriotic, hate America?…When Clinton was Commander in Chief with our troops in Somalia and Bosnia, and the right wing attacked him, I bet none of you felt unpatriotic…When you never supported Clinton, did you hate your country? Only when a Republican President is questioned are people unpatriotic…and what Democrat, Independent, American wants to have more Americans killed in our streets?…What Democrat, Independent, American wants al Qaeda to continue to have a safe haven to plot attacks against America? I, we, have a constitutional right to be heard and not sit back and watch Bush run our military into the ground because we love our country and are patriotic when we express ourselves…just like the right wing expressed itself against Clinton…Did you hate your country when you wanted Clinton impeached?…I am just sick of hearing the koolaid drinkers say that I am not patriotic because I don’t trust, believe, or have any faith in Bush and the Repubs to do the right thing anymore…I don’t buy into the fear…and the if we don’t fight them in Iraq we will fight them here rhetoric…the real terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan are the terrorists who will attack us here….not the al Qaeda in Iraq…the latest NIE even stated that al Qaeda in Iraq is not a threat to America…When we stop combat operations in Iraq, al Qaeda will lose its recruiting edge…bin Laden will start losing recruits…

Thirdly, our troops cannot end the civil war in Iraq…our troops, our politicians, our President cannot stop Shiite from fighting Sunni, from Sunni fighting Sunni, from Shiite fighting Shiite…only the Shiite and Sunni leaders can stop the civil war…I am all for a aggressive war on terror, have been since 9-11, and I will always be…I am against a made up war on terror in Iraq…four and a half years after mission accomplished and what has Bush accomplished besides make the world more dangerous, help al Qaeda recruit new members in Iraq, and gave al Qaeda a safe haven in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan…al Qaeda was not in Iraq when we invaded…Iraq and Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11…and the 27% who still believe those lies watch Fox Made Up News, read the Dredge Report, and believe whatever lies Bush and Cheney spew…show me any evidence from the Pentagon stating that al Qaeda was in Iraq before Bush and Cheney and Dumsfeld destabilized a sovereign nation …friends of mine who did Army intell in Iraq after 9-11, life long Republicans, told me that their was no evidence that al Qaeda was in Iraq…they said there were training camps in Kurdistan, but they were empty when we invaded Iraq…why would they lie?…show me some proof that al Qaeda was in Iraq when we invaded…there is none…even the Pentagon has said al Qaeda was not in Iraq when we invaded the country…Saddam hated anyone competing on his turf…the only connection between Saddam and bin Laden is they are both Sunni….end of story……I was even against even going to Afghanistan after 9-11…Afghanistan didn’t attack America…Bush and the military had no clue how to fight a war against a terrorist organization hiding in the desolation of the Afghanistan mountains…the war on terror, on the Taliban, on al Qaeda, will not be won with bombs and troops and force…the war will be won with special forces, black ops, and intelligence…small, strategic strikes…The war on terror will be won and lost based on intelligence…Bush and intelligence are two words that just don’t go together…

My dad was killed in Vietnam…don’t tell me I am unpatriotic…I support the troops…always will…and when a war is justified, I will even support the politicians who want the war…but the war on Iraq, like the war in Vietnam, was fought based on lies and deception…the metaphor of the dominoes will fall has been replaced with the axis of evil. How can anyone support the war machine behind both wars? And not supporting the war machine politics is totally different than not supporting the troops…I realize the right wing just cannot understand such a simple idea… …and if our military and government are so patriotic, when did a Appeals Court chastise the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday and order the VA to finally pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange and contracted a form of leukemia…The VA agree in 2003 to extend benefits to Vietnam Vets with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The VA still hasn’t paid the Vets what they are owed….the case action suit was filed in 1986 and in 1991 the government was still haggling over a technically instead of taking care of the troops…the governmental obstructionist bureaucratic opposition has drug on for 16 years…talk about not supporting the troops…like Bush not giving the troops the armor they needed…like Bushworld not giving troops the training they needed…like Bush cutting the VA budget during war times…like the Walter Reed fiasco…like the Repubs voting against the Webb amendment giving troops equal time off for the time they were in combat…and I don’t support the troops by speaking out…I am unpatriotic for speaking my mind…Enough…