I got started and can't stop now!

I apologize for straying off my normal subject matter, but this war business is really disturbing. I find myself joining a snowball effect, that I only hope grows. I find the cause for the Iraq part of our war is really not worthy of our soldier's lives.
...and I really like this LINK.

According the the story by the AP's Liz Sidoti, Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, choked back tears telling reporters.

"It's time to bring them home..."

I could not agree more. I agree for the lives of each and every person over there. I agree that as long as the bush admninistration exercises its abuse of power, and profits from it, that they do not deserve the respect of the soldiers who serve them. I believe that the cause is not just.

The AP further reported that he said, "They are united against U.S. forces and we have become a catalyst for violence," he said. "The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion."

A flawed policy wrapped in illusion...hmmmm. That means that no matter how you glorify the lives sacrificed, the lives lost, the reason for why they died will never change.

I like what the HONORABLE Mr. Representative Murtha said when he spoke of the vice president cheney's criticism of him:

"I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there," said Murtha, a former Marine. "I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."

because it only serves as an example of what I explained in my earlier blog. The soldiers in the service "question why" FAR LESS often than they think "just take care of the guy next to me."

It's a habit, if you really questioned why, then you could drive yourself crazy just trying to come up with a believable reason in situations where the war policy might be "flawed." That's not how you conduct unpleasant war business. You support the commander in chief, whoever the person may be, and you can't do that by leisurely questioning why. You take care of the guy next to you, that's what being a good soldier is about. Being a good soldier is not actively seeking out "five deferments," like mr. cheney did. You know politics can really jerk a guy's life chain when war's involved. In Korea, we sent Task Force Smith (a mere battalion that practically got anhiliated); then we sent McArthur who went in, took care of business and got fired by politicians who couldn't take the fact that war is ugly business. McArthur didn't question why he was there, he took a mission and ran with it. It would have left us with one Korea instead of what we have today. In Vietnam, politicians put leashes on our soldiers while the enemy ran across to the neighbor's yard. You know what, now they're sending soldiers in to Iraq, Task Force Smith style, and what for?

The nation of Iraq doesn't need to be a democratic society because we want it to be. It needs to be a democratic society when enough social change occurs for it to happen naturally or maybe never. Really now, if we thought that everybody needed to be democratic why aren't we taking over Cuba? If we thought everybody needed to be democratic, why aren't we forcing free elections on China? We hold China to a higher standard than ourselves. The States who United make China hold to a United Nations agreement about Human Rights that the USA never signed itself. And we think we know what's best for Iraq? No, not really. The bush administration probably has an idea to protect vital national [family?] interests.....hmmmmm OIL OIL OIL OIL?

White House press secretary Scott McClellan, now he's a piece of work, such a loyal staffer! he says
"... it is baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party."

How the hell did Michael Moore make it into the conversation? (the HONORABLE Michael Moore) The "extreme liberal wing?" Then he must be in the extreme conservative wing? You know we have the far left and the far right, but it takes each sides' extreme views to hopefully reach confluence. I belive that the Honorable Mr. Murtha is already in the confluence waiting for the rest of the two extremes to join him in the middle. The Honorable Mr. Murtha takes his duties as a representative (of the people) seriously and with a great deal of experience.
A Colonel of mine once said, the greatest General's are the one's who never forget what it's like being a new recruit. I'm sure it was probably quoted a lot down through the years but, Mr. Murtha is a prime example of living it as a truth. He hasn't forgotten the Soldiers that the administration is sending into harm's way. He is a representative who should be listened to. It is against policy for soldiers to criticize their commander in chief with full vigor. It's unlawful for Officers to criticize the president or his policy.

Therefore, it is only right that an HONORABLE REPRESENTATIVE WITH EXPERIENCE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SOMEONE'S GUN, speak out for the lives of other soldiers on the business side of Iraqi guns. That's what being a representative is all about. Congress is supposed to represent the people. The people needing representation right now are your cousins, your aunts, your brothers, sisters and your next-door neighbors who wear a United States of America uniform.

Scott ,mcclellan also said,

"The eve of an historic democratic election in Iraq is not the time to surrender to the terrorists...After seeing his statement, we remain baffled — nowhere does he explain how retreating from Iraq makes America safer."

Nowhere, no time has the bush administration explained how the Iraqi terrorism threat began because, WE'RE OCCUPYING THEIR COUNTRY! The Iraqi terrorists are just that-terrorists INSIDE OF IRAQ, not terrorists in Wiley City, WA, in Worley, Idaho, in Pulaski, NY, in Porcupine, SD, in the town of Council Grove, KS. Nowhere has mr. mcclellan explained how removing us from Iraq will remove the threat to THEM, the Sovereign Nation of Iraq. It is not a "retreat." It is a natural recognition that we might not be doing the BEST thing with the lives of soldiers who will give their lives in accomplishing whatever is set before them.

The AP also reported that Murtha, who did support the war when we probably ALL thought it was a just cause (self included) is part of:

"...plummeting public support for a war that has cost more than $200 billion and led to the deaths of more than 2,000 U.S. troops."

Now, isn't that just close to what I just said in my last two blogs? Billions of Dollars, and over two thousand lives, across the span of FIFTEEN wasted years were spent when we could have been making changes here on our own soil. Lets spend some money. We say we don't have it, but $200 Billion dollars later, we still say we don't have it. Now we can't ever tell over two thousand dead soldiers that we don't have the money to spend on research for viable renewable fuel resources, maybe because we spent it on war operations that made people like defense contracting agencies' executives rich, right mr. cheney?

Tell it to all the living wounded soldiers, missing hands, legs, sight; look them in the eye and tell them they were wounded in Iraq protecting the people in all those small cities named above.
Yes, this blog has taken a drastic turn. This entry may be all over the place. It might be ill-composed. But then wasting $200 billion dollars, with nothing to show for it after 15 years, is no less ill-composed when you consider that the administration is also throwing lives (over 2000 lost lives so far) at a problem. I'm gonna stand on my soap box and keep saying:

Lets JUST spend some more billions of dollars we don't have,
instead of spending billions of dollars and even one more life of people who serve you with pride in uniform.

They deserve to go only where it's absolutely necessary and as a last resort to protect lives, not corporate interests.

Who cares if I'm right? Even if I'm wrong, we'll all be ahead of the game when all those oil fields go tits up, and we'll have your next-door neighbor's kid still around to speak about.