Civil War Brewing? Thoughts Three Years Later
It seems only right that someone announce true reality on the third anniversary of this war that has been, and continues to be SO WRONG. The costs from any perspective are staggering, and there is no end in sight, the only plan presented to the American people a oft repeated, "stay the course, we will persevere." That is NO WAR PLAN.
There is no doubt that we are looking at a long term financial bill from this war in excess of two trillion dollars, probably much closer to three.
Over 2300 of America's finest came home in boxes that we are NOT ALLOWED TO SEE, the flag draped coffins I suppose to much of a reminder of the true costs of war. Another 16,000 plus soldiers are maimed, missing arms, legs, their eye sight, and in many cases their minds...how many more family members now carry wounds and scars that do not get reported, are not counted as a part of the cost of this wrong war? Is it right not to factor in the children who no longer have a mom or dad, or have one that is not really there any more?
Over 500,000 of our Armed forces have so far done time in the desert sands, some forty percent of them returning home suffering from some level of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), seeking counseling carefully in the hopes of avoiding the shame the military attaches to it, trying to avoid the label of being weak. How many family members are also seeking counseling, how many of them are recieving none where much is needed?
I think of these things, and I hold a great hatred towards the Republican Third Reich, King George and the ignorants who put them in, and keep them in office.
Are the Democrats any better...they could be no worse, and there is no doubt that the past year would have shaped a different war had Kerry gotten elected. Government regulations have our IRA's all but tied up until we are 59, but if I could take our money without penalty and run, think I would gladly abandon our life here in America and move to some place far away, choosing not to be a part of a nation that has gone so far off course.
Sad...I don't want to be here any more, would rather pick and choose another place which I could call home, even if deep inside my heart America would always be the land of the home and the brave, instead of a cesspool of lies, and the land of opportunity only if you are and illegal alien here to steal a citizens job and way of life.
Bring our troops home Mr. Bush, let them spend a couple of years rounding up illegals, manning detention camps till unwanted's can be sent back to where they belong. You want a war, you have one right here at home, though you refuse to deal with it in any significant and FAIR WAY.
The Senate seems poised to pass legislation that clears the decks to make 15, even 20 million illegal aliens and their families legalized American citizens, it's Amnesty no matter how you present you basket full of lies. Securing our borders along this nations Southern edge not with a fence but by the stroke of a pen as the middle class life is given away for some myriad scheme or dubious political pack of lies. Iraq is a hornets nest, a civil war waiting to erupt, and for those who watch carefully, a twin to America where hostilities are growing towards another war of a different type as we fight along class lines to preserve a middle class that Bush seems to want to destroy and wipe out.
Curious how many others sit weeping as we watch the line draw in the sand, how many of us know what is happening, how many of us really even care? We are running out of time, the hour is growing late...What will be your excuse when the life you knew is no more, will you sit with the huddled masses saying to yourself, "I wish I had done more"?
SAY NO TO AMNESTY...SAY NO TO GUEST WORKER plans while you still have a chance.
