| I'm Tired: Colonel, if you indeed are one, Let me ask you something: Did your Commander in Chief not tell us all over 3 years ago that the war was essentially over? What was that "Mission Acoomplished" crap about, then? The WAR has been over for a long time, now. This is NOT a war. If you have actually been in war, then I think you would recognize that fact. This is an occupation, no matter how you try and couch it as being a war. It is NOT a war. The war HAS been won. It was won over 3 years ago. The fact is that this administration, with it's incredible incompetence, never had any idea what to do when the war was over. They ignored plans that had been drawn up years before for the exact scenario. They ignored the advice and consent of YOUR leaders in uniform and put you people in an illegal war that we NEVER should have been in. ----- I appreciate your service, and understand that you are trying to do your job as best you can, but I suggest to you that it was the wrong job in the first place. And now with the Taliban making a resurgence in Afghanistan, where we DIDN'T finish the job before packing up to go to Iraq, we stand a very good chance of losing the whole enchillada. And Iraq was thought up as an invasion plan by those in this administration 5+ YEARS before they ever got into office. I'm sorry, sir, I intend no disrespect, but I think you are following a fool and doing a fool's errand. I admit that you have no choice in your position, and I consider that to be a breech of contract by this administration. You signed up to serve with the belief that they would not ask you to do so for illegal reasons. They have, and that is a breech of both contract and trust. ----- Ask yourself this: What is the trigger that will actually tell you that we've "won"? Is it that Saddam is gone? He is. Is it that the Iraqi's have their own government? They do. Is it that they have elections? They did. Is it that the majority of the people want us out? They do. Is it that the majority of the gov't wants us out? They do. And the majority of the American people want us out, too. It seems to me that we are now like a bad guest who just won't go home. ----- I keep hearing people like you talking about how we have to "win". How will you know? What EXACTLY does "win" mean? What EXACTLY does that entail? Calling us "cut and runners" isn't going to make a dent in our opinions, because we here don't get our (mis)information from Fox like you seem to. And please explain to me this: How does short changing vets, both wounded and not, "support the troops?" It seems to me that, when things like this go along party lines (with the republicans voting against you 100% of the time) that it's those of us who want to get our people out of the way of IEDS and suicide bombers who are the ones who actually support you guys. We want you to survive, they don't care about your survival one bit. They want to use you guys up and spit you out. The whole stop loss program and troops being there for their third terms are proof of that. We would prefer to have you all back home and in one piece. The job is done. The longer we stay, the worse things get, and will get. The longer we stay, the less likely the Iraqi's are to do things for themselves. What is their morivation to do so when we are doing it all for them? And the more we stay, the more we piss off the rest of the world. The job is done. We won the war, and are losing the OCCUPATION. Come on, Colonel, get right with your terminology, at least. If you've truly been there, you should recognize it for what it is. And wake up, sir, we are NOT the problem, here. We are trying to be responsible, your president is the one acting like a spoiled child. |