One Guy's Viewpoint

It's the War, Stupid

To me it seemed pretty clear. The recent election seemed to be, in the main, a repudiation of President Bush's war in Iraq. This "faucet dripping blood" (to steal Paul Harvey's description of Vietnam before American blood flow became a gush) is going nowhere, is doing us--and the Iraqis--no good, and is not going to do us any good. It's the biggest of two losing wars we're currently conducting, and our Prexy seems to want us to be in two more. Just today he was in Seoul attempting to pressure South Korea to apply sanctions against North Korea. As well, an attack on Iran any day by either ourselves or Israel would not come as a great shock.

American voters are aware that the reasons given for invading Iraq were bogus. Our body count, now approaching 3000, is published regularly. And we can extrapolate to estimate roughly the number of those troops who have been severly maimed. How many blinded? How many limbs blown off? How many vegetables? And for what? For nothin', that's what.

Come January, what are the victorious Democrats going to do about it? Very little if anything, I'm afraid. Now both parties are denying that the war was a major concern of the electorate. George W. Bush is even talking of throwing another division or two into the fight. The Democrats are claiming what we, the voters, were really saying was that what we truly want is more of their grand socialistic schemes, what our biggest concern about our nation is is that the minimum wage is a bit too low. How crazy. And the faucet keeps dripping. For how long? For how long? And for what? Specifically now, tell us for what.

posted by Burt @ 6:39 PM