Its that time again. Time for good sense and reason to go out the door in favor of political games.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13338901/

 

To date there have been over 2500 US Military Personel deaths since the start of this "war." (Note: quotetations are used here because this is not a war but rather a forceful military occupation that was initiated on false intel and no follow up.)

 

You would think that with less than 1/3 of the United States population in favor of the war and the president that started it on his own crazy backwater agenda, that the House would be inclined to listen to the people and get our troops home. This is not the case. I will not go into too much detail, since everyone can read the article linked above and form their own opinion but I will show some excerpts.

 

“Two things that don’t exist in Iraq and have not, weapons of mass destruction, and cutting and running.” - Reid, D-Nev

 

How true. Some people say "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." This is also true, but with US troops being stations there for almost 3 years and scouring most of the country, thats quite a bit of evidence of absence to me, enough to really step back and say "Hmm, maybe we dropped the ball on this one Dick, let's get our people home and just call this one a mulligan."

 

I don't like debating politics because its a losing battle no matter what side you are on. But in cases like this I think people really should think about 2 things. 1) What is good for the country? 2) Should we ever have gone there in the first place?

 

I want everyone to think about the events way back in the day, in 2003. All of a sudden the search for Osama bin Laden stopped being the news and Operation Shock and Awe was EVERYWHERE. It was worse than the Schiavo case. We were told that intel reports showed Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction, mobile chemical weapons labs, and a nuclear program that threatened the entire war.

 

"Holy Shit!!" We thought, we really need to take this guy down. 18 months later we are told, "Wait, our bad. No WMD, no chemical weapons, no nukes, sorry our intel was bad." Then we are told, "Actually we knew those reports were bad but meh..."

 

That brings us to the present, 2500 dead, no one taking responsibility, they dont want to bring our people home, and they are taking no steps into having the new Iraqi govt. take control of the country on their own. Remember they dont have to pay for anything as long as we are still there. They even want US troops to run their prisons.

 

Midterm elections are coming up. I know I will be working to have the Dems take control. At least they will bring people home and hopefully stop this load of shit.

 

The republicans say that by pulling from Iraq we will promote the spread of terrorism around the world and into the United States. Let me say one thing about this.

 

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?! Terrorism is not some plague or some hard drug, it is a fucking idea. It is the use of fear to obtain political goals! Terrorism has been around the world since the dawn of time and is extremely well rooted in the US already. Who remembers SARS? That lung infection with a 9% fatality rate (and that was only if you already have immune system issues) that everyone was freaking out about that wasnt an issue? Or that fact that US media uses nothing but scare tactics to make their stories...

 

Or what about Oklahoma City, that was terrorism. The series of high school shootings, that was terrorism, any robbery, thats terrorism. Anything that is done to incite fear to achieve a goal is terrorism. Buy a fucking dictionary.

 

What the fuck is wrong with people?!