I Want The Cost Of Bush Failures To Be In Your Living Room

That’s right. I think it is time that the 45% of the American people who think the war in Iraq was worth it to come over and join me and the other semi-sane 55% of the American citizens in demanding that the main stream media broadcast the cost of the Bush War right into living rooms of all Americans. It’s time that the American people got a taste, albeit a miniscule taste it would be, of what our soldiers get every single day that they are serving and sacrificing for us, the American people. What they are sacrificing in Iraq because their inept, incompetent, and immoral Commander in Chief has ordered them to do so.

I want it to be right in front of you, in your face, on your 40 inch plasma screens, in living, real life color. I want every one of you who is not demanding that George W. Bush pull our troops out of his war to see our sons and daughters, mothers, and fathers, brothers and sisters loosing their lives and limbs. I want every one of you to see the carnage wrought, not by our military, but by George W. Bush. I want you to see the carnage brought on the soldiers of this nation and the innocent men, women, and children of Iraq who have never had anything to do with terrorism or al Qaeda. And I want you to see it each and every day, in your living room, until it is over. I want every one of you to count every single flag draped coffin as it is rolled off of that airplane at Dover Air Force base. (Oh that’s right, you won’t be able to do that because George W. Bush has said you aren’t free people who can do that.) I want every single one of you to watch, in living color as a nation slides into a bloody civil war that has every possibility of boiling over into the rest of the Middle East.

There is no doubt in my mind, based solely on what has been widely reported, that George W. Bush lied to the American people in order to invade a country in a preemptive war. One must come to this conclusion based solely on George W. Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s public statements and subsequent morphing of those statements along with the statements and actions of their cabinet members as published in newspapers and seen on Television and heard on radio. Speaking of lying here is another two examples (Iraqi Readiness, Port Security) of, if not lying, then simple spinning of which there is no difference in my mind.

Having said that let me now say this. Regardless of the reason, I repeat, regardless of the reason that we went to war in Iraq we must, for the sake of national security, physical and economic, withdraw our troops from Iraq. It is my firm belief that we are expending precious national resources at a rate that is totally unsustainable and we are in such dire straits that we must withdraw from Iraq. We must adopt the Jack Murtha plan and stand off and let the Iraqi people settle their differences as we serve as a shield and support preventing invasion or any other actions or interference by outside powers. It is my belief that failure to do this will result in this nation becoming embroiled in a civil war and cost us even more dearly in American lives and wealth. (2,288 soldiers killed in action, 16,653 wounded in action and $250 billion dollars expended and this doesn’t include the damage to our economy so far.)

This nation’s precious resources must be expended on the most pressing issues as we develop a cohesive, coherent and effective foreign policy. (Something which we do not currently have and have not had for over 5 years.) We must focus on the real terrorists that continue to strike at will as in Saudi Arabia most recently.

It looks like it took three years for the grand father of Republican conservatives, William F. Buckley Jr. to realize what a catastrophic failure the Bush war was and is; so maybe if the mainstream media does their real job and puts this war in our living rooms the willingly blind will see.

Those Are The Sergeant Majors Thoughts On That.