Kicking a Bee Hive
Topic: Iraq War

Kicking a Bee-Hive

  There are still a lot of people that do not understand why there is so much of a problem with our trying to fix Iraq.

  The only way I can try to relate to it is what would happen if we were to go up to a Beehive and Kick a hole in it. Then reach inside it and try to re-arrange it so it is the way it should be, as those bees have been doing it wrong for the last Million years or so.

  It is so difficult to get these bees to stop stinging us, and understand that we are only doing it for their own good, and if we have to we will kill them all so we can get the hive set up the way we think it should be, so be it.

  Let us face up to it, The Iraqi’s do not want us there, and they do not want our way of life. What we should be doing is showing them how we live, and let them decide if they want to live the way we do, and accomplish the change when they feel the time is right.

  Our present course is to invade and conquer and force our way of life down their throats, whether they like it or not.

  Smalltown America works quite well here in North America, but it does not fit in every location on this planet

  No matter how hard we try, we will never convince the Eskimos they should be living in Bamboo Huts, nor the Samoan’s to live in Igloos.

  Forcing your way of life on others has been tried throughout history. The Trojans tried it, the Greeks tried it, the Romans tried it, the Norsemen tried it, The Spaniards tried it, the Germans tried it, the Japanese tried it, and the Communist Russians tried, and every time it failed. And in most cases it led to the fall of the empire that was trying to force a change in lifestyle on a people who were not willing or ready to change.

  So to those of you that enjoy the American Way of Life, live it and cherish it for as long as it lasts, for if history follows it’s course, it will be gone within our lifetime.

 This message was originally written by me; Apr. 1 2004

Why Congress voted to Authorize
Topic: Iraq War

    I am tired of many of the so-called News Commentators or Pundits constantly implying, “Well he/she voted to go to war”. They usually give that comment to degrade the intelligence or the integrity of the person they are referring to, or imply that the person has no belief or conviction in what they say or have said in the past.

 

  I would like to point out to these so-called experts that the reason that most of the Senators and Congressmen or Congresswomen voted that way is because they were attempting to show the world that we Americans trust our leaders, and voted to demonstrate that trust.

 

  What they were voting on was the fact that they were led to believe, that by looking into the Secret Pentagon data that their positions allowed them access to, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, all proclaimed that they had seen definite incontrovertible evidence that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction of Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Capabilities. Now since the Senators and Representatives do not have access to these Secret Pentagon Papers, they had to take the word of those people who do have access to them.

 

  And since Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice kept repeating these statements over and over, congress naturally had to believe they were true and accurate statements, so they cast their votes to give support to The Commander in Chief and stop the “Madman” Hussein, and not because they personally believed that going to war was a good idea, and so wouldn’t we all.

 

  When the war was in progress and no WMDs were found and facts were finally uncovered, we discover that there were no such Secret Pentagon Documents describing WMDs at all, and Bush Cheney, Rice , and Rumsfeld were all lying through their teeth, just to get the vote to go to war.

 

  So I would like to have all these High and Mighty News Pundits who are condemning the people who voted to support the Commander in Chief, take a lie detector test to show how they would have reacted at that particular time, rather than the Monday Morning Quarterbacking they are involved in now.

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Cut the Yellow Ribbon
Topic: Iraq War

This is an article I came across on Netscape that I had to pass on. It so eloquently states my opinion of the Iraqi war.

Mac

    Published on Monday, January 8, 2007 by CommonDreams.org 

Cure For Yellow Ribbon Patriotism 

by Robert Weitzel

 

A man I once knew survived his tour of duty in Vietnam. In the privacy of a rented house trailer he drank alone until he finally had the “courage” to kill himself. I don’t know if he saw combat. He never said. I only assumed he had because when he spoke, what he said had the finality of a trigger pull. To my mind, there is only one way to acquire such certainty.

I only saw him on the weekends when he made beer runs for my high school buddies and me. We gave him a six-pack and ten minutes of our time for his trouble and then left him as we had found him, sitting at his kitchen table pulling on an unfiltered cigarette and sipping a lukewarm beer like he had all the time in the world.

 

I didn’t see him after high school and he was dead by the time I next thought to ask about him. I don’t know that he was a casualty of the war. He might have traveled the same road regardless of Vietnam. But then, he might not have.

 

Like most returning Vietnam vets before the release of the POW’s, he was not given a hero’s welcome. Hero was a term we seldom used back then; not like today when we toss it out like confetti on the deserving and the undeserving alike.

 

He came back instead to an indifferent, if not hostile, country. He and his fellow vets were slipped into the country singly or in small groups so as to diffuse throughout the population the “cure” they carried in their marrow, rendering it as ineffectual as a homeopathic dilution.

 

The “cure” these soldiers brought back from Vietnam was a potion distilled of moments: moments of bravery and sacrifice and sorrow, of bowel-loosening fear, of dehumanizing anger and hostility, of unasked and unanswered questions, moments too damaging to the soul to ever find release in confession.

 

It was a potion that if used thoughtfully could inoculate the nation against the disease of the god Mars. But it was ignored along with the soldiers. Vietnam vets, like the man I knew, were left to overdose on the potion in their own private hell.

 

The rally cry, “support our troops,” was born of a sincere desire to separate our feelings for the soldiers from our feelings for the war. It was meant as a mea culpa to the Vietnam veteran and a promise that we would never again make our soldiers the scapegoats for the machinations of the power elite. As a statement of concern for the wellbeing of the individual soldier, “support our troops” is unassailable.

 

But like the word hero, the vitality of the sentiment expressed by “support our troops” has been sapped by mindless iteration and the Machiavellian genius of warmongers. It has become little more than a patriotic platitude on par with, “God Bless America,” and a euphemism for “support our war.” As a balm to the national conscience for once again consigning our troops to the killing field, it is the battle cry that leads and sustains our country in an unjust war.

 

In a recent Military Times Poll, only 35 percent of our troops approved of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war, while only 23 percent believed Congress was looking out for them. The troops are telling us they do not feel supported by the politicians who sent them to the killing field for a dose of the “cure.”

 

Against the advise of both retired and active duty military leaders, President Bush’s new strategy for winning the war in Iraq is expected to include a “surge” of 20,000 to 40,000 additional troops to help quell the sectarian violence unleashed by the illegal invasion and botched occupation of that country.

 

A November 2006 survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org revealed that 72 percent of Iraqi Shias believe the presence of U.S. occupation forces only exacerbates an already lethal situation and wants them out of their country within the year, while 91percent of Sunnis approve of attacks on U.S troops.

 

Our troops, our top military leaders, and the Iraqi people are sending a clear message. It is time to for the U.S. to “cut and run.”

 

Yellow ribbon patriots finally have an opportunity to support our troops in a meaningful way. They can begin by removing their magnetic yellow ribbon bumper stickers, by listening to the troops and helping to get them home, and by demanding that those who took the country to war with lies and deception be held to account.

 

All Americans will continue to abdicate their responsibility to the living and the dead and the wounded troops if they are unwilling to inoculate themselves with the “cure” brought home from the killing field.

 

Robert Weitzel is freelance writer whose essays regularly appear in The Capital Times in Madison, WI. He has also been published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Skeptic Magazine, and Freethought Today. He can be contacted at: rweitz@tds.net

Well the Democrats don't have the answer
Topic: Iraq War

I am tired of hearing all of the political Pundits during interviews keep claiming, “The Democrats have won control of congress, but they do not have an answer of how to win in Iraq!”

 

  I heard David Gergen make a very similar statement last night (Dec. 14 2006) on CNN. Mr. Gergen and all of the other Super Intelligent Political Pundits seem to imply that because the Democrats do not have a ready answer for this problem which they inherited from the Republicans, the Democrats are dense, because if they did not have the answer they should have stayed out of the situation and just let the Bush Administration and the Republicans take care of it in their own good time.

 

  I would like to pose a question to David Gergen, Bill Schneider, Jeff Greenfield, and all of the other experts and ask, “What is the very simple solution of how to win in Iraq that you know of, that the democrats do not?” I doubt that Mr. Gergen or any of the others will have a ready answer, because there is no ready answer, as a matter of fact there is no difficult answer either. The problem is that we attacked Iraq without having any plan at all.

 

   We invaded Iraq without any solutions planned in advance, other than the idea that every other times the United States got involved in a world situation everything worked out so well. It seems that the Bush Administration failed to comprehend that there were in fact many plans that were made in advance of the commencement of these events, and they were upgraded as the needs became evident. It appears to me that the Bush administration just thought everything would go all right because it always does, and had no comprehension that carefully though out plans had been made in advance of these other events.

 

I would like to propose a similar but hypothetical problem to all of these political pundits and see what their answers are. You are a Skydiver and you have made your exit from the aircraft, and things are not going quite as well as you had expected. You did not jump quite as far out from the plane as you had hoped, the wind is blowing in the wrong direction so you will not hit your target area, and you are falling faster than you had anticipated. By the way, due to your lack of preparation you forgot to put on your parachute before you jumped, what is your very simple solution to correct this perplexing problem, David?

Teaching Pigs to Fly
Topic: Iraq War
  So the whole idea of fixing the problem we have caused in Iraq is an unanswerable question, as we never should have gone there in the first place.

Democracy in Iraq will not work because of Iraqi Beliefs
Topic: Iraq War

  I just heard CNN Commentator, Wolf Blitzer talking to former US Senator Max Cleeland, where Wolf mentioned that if the American Military were to leave Iraq the results would be that a civil war would break out and it would be a virtual Bloodbath in Iraq.

 

   I would like to point out to Mr. Blitzer that is exactly what is happening right now, except if the American Military were to pull out, the various sects of Iraqi’s would still be killing each other as they are doing now, but there would not be 100 or more young Americans dying every month as well.

 

  The Iraqi people had their free elections and have elected their free Democratic Government, and everything should be running smoothly, but it is not.

 

  The United States has a freely elected Democratic Government and there are Christians, Jews, Mormons, Amish, Muslims, Buddhists, and many other religions, and Atheists, who all exist among each other in peace. As all the people of each religion accept the believers of other religions as just that, people who believe in a different religion, but are still members of the same Human Race. The same holds true for Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Greece, Italy, Russia, and so on. The premise is that in these countries and their governments exist on, is that Humanity comes first, the Government and the support of the people and their needs comes second, and the freedom of Religion is a close third.

 

  The difference is that the people who live in Iraq belong to three different sects of the Muslim Religion. And have been taught from Infancy that their sect of the Religion is the only Religion and any people who do not believe in that particular division of that religion are not worthy of living, and must be killed. And as long as the people who live there hold that belief, no government except one that hold such a threat over the people they are afraid to act on their own, can exist.

 

  A Democracy as we know it cannot exist in Iraq no matter how long we stay, how many young American Military are forced to die, or how much money we waste there. The conditions that exist there will remain until the people who hold those beliefs have died off or are too old to fight any more.

 

  So no matter how many times GW Bush or any other supporters of the war claim we must stay till the job is done, it will never be completed. And no workable Democratic Government will ever exist in any country that is so divided religiously and has such inborn beliefs.

Now Playing: Democrats don't have a Plan???
Topic: Iraq War

  I am troubled by the sustained accusation of the Bush Administration and their supporters  who claim that the Democrats do not have a plan on how to win the war in Iraq and just want to “Cut and Run”. It is evident that the Bush administration had no plan on how to complete the democratization after the regime was ousted, as their inflated ego’s made them think that everything would be Hunky Dory, but are now trying to lay the blame for not having a plan on the Democrats.

 

  The point that they seem to dismiss is that the invasion of Iraq was an Un-Winnable situation that we are involved in a predicament that cannot be won. And we are involved in that situation primarily through their stupidity and the arrogance of the Bush Administration and Pig-Headedness of Bush and Rumsfeld to refuse to admit that they made a mistake!

 

  It is as if we were involved in a situation where we were on a Sea Voyage and got involved in a storm so violent that the ship we were on broke unto two halves, and the Republicans want the Democrats to make the ship stop sinking. Or we are in New Orleans during Katrina, the Dikes have been breached, and the Republicans want the Democrats to stop the water from coming in. Or if we were in the midst of a 5-year Drought and the Republicans claim it is the Democrats fault it has not rained.

 

  The truth is that the Iraqi Invasion was not needed or necessary, but was caused because George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld thought that they were the only people in the world that knew anything and the whole world would succumb to their wishes and everything would turn out exactly as they said it would. None of that happened and the results are that many thousands of innocent people have been killed, many billions of dollars have been wasted to try to wait out the time till everything finally works. But George W. Bush has insisted that we must “Stay the Course” as any other action would be giving the Terrorists the victory.

 

  However today Bush is saying that “Stay the Course” is only one forth of the answer . I would like to know how it went from being the only way for the last three and a half years, has changed over the past few days, to being only one forth of the answer in just 72 hours?

 

  I also think that this should be a question that Ned Lamont should ask Joe Lie_berman, to see if Joe has changed his mind to stay in sync with Dubya? Or is it a matter of Joe being so tight to Bush that if Bush sneezes, Joe has to wipe his own nose? I think the people in Connecticut deserve to know

 

  The actual truth of the matter is that until enough of the Iraqi People decide that they themselves want their country to become a Democracy, and develop the will to fight for it themselves, it will not happen.

House Vote on Staying in Iraq
Topic: Iraq War
The hypocritical vote by the US House appalls me, as there are very few who ever served in the Military, and they are relying on the words of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, for the reason we must stay. The congressmen are saying that we are in Iraq to preserve our Freedom, and we must stay there till the job is finished. But what they are not remembering is that it was the lies of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice that got us into war in the first place.

To make my point that they were lying, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Rice, and Cheney, all gave speeches to lead us into war saying, “We know that Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction”, when in fact “No Such Weapons Existed”. They did not say “We think,” or “We believe”, but they said “We know”, implying that they, all privileged to have access to Secret Pentagon Information, that no one else had access to that proved beyond any doubt that Saddam had such weapons, when in fact no such information existed. So by using the phrase “We know”, when in fact they did not know, was nothing but a bald faced through their teeth lie.

The War in Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with “Our Freedom” for if The United States were attacked by any other country or group of terrorists, we would have very little protection because the majority of our Military Strength is over in Iraq, or recuperating from serving a term over there and not ready to assume their duties to protect this country yet.

Georgia’s Republican Congressman. Charlie Norwood said, “The American people need to know precisely who they are." He said: "It is time to stand up and vote. Is it Al Qaeda, or is it America?" However I believe what Charlie Norwood really meant was, we have a choice to bring our troops home safely, but Rep. Norwood would rather they stay in Iraq till they are killed or maimed beyond repair, and will spend the next 50 to 70 years confined to a Hospital Bed, because the Republican Party needs it.

So Congressman Charlie Norwood and a majority of the US House of Representatives have cast their vote, That many more young American Men and Women must die or be maimed for the rest of their lives, so these cowardly congressmen might save a few votes come November.

Do the country a favor, hang your head in shame and resign your office, for no matter who we elect to replace you can’t be any worse.