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The world has lost its mind. The mother of a fallen soldier is sitting outside Bush Ranch, waiting to try to guilt the President into pulling the troops from Iraq. The mother of a soldier who volunteered to be in the army, after the war on terror had started. His mother is now trivializing his sacrifice for this country by claiming there was no point to it. I feel for her loss, and I wish soldiers dying in combat was something that never happened, but we all accept that it's part of the job. If she is against the war, then she should protest, but to use the name of a fallen soldier to do it? No one made him enlist, and I just can't get over how turned around it is to contradict her own son's decision like that.
What is just as bad to me is that the administration isn't making the responses that I would anymore. Somewhere along the way their story has changed. Now they say, "Um, terrorism? No? These colors won't run! Right? Anyone?" They've stopped making the intelligent responses. I say that regardless of whether or not Saddam had WMDs, all evidence at the time said he did. There was a congressional hearing during which the best and brightest, at least among politicians, all agreed that the evidence concluded that they were there. But I guess all of this is moot, because evidence or no evidence there were no weapons of mass destruction. But if we pull out now, there is absolutely no way to tell who will end up at the helm of Iraq, which still has one of the most powerful armies in the middle east. We could potentially lose a Saddam and gain a Hitler.
I'm not even sure I support the war. I definitely want an exit strategy announced, at least some rough estimation. Regardless, someday soon the war will be over, and we can all come to terms with what was accomplished and decide whether or not we agree with what happened, if the juice was worth the squeeze. But right now? We're in the last stretch, if we don't push to the end we will have come this far for nothing. If we leave now, we will have accomplished nothing. 1,829 American troops will have died so we could roll the dice on the future of one of the biggest conflict areas in the world.
Sorry about that. I'm done now.
What is just as bad to me is that the administration isn't making the responses that I would anymore. Somewhere along the way their story has changed. Now they say, "Um, terrorism? No? These colors won't run! Right? Anyone?" They've stopped making the intelligent responses. I say that regardless of whether or not Saddam had WMDs, all evidence at the time said he did. There was a congressional hearing during which the best and brightest, at least among politicians, all agreed that the evidence concluded that they were there. But I guess all of this is moot, because evidence or no evidence there were no weapons of mass destruction. But if we pull out now, there is absolutely no way to tell who will end up at the helm of Iraq, which still has one of the most powerful armies in the middle east. We could potentially lose a Saddam and gain a Hitler.
I'm not even sure I support the war. I definitely want an exit strategy announced, at least some rough estimation. Regardless, someday soon the war will be over, and we can all come to terms with what was accomplished and decide whether or not we agree with what happened, if the juice was worth the squeeze. But right now? We're in the last stretch, if we don't push to the end we will have come this far for nothing. If we leave now, we will have accomplished nothing. 1,829 American troops will have died so we could roll the dice on the future of one of the biggest conflict areas in the world.
Sorry about that. I'm done now.