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Thursday, January 11, 2007

President Bush Speech to Escalate Iraq War

Last evening, as did a huge number of other people, I watched as George W. Bush made the case to add approximately 22,000 more American soldiers in Iraq. The speech came sometime after the evening news, where the top story (in the Twin Cities) had been about yet another Minnesota soldier who had just died in Iraq.


When the President came on and laid out “his plan,” I began to wonder why he thought he could go against what seems to be a huge majority of U.S. citizens, who want to bring American troops home and get our military out of Iraq? In a “democratic” country, shouldn’t the people have the last word? Does this make our President a president, or a dictator? Does this mean that our leader is no better than the one who was overthrown in Iraq? These are all questions that flew through my mind, as I also wondered if the President had heard of another military conflict called, The Vietnam War.


Have you ever known someone who tried to fix something, and the more they tried, the more it got screwed up? Iraq will have a civil war. Do we really want American troops living in tiny bases in the middle of it? When is enough, enough?
Do you remember when George W. Bush told us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Do you remember when he stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (aircraft carrier) and told us, “mission accomplished?” Should we believe him now?

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  2. He's says that he's been listening
    But it's obvious he doesn't hear
    He chooses ignorance and recklessness
    Supported by rhetoric of fear

    Our soldiers are dying ever daily
    Nearly one for every three hundred there
    In a quest to avenge our own three thousand?
    To question we're not to dare

    A quarter million dollars a minute
    Is the current staggering toll
    Just a drop in his filthy bucket of lies
    To fill his empty soul

    To what do we account for our apathy?
    Our lack of will to chase
    The demons that are from without and within
    That define our fall from grace?

    Will we leave it to history to judge our actions
    Or will we truly write our wrongs?
    As written acknowledged mistakes corrected
    For a legacy where it belongs

    The moment of truth has come to pass
    And the light as yet shown barely through
    But it must pierce the fog of lies and war
    To find the answer true

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  3. What Mark is really trying to say is that Dubya sucks goats arses sideways thru a rose colored glass straw at 15,000 horsepower on a thursday afternoon....

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