JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS

(ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 29, 2005)

I am watching the news in the background tonight and I hear headlines saying something stupid like, "Most Americans now feel that the war in Iraq is wrong". The newscaster says the growing number of anti-war gatherings is proof of this! What in the hell is going on here? Of course this is on CBS News, and as far as I am concerned they are probably one of the largest clearing houses of liberal bullshit in the USA. But for them to say that growing anti war protests is proof tht most of Americans feel the war was/is wrong is really stretching it. Why does every single action that includes the military get compared to Viet Nam anyway? Maybe it's because there isn't any news unless they make it into news and everything that went on TV during Viet Nam made for big news. New Orleans is about to get hit by a devastating hurricane with calculated deaths reaching 50,000, and that takes number 2 to the story about Americans feeling the war is wrong.

I've said before that I was an A-1 war protestor in the old days, but that was after a war had been going on for over ten years and there was no end in sight with the USA walking away with a victory in any sense of the word. There had been 50,000 American deaths by then in Viet Nam and it really was time to turn around and walk away, even though we were trying to keep the advance of communism and tyranny at bay. What's going on in Iraq is truly a noble venture. Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people and dumped them in holes in the desert. He made women hide behind veils or they would be physically punished. Females were not allowed to go to school or hold jobs. This was serious inhumanity taking place and even though some people don't think it is any of our business, it is. Then there's the weapons of mass destruction argument. Would you rather have waited until there was a dirty bomb exploded in one of our major cities before you would be convinced tha they were there? The UN had given Saddam plenty of time to move, hide, or do whatever else he wanted to do with those things, but you can damn sure believe they were there, unless you are ignorant enough to believe what NBC has told you that they were never there in the first place. Having seen the proof numerous times, you'd have to be a real idiot to believe there was never anything there. Don't you remember the UN inspection teams that reported the WMD over and over?

So what reason do you have for suddenly wanting to take part in anti war protests? Do you want to be cool like the hippies were in the old days? Are you so bored that there isn't something else you could be doing with your time? Are you moved by the one mother who denied her son the honor of serving his country to a point that suddenly every soldier is a fool and you know what's good for them while they don't? I just don't get it. We could withdraw our troops immediately and watch Iraq fall right back into the same mess it was in before. Why the hell should we care anyway? Who cares if they have a bunch of uneducated stupid women with veils over their faces? Who cares if thousands are kiled because they aren't from the same sect as the people in power? Why should we lose men and women so that other country in the sand can get away with things like that? Bring all of our service members back here and let's all just sit back and wait for the terrorist attacks to start up. Let's wait for the dirty bombs to explode in New York or Chicago or where ever else they want to take them. Let's quit wasting the time of these people who are going to war and let's just close the military. Let someone else worry about that simple crap. Then you won't have to spend your busy day tearing apart our country from within.

Do you realize that all across the world the news is showing the USA as a country divided? They see that "most of Americans feel the war..is wrong" and watch as what looks like millions of us going to military bases and on street corners everywhere protesting our government because the news says so. So what if they see us as a weak nation full of people who don't trust their government? I just feel good that I'm not one of those morons on the TV screen. I wouldn't want a bunch of terrorists watching me doing something like that and feeling like they are making headway in their war against the infidels. When they do decide to attack our nation, I hope you realize that they won't make any distinction between you who are protesting and those who aren't. To them, we are all the enemy. If we leave ourselves unprotected, then we all die together. Is that your goal?