I'm sick and tired of hearing about Bush's escapades on his Crawford ranch. The latest is that he is going to take a bike ride with Lance Armstrong. Good for him. Frankly I don't care, hearing his name is starting to upset me. I don't hate the guy, but everytime I hear his name I immediately start thinking about the kids he's put in harm's way. All I can think about was that shameless stunt of having him land on an aircraft carrier claiming victory. To me he has turned into the American version of Baghdad Bob. These guys think they're on Saturday Night Live.
Ever since the assassination of President Kennedy, I disliked everything about Texas. If I were to go through one of those word association games and someone mentioned Texas, I would think of Kennedy's death, LBJ, Jack Ruby, the Dallas Cowboys being touted as 'America's Team', and now I add to that list George Bush. Each one of these gets me angry.
Sharing the news with Bush's bike ride is the declaration that, "some Pentagon officials now acknowledge that the two-and-a-half-year insurgent war has turned Iraq into a terrorist training camp." Wow, what a revelation! And it took them only two-and-a-half years to make this discovery. A first grader attending PS 105 in New York could have told you that after watching only one week's worth of nightly newscasts. Notice that the article says some. The others must still think that is a great place to take a vacation and see all the wondrous sites mentioned in the Bible.
Everything I read gets me boiling mad. Iraq, with all our troops and coalition forces and newly trained soldiers has become a primary training ground for terrorism. NBC News terrorism analyst Roger Cressey said, “Instead of going in to eliminate Iraq as a source of terrorism, Iraq now has a stronger terrorist presence than it did when Saddam Hussein was in power.” That proves that the plan (Rummy, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Rove) was flawed from the beginning. Why didn't they listen to Powell? What the heck he was only a military man, you'd think he'd have some experience.
The article continues with the following tidbit. U.S. intelligence indicates Islamic militants from several African nations — Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan and Somalia — travel through Syria into Iraq, where they get hands-on training in roadside and suicide bombings, assassinations and kidnappings as well as counter-surveillance and counter-intelligence against military targets, constantly changing their tactics to counter American defenses.
Again this proves the fact that we needed more troops from the onset. We don't have enough to do the job properly and I'm afraid that's it's too late. In February 2003, General Eric Shinseki told the Senate armed services committee that the Bush Administration would need to keep a large force in Iraq even after a war to curb ethnic tensions and provide humanitarian aid. He said that we needed 200,000 troops to do the job effectivly. Why didn't they listen to another military expert? One senior defense official said the general simply "misspoke". I wonder who this senior defense official was?
The article continues with the following;
Pentagon officials now fear those freshly trained terrorists are taking the deadly lessons they learn in Iraq to other countries. U.S. intelligence indicates many of the militants are returning home or slipping into Europe, where they may join existing terrorist groups or create and train new cells of their own.
We started out trying to catch Osama Bin Laden. When we couldn't do it we decided to get old man Hussein. While we spent all our resources in catching Hussein, Bin Laden has been able to increase his band of terrorists and continues to elude us.
As in football, a good offense is the best defense. In football you need all eleven men to put out the best effort. Bush and his coaches thinking that his team was far superior decided to play with only 7 men. Bush, you should have realized from the beginning that your forte is baseball, a passive game, and not to get involved in football, a more violent sport. In football if your plan fails your only loss is a game but in war it's people lives. Your faulty plan has cost the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Maybe if you take your bike ride with Lance Armstrong in the middle Baghdad will I regain some respect for you and your presidency.
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