Iraq Fatigue

I don't know about you but I can't forget about the war that's going on. Apparently some people are suffering from "Iraq fatigue", they are getting tired of the same stories about our soldiers dying over there. It is horrible, especially when our leaders told us way back when that it would take only a matter of months before all surrendered.

Well, a few years have gone by and we still hear of loss of innocent lives. I think this week so far (God I pray that's all) 21 Marines have been killed, most of them from Ohio. We have now lost over 1800 family members, not to mention the tens of thousands of troops who've suffered disabling wounds. While they try to rehabilitate themselves we have many in this country worrying about Jennifer Aniston's marital problems. I should be so lucky as Jennifer Aniston.

President Bush, speaking to lawmakers, business leaders and others during his vacation in Texas, called news of the deaths Wednesday a "grim reminder" that the United States is still at war. "These terrorists and insurgents will use brutal tactics because they're trying to shake the will of the United States of America," Bush said. "They want us to retreat."

While our soldiers die, our leaders are playing word games. In recent weeks the "war on terror", has been renamed the "global struggle against violent extremism", by none other than our Defense Secretary only to be corrected by our Commander in Chief who said that it is not a struggle but a war. Gen. Richard B. Myers of the Air Force, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on July 18 in an address to the National Press Club that he had "objected to the use of the term 'war on terrorism' before, because if you call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being the solution." General Myers said then that the threat instead should be defined as violent extremists, with the recognition that "terror is the method they use."

I don't care what they call it, war, struggle, terror, violence, all I know is that we are losing too many lives. I cannot cope with Operation Enduring Bullshit. Spin any name you want on this mess but start changing the tactics before there's an insurgency to remove some of you from office.

If we are in a war, why are we wasting money on a space program that's on the brink of another potential disaster. If we are at war, don't we owe it to the men and women serving there, that we use all our resources to defeat the enemy?