Throw The Bums Out

My blood starts to boil when I read the following, ''We went to war with a flawed plan that didn't account for the hard work to build the peace after we took down the regime. We also served under a secretary of defense who didn't understand leadership, who was abusive, who was arrogant, and who didn't build a strong team."

This does not come from the mouth of some wacko liberal as the Republicans always paint someone who speaks against the present administration, and I’m being kind in calling it an administration. No, this quote comes from Major General John Batiste, who commanded the Army's First Infantry Division in Iraq until last November.

Step back in time, a month, a year, two or you pick the point of reference you want to and go back and see if you remember President Bush being asked on more than one occasion about whether we had enough troops on the ground to do the job. Do you remember what his stock answer has been all along? I know that I’m getting old and my brain cells are slowly deteriorating but correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t Bush always say that those decisions would stem from the input of the Commanders and Generals in the field?

We have a Defense Secretary who has proved to be a very poor leader and tactician. A Defense Secretary, whose poor planning has cost the lives of hundreds of innocent soldiers never mind counting the number that have been scarred and maimed for life, yet is continued to be lauded and praised by his boss, our president, for doing a good job.

I’m not a Democrat nor a Republican and I don’t care which party is in power, but I’m appalled at our Senators and Representatives for being so partisan and blind to what is plain to see in a ten year old’s eyes. We are being led by an incompetent group of self serving egocentric buffoons. There are grandmothers that have a stronger spine that all of them put together.

We are just starting to see the tip of the iceberg of all the lies that have been told by the current administration.

All the justifications presented to us about why we declared war on terror are crumbling faster than the levees did during the hurricane and it’s exposing many of the hard liners quicker that the featured stripper at the Foxy Lady.

Where is the American public? Have they all been given some sort of happy sedative? The only thing that I can see is that there must be hundreds of thousands of people profiting from the war that my children and grandchildren will be footing the bill for.

I used to cringe every time I heard a neocon offer the following comeback about why the war on terror was the right thing to do. “I would rather fight them over there than have to fight them on our land.”

I don’t know where you’ve been holed up but they estimate that we have 11 million illegal immigrants on our soil. Many of them are starting to dictate to us how to run our country. We send young men and women thousands of miles away to fight and die while we leave our borders unprotected. How many terrorists have entered and are living amongst us?

My blood pressure goes up when I see our president call the illegal immigrants guest workers. Who invited them in? Doesn’t he understand the word illegal? Why did I have to go under so much scrutiny when I entered this country fifty years ago? It took almost two years to process all the necessary documents needed to enter this country.

My last question to everyone is why did Mr. Bush establish a Department of Homeland Security?
Whose homeland are they protecting?

Throw all of them out of office! They are not serving the people.