support from all sides.
A few weeks ago I saw a disturbing video of Presidential candidate John McCain singing “bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boy’s “Barbara Ann”. More disturbing was the fact that the audience applauded him.
What is wrong with people in this country?
I have few close friends, and one of them is in the army reserves. He spent a year in Kuwait, and is now looking at the real possibility of having to return to Iraq this September. he is my best friend.
War is nothing to be singing a jingle about. Even if the need to invade Iran were more than clear cut (in reality, it is as grey as the “imminent threat” posed by Iraq in 2001), I would hope that Americans would take war a little more seriously than that. Even if Hitler’s army were storming the shores of Manhattan island, it would not be something to sing about.
With all this talk about how the Democrats in congress aren’t “supporting the troops” because they won’t give money without a withdrawal date, I find it saddening that many Americans allow, and encourage, the type of thing that Senator McCain did. Does the Senator not remember that people really loose their lives in war? Does he not realize that his “bomb-bomb-bomb” diddy will mean that a child will never see her father or mother again? Or that they might come home so disabled that they cannot hold down even a simple job? It’s obvious that the Senator doesn’t have a best friend who may have to go to Iran if we invade. But I do.
We have to take this country back. It is now or never. Democrats in congress are being accused of letting the troops down because they want them to come home. People who criticize the President’s policies are called “un-American.” This war should have never been started. If this were any other nation there would have been more than an impeachment against the President. He and the people around him have led us into a war that has killed over 3,500 American soldiers, and at least 40,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
This is so upsetting to me that I honestly find it hard to talk about.
What is wrong with people in this country?
I have few close friends, and one of them is in the army reserves. He spent a year in Kuwait, and is now looking at the real possibility of having to return to Iraq this September. he is my best friend.
War is nothing to be singing a jingle about. Even if the need to invade Iran were more than clear cut (in reality, it is as grey as the “imminent threat” posed by Iraq in 2001), I would hope that Americans would take war a little more seriously than that. Even if Hitler’s army were storming the shores of Manhattan island, it would not be something to sing about.
With all this talk about how the Democrats in congress aren’t “supporting the troops” because they won’t give money without a withdrawal date, I find it saddening that many Americans allow, and encourage, the type of thing that Senator McCain did. Does the Senator not remember that people really loose their lives in war? Does he not realize that his “bomb-bomb-bomb” diddy will mean that a child will never see her father or mother again? Or that they might come home so disabled that they cannot hold down even a simple job? It’s obvious that the Senator doesn’t have a best friend who may have to go to Iran if we invade. But I do.
We have to take this country back. It is now or never. Democrats in congress are being accused of letting the troops down because they want them to come home. People who criticize the President’s policies are called “un-American.” This war should have never been started. If this were any other nation there would have been more than an impeachment against the President. He and the people around him have led us into a war that has killed over 3,500 American soldiers, and at least 40,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
This is so upsetting to me that I honestly find it hard to talk about.
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