I just spent a few minutes reading ginmar's blog. This entry was truly heartening - to see that the troops do realise what El Busho is doing to them....
So I don’t know. I know that we’re fast approaching six hundred dead soldiers, most of them dead after the war ended. I think the Bush family has an awfully bad habit of not knowing when to end a conflict, and they do it too fast. Sometimes you have to keep it going just to make sure that it is well and truly ended. Bush Sr., wanted the first Gulf War to be referred to as a hundred-hour war, because the ground campaign lasted just a hundred hours. He turned his back on the fourteen out of eighteen provinces that rose up against Saddam, and now we’re paying the price. The Iraqi people have been paying it for the past twelve years, and now maybe it’s come due for some higher purpose. Those casualty figures only count American soldiers, by the way. I don’t believe that the current Administration cares about those soldiers, though. Talk is cheap. This Administration talks a lot about us, asks a great deal of us----and does nothing but make things harder and harder for us. Cutting VA benefits? Cutting the size of the force so that more work can be asked of fewer soldiers? Their arrogance astounds me. Ask a group of soldiers whether they’ll re-enlist after this deployment, and half will say no, where three years ago, most of them would have said yes. Bush ignores the rumbling from the troops who won his war---and more importantly, he ignores those who died while winning it, too.
So I don’t know. I know that we’re fast approaching six hundred dead soldiers, most of them dead after the war ended. I think the Bush family has an awfully bad habit of not knowing when to end a conflict, and they do it too fast. Sometimes you have to keep it going just to make sure that it is well and truly ended. Bush Sr., wanted the first Gulf War to be referred to as a hundred-hour war, because the ground campaign lasted just a hundred hours. He turned his back on the fourteen out of eighteen provinces that rose up against Saddam, and now we’re paying the price. The Iraqi people have been paying it for the past twelve years, and now maybe it’s come due for some higher purpose. Those casualty figures only count American soldiers, by the way. I don’t believe that the current Administration cares about those soldiers, though. Talk is cheap. This Administration talks a lot about us, asks a great deal of us----and does nothing but make things harder and harder for us. Cutting VA benefits? Cutting the size of the force so that more work can be asked of fewer soldiers? Their arrogance astounds me. Ask a group of soldiers whether they’ll re-enlist after this deployment, and half will say no, where three years ago, most of them would have said yes. Bush ignores the rumbling from the troops who won his war---and more importantly, he ignores those who died while winning it, too.
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