The Presidents Veto

Being in the middle of this war myself, I have to say something here. I sit here and worry about my husband. I see news flying around about however many soldiers dying each day and wonder if I will get a knock on my door.

I am very proud of my husband and his fellow soldiers because they did what they were told and what they signed up to do. Even if they don't agree with it. Because it is their job. Besides, most of them wanted to go over there to kick some butt! That would be the testosterone flying around!!

I am disappointed however, in our government. I supported President Bush when this started. We went over there to weed out terrorists. Which I am thinking now, was an excuse to finish what Bush Sr. couldn't finish. That was getting Saddam out of power.

But I thought we were after Bin Laden. You seldom hear about him anymore. So who are we after?

The President is Head Strong, the Democrats are trying to win election, just as the Republicans are. The Army Generals and other high ranking officers are afraid of getting "fired" for disagreeing with the President. So it is impossible to get valid and fair information.

My solution, pull every single one of our soldiers out of Iraq, put some of them in Afghanistan to finish up there since that isn't a total lost cause. Bring the rest home and let them "re-group". They need to see their families and get out of the war zone for a while. This would allow us to invade Afghanistan and actually find the terrorists there. Iraq can either swim or die. If they don't swim, they are no worse off than when we began but at least if we let them be and see if they can do it, we may be happily surprised. It didn't take the US just a few years to become the way it is now. We had war after war after war in this country. But it worked out.

After we let Iraq be and let them work it out, if they need help then, we can figure out the best way to go back in and actually do some good. Instead of going into battle with the emotional disaster of 9-11 fueling the fire.

What would it actually hurt if we pulled out? I am pretty certain that there are terrorists in the US already. A pull out may or may not cause them to attack. If we focused our efforts on defending our country, in our country, we could probably find the terrorists that are actually here and stop them before they hurt us and stop more from coming in.

But instead of spending money here, where we need it to defend our country, we are paying our soldiers to leave their families and fight in a country that has now taken a lot of our man power and resources, leaving us like a sitting duck.

Okay Government, use the brains God gave you and figure out a real solution. Pulling out is a great idea, but please don't announce it to the world. Quietly bring our guys home and let the chips fall where they may. It will probably work out better that way!