From outside the box

It seems that there are many conservatives who still do not understand why everybody else in the country is so darn angry. Yes, the Iraq war is probably the biggest reason but there are a lot of other issues to consider here. After six years of republican dominance in Washington there has been nothing done on immigration or health care. Pork barrel spending in congress was taken to new heights, innocent Americans are being spied on, jobs are being shipped over seas, gasoline is spiraling out of control and nobody is doing a thing, we've lost our moral superiority in the world, the environment has been placed on the back burner, and our national debt has escalated to numbers that the human brain cannot comprehend. We are angry because conservatives that trashed liberals over "tax and spend" policies (doesn't that mean pay as you go?) are practicing a "barrow and spend" policy that has taken us almost to the point of economic bankruptcy. We are angry because the same folks that once touted getting big government out of our lives are legislating their morality and religious ethics into our lives weather we like it or not, weather we believe in it or not. I'm talking about things like medical marijuana, euthanasia, prostitution, women's rights, things that are really nobody else's business. We are angry because it is now obvious that what republicans really mean by "getting out of peoples lives" is to deregulate corporate industry, to get out of THEIR lives. How about deregulating peoples personal rights? And then there's that darn war, plenty to be angry about there.

Personally, I am getting a little fed up with hearing folks say that it's OK for soldiers die in Iraq because they were not forced to go into the service, they volunteered. This whole line of reasoning is wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to begin to address it! When young people sign up for the military, they are trusting that our government will not send them into war unless it is absolutely necessary. And if it is necessary, then they are more than willing to go. Many of these young folks in Iraq do not have the education or the life experience to know the difference between what is necessary and what is political spin. Many of them do, and they fight anyway because they are asked to. We owe them better than that. And shame on you who condone these kids dying because you do not have the insight or the courage to question this war just because it was bought about by your political party whom many of you would blindly follow over a cliff. On top of that, you dare to call those of us who would put an end to this needless mess, unpatriotic!

If pulling out is loosing then please tell me what winning is? This is where I hear the echoes of Vietnam. There was no winning over there as there is no winning in Iraq. We lost this war the day we went in. We did not understand the mind set of mideast fundamentalism. They will engage us into the next century, they will fight us until we are economically bankrupt. I am just glad that a president cannot serve more than 8 years or Carl Rove would figure a way to rig another election and this mess would go on endlessly.

Now before you tell me how sick and tired you are of liberals who do not understand that we are fighting terrorists to keep them off of our soil, I ask you if you would send your child to Iraq to fight for WMD'S that were never found, to fight people that had nothing to do with 911, to bring democracy to a race of fundamental fanatics who want nothing to do with it, to fatten the pockets of Haliburton and Mobile Exxon, to fight a country that never attacked us, or to get caught up in the middle of a civil war where both sides want to kill our soldiers? First tell me which one of these reasons will you send your child to die for and then you can trash my silly ignorant liberalism. Tell me why I should not be mad at what conservatives have done to this country and I will try to understand your anger over Bill Clinton lying about sex.