From outside the box

So were winning the war in Iraq are we? There are less Americans dying over there, the Iraqi government is slowly starting to act like a real government, sort of, and there's even talk of possibly some troops leaving at some point in the (as yet to be determined) future, maybe. But is that winning? Even if were completely out of there in a year, what will we have won? Will we win back the lives that were lost? Will the soldiers who have lost eyes and limbs as well as their sanity, will they win those things back? Will we win back the trillion dollars we have spent so far, money we never had to begin with but will be paying interest on for generations to come? Will we have stopped terrorism? Will we have established a democracy in a country that is hell bent on ruling via a fundamentalist type theocracy, much like Iran? Will the price of oil change? I ask, what will we have won? If this is winning, I'd hate to see what loosing is!

This war was lost from the first day it started. There is and never was anything to win. The only winners are Halliburton, Blackwater, and every other corporate whore who has the right wing party and half of the left wing party in their pockets. Whatever bread crumbs we salvage out of our victory, such as disposing of Sadam, will not have been worth the cost. Barak Obama cannot say these things because that would be telling American families that their sons and daughters died for corporate and political greed. So he's forced to dance around the truth as he tries to walk both sides of the fence.

You Americans who support this war scare the hell out of me. You scare me because you were so quick to beat the drums of patriotism just because your fervor and fear was ripe for exploiting after 9-11. You scare me because you were so quick to give up so much of your privacy and personal freedom to a bunch of crooks who have been hell bent on transferring the wealth of this nation from the working middle class to the elite few. You scare me because there are so many of you and if you can be fooled this easy, what else will you be willing to sell your country out for in the future?

You call us, who do not support this war, cowards. We are cowards because we refused to believe the lies of George Bush and those cowards like Colin Powel and Scott McClellan who couldn't take their lips off Georges ass long enough to question the obvious and then later tried to cleanse their dirty souls by saying that perhaps they should have questioned the policy a little more at the time? We are cowards because we did not want to over react to 9-11 in a way that we might regret later? We are cowards because we love this country enough to question the motives of our leaders who wanted to take us into war when they were not connecting the dots in their logic? We are cowards because we do not think Americans should die in an unprovoked war? We are cowards because we do not agree with the principals of the patriot act? We are cowards because we do not believe in our great country using torture on prisoners and suspending habeas corpus? We are cowards because we do not believe you should go to war and give a tax break at the same time? We are cowards because we don't always trust our government?

We got attacked and you got scared. Your reaction was to believe everything you were told because you were angry and scared and wanted revenge for 9-11. Sadam was a bad man and we had been pissed at him for years. This made for the perfect set up. But much like a guy who gets sucker punched in a bar and then goes home and kicks the dog, your anger was misplaced, but it felt good. After that mission accomplished fiasco on the big boat, things began to spiral downhill. By this time, you had invested too much into that war to change your course. As things got worse, you looked for the smallest resemblances of progress to say, "Aha! There's proof! Your wrong, were right!" You never had the courage to question your leader because that might mean that you would have to question how you voted and maybe even the whole agenda of the republican party. Not only did you allow this war to go on without questioning, you dared to and continue to dare to speak up for failed policies as you chose to ignore the obvious....that we never should have went there in the first place! And for what, to protect your ego's? In my book, that makes you the cowards.