Thoughts on Iraq…

I usually don’t sit down and really think out a post.  When you do that, you censor everything you write.  I thought about this post a lot. But, I’m not going to censor anything that I write.  What I found was that I had quite a few contradictory thoughts on Iraq.

First, I don’t believe in this war at all. I think it’s time that we, as Americans, demand that our government stop being the police of the world and begin to take care of the American people.  Period. 

 I don’t particularly care if the border in South Korea is patrolled or not, but it pisses me off that it’s American soldiers doing the patrolling. I don’t care if Iran gets plutonium or not. The facts are that Israel is the 13th richest nation in the world and has almost as much nuclear capability as the United States. Any attack on them will result in a country or two disappearing off the face of the planet in about 2 minutes.  Those are the real facts.  The United States should let them handle their own problems.

However, I am glad that Saddam is dead.  No, he didn’t actually do anything to me or anyone in the US.  But, Ted Bundy didn’t bite my nipples off either and I’m still glad HE’S dead, too. 

I think Saddam was an absolutely evil dictator who deserved to die. I think that he hurt his people and promoted absolute tyranny. I just don’t think it was our business. I do believe this war was about oil.  I’m not sure that bothers me overly much, though. After all, aren’t most of the countries on the planet dependent on that particular resource?  Would you really want China controlling it?  Or Russia?  After all, Russia has enough of their own. The Saudi’s have most of it already and they are the biggest promoters of terror anywhere in the world. I certainly don’t want them having anymore.  

I think that what bothers me the most about this war is that we’re building those 8 bases in Iraq.  We already have bases all over the world that the American tax payer is funding.  The Constitution clearly says that the government’s job is to promote the general welfare and provide for the common defense.  For those idiots out there who’ve convinced themselves that we need bases all over the world, get a clue already.

Japan is doing fine; we should back the heck out.  Europe is fine; it’s time to bring that money home.  Korea is fine; they’ll have to work out their own border problems.  Panama is fine.  After all, Carter has already given them the Canal that we paid for. What more do they want?  Vietnam was almost a bigger mess then Iraq. What the hell are we still doing there?

 It’s gonna be the exact same in Iraq.  We’re building bases to camp out for the next 100 years. Or at least until China takes over.  And that’s just what’s gonna happen people if we don’t get our money back in the States.  Deal with it already. Get your ass off the couch and quit watching Friends reruns long enough to catch the train.

We’re borrowing millions, that’s with this many zero’s… 1,000,000.00, every single month from China to finance this war. That’s right. CHINA! And we’ll have to pay it back. Or speak Chinese eventually.  I really don’t want to learn Chinese, or Spanish, or any other language. I want my America back. 

This war is just the beginning.  It’s time for a complete Revolution.  And for all you out there who don’t know it, we have the American right to overthrow our own government if they piss us off badly enough.  And that doesn’t come from the Constitution. That’s our Bill of Rights.  The Constitution tells the government what they can and most importantly what the CAN’T do.  They’ve ignored it for long enough.

I don’t particularly care what the rest of the world thinks about us. I don’t care if they agree or don’t agree with this war. After all, if we pulled all the food, medicine, technology, medical aid, military, money, charity, etc… out from under them, they’d come running back.  For all you who doubt that, check out what happened in Mexico when we just withheld their corn supply. It was total anarchy. And that was just when we were trying to find better uses for ethanol. The OTHER thing the world wants to bitch at us about.

What I do care about is that the world’s affairs are really none of our business. I’m not talking about isolationism. I’m talking about allowing the world to figure out their own problems and for the United States to begin to function as a nation again. Not an empire. Please note, every empire to ever exist has fallen.  I do not want my tax money to be a crutch for the world anymore. You’ll have to get your own.  For me, that includes the Iraqi’s.

I hate that they’ve been through a tough time. I hate that we’ve destroyed as much as we’ve built. I hate that we’ve lost American men and women in uniform to this stupid war. But, what I hate worse is that we’re not learning from our mistakes.  And now, we’re down to three candidates who are, in all the ways that matter, virtual triplets of each other. And twins with George Bush. It’s insanity at it’s worst.

What I sincerely hope is that what this war leads us to is an overthrowing of a government out of control.  What I hope is that this war leads us to the realization that we really ARE the strongest nation on the planet. We can quit trying to prove it now.   Let’s get down to the business at hand, and do what Americans are best at….surviving.  Surviving through the hardest of times and  grasping onto freedom with both hands and refusing to let go.  

Let’s show the world what we’re really about.  Let’s show them that freedom is an ideal. An ideal that most Americans will fight to the death for.  Even if they have to fight their own government to have it. Let’s stop fighting everyone else’s battles and let’s focus on our own…