You just have to love the audacity in Vice President Dick Cheney's comment earlier this week. When he was told by a reporter that "recent polls show that two thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it" he replied "So?" Don't believe me? Check the story out. I cannot wait until the election and I'm hoping, praying and want to try to convince as many of my family friends, podcast listeners, workers and anyone else I can to vote Democratic in the next election. I do not want to see another President who thinks that we should simply stay in Iraq indefinitely. Here's the problem: The damage has been done. Over 4,000 Americans have died in the war and last I looked it was estimated over 630,000 Iraqis. That's a lot of death and destruction.
Do I feel that we've solved any problem over in Iraq? No, I don't. I see the war in Iraq as a nightmare that will haunt us for years to come. There's no easy solution. If we pull out, there will be consequences. If we stay in, we'll still have problems. There's no clean way out.
But to have an elected (hey, Dick, did you remember that? You were elected and aren't King to do whatever the hell you want) official say "So?" in response to what Americans want? I cannot wait to see Bush and Cheney leave office. It can't be soon enough for me.
Want to do something? Then spread the word. Let's regain America for us and not for elected officials who have their own agendas.
I understand that the road ahead is a mess. American troops pulling out of Iraq will affect the delicate balance but do we have the right to keep putting American lives at risk? Or killing innocent Iraqis? Or wasting billions of dollars?
War is war. It's a mess that will affect us for generations. Tens of thousands of troops will be affected (wounded, mentally affected from their war time experience) and now we need to rebuild, heal and move on. It's been five years and time to move on. Time to get past this horror and to start rebuilding our ties with the rest of the world. The days of Americans being "cowboys" is almost over. I can't wait. God, I can't wait!
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