I posted this so we may chuckle a bit .
See how I made no derogatory comment about him and in fact gave him a compliment on his speaking capability .
Like I said , I wish I could BS like that .
I don't see much diff between the two parties anymore , really I don't .
Bush and the repubs would have us all living under a police state where we are all so scared Bin Laden is gonna blow up our own personal homes.
Obama and the dems now will have us live under a socialist govt controlled police enforced give us your guns and trust us country that ain't much different as far as you and I are concerned .
All a bunch of crooks only there to serve THEMSELVES !
No diff than ancient Rome .
As far as Iraq goes .
Justyntym it was the Bush/Cheney intel org that led us all down the path of looking for WMDs in Iraq.
The dems only went along with what they like many others believed to be accurate intel info .
It was sold to them , us and the world at the UN by one of the most respected men in the world at the time , Colin Powel.
Remember him with his pointer showing trucks of chems being driven into Syria .
They hung him out like a cheap ho .
Shamed him publicly so much it ended his career an aspirations , read his book .
Completely Fd him they did and he learned a valuable lesson about politics .
Lesson was , there are no friends when that is concerned .
He is the one who should have been our first black president and I would have voted for him .
After being seen as the tip of the spear that was the lie he retired from the mil never to seek the public office he had been contemplating .
The fact we went to war was a long continuing act of aggression toward Iraq going back to desert storm.
No fly zones and not allowing simple medicines to be imported wound up causing the deaths of more than they have killed with seven yrs of bombing !
The repubs have led us down this path for TWENTY YEARS NOW !
Why do folks only see this as a seven year war when US troops have been there since 1990 ?
Now that we are there this time around I will say we are doing good .
Billions spent now hopefully will go to create a stable ally .
Iraq has always been an ally of the US. Saddam supported Reagan .
Our govt gave it millions in assistance during the ten yr war against Iran.
We have always seen Iraq as the lessor of two evils as far as those two are concerned .
It is us that has always decided whether Iraq was in the circle of trust this week or not , not them.
The news never not once in seven years has shown our troops installing any of the building size generators I have sent over there.
Never not once shown them installing fresh water systems I have sent over there .
Never not once shown them completing and opening they fifty schools we have built .
All they ever show is doom and gloom .
If it bleeds it leads and troops smiling with little happy Iraqi kids gets old I guess ?
I have been there a few times but not in a mil fashion.
In plain clothes I have walked amongst average Iraqis and spoke English to all of them cuz my Arabic sucks (sorry dad).
All to a one were more than happy to have me there.
I have never drank more tea in my life !
Come please have a cup of tea and tell me.....
Sure there are places you can't go or you would wind up the next star of an Internet video but it's no diff than twenty miles north of here.
There is a neighborhood I dare not go just the same and just as dangerous .
I was in Iraq yrs ago before desert storm .
I went on a trip with my dad and was a goofy kid walking around who knew no better.
Still here to say it ain't as bad as CNN will have you think .
We had lunch several times in Paris style streetside cafes .
Sure the Bath party ruled Iraq with an iron fist and folks disappeared but you did not have to worry about being blown up at the veggie market.
It was safer for the average Iraqi when Saddam was in power.
Now it's still an active war zone , not safe.
Hopefully yrs from now Iraq will be safe for the average citizen and once again stand on it's own and be our friend.
The Iraqi people are like elephants .
They never forget and while now it seems like we are liberators who should have left long ago they won't forget we did free them from Saddam.
When things settle again overthere Iraq will be thankful that I can promise .
WHEW , doing my best Obama impersonation here !
As far as the blame game goes .
Again typical Washington politics .
It will never stop .
In my life I remember Carter blaming , Reagan blaming , Bush sr blaming , Clinton blaming , Bush jr blaming and now Obama blaming .
Far as I know it was going on before I started paying attn so neither side is better or worse when it comes to the blame game .
Just business as usual !
I almost wish Iraq would invade the USA and topple our govt chasing all the crooks down like playing cards.
Then we could start over like them .
That's the only way I see real change coming cuz we are all fat and lazy ..
There did I make it three minutes ?
Boy I hate giving public speeches !
How'd I do ?