A Sad Day for America


Just a quick look at the newspaper this morning and I needed a Valium.

The mayor of Bridgeport Connecticut admits he used cocaine. Great. Why do I feel this is not the end of the story but only the beginning? Could Bridgeport be so lucky to get two crooks in a row? Or will he go on to become president of the U.S. like another former drug abuser we all know?

The National Guard is going to patrol New Orleans: Yes, military police employed because of a single incident of violence in which five teenagers were shot and killed and one bar fight. If this is the new trend, to throw your hands up in the air and call up the military every time there's a murder in a major city, we won't have a single street corner in any city of the U. S. that doesn't have military personnel armed and inexperienced taking over. Oh American the land of the free -- where have you gone?

Speaking of the military, the one article I read that kept me from being able to swallow a sip of coffee was the one describing the finding of two bodies, thought to be those of the two young soldiers kidnapped last week in Baghdad.

Sickening and gruesome.

Then I read about the suicide bomber in Iraq who blew up a senior citizen's home -- killing at least one person and injuring many others. Then there were three car bombs that exploded in Iraq yesterday killing a half dozen people or so and injuring a few dozen people.

Mothers, wives, is this where you want your children to spend time? Waiting to be blown up to bits or kidnapped and tortured?

I am speaking to the women because I believe if we can get women to say bring our young men and women home, we can make that happen.

You know how women are, if we really want something we can usually get it.

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On father's day I was thinking about my own father and how he always said if you are going to play the game, make sure you are on an even playing field. Our troops are not on an even playing field. They're playing laser tag with maniacs who enjoy the act of killing, even to enjoying blowing their own selves up. They think nothing of beheading, or eye gouging, or tongue cutting, or death by stoning, or acid throwing or anything else horrendous you can think of.

We have to stop sending our Spongebob Squarepants, Gatorade, flip-flp wearing youth to a place that is more like the horrible middle ages, in actions, words and deeds. They don't belong their and their lives, every single one of them, count.

There were no weapons of mass destruction; there was no connection between 911 and Iraq. There is no reason for Americans to be fighting on an uneven playing field.

Support our troops and demand they they come home.

Send over in their place, if you insist, a bunch of beheading, or eye gouging, or tongue cutting, or death by stoning, or acid throwing soldiers and at least make it a fair fight.