A Super Power?????
Dear editor:
So the war funding bill was vetoed.
The president and congress are now talking about “bench marks” for the Iraqi government to hit in order for us to continue our military, financial, rebuilding, and governmental support. These “bench marks,” according to the president and his sliding scale of defining “victory, determine how long we will stay and occupy that country. This is supposed to be the controlling factor for refunding the Iraqi war that the president and his administration started over four years ago with over 3,300 American deaths, over 25,000 Americans wounded, and an expenditure of over half a trillion dollars.
This is the United States.? The world’s only super power? (Don’t tell China that.) The democracy that is reported to be a light of freedom to the rest of the world? The country that so much of the world looks to for a solution of the Middle East crisis? The republic that put men on the moon? The country with the most modern weaponry in the world?
Who are we kidding? We are setting “bench marks,” asking a petty, long feuding, civil war wracked, backward, tiny country that can’t control its people, cannot organize a functioning government, that steals our aid money thru corrupt government officials, to decide for us how long we will keep troops in their country. We are putting into their hands the actual decision of how many more of our troops will die and be wounded, and how much more money we will sink into that money hole in the Middle East. This is how a super power acts? I repeat….who are we kidding?
So the war funding bill was vetoed.
The president and congress are now talking about “bench marks” for the Iraqi government to hit in order for us to continue our military, financial, rebuilding, and governmental support. These “bench marks,” according to the president and his sliding scale of defining “victory, determine how long we will stay and occupy that country. This is supposed to be the controlling factor for refunding the Iraqi war that the president and his administration started over four years ago with over 3,300 American deaths, over 25,000 Americans wounded, and an expenditure of over half a trillion dollars.
This is the United States.? The world’s only super power? (Don’t tell China that.) The democracy that is reported to be a light of freedom to the rest of the world? The country that so much of the world looks to for a solution of the Middle East crisis? The republic that put men on the moon? The country with the most modern weaponry in the world?
Who are we kidding? We are setting “bench marks,” asking a petty, long feuding, civil war wracked, backward, tiny country that can’t control its people, cannot organize a functioning government, that steals our aid money thru corrupt government officials, to decide for us how long we will keep troops in their country. We are putting into their hands the actual decision of how many more of our troops will die and be wounded, and how much more money we will sink into that money hole in the Middle East. This is how a super power acts? I repeat….who are we kidding?
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 5:37 PM
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