Why I No Longer Support the President's War In Iraq

The President is taking this country in the wrong direction. This article is about getting us on the right track again, by electing a Democrat. I wasn't gung ho about going into Afghanistan, because the word was alread out on the internet that the WTC 9/11 attackers were Saudi Arabians. But I figured it was what America wanted-- a pound of flesh-- to soothe the horrific loss of 9/11. And I thought it would help us to regain a ferocious image to curb further attacks. But when the question became "War in Iraq" I had to wonder why Congress was so willing to bow to the Presdent's desires without questioning. They (Congress) didn't exercise independent judgment. Well, now the Downing Street Memos are out, and we know that President fudged the circumstances in order to invade Iraq. I still don't know why.

There is no reason to assume that there is a good reason, now that we know the President will lie and send a perjurer to Congress to increase his power. (He did that to improve his ratings. History shows that wartime Presidents get better ratings.) But let's go on to the next thing: It is now time to reassess the bad decisions that the President has made and try to pull this United States of America out safely. Bring our troops home! They may SEEM like expendable lives if the government can't figure out that the Iraqi people's "Democracy" may not look just like "Democracy" the way we do it here.

Will Rogers said that he wasn't a member of any organized political party-- he was a Democrat. I'm a Democrat, too. And our party is made up of a lot of different people with a variety of views across the spectrum. We welcome the poor and we take care of them. We wlecome working folks and we help to keep the window of opportunities open for them. We welcome minorities and women. And our religion is so deep, and so precious and so personal that we don't mix our faith and our politics. We know that the Founding Fathers came here to escape religious oppression exercised by the government of England, and we know they wouldn't want us to make the same mistake again.

For Democrats, its pretty easy to see the answer to pulling out of Iraq with dignity and success. We have a sense of appreciation for everyone and we don't try to make everyone do things our way. That is the kindest sense of the term "Liberal". It means free. We need to free up the Iraqi people to self-govern with their own self-determinism. As soon as we're gone, the insurgents won't have anything to fight against. They want us OUT of Iraq pretty bad.

It was an honest mistake... we relied on false promises by a President who mislead Congress and doesn't know how to undo the mess he has started. Now it is time to set the Nation on a different track. I'm tired of war. I'm tired of thinking about paying the bill. It's gotta happen some time, right? We have to pay our bills. That little tax cut didn't mean much. It was like getting dessert and then going without the next meal. It is an illusory promise.

Now, why I support the war. I support every single American soldier... every precious son and father, mother and daughter who is over there holed up in the dust and looking for ghosts that might come out of anywhere with a deadly message that seems a lot like "Get out of our country." We need to bring them home, with dignity, and be responsible about Veterans' Benefits when they get here. Only a Democrat is going to do that for us. The Republicans will undercut soldiers benefits just as they have undercut worker's rights in Oklahoma under the Comp Laws in May.

LET'S BRING THEM HOME AND PUT AMERICA ON THE RIGHT TRACK!