John Murtha

there is a terrible thing happening in washinton dc. it is not simply that mr murtha is being disparaged for saying the emporer has no clothes. it is the unstated reasons for this war that are most operative. it is a horror to impose our space age military upon the hapless jihadists. we are making them hate us more and more. instead of talking about honest people who see no future for sucessful operations in IRAQ; calling them cut-and-run; why don't these individuals send their young kinfolk or admit we need a draft? because they are acceptable losses people; they will bleed the understaffed ARMY we sent; and keep their preppy kids at home in the wifi zone. It is an insult to our intelligence to suggest that things in Iraq will bne differtant because of our presence there; one minute after we leave. We are imposing our secular values upon a people who may not want a secular government. With Bush talking always about his prayerlife and "evil"; it is apparent we haven't the secular government here everyone assumes we have. What goes on in his mind? When young beautiful and courageous offspring are attrited daily in an ongoing futile and insane war; that has no vision of victory other than continued occupation; it is hare-brained and repugnant to the people. The politicians in washington are a menace to our military forces because they will not provide a goal; we seem to be there killing a yet unknown number of people for an as yet unknown period of time, just like VietNam; and just as unlikely of fruitful termination. I say the lives of our youth are sacrificed now willingly to terrorists. The government has a duty to bring these kids home. The spectre of Halliburton and Bechtel; war profiteering directly linked to those in executive branch power is nauseating and whispered by the corporate press. I say send some Senators' sons and grandbabies over there to be blown to smithereens and the game will change. I don't believe in "acceptable losses" except in a clear cut military engagemnt where surrender means something. We won on the battlefield in VietNam but could not maintain civil order. Our presence as a foreign occupation force was subject to continuous reprisal. The will of the people in electing a republican goverment ough5t to be respected in these far flung places, underdeveloped regions Bush call, an "axis of evil"; these forces haven't a scintilla the military capacity of Nazi Germany even taking into account the antiquity present in such a comparison. What continues today is criminal activity that cannot be repulsed but only irritated by our presence. Terrorism must be confrouted in the criminal investigation vein; even the most unsophisticated analyst (me) can see this. A war without fronts is a ruthless killing field for our troops; that would be neverending if a stop is not put to it