And, please, don’t tell me what Memorial Day means until you can stack up your combat duty against mine. I did my tour in Vietnam. I earned my right to give my opinion on the Iraq War … have you?

In fact, had Bush served the way I and John Kerry did we wouldn’t be in this insane war today. He’d have seen death first hand. He’d have learned what happens when the enemy “brings it on.” He’d have avoided war like the plague instead of ignoring everybody to dive into war.

Daddy Bush was wrong. He shouldn’t have pulled strings to keep junior out of Vietnam, but he pulled those strings and because he did around the world tens of thousands of people have been murdered.

Bush has been a foul-up all of his life, the evidence of this was plain enough, but you people who chant about “honor our dead” ignored this. You let this foul-up soft soap you. You let him start this insane war. You let him call John Kerry a phony and coward. And more recently, you let him craft a proposal that will open our borders to virtually all of South American.

You let him do this and did nothing except stumble around like zombies chanting your self-medicating mantra — “Support our brave troops!…Support our troops! … Support our troops…”

Sure, support our troops — but you don’t support our troops, by making a draft dodger their commander and chief.

ricland

O! I am determined by our failing
To nurture the patriot tree
Until we can climb near to God!
Near enough to ask,
“Is this your desire?”
Near enough so that the question
Needn’t even be uttered,
Just near enough
To see the river’s flow.

O! I am determined by our failing
To nurture this; our flag-waving heap
Beyond the gaze of God!
Beyond the flow of the deity’s torrent!
Beyond this; our notion of existence!
Higher! O! Onward! Higher still!
Carry them aloft! Reverently lay these;
Our strident armed forces of war and peace!
We can have it both ways you know;
Write our storm’s name across the sky
And climb beyond the stare of God!

O! I am determined by our failing!
Indomitable of our worshipful peak!
Joy filled by our divine reaching
To build, amass, pile, mound, and stack
We’ll have surpassed the mournful eyes
And soon be able to look down
Upon the brazen head of God
And declare ourselves the victor!
O! I am determined by our failing
To nurture the patriot tree
Until we can climb beyond God!
Higher! O! Onward! Higher still!

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ricland

Your knowledge of history, both old and recently past, is worse than a five-year-old’s — you twist the reason we have gone into war, just to support your platform. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you served in Vietnam, or any war, for that matter.

You’re just a complete and total idiot.

But honoring the Fallen and condemning the war are not mutually exclusive.

Moreover, some wars are honorable and some not. Using your logic we would condone any war our leaders got us into because our soldiers are honorable even if the war isn’t.

Using your logic we play the role of the “Quiet Germans” who honored their brave soldiers while the smoke stacks in the nearby concentration camps where thick with the stench of burning flesh.

The day after we leave Iraq the “democracy” we created there collapses, democratic heads will roll — literally! If we remain in Iraq as long as we remained in Vietnam (20+) years, the result is the same. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz — the architect of the invasion! — soon came to understand this, which is why he abandoned Bush and the war for the World Bank.

Worse still, almost every head of state in Europe told Bush not to invade Iraq, that if he did he would get caught up in the kind of endless carnage we’ve seen happen again, and again, and again.

Bush ignored them. He ignored Hans Blitz when Blitz told him he could find no WMDs. He ignored his generals he told him to wait; and finally, he ignored the reports we now know he got indicating that Iraq in fact had no WMDs.

He ignored all this, invaded Iraq, killed Saddam’s sons then dared the Muslim world to “Bring it on!”

In other words, the bloodshed in Iraq — that will surely continue for decades — can be blamed on one man’s unhonorable stupidity — George Bush’s.

That’s what those “honorable” men you talk about are dying for and this makes them no different from the honorable men who fought and died for Hitler — honorable men charged with a dishonorable mission.

ricland

I’m from a military family with a strong tradition of serving the country. My father, step-mother, brother, uncles…all vets. My father is buried in the national cemetary here in St. Louis… served in the Army for nearly 30 years and was a Vietnam Vet (at least 2 tours).

But here’s my take on this day….
The hypocrisy is killing me.

http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2006/05/bush-says-we-must-honor-war-dead.html

http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com

What a great weekend. Very relaxing and personally reflective. First…here are some links from around the sphere. Then I will type out some thoughts. Links:Michelle Malkin reminds us that Freedom Is Not Free and gives a rundown of links. The beautiful…

I say you DISHONOR the service and the men you served with; you DISHONOR all the men who served in wars and who continue to serve (it’s not a draft, remember, it’s VOLUNTEERING) — you make your life a nothing with every dishonorable word you write. You care nothing about Memorial Day, it seems; it is just a way for you to spout lies about your beliefs. Well, go somewhere else and do it; this is not the time and place; you should show some respect, if not for yourself and your service, then at least for others.

BTW, don’t wait until it is too late to thank our soldiers for their service to this country. They will appreciate it, that I can promise you.

And LaShawn, I truly believe you have found your calling and your purpose in life. Its called the truth. Great job!

Read the published writings of all Ph.D’s who dispute the official 911 NIST report.

Check out the picture and circumstance of Rumsfeld’s visit to to Iraq in December of 1983.

If this is ‘leftist ranting’ then sue me.

For extra credit, read Edwin Black’s IBM and the Holocaust. Especially the part about CEO Thomas Watson and his relationship with Roosavelt. It only has hundreds of footnotes. Please paste ‘tin foil hat’ over all rational comments…