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My opinion by Crazy
Eddie
(10/3/04) |
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I wrote
this in response to an e-mail full of lies and distortions,
about John Kerry that I received today. |
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I am so
sick of the lies being told about John Kerry. I guess if you
can't win reelection on your record, then destroy your
opponent ant any cost! Don't talk about the 1000 +
servicemen killed by the reckless prosecution of this war,
or the over 7000+ men who left a part of their body on the
battlefield, or the 20,000 + innocent Iraqi civilians who
lost their lives. Another American was beheaded by
insurgences in Iraq today. Are the perpetrators of this
horrendous act going to be captured or killed? We don’t seem
to be able to find a seven foot tall Arabic man running
around the mountains of Afghanistan dragging a dialysis
machine behind him, so forgive me if I don’t put to much
faith in the prospects of their capture. |
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Why do
so many Americans blindly support this president? I
understand Americans wanting to believe in their leaders.
What could be worse than a patriotic American, who loves
their country, feeling that their government betrayed them?
But it is time to wake up and look what is going on around
us. |
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Why did
we invade Iraq? |
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“Weapons of Mass Destruction” - I will give
them that one, most people felt they had
WMD’S, but most experts believed that the
containment measures in place was working
and they were right
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“Imminent threat” - our intelligence never
said that Iraq was an imminent threat to the
United States
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"The implied link between 9-11 and Iraq” -
there has never been any link, but Bush and
Cheney continue to this day to spread the
lie that Iraq is somehow linked to 9-11
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“A threat to peace in the region “– Iraq
wasn’t a threat to peace in the region
before the war but they certainly are now
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“Sadam was a brutal dictator” – this is
certainly true but if we use this as a
reason to overthrow a government then we
should overthrow dozens of other countries
around the world
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"Nuclear threat” and “purchased yellow cake
from Africa” – The CIA told Bush before he
said this in his State of the Union Address
that it was not true but he told the lie
anyway
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"A threat to world peace” – I don’t think
anyone really believed this one
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Even if
you believed in the war in Iraq you can’t be happy with the
way Bush has prosecuted this war. This Administration has
shown gross incompetence in the way this war has been waged.
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Bush
did not have a post war plan – Under international law
we have the obligation to protect the citizens of the
country we now occupy. Remember Colin Powell warned Bush
before the war “you break it then you own it”. Well my
friend we broke it.
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Our military leaders told us we would need hundreds of
thousands of troops to occupy Iraq – did our president
listen? Of course not. This is what you get when you try
to fight a war on the cheap
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Bush
did not exhaust all diplomatic channels before we
invaded Iraq – If we would have done this we could have
built a real collation and had world support in our
effort
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Bush
did not properly equip our troops with the proper
armored vehicles – didn’t we learn anything from
Somalia?
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Bush's war has distracted our country from the global
war on terror. We have played right into Bin Laden's
hand, he wanted a holy war and Bush gave it to him
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The Bush Administration has repeatedly ignored the
commanders on the ground
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The prisoner abuse scandal has turned the most moderate
Iraqi against us – so much for winning the heart and
minds of the Iraqi people
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What is
Bush’s plan for Iraq? I don’t think he knows. Does anyone
really believe that the way we have prosecuted this war has
made us or the world safer? |
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Bush goes around the country saying this are getting better
in Iraq, while the attacks on our troops have reached almost
50 attacks per day. Americans and other civilians are being
kidnapped on a daily basis. Event the generals in the
theater are criticizing this administrations lack of
planning. Read this
article in the Marine Times. Have you ever seen a time
when the military openly criticizes the government who sent
it war. |
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This war has distracted our country from the global war on
terror. We have played right into Bin Laden's hand, he
wanted a holy war and Bush gave it to him. Bush can't even
use the right words he told the insurgence in Iraq to "Bring
it on", what kind of leader tells the enemy come on and
attack us. He called the war in Iraq a crusade. That is just
what Moslems want to hear. This war has given the terrorist
the greatest recruitment tool they could have ever asked
for. Read this article written by an Arab it is titled "Come
November - Al Qaeda will vote for George W. Bush", you can
read it
here. |
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Bush has screwed up in Iraq big time and he won't even admit
there is a problem. How can you fix something when you don't
think anything is wrong? How many more Americans are going
to loose their lives before we change what we are doing? How
long are we going to ignore the terrorists in the other
parts of the world, because we are bogged down in the
quagmire? |
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Bush loves to surround himself on TV with U.S. service men
while he has cut separation pay, he has cut combat pay, and
he has even closed VA hospitals. He did all of this in the
background while he was sending our sons and daughters off
to die. Did you know that the families of guard men station
in Iraq don't even get health care benefits? A guard solider
stationed in Iraq that no longer gets health insurance from
his old job can get health care for his family. The Guard
family of a solider deployed in Iraq is not entitled to the
same health care benefits of the Army solider he is serving
next to. The Democrats tried to put this provision in the
last military funding bill and the Republicans who control
congress said “no”. I guess that tax cut for their wealthy
friends might need to get trimmed back if we give the
families or our brave Guard men and women health care. Bush
said” we needed to sacrifice”, but it shouldn't only be our
Troops and their families who are the only ones asked to
sacrifice. How can we stand by and let them do this to the
men and women who are putting their lives on the line? Our
troops deserve better! |
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I could keep on going about Iraq, but I am getting tired of
writing. I didn't even touch "Homeland Security", jobs, the
environment, or health care. I will go it to those issues
another day. |
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