FAITH AND WAR

SOMETIMES I THINK WE ARE FIGHTING ONE OF THE LEGENDARY SEA MONSTERS FROM THE OLD MOVIES, YOU KNOW, THE GIANT SQUID.

I heard today that we might have shot a man who just wanted to get off a plane in Florida. The first story about this incident was a man said he had a bomb, ran off the plane and was killed by two heroic sky-marshals. The story is becoming a little more complicated, the passengers seem to be saying they never heard the guy mention bomb, some of them say they did not hear him say anything at all. The man’s wife was trying to tell people he was ill and needed his medicine; he ended up dead with five or six bullets in him. Welcome to Florida folks, if I were you I would not move too quickly off the plane. There was an instant poll showing 70-80% of us thought that he should have been shot, most of us bought the original story put out by the authorities. When are we going to learn?

The tentacles are everywhere; they have crushed people who have given their entire lives to the defense of this country, like Clark, Wilson and a long list of others we will never know about. Education is being systematically strangled by this group of maniacs in the White House. Tax gifts to the rich during war are causing shortfalls in every other program including food stamps, medical assistance, veteran assistance and any program to help the poor and middle class. The fact that China now owns most of the debt this lunatic is running up seems to be missed by our state run media.

Our military cannot keep up with the required deployments, generals are now sending out SOS messages through congressional representatives like John Murtha. The president has said repeatedly if the generals request something they will get it ASAP. The few generals who have had the courage to ask for armor, more troops, and maybe better Intel have all been shunned or retired. Dean says we cannot win this war and is crushed for speaking the truth; this war cannot be won because there is no war.

The action that is going on in Iraq is an occupation, not a war---we won the war two years ago, our military defeated the armies of Saddam and he is in jail standing trial for murder, again the war is over. The only real question left for any of us to consider, do we want to stay in Iraq or get the hell out.

The only way to defeat this monster we call the Bush Administration, is to force them to answer the above question, stay or get out? The American people are now saying they want to end this madness, but the people in the White House want this to go on and on for years. Please Mr. Democrat force them to answer because that answer will dictate what we do in the coming years. To leave Iraq we will have to bring together the best minds in the country, come up with a plan and sell it to the American people. If we are to stay in Iraq, we will have to call for a draft to replace the troops now serving three and four tours, industry must be put on a war footing. Ford wants to close plants, sorry make tanks. This also must be sold to the American people.

Every time a democrat gets into an argument with a republican, they make the mistake of talking about when we should get out, not the main question if we should get out. Force them into the corner, make them tell the American people what we are going to do, they are in charge.

J. Walsh, THE LONE VET

PORTLAND. OR.