Posted by
Brian Peters on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:54:59 PM
With much fanfare and media hype and attention, the black limo's and sedans rolled into the White House drive. After nine months, nine, a distinguished group of well dressed individuals made their way into the vestibules of the White House. Minions ran about to and fro, setting about their various task to please their uppers as if life itself depended upon their actions. Books created from the nine months effort of this group were passed around so even the guy standing at the bus stop in this morning's chill had a copy. Nine months were poured into this effort. Nine months later and an 84 page report is put forth. Now get this, out of that 84 page report, 21 pages at the end are nothing but fluff, an appendix that reads like the end of a bad movie, listing everyone and their neighbor's brother who had something to do with the report. Briefly reading through the report, I gleaned nothing I have not already heard via the mainstream media or found reading online or in a book on my own. If the United States Government has to reduce itself politically to such a level to give itself an excuse to bring combat troops out....we're screwed as a country. I see more Third World USA evidence. I read that terrorist leaders in the Middle East hearld this day as a victory for Islam. They know weakness when they see it. They know how to exploit it as well. I heard that ten U.S. military personnel lost their lives today. Not a good Christmas for the families of those ten, my sincere condolences to those families, and my sincere condemnation to our entire U.S. Government leadership for failing our military...once again...Vietnam ring a bell? Desert One ring another? U.S.S. Pueblo? Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983 ring a bell? At least there is one thing, consistancy on our Government hanging our military out to die, not dry. Enjoy your big luncheons and dinner parties as you slap each other on that back this Christmas holiday D.C. Between now and Christmas, more American military will be asking themselves, why am I here? Hopefully they actually can ask themselves that all the way home. Nine months. I'll go to Faces of Valor again soon, before Christmas and pay my respects and give my prayers to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. We like to believe it was for our Country, our freedom. I wish to believe that. But if our civilian Government again fails, then what were their lives for? Fifty Eight thousand plus in Vietnam, for??? The Iraq Study Group, by description and appearance, an august group of individuals. I looked at them, most of them were well into their senior years of life. I wonder if deep down inside, do they really care about the younger generations in America? Their mortal time is drawing near, why should they worry what happens ten to twenty years from now. Chances are....normal life expectancy will kick in. I wondered this at dinner as I looked at them and then at my wife, who by the grace of God I hope we have at least another at least thirty years to spend together. Does the Iraq Study Group care about thirty years from now? All that college education amongst them....for what?! Eighty Four pages, which twenty one are fluff.
Let's shift gears and talk about something else, e-coli...crapola. My apologies dear reader, guess the subject matter remains the same. Har har. Seems the veggies got us once again. That item of food that we're supposed to eat to keep us healthy....yet New York City has banned trans fat because of health concerns?? A whole bunch of your tax dollars went into those studies, probably bought someone a nice vacation in the Carribbean while you sweated your next mortgage payment, they saved your life. New York. Your becoming a joke. Banning food substances that made you famous and for which people came to NYC, the food. New York, you elect a person from Illinois, that lived in Arkansas, but came there to get elected because..why??? I wonder what was wrong with Illinois or Arkansas that she couldn't have run there? New Yorkers, can you answer me that one please. If it takes a popularity contest to win political elections....think about this clearly.....we're doomed as a country. More fodder for Third World USA. Wow, this whole blog entry has been about....rap without the c. Well, what is rap too?!! Geez, I better go...I mean, oh forget it.