HOW CAN WE GET OUT OF IRAQ? — by Catherine Morgan
As a woman and a mother, I admit….I am one of those “crazy” people who want to see peace in our country and in the world. I remember being a very young little girl during the Vietnam War. I would sometimes see the covers of magazines like “TIME” and “LIFE” with pictures of the dead and injured on them. At the time I was too young to have a war explained to me, I just new there was a war, and that people killed each-other in a war. With that small amount of understanding I was very confused to say the least. It was so sad to me, I remember thinking even then; Why is there war? How can men kill each-other like that? What could be worth killing for? As an adult now, and with a greater understanding of the world….I have to admit, my questions are still the same. I know I am putting myself out there to be chastised as being a crazy, left wing, tree-hugging, bleeding heart, liberal, nut case…..or some version of that theme. But I don’t believe in those narrow minded stereotypes, and I am willing to take the judgemental criticism of others who might want to “label” me. Although, I would ask that you don’t.
So, I’m going to go out on a limb and just say it. I am not of the mind-set that if we don’t fight “them” in Iraq, we will have to fight “them” here in our own backyards. And I don’t think that our collective-fear of possibly having another “9/11″, was or is enough justification to send our troops to fight in Iraq. I also think that the money, energy, technology, and man-power that we have squandered and are still squandering in Iraq should have been used in our own country to actually build an infrastructure capable of protecting us from any possible future attack.
With that said. I do not have any idea how we can begin to rectify this horrible mess and get our troops home. It seems to me that there are too many people profiting from this war. It also seems that, the people making the decisions, don’t really care how many people die before they figure out what they are going to do about it. I’m also confuses when these same people preach to us to “support” the war, because if we don’t that means we are “against” the troops and “for” the terrorists. Sometimes, I hear the President or someone from the administration talking….and I really think; When did not wanting anymore troops to be killed, become a terrorist action? Am I in the twilight zone? I know, I just opened myself up for the whole; If we could just put all these bleeding heart liberals in a space ship, and send them off to the twilight zone, maybe then we could win this ‘civil’ war on terror. Joking aside…..I really just don’t get it.
And that’s why I am putting the question out to you. Don’t judge me on my shortcomings as a military strategist. Just tell me…HOW DO WE GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ? CAN WE? If you were the “all powerful” decision maker, and you could do anything you wanted without asking the pesky congress or worrying about public opinion….What would you do? People must have some idea what they would do if they had the chance.
I know this is a “hot-button” issue, but I do want to hear all the different opinions and ideas, on both sides of the issue. And I will post all comments as long as they are not blatantly disrespectful. I tried to cover all the disrespectful things you might want to call me, so no sense in rehashing any of those labels. And who knows? Bush could actually be making his decisions by reading blogs just like his one. Maybe he will see your idea and change his whole Iraq “strategy”? Never know. Anything can happen in The Twilight Zone.
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