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For me, America is this amazing land of opportunity, of beauty, of idealism, of
hope. It is a beacon to the world. It's a place of fantastic people and what infuriates me more than anything else is that
this administration has systematically slandered, libeled, blackened the image of America to our friends and allies around
the world.
JOHN BRADY KIESLING
Mission accomplished our President tells us yet the war in Iraq is continuing and starting to
get real ugly. American soldiers are dying daily, weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found...the insurgents are
killing and wounding their own men...women and children by the tens of thousands...conditions are deteriorating for our
troops on the ground as they get caught up in the middle of a Civil War...
The lies of the administration
that took us into war are being exposed and the president, from the safety of the white house, is taunting those who are shooting
at our troops.The Senate Intelligence Committee report admits that this is a war based on lies.
I just can not understand how a country
can be so willing to impeach a President for having sex in the White House and close their eyes and do nothing when another
President takes that country into a war in Iraq that was planned well before 911 ever happened and in reality had
nothing what so ever to do with the tradgey...
Bush and his adminstration from the bottom
to the top have misled the people...deceived the people...used America's greatest tradgey to fullfill their own desires
and needs...They made you feel you were
a traitor if you spoke out against the war yet it is our basic and moral right to speak out...we were misled
to the point that the President even had us running to Wal-Mart for plastic and duct tape...
I am a combat wounded Nam Vet and
anyone who has seen the horrors of war would do all they could to avoid running blindly into a war with absolutley no
long term plan or a short one either it seems...In Nam the people who fought were on the average 19 years old...Over
58,000 sons and daughters of America gave their life in the jungles of Nam and those who did make it home left a large part
of themself over there forever...
Alot of the ones fighting in Iraq
are our National Guards...family men and women...career people who serve 1 week-end a month...they are raising families...coaching
little leaques...they are business people who's future was all thought out....thousands of lives will be forever
changed and in the end this war will turn out as Nam did...
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The First Cav division has been around since the days
of the wild frontier...They have fought honorable and courageously in many foreign lands that most can not even pronouce....and
so on they go again...this time to Iraq and urban warfare...this is a war the likes of which we have never known...
To many in this country it is a war for
oil...a war spawned out of revenge for Saddum Hussin's attempt to assinate President George H Bush in the 90's.... President
George W Bush and all his little men with power lied us into a war...a war where ground casualities are everyday of the week...
Think about it...we...for the first time
in our history actually invaded a country
"without provocation"...Now what makes us different from the other countries...If we don't like the leader of a country do
we now...just invade... under the pretense of pre-emptied...in the name of Democracy and Freedom...
Who are we to try and make any country
a democracy...I never heard the Iraq people yelling for a Change..did you ???...did not Russia and China and Germany and Korea
and so many others in history do this also...We have tried,sentenced and excuted many a man who thought as such...
North Korea has weapons of mass destruction and has proudly...right
in our face said so publicy...why not start there...could it be that they have no oil fields?? Nothing of value to make the
rich in America richer??I do not want to turn this into any kinda form for the pros and cons of war...We all have our own
thoughts and those of us who went to SERVE know it all so well...
Each of us must draw our own conclusions...that
is another one of the rights men fight and die for....but right or wrong...American troops are once more in harms way...regardless
of the reasons...and we as a nation must be there for these soldiers...
It is vital that the failures of Vietnam
do not make there way into todays military campaigns...the political parties and the hearts and minds of the people today...
My father and uncles were all combat dogfaces in
WWII...My brother and I are combat vets from Nam...I have one son in the Navy on a nuke sub now going on 9 years...my other
son is a year away from fullfilling his 8 year comment in the Army and I have a Nephew in his second year at Annapolise...
The service today is a young mans game...all
of them volunteered for duty...I have met many of the troops today and find them to be respectful...well mannered(even the
Marines)...They grasp the entire picture of why their doing what they are......They are a new breed with new skills...loyality
and respect....they'd rather listen to old men and their tales then talk about themself...I salute them one and all....
This site is dedicated to Corey Small and Ian Ritter
and all the men and women in our Armed forces...past...present and future and to the families of the 1st Cav who have given
their all.
"Loyalty and Courge"
There are never enough words to express our sorrow for the loss of a true American hero.
Just
as there are not enough words to express our gratitude for being that hero.
Corey L. Small’s mother had reservations
when he talked about joining the Army after high school. But that didn’t stop him."He said, ‘I’m an American
and my friends are joining, so I’m joining, Small was stationed at Fort Polk, La. when his unit was sent to Iraq...His
parents Jody and Jack are great people that deserve the love and respect that I for one give them...so many small town Americans
are meeting their fate in the streets of Baghdad and other towns and villeges...We as Americans owe them all a debt for their
sacrifice..
I had the honor of scouting and coaching
two fine young men from small town America that paid the ultimate price for their country and flag in Iraq...Corey Small and
Ian Ritter...both left family and friends that will forever remember and honor their service...
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Dangerous Loose Ends
The doctrine of pre-emptive war somehow turned Washington
into global thought police. But while the administration speculates about Saddam’s intentions, the real threat posed
by his weapons program is still growing
Oct. 13 - The bones of the children should tell us why
Saddam Hussein had to go. They’re being excavated right now from a killing field in Kurdish Iraq, where Saddam’s
enemies were shot and bulldozed into mass graves. The men in one. The women and children in another—hundreds of them
slaughtered in that one place back in the late 1980s. But in those days the Reagan administration and the first Bush administration
couldn’t really be bothered about such things.
Human-rights organizations railed in vain against Saddam’s
brutal regime, but Washington was happy to have him signing lucrative contracts and killing Iranians. He used more than 100,000
artillery shells and bombs filled with poison gas against Iran’s troops, sometimes aided by U.S. intelligence showing
where to target the biggest concentrations.
Having spent a quarter century covering terrible atrocities in this
world, I’d like to think we had the commitment to end them. But let’s not imagine that we invaded Iraq to wage
a righteous crusade, or for that matter, even to assuage our guilt. And let’s hope the Bush administration, if re-elected,
doesn’t think this is the moral model for new wars to come.
Saddam’s worst atrocities, committed
more than a decade before our invasion, had very little connection to American motives for war. And notwithstanding some of
President George W. Bush’s campaign rhetoric, the United States still endorses the reigns of useful evildoers. Libya’s
Muammar Kaddafi, one of the world’s looniest and most sinister despots, is now the toast of Washington and London
Sadly, the more we know about the actual
reasons that led us to war in Iraq, and the implications that those decisions have for the future, the more arrogant, dangerous
and preposterous those reasons appear.
The latest voluminous history is the 900-plus-page
report of the Iraq Survey Group, which has spent an estimated $900 million in the last year and a half looking for Saddam’s
phantom weapons of mass destruction.
None were found. So Charles Duelfer,
the head of the group, devoted much of his time and attention to the question of Saddam’s strategic intentions: the
dictator did want such weapons, he would have liked to rebuild them. Sure.
Yet reading the report and Duelfer’s
testimony on Capitol Hill, you come away with the unsettling notion that we slogged into the Iraqi quagmire not because there
was a clear and present danger to the United States. There was not.
Nor because
of the weapons that Saddam had. He’d destroyed the last of his WMD arsenals in the early 1990s. Nor because he was going
to give those weapons to Al Qaeda-type terrorists, for which there’s no evidence at all. But because of what we thought
he was thinking he might do with the weapons we thought he had but didn’t.
unknown
Our post-9/11 doctrine of pre-emptive war somehow
turned us into global thought police. And in the many long months since, while we’ve been cogitating and speculating
about Saddam’s once and future intentions, and killing and getting killed in the intensifying war on the ground, the
real dangers posed by the atomized nation of Iraq keep growing.
As
the Duelfer report mentions, and a letter to the United Nations Security Council by Mohammed ElBaradei of the International
Atomic Energy Agency makes clear, there are still some very dangerous loose ends left over from the old weapons programs.
And the passage of time and the persistence of chaos in Iraq makes those harder to find every day.
The ElBaradei letter, dated Oct.
1, but first reported earlier this week, simply points out that a lot of the machinery Saddam once employed to build components
for atomic weapons seems to have disappeared.
There’s no question that after the
invasion looters did manage to pillage several sensitive sites. Radioactive "scrap metal" shipped out through Jordan has shown
up as far away as Rotterdam, the Netherlands, according to the IAEA.
But the machinery mentioned by ElBaradei
in his letter is much more valuable. Based on satellite imagery, he discerns "the dismantlement of entire buildings that housed
high-precision equipment (such as flow forming, milling and turning machines, electron beam welders, coordinate measurement
machines)."
More than a dozen sites are involved,
according to IAEA officials. Given the international black market for nuclear technology, these aren’t the kinds of
things you want to have floating around.
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BUT THEN AGAIN...SO IS WAR
Cavalry Scout, 22, Dies Five Days After Roadside Bomb Attack
Wounded on a combat mission, Cpl. Matthew
P. Wallace, 22, died Friday in a military hospital in Germany, five days after a roadside bomb detonated near his Bradley
Fighting Vehicle in Baghdad. His family was gathered at his bedside -- mother, father and three sisters.
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