June 2, 2004
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I'm concerned about the United States of America. It seems to me that this current election has polarized our country more than any in the past 100 years, including the 1964 Johnson vs Goldwater slugfest.
A major part of this division and election campaign is the Iraq War; why we're fighting it, whether we should be, and how we're going to get out of this mess without it turning into another Viet Nam.
As an over-aged veteran whose family has a very long history of military service (my father, mother, brother,uncle and aunt are all buried in national cemeteries), I am especially concerned about the treatment of members of our armed forces.
In my opinion they have been placed in harm's way for what seems to be basically a misguided political reason without proper leadership or training. By any rational analysis, the Iraq war is a fiasco which probably never should have happened and was certainly very poorly planned, sloppily carried out, and has suffered from terrible leadership from the president right on down to the sergeant in charge of those idiots at Abu Ghraib prison.
The latest straw (announced today) is the cancellation of discharges of some of those serving in Iraq who thought their term of enlistment contract meant what it said. That sort of shoots down the idea of a "volunteer army" but I guess the pentagon had to do this because national guard enlistments are way down.
If you read warblogs from Irag, the troops who write them seem to be still supporting Bush,Cheney, Rumsfeld and Co. Why, I don't know. I guess they figure they have to put some faith in the people who put them there or it makes their mission kind of meaningless. I'm sure it has occured to them that the current news about Chalabi and his ties with Iran, sort of suggests that Iranian intelligence fed Chalabi untrue info about Sadam's WMDs which he in turn fed to his buddies in the White House, including Dick Cheney. To be fair to Chalabi, he never made any secret of his Iranian ties and probably should have been handled with a 10-foot pole, but he wasn't.
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