Excuse me, but did I miss something? Because, I have yet to hear
President Bush officially declare the War in Iraq over. What I do
remember is the statement that major combat operations had ended in
Iraq, but, the war is not over.
Excuse me, but did I miss something? Because, I have yet to hear President Bush officially declare the War in Iraq over. What I do remember is the statement that major combat operations had ended in Iraq, but, the war is not over.
Each passing day, mainstream media keeps insisting the war is over even as recently as Tuesday morning when a broadcaster began his report by saying, “With the war in Iraq over …” And I blew my top!
“Let’s see – last month we had 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, now we have 145,000 over there – does that sound like it is over? If the war is over then send all our troops home,” I demanded.
Here it is, two months after U.S troops overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime, and our soldiers still come under daily attacks. Within the last month, about 50 U.S soldiers have died in Iraq, but the news keeps reporting that the war is over.
My son, Specialist E-4 Ryan T. King is with the 4th Infantry Division, one of the U.S. military’s toughest and most technologically advanced units, and he drives a Bradley – a mean fighting machine of steel may surround his body, but that doesn’t make him any safer from attacks.
Like many of our sons and daughters in uniform, my son has been shot at, ambushed and dodged rocket propelled grenades. This does not sound like a tea party.
Americans have to ask, if the war is over, why are soldiers still dying? Why did we send in more troops to fight the resistance – which, by the way, means “one that opposes another in combat.” Key word COMBAT!
Do you remember when thousands of Iraqi soldiers shed their uniforms and slipped into mainstream society? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a military strategist to figure out this was part of a plan to make a comeback to create chaos and public pressure to make us look bad.
The mainstream media has become the political puppet of the politician with the best sound bytes. Instead of reporting the facts, they speculate, which is a dangerous practice or wishful thinking because some fool may turn on the news in the middle of the broadcast believing what they just learned was fact, and, the next thing you know, a rumor started – the war is over. The war in Iraq over? Hell no. They are fighting the biggest battle yet – the battle for peace.
And let’s not forget our troops in Afghanistan still fighting the war on terrorism. If it doesn’t have any action scenes, the media drops the issue like a bad rating.
When was the last time we had an update on the war on poverty – or the real truth about the war on drugs? Instead, the public is being blinded by political distractions. Democrats and a few republicians (probably worried about public opinion) demanding a full-blown investigation as to whether the Bush administration mislead the public about the weapons of mass destruction, but isn’t that putting the cart before the horse since the war isn’t officially over?
Let our troops finish the job first. There is a lot of country to search before the war is over – let them do it without media or political pressure to perform. Either we allow the troops to finish the job or we might as well give-up and nuke us all – let God sort it out!
