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“Support Our Troops — Bring Them Home!”

JAKE PICKERING

In her December 31, 2006 Times-Standard “My Word” column titled Being All You Can Be, We Need The Best In Our Military, Kris Morrisey wrote the following: “I am ashamed of the behavior of those who would lessen their commitment and sacrifice…I am frustrated by the continuing denigration of our armed forces. Disagree with our president; debate about foreign policy; don’t put a yellow ‘Support Our Troops’ ribbon on your car, but stop besmirching the reputation of our military men and women…”

If anyone should be ashamed of themselves (other than the shortsighted political ‘leaders” who supported this inane, greed-based fiasco), it is Kris Morrisey! How typically dishonest and deceitful for a partisan Republican like Morrisey to label the opponents of Bush & Cheney’s unnecessary quagmire in Iraq opponents of the U.S. military.

Did you miss the news out the numerous, recently-retired American Generals speaking out against the currentcounter-productive policy and those incompetent neo-cons (like Donald Rumsfeld for leading the United States down this demented, disastrous foreign policy path in the Middle East?

An overwhelming majority of Americans now demand that our military men and women be withdrawn ASAP from Bush & Cheney’s illegal war for oil and imperial expansion. Why? Because we actually do support our troops, unlike those Republican war criminals in the White House who have willfully murdered thousands of patriotic Americans (along with hundreds-of-thousands of Iraq civilians) in an effort to make themselves and their business partners-in-crime even more filthy rich than they already are.

And, oh…by the way, where is that most infamous Bush family business partner Osama bin Laden? Did “you smoke him out?” yet, Mr. Bush, Junior? Or, have you not personally profited enough from your debacle to date?

Hey, who needs universal health insurance or a cleaner environment? So long as lying, cowardly racist oilmen from Texas get what they want!

Poor Kris Morrisey has apparently been “functioning” with her head-in-the-sand these past few years (or solely relying on FOX “News” and the Republican Arkley-owned Eureka Reporter for her disinformation).

Did you miss the news from our intelligence agencies (all of them) contradicting Bush & Cheney’s propaganda campaign falsely portraying Iraq as an immanent threat to the U.S. national security? Where are those nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, Mr. “President?”   

Did you hear the news from our intelligence community that neither Saddam Hussein nor his regime had any role in the 9/11 attacks, whatsoever?

Did you also miss out on reading the Project For The American Century’s Hitlerian manifesto titled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” from September 2000? The entire Bush/Cheney imperial agenda is laid bare in print for all to see in this single document, which you can download online (for free) at: www.raytal.com

Being a faithful fan of Bush & Cheney’s immoral, bloodthirsty misadventure, Kris Morrisey also made the statement (shockingly), without any apparent sign of irony); ”We live in a country where too many people believe that serving in the military is for someone else to do. It’s someone else’s duty. Not my child.” I highly reccommend ’AWOL’; The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from Military Service — and How it Hurts Our Country.”

Did the irony-deficient Morrisey miss the news about George Bush, Junior being Absent Without Leave (AWOL) from the Alabama National Guard for a period of 18 months during war time in 1972-1973?

Did you also miss the news about Dick “Chickenhawk” Cheney asking for — and receiving —a total of FIVE deferments from the military service during the Vietnam War, another wholly unjustified slaughter which both Bush and Cheney claim to have “supported?’ 

Maybe one of these naive, hypocritical Republican warmongers will finally learn to take this wisdom to heart: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Especially if your last name is Bush.  

End this unforgivable, murderous occupation, Mr. Bush! Bring our friends and family home from this bloodbath — NOW! We are done asking nicely, and we will force your hand, if necessary. either leave Iraq, or leave office — your choice. Your time is up.

     ”The Strait Jacket Express”

     Jake Pickering 

“You talk to those Republicans who voted for McCain, and they don’t know anything, other than he was a POW.” GOP propagandist Ann Coulter, on NBC’s Today Show (February 8, 2008).

On January 3, 2008, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the Republican Party’s intractable presidential candidate — Arizona Senator John McCain — famously claimed that the American military will remain an unwelcome force in Iraq for the next 100 years.  

The cantankerous, intellectually-addled 71-year old Senator McCain apparently neglected to ask either the Iraq or the American people for our assent.

Then again, the backwards, bloodthirsty former naval aviator undoubtedly forgot to ask the people of Vietnam for their acquiescence either, back when “Vietnam War hero” McCain was — in violation of international law —bombing innocent women and children with napalm in “free-fire zones” during that unnecessary genocidal quagmire, which cost over 58,000 American GI’s their lives (in addition to three million dead Vietnamese, Cambodians & Laotians).

As a particularly hypocritical and notorious presence in American politics these past few decades, John McCain has continued to earn his well-deserved negative reputation as an exceedingly-ambitious, self-righteous, irate and unstable man still mentally confined in “The Hanoi Hilton,” compulsively intent on re-fighting old battles long since lost, regardless of the horrific cost in human lives or national treasure.

The senile Senator McCain should be told that Iraq is not Vietnam — no matter how deluded the Republican presidential nominee may be —and that it is time to move beyond these old arguments and catastrophes of the past.

Democrats, Independents, and enlightened Republicans: it is time for change! This November 4, please exercise your right to vote. Derail insane John McCain’s “straitjacket express” before the white-haired warmonger launches another illegal imperial war based on lies and greed.