While I was at R.I.R, I met some Marines that had gotten the weekend off and decided to come and see the race and let their hair down so to speak.Read on.>>>
On the second day there, my father-in-law invited some of them over to have dinner with us. (He feels that they would appreciate his military stories more than we would.) So while my brother-in-law, and I manned the grill, some of the 10 who decided the would like home cooked food, gathered around and found that most of them were MP's stationed a Quantico about 2 miles from my brother-in-law's house.
As the day went on and I felt that maybe I could get a little political with them, I put out the feelers. I was talking to one of the Marines, who's name was Jim. He seemed nice enough, until he told me that he enlisted wanting to get into the infantry, but was told that there were no openings at that time. So he asks the recruiter what was close, and he was told MP, so he singed for that. He went on to tell me that when he was assigned to Quantico he would not be deployed to Iraq. I looked at him and said, "Man you lucked out." And before I could the out said, he looked me square in the eye and said, "No sir, I want to get over there and kill some of those fuck'en Sand Nigers!"
I really was not to taken back by the words that came out of his mouth, but I had a choice let it drop and walk away or, ask the question that might ruin my father-in-law's day. Well I chose the latter, which really was a knee-jerk reaction. I calmly ask him if he was aware that his Commander and Chief as much as admitted that he lie about going into Iraq. No sir he did not, that was just put out by the liberals to try to get the "War on Terror stopped. Man I wish we could shut them faggot lovers up. I wish I could just kick the shit out of one." My brother-in-law just stood there looking at me, he could see that I was going to blow-up at any second. Just then, my wife stepped out of the motor home and my brother-in-law grabbed her and said, watch this.
As I put the chipped stake, peppers, and onions on his bun, I leaned over and said, I am one of those liberal fagot lovers. He just looked at me and said, "you are?" Yep, I replied. With that said, he set his plate down and walked over to the group that was talking to my father-in-law and told them it was time to go. They had all left, and about five minutes later one of them came back and apologized for Jim and the rest, he said that they are really that way and that is why they are called the killer squad back at the base. He also told us that they are one group you do not want to cross.
After arriving home, yesterday I broke a five-day absence of any news, especially political news. Now and then, I would look up the weather now and then, but never anything more.
So I finally get unpacked and drop the carrier off the car, and here comes my neighbor so instead of waving politely and heading in to set down and rest for a while, I engage in polite conversation.
We went through the formalities of how the race was, and how things were on the home front while I was away. Then he said something that I was not suspecting, he said that the things that I had been telling him over the past 4 years on the political front had been right. I told him that I try to look at it without emotion one-way or the other. He told me that Bush's numbers had hit Nixon's just before he handed in his resignation, since I had been gone. I was not surprised at that news but I told him not to hold his breath if he thought that meant that there might be a chance of Bush stepping down.
I ask if he remembered us talking about PNAC, and how I feel that they have a stranglehold on the foreign policy of the country, and how they are pushing for an upcoming attack on Iran. He nodded his head. Well I went on, Bush is following what they want and so I do not look for him to leave office before his time.
He chuckled and said it is amazing when you were in sixth grade I was teaching you and here we are I am retired and you are teaching me. I told him that I am just worried about the type of world our children and grandchildren are going to have to grow up in, that it has become a passion, almost an obsession to find away to keep it, and make it a better place to live in.
Later That Evening
After dinner, I went over and sat in my favorite spot on the couch. You know the one; the cushion is lower than any other on the couch. Well as I sat there, I could hear a faint voice, I looked around and I was the only one there, then I saw it, setting right where I had left it 5 days before, my laptop. It was calling to me, "ABA, you really want to know what's going on, you have missed so much." It was right I really did want to see what I had missed. So I opened the screen and began.
The first story that hit my eye was Feingold calling for the Democrats to get a spine. It was a short piece, but spoke loudly, of what I was shot down for say by the diehard democratic friends I have. Stand Up to Bush
Sen. Russ Feingold a potential anti-war candidate in the 2008 presidential field, urged fellow Democrats on Monday to show more backbone in challenging President Bush on Iraq.
"We must get out of our political foxholes and be willing to clearly and specifically point out what a strategic error the Iraq invasion has been," Feingold, D-Wis., told a National Press Club audience.
This is basically what most of us have been saying all along. Sen. Feingold hit the nail on the head in his speech.
He said some Democrats in Congress gave in to "intimidation" by the Bush administration when they voted to authorize the war in 2002, and warned: "If we do not show both a practical and emotional readiness to lead in the fight against terrorism, we will lose in '06 and we will lose in '08, just like we did in '02 and '04."
I have to agree with him. That if the Democrats lay back as they have done in the past the will be trampled once again. They cannot wait on the Republicans to implode.
This morning on G.M.A on ABC, Mary Matalin, she would like for Nancy Pelosi to continue on the path she has decided to go down calling for the Impeachment of Bush, because it will turn the voters off. Matalin said that, They don't want that mess for 3 years.
Well I have news for her Impeachment can be carried on even if he is out of office. As we remember, Feingold called for censure of Bush and only two other Senators co-sponsored the bill with him; Barbra Boxer and Tom Harkin.
Feingold, who also has proposed that U.S. troops leave Iraq by the end of the year, rejected criticism that such a move could lead to chaos.
"I believe the situation would probably get better" if U.S. troops left, he said. "The lesson of insurgency is when the occupying power leaves; it tends to lessen, rather than increase, the level of violence."
White House spokesman Alex Conant responded: "We must defeat the terrorists by denying them safe haven and the president will continue to listen to our commanders for what troop levels are needed. The U.S. must stand with the brave citizens of Iraq as their new democracy grows.
When you translate the last paragraph from White House speak it reads like this;
White House spokesman Alex Conant responded: We will continue to fight the war of choice, killing the innocents, while our troops are being killed senselessly to push forward the agenda of PNAC, and this administration.
The Resident, and talking head for said organization will continue to do what he is told, or he will find himself on the wrong end of their wrath. The U.S. will continue on in forming the type of government that it wants in power in Iraq, while showing Iran that we will not let any State threaten our main interest in the Middle East, that being Israel.
ABA