No, no, no, no, no, a thousand times no! We do not need to send more troops to Iraq! We need to withdraw troops from Iraq. NOW! There is no way another 20 or 30 thousand troops in Bagdad is going to accomplish anything other than more and more useless deaths. If Bush goes ahead with a plan to send in more troops it will only prove that he is genuinely insane and should be removed from office, along with his Rasputin vice-president, probably the most evil man on earth. These two should have been removed from office a long time ago. As Republicans refuse to curb their dogs (do anything about these two war criminals) I can only conclude they have given up and are willing to accept the demise of their party for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever.
Even if Bush comes to his senses (highly unlikely as I think he has no senses) and does not order more troops into Iraq, he is going to use this situation to increase our military by another 70,000 or so troops. Wow! That is just what we need, an increase in the military-industrial-political system. I guess the fact that the U.S. already spends more on our military than all of the rest of the world combined isn't enough. We need to spend more. We need more useless tanks, humvees, howitzers, mortars, billion dollar submarines and planes, nuclear bombs, chemical weapons, and all the latest equipment to murder the largest number possible, even though we can't even defeat a local population armed with rifles and molotov cocktails. Does it not occur to anyone how completely insane this is? Perhaps if we didn't have troops stationed virtually all around the world trying to run everyone else's business we wouldn't need to spend quite so much. I guess it would be too much to expect that Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Haiti, Luxemburg, Lichtenstein, and Monte Carlo might spend a few bucks defending themselves (from what I am not certain), the communists gave up some time ago. Oh, yeah, I forgot, we have to watch out for Cuba, they may be massing their invasion armada at this very moment.
As much as I hate to admit it this is a problem that goes even beyond Bush and his evil mentor. We are in the grips of a military-industrial-political-corporate cabal that is running roughshod over every basic human interest. Millions without any health care, a failing educational system, a decaying infrastructure, environmental degradation, global warming, a looming recession, and what we need is a larger standing army? We need to send more troops into a lost "war" (into the jaws of death rode the 500), and increase our spending on the military? Can we not recognize insantity when it is staring us in the face?
The only hope, it seems to me, rests with the American public, if they can resist Bush's suggestion that we just go out and shop. Can we tear outselves away from football and the soaps long enough to actually pay attention to what is going on? And where is the guy on the White Stallion or the magically cape? The U.S. is in big trouble.
There is something wrong with a culture that needs so much storage.
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Actually, submarines cost much more than a billion dollars nowadays (and are way cool besides). I assume from the tone of your post that you also opposed Senator Kerry's call in 2004 to increase the size of the military? If so, I can admire your steadfastness in your political outlook.
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