This aint Vietnam

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Date Line April 19, 2007

Bush justifies perpetual occupation of Iraq: “After Vietnam, after we left, millions of people lost their life. My concern is there would be a parallel there. This time around, the enemy wouldn't just be content to stay in the Middle East, they'd follow us here."

Bush lied to create this conflict. He lied because it was what Bin Laden wanted.

Bin Laden said he wanted Saddam Hussein dead.

Bin Laden said he wanted a training ground for al-Qaeda.

Bin Laden said he wanted America to run a Trillion Dollar deficit, to go into debt, to go bankrupt; and he made no secrete of wanting our military crippled.

Well, George W Bush has achieved all that and more. The deficit is in the current budget and in off budget continuing funding resolutions; it is in the direct medical costs to those brave men and woman who went there whole and have returned in physical, or mental, pieces.

Now Bush has made an ultimatum: fund a perpetual conflict, a conflict without end, or I will block any funding at all and allow our troops to rot in the field.

The “war” was lost the day Bush initiated the lies. The “war” was lost the day Bush stopped pursuit of Bin Laden, and initiated his invasion to destabilize the Middle East and bring down the only the nation his father had crippled (at Saudi direction).

America is the surrogate army for Saudi Islamic sectarian forces. We are to die so the sheiks can get rich selling us fuel for our tanks and trucks.

How much has the Bush family been paid by these arab potentates? How many Billions will they pocket at the cost of American freedom and lives?

It really doesn’t matter. You know it. I know it. The world knows it.

The goal is to create a global religious war. The rich and richer will stand to the sidelines and rake in their profits. You children will die.

There is a parallel to Vietnam. It is a conflict which never should have been, and which was started by Republicans. And YES! They will bring it to our shores – when and where they wish.

We have no National Guard to protect us. They are all locked into perpetual service in Iraq. Worse, during Vietnam, as Bush knows, but prefers to ignore, Vietnam just wanted freedom of choice – in Iraq the matter is one of religious and cultural warfare. Worse, they have the oil Bush insists we must burn in abundance; at least until the climate changes and our cities flood and our population is rendered homeless.
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