Presidental hopeful and Senator John McCain is wanting to send more troops to Iraq. That is something that should have been done at the beginning of the war. Now it looks like the country of Iraq is being torn apart by a civil war between the Shite and the Sunni Muslims. The Iraqi government is either unwilling or unable to take the measures needed to prevent the violence between these two groups. If they do not want to take the chance we have offered them to be a democracy , so be it. It is their country. We got Hussein out of power. Hussein's sons are dead. There is no way no one from that man's family or supporters will be able to hurt the people of Iraq ever again. That era is over. Now the Iraqi people have chosen to fight each other. It is time to bring our trooos home.
The following is part of a article written by the Republican Senator Chuck Hagel.
The time for more U.S. troops in Iraq has passed. We do not have more troops to send and, even if we did, they would not bring a resolution to Iraq. Militaries are built to fight and win wars, not bind together failing nations. We are once again learning a very hard lesson in foreign affairs: America cannot impose a democracy on any nation -- regardless of our noble purpose.
"We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam. Honorable intentions are not policies and plans. Iraq belongs to the 25 million Iraqis who live there. They will decide their fate and form of government."
Many have suggested that Iraq was headed to a civil war and is already in the midst of one. For those in the government or anywhere , that thinks that this is not a civil war , I provide the following comments from an CNN correspondent in Iraq, Michael Ware. The Bush Administration can say what they want about this not being a civil war. I find it easier to believe someone who is over there.
Here's Ware when asked by anchor Kitty Pilgrim about the disconnect between what he sees there every day and assertions by the Iraqi government and the U.S. military in Baghdad that Iraq is not a civil war:
"Well, firstly, let me say, perhaps it's easier to deny that this is a civil war, when essentially you live in the most heavily fortified place in the country within the Green Zone, which is true of both the prime minister, the national security adviser for Iraq and, of course, the top U.S. military commanders. However, for the people living on the streets, for Iraqis in their homes, if this is not civil war, or a form of it, then they do not want to see what one really looks like.
"This is what we're talking about. We're talking about Sunni neighborhoods shelling Shia neighborhoods, and Shia neighborhoods shelling back.
"We're having Sunni communities dig fighting positions to protect their streets. We're seeing Sunni extremists plunging car bombs into heavily-populated Shia marketplaces. We're seeing institutionalized Shia death squads in legitimate police and national police commando uniforms going in, systematically, to Sunni homes in the middle of the night and dragging them out, never to be seen again.
I mean, if this is not civil war, where there is, on average, 40 to 50 tortured, mutilated, executed bodies showing up on the capital streets each morning, where we have thousands of unaccounted for dead bodies mounting up every month, and where the list of those who have simply disappeared for the sake of the fact that they have the wrong name, a name that is either Sunni or Shia, so much so that we have people getting dual identity cards, where parents cannot send their children to school, because they have to cross a sectarian line, then, goodness, me, I don't want to see what a civil war looks like either if this isn't one."
Later today my mother and brother will be in from Mississippi. I have not seen either one of them for six years. The last time I saw them was at my father's funeral. I cannot wait. They will be here sometime this evening.
I use to be like a lot of the little emo kids on the Rave. I hated my parents and most of what they told me. I thought they were out to spoil my life. How I wish I had listened to some of the great advice they gave me. I could have avoided some of the pitfalls in my life.
Hopefully, we will have a good visit. For years, I was angry at my mother for something someone else did. I did not think she handled it in the right way. Finally, I listened to what she had to say. It helped me tremendously.
This guy has been on the Rave before and use to go under the name vampyreinthesun. He sent this to my inbox. I have already blocked his stupid behind.
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women must go through some pain to seek constant revenge upon men. This
woman in Rhode Island I am staying with is a very well thought out
witch. Never stay with a Psychology Professor, I guess. All the time on her
hands from being passed by, all the pain she must bear besides child
birth, the rib that god took from Adam, left adam a hole in his lung too.
Men are equally susceptible to their loneliness, but at least a woman
can go home with any man, and she can ignore true love as much as she
wants. The man, some of them score, the ones who do not seek true love,
at least. The women bring it on their self, the man has no option, he is
chosen, his fate decided by destiny, guided by a woman in a blue dress.
This is the first time I have lived with a woman. Every moment has been
magical from my end, but her pain on her face from my sins of the time
travel father is the reason for her revenge. She knows I like pain as
her forefathers, but the pain goes onto her and she does not like living
in pain having no memory of perfection. She was someone I thought I
could trust, but she knows exactly what I am up to, she knows every
misstep, and she knows everything but wants me to die in her bed. How many
men have come before? How many men does she have in the back yard? How
many times on the earth on this day the same thing has occurred, how
many times in all the aeons since original sin?
Take my apple make it grey, make me gray also. make me a man by
understanding this. Thank you woman for showing me what you are about. There
is no true love, now I see life is a game of war between the sexes, all
the women who have sat in my car with misty eyes, I thought I was doing
them a favor by being with them to show them the beauty, yet they are
destroyed by staring into my son.
They will all have their revenge on the special men, if he does not
give me his baby then no woman will have him, let the sun burn him down,
naked in shoes of the Indian, there is no love from mother, no love from
father, evil brother say no more, I will top from below and give up
power and leave this earth with total understanding. Yet, no one wants to
hear it. No one wants to know. Revenge is one of the 5 plots, perhaps
the last chapter. How to make this world real? To write the final battle
over my soul, for blurred eyes to acute, and where is my self
destruction tomorrow and when does the path end? Long before I die. I have done
nothing wrong, I knew not to have a baby, and I would never have, so
why does she want to kill me for her pain. I never had the desire once I
was ruined to bring egg drop soup seed into the world, I knew the
difference between perfection and the world that lies around.
"THEY" want me to stay, they still want my seed, the holy graile the
male brain in a queer world, but I love women so much I would give up my
manhood to them and so the holy graile is lost again, just another
loser knight in Connecticut King Arthur's Court. I will sit on the round
table and ask her to wisk her dress to the side to con verse, but I will
ask her, hmmm so you have been at this a while, no sweet wine from sour
grape mash you could have made. She squints, her contacts reflect back
but do not see, kept in too long, mists of Alvalon. Where is my boat to
take me Frodo away, why has Bilbo lived on? His hair has turned Gandalf
grey, and soon to be white, take the young take the vital take my sun
away.
YOU CAN BLOCK ME NOW
even though I liked the way you think, you are afraid of my radical individuality. Get over it and immerse yourself in any kind of people to make you stronger.
This does not make any earthly sense. I do not know whether to laugh or cry. I laugh because it is funny as hell. I want to cry because there is a human being on the planet this screwed up.
It is about time the Democrats have control of the House of Representatives. If Allen in Virgina will go ahead and concede, maybe the Democrats can get control of the Senate as well. Yes, I voted yesterday. Texas, where I live, kept its Republican govenor, Rick Perry. How I wish someone else would have won.
In other good news, Donald Rumsfeld, finally resigned. I have a feeling he has no desire to work with a Democratic majority in the House or Senate. I am reading Bob Woodward's State of Denial. The protrayal of Rumsfeld in that book is not nice. Apparently, Mr Rumsfeld has no respect for the military or Congress. This is coming from someone who served in Congress. Makes me question his sanity.
Hopefully, the Bush White House will try to work with the new House and Senate for the good of the American people. It would be nice. I am just waiting to see what happens.
The last week I have been exhausted. I left work early Thursday night because I could not keep my eyes open. Some of my stupid co-workers actually believed I was drunk. They asked my friend Josh if I was drunk. He told them no she did not get any rest. Jerry, who was my line supervisor that night, told them he did not smell liquor on me. I should be offended. I am a recovering alcoholic who struggles daily not to drink. I have better sense than to go to work drunk. That is not something I would do.
Some of my co-workers seem to be suffering from a serious affliction. They like to invent things about people and pass it off as truth. (My friend, Herman , should know that his grandmother is not the only one who does this). Some of these people should be writing or working for the tabloids. I would hate for them to work for the New York Times. They would get hit with a libel lawsuit.
It is funny some of the things they come up with. I am not naive or overly gullible , so I just listen and do not pass on what they say. They are quite creative. Some day I am going to write a book. I do thank them for some good material.
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