Midlife’s A Trip

What Fresh Hell Is This? — A 10 Year War in Iraq

Posted on 16. May, 2008 by Karen in Misc

“What fresh hell is this” when a political candidate promises to get us out of the war we’ve already been in for 5 years — in another 5 years. Yesterday John McCain offered his vision of the end of the war in Iraq. According to McCain he sees us completely out of Iraq in 2013, effectively promising us a 10 year war. What kind of vision is that!! Sounds more like a nightmare to me.

I thought getting in the war on March 20, 2003 was a bad move even with the lightweight ”intelligence” about weapons of mass destruction. But once we were there, I hoped that there would be a time when we could extricate American soldiers from what became a no-win situation.

But instead of getting us out of the war in Iraq, current wisdom has kept us hanging around the Middle East trying to bring democracy to a part of the world that doesn’t want it. When you consider that democracy doesn’t always work so well over here why do we repeatedly wrap it up in a big red, white and blue ribbon and try to give it away as the ultimate gift.

Come on already. How many more lives will be lost on both sides after 5 more years of war? Quite frankly it doesn’t matter whether you vote red or blue. Getting out of the war in Iraq shouldn’t be about politics or political rhetoric. It should be about peace.

OK, I’m done with my rant. And to replace the vision of a 10 year war with one about peace, here’s a favorite video of mine on the subject:

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