Thank you JB Williams
Dear Editor:
Re: When Rhetoric Clashes with Reality:
The Press works to Spin 403 - 3 House Vote
Thank you so much for your article. It shouldn’t be the exception to the rule to have the obvious stated, if you aren’t willing ‘walk the talk’- shutup.
I’ve had a thought on the Bush Adminstration’s strategy for a while. It’s quite possible just because I think it, I feel it needs to be heard. You have a megaphone I do not. It’s also possible that people send journalists garbage they think is important all the time and journalist’s hate it when they do. If that’s a description of your view, please ignore the following and forgive me for insulting you. If you feel any of my points are valid please take them and use them anyway you like. As I was saying above, just because I feel this is something that needs to be said, don’t make it so.
I think the Republicans have been acting like the Iraqis right after the invasion. Remember the, “They could put a man on the moon, but they can’t get my electricity to work.”
Responding to us as though we were their new ‘Landlord/Owner’. To which many felt we deserved possibly a ‘thank you’ rather than a rebuke. But it was understandable that these people had not learned how to stand up for themselves and we had run out on them before, so having them suspicious of our motives was natural. The troop levels in Iraq have been a point of contention. I believe the leaders are trying not to follow the Vietnam strategy, Johnson’s and to some extent Nixon’s main idea for winning seemed to be flooding the country with draftees. We truly earned the title of ‘Occupier’. I do not believe we forced the ‘home team’ to independently pick up enough of the burden of defending their own country. People will not learn to be responsible for themselves if someone else keeps doing the job for them.
The shame I have felt over the behavior of Republicans until recently is palatable and second only to the horror over the behavior of the Democrats. The jubilation over Bush ‘finally’ defending himself is too telling. Maybe his strategy for us was to teach us, the ‘home team’, to independently pick up enough of the burden of defending our own country without the incessant whining about how Bush could get us through terrorist attacks on our own soil, economic strife, democratizing two very troubled countries, but he can’t make the MSM like conservatives. He’s been a bit busy leading us through an unbelievable myriad of major issues his presidency has been burdened with. It won’t be long before he finally gets to go back to his ranch and enjoy a very well deserved retirement. Whether or not we learn to stand up for ourselves and defend our country before that ‘withdrawal date’ is up to us.
