Reply #3: It doesn't help matters, either [View All]

for the pResident to be a swaggering, cocky, arrogant barbarian, who uses phrases like "get 'em dead or alive," and making references to people who, IIRC "let's just say they won't be a problem anymore.", referring, I believe to some people he called terrorists, and giving the impression that they had been killed. I'm sorry I can't cite the exact reference. We have screeching whores like Ann Coulter talking about killing them, and converting them to Christianity, and we have Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and the rest, openly calling for just killing Iraqis, presumably to set an example.

Our troops, mostly young, and many without a great deal of education, have been bombarded with this kind of talk since 9-11 gave Chimp the excuse he needed to do what he had already planned to do, attack Iraq. I do agree that each person should accept responsibility for his/her own actions, but face it, Chimp and his whole administration have not admitted to making mistakes; it's always, always, somebody elses's fault. Usually Bill Clinton's or Ted Kennedy's. We are expecting more discipline from our troops than we seem to be expecting from those in power, who are becoming richer every day we stay in Iraq.

Bush referred to his drinking and drug taking as being "youthful indiscretions", even though he didn't quit drinking until the age of 40. So 18, 19, and 20 year old troops are supposed to be placed in a hostile country, without the proper armor, for tour after tour, and from them we expect much more than we do for the people who sent them there, and support the war as long as they and their families don't have to serve.

I was taught while growing up that higher pay for executives was because they carried higher levels of responsibility. Under Bush, that has turned topsy-turvy. The average citizen is expected to obey laws, and follow certain rules, that the wealthy exempt themselves from. We need to leave Iraq now. We will pay a hideous price for this folly, and the tragedy is that the architects of the war will gain much more wealth from the pain the war is causing on both sides.