Tough Questions

The President's Christmas gift to the Joint Chiefs this year is more troops. Never mind that the generals don't want the extra troops in Iraq, since the ones who are there already aren't sure what they're supposed to be doing, more troops is what they're getting. Since the mission as stated by the President himself, is fighting the war on terror, the guys who are actually in charge of doing the fighting have finally figured out that the terrorists live in the countries of our allies, namely Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, and that sending more American soldiers to Iraq to tip the balance in a civil war has nothing to do with the war on terror, and maybe Iraq never was a part of the war on terror. Who exactly are the new soldiers supposed to fight? Are we choosing sides in the Iraqi civil war? Will our soldiers be fighting Sunnis, or Shiites? If I were the President, and I had to pick sides, I would fight the Sunnis, since there are fewer of them, and to eliminate them would take less time. But our soldiers don't even know who is Shiite, and who is Sunni, it's not like your average genocide, where one race of people is a different color, and you can just arrest them all where you might find them, and then ship them to camps, and....And then what? Just what are these additional soldiers supposed to be doing in Iraq?

Fighting the Sunnis will cause some serious problems for George Bush, because the Saudis support the Sunnis, and once we begin fighting them, we can kiss our cheap gasoline goodbye, and the wheels of our oil-driven economy will grind to a halt, and people will be squatting in those Dodge Caravans and Hummers parked by the side of the road, because they are cheaper to heat than the six bedroom house that they bought in '98 that Bank of America had to sell for back taxes. So maybe our new soldiers will be fighting the Shiites, and if they are, then we will need a whole lot more of them, cause if we decide to fight the Shiites, then we will be fighting Iran, and for that, we'll need a big old freakin' Army.

Hmmmn....didn't the President say he wanted to expand the Army?

Well, I'm just one of those chicken shit Democrats, and I think that cutting and running is sounding pretty good right now. It's not like I doubt the wisdom of expanding the Armed Forces, I'm just not seeing a lot of young people running out to join the Army to get their asses shot off in the Middle East. And if these young people aren't joining up willingly, then are we talking about a draft? Are you straight people willing to send your teenagers to die in a dessert for a bunch of people who loathe America and all that we stand for? Are you so seriously hooked on that gas guzzling Lexus that you would subject your children to a lottery of death? When your children's lives are at stake, you have to stop and ask the tough questions.

And maybe question we want to begin with is this:

What do we get if we win? Do we get the oil fields? Are we escalating this war for oil or ideology, or are we sending Americans to die again to protect Saudi Arabia and Israel?

It's time to ask these hard questions, cause I don't know about you, but if I had a kid who was in danger of being drafted for a war for cheap oil, I'd willing give up my automobile and walk to the ends of the earth to spare his life.

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