As I researched my subject matter, I found myself on an endless trail of links that justify and vilify according to the source and the agenda, but there was one theme. The people calling the shots seem to know what is best for someone else, while their own party, military or nation is just being crushed under the burden of their decision. First we have Senator Lieberman on the topic of Iraq in the Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal. He ran independent when his democratic constituents determined they didn't want their representative to promote a war that defies reason. But somehow, he did beat out the democrat as an independent, but at the crucial point of determining which party would rule the Senate, he proclaimed that the democrats could count on him. Now there is even conjecture that he may be changing parties, all together. And all of this in the last 6-8 months. How do we Americans know how to vote? He also mentioned that General Petraeus has only had a month in Iraq and we should all give him some time to implement this new plan. Well, this is American politics. We could come up with new generals and new plans until Messiah returns. Here is just a portion of his speech.
"We are at a critical moment in Iraq--at the beginning of a key battle, in the midst of a war that is irretrievably bound up in an even bigger, global struggle against the totalitarian ideology of radical Islamism. However tired, however frustrated, however angry we may feel, we must remember that our forces in Iraq carry America's cause--the cause of freedom--which we abandon at our peril." Apparently, he, and some programmed infantry think we are in Iraq for freedom. I think most of the rest of us realize it really isn't about freedom, not Iraq's and certainly not America's.
Now, another article I read at FoxNews gave new insight to our purpose in Iraq. Just as soon as Iraq gets this oil situation resolved they can move on to other important matters like a constitution and government . . . I can't believe anyone had the nerve to say this or print it. America is controlling Iraqi oil. How many of us already knew that was what this was all about, anyway? Here is what I read about the oil in Iraq.
In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Snow called the new oil law the "key linchpin" in Iraq's recovery because it gives "everybody a shared economic interest in working together."
"That being done, then the Iraqis can turn to other things, such as constitutional reform, election reform" and allowing many Sunnis to return to public life, Snow said.
The haggling over oil went to the heart of the Iraqi crisis — the failure of religious and ethnic parties to compromise in the interest of saving the nation. Without such compromises, U.S. commanders doubt that military crackdowns and the current U.S. and Iraqi security operation can produce long-term stability.
"That being done, then the Iraqis can turn to other things, such as constitutional reform, election reform" and allowing many Sunnis to return to public life, Snow said.
The haggling over oil went to the heart of the Iraqi crisis — the failure of religious and ethnic parties to compromise in the interest of saving the nation. Without such compromises, U.S. commanders doubt that military crackdowns and the current U.S. and Iraqi security operation can produce long-term stability.
- sounds like oil to me.
Now, this continual bluster with Iran is wearing thin and many of us think it sounds very much like the nonsense we heard before the US attacked Iraq. I read a headline this morning about the conservatives in Iran that don't agree with Ahmadinejad. Well there are millions of people here in America that don't agree with our leaders, but nobody is talking about rescuing us. Many feel the Iranian crisis is inevitable, and it probably is. The more the administration denies it, the more likely it seems, but I think I should remind Americans of the freedoms we've lost as our government has determined to bring the rest of the world freedom and to free those in other countries from remorseless leaders that use military force for their own personal benefit and exercise of ruthless power.
Our nation has changed since 9/11, but it is our leaders that have changed it. Our freedoms have been restricted since 9/11, but that again is from within. Our leaders have gone from the concept of responding to 9/11 to changing governments in countries that had nothing to do with 9/11.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
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