Going the Direction of Our Focus

I was going to present a Timeline for the Iraq War and what has transpired in Iraq, since the 2003 invasion by the United States, but basically we already know. First it was "necessary" to find WMD, then our mission was accomplished, then we found Saddam, and up until six months ago, it was stay the course, we were doing great, although the group of Americans that were questioning all of this continued to get larger. Then we were told the situation was grave and desperate, as though that suddenly happened over night. Well, actually, it kind of did. Once the republicans were out of the House and Senate control, I'm guessing the truth of the matter became apparent. Then Mr. Rumsfeld resigned, Saddam was killed, and there was a big shuffle, then we were told, a troop surge would resolve this horrible mess and that the old strategy wasn't so good after all. It really does seem like the news leans toward whatever decision the politicians want us to live with. I noticed the month before the State of Union address when our President said he was sending more troops, the reported death toll and insurgency attacks seemed quite high. It was as if the information was to set the stage. And now that Saddam has been removed, we find ourselves facing a no longer intimidated Iran. Well I remember that factor from the 80's. We needed Saddam in Iraq to keep Iran at bay, and now that he's gone and Iran, and well you know this story. We've heard it before, just a few name changes, but same basic scenario and spin. What I'm noticing here is what's happened on the home front. I guess there are a few die hard Bushites, but for the most part, the majority of America is beginning to really notice the problems of a bad foreign policy and an even worse domestic one. America is so divided and the economy is unstable, regardless of what they tell us, we are paying bills and watching the job situation. The political atmosphere is horrendous and our choice in '08 doesn't seem terribly promising from any party, so what are we doing here? Here in America, while we're keeping "them" over there, what is happening here? Since the invasion of Iraq, with the exception of more Talk/Radio shows and hosts; have any other good paying jobs increased? Now, I realize we have many more bureaucrats employed and airport security has increased. Oh, that's right, we have more prison guards than we've ever had. And everybody with a political opinion has written a book. At first, I compared this to Viet Nam, but I was wrong, four years in Iraq has had a much larger detrimental impact on our nation and our economy that all those years in Viet Nam, and certainly caused a breach that would seem nearly irreparable. It would almost seem as if the Democrats and Republicans have followed the lead of the Sunnis and Shiites, although in a more civilized manner, of course . . . Someone else is doing the dying and living in the poverty. We call it polarized, but America is divided, and it really isn't between the parties. We can use all the euphemism we choose, but the bottom line is, fighting "them" over "there" has caused the greatest division this nation has known since our own civil war. Only this time, the division doesn't actually lie between the parties, or even a belief or lifestyle, this time the division lies between the citizens that love freedom and the government that loves control.
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.