War Funding Veto

As I read about the stand-off that is forming in Washington over the war funding, I am disgusted. Our own leader and our own legislators are acting like this is simply a big game of poker and somebody is going to fold. Well, this isn't a game of poker and the repercussions that this Pre-Emptive Strike by America has caused in Iraq is no bluff. This is real and the lives and deaths are real. I am disgusted that Congress thinks we, the American people believe that they are not "politically grandstanding" and I am disgusted that Vice President Cheney claimed that Congress will have to back down for the sake of the troops. I do not like the fact that our military and the safety of the troops appear to mean so little to our leaders. Where is the troop support? This war has been funded for nearly four years past the date we were told it was finished. And more lives are lost every day trying to give something to people that do not want it badly enough to fight for it themselves. Can you imagine the leaders of Italy and France over here fighting England in 1776, for our freedom, then telling George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock how to draw up a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution? Where would we be now, if some other country had told us they were here to "win the peace" and free us from our oppressive leader? Or perhaps rather than receive the statue of Liberty as a congratulatory gift of sorts, from France, their leader could have been in France telling his citizens that it was best to send a military presence and keep the battle"over there."

Obviously this is a ridiculous analogy, as ridiculous as treating our military like pawns in a partisan chess game between a Republican White House with a failed war strategy and a Democrat Congress that just wants to stay popular. I have an idea for this funding situation and not leaving these mislead troops without provision. I'd still prefer to just give them all a one way ticket home, but since no one is listening to that idea, here's another one. Rather than continue to pour hard earned American tax dollars into the rebuilding of a country that is still being torn down regularly in the midst of their own civil war, why not divert the over priced corporate building contracts to military funding?

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough . . .