As Soldiers Die, Your Congress Sits in its Rocking Chair
Sparafire!
As one of the time-sink, rhetorical, blah-blah-blah plans oozing about in the sewage of Congress, hear the latest:
Desperate Repuglicons are floating a whole new mission for U.S. troops in Iraq. As if. Of course, as a populace, we have given them good reasons to believe we will fall for just about anything.
Here it is in a nutshell – truncate the mission in Iraq to just two jobs: training Iraqi troops (yawn) and fighting terrorist cells in Iraq…. No more patrols, no more involvement with Sunni-Shiite rivalries, because, after all, these are really not in the interests of the U.S.
Supporters of this plan claim U.S. troop casualties will plummet if only these two tasks are the U.S. mission.
So, at last… a “mission” to “accomplish.” ???????
Sorry. I don’t get it. Why do we care about training Iraqi soldiers, who, after four years still can’t seem to understand which end of the gun to point at the Bad Guy? Train them to do what, exactly? Defend Iraq frommmmmm…. the U.S. troops, I guess, who seem to be the only ones over there, tramping about with guns and bombs and whatnot. This makes no sense.
Fighting terror cells in Iraq? Sure… and in Pakistan and in Afghanistan and in Japan or Mississippi or Cuba or Canada or wherever the hell they are. They’re not JUST in Iraq… they’re all over the world. And they are certainly not successfully fought with a gigantic conventional army of tanks and cannons and bombs.
Terrorism cells are fought like we fight them within our borders, with sneaky stuff – surveillance, quiet investigations and stuff.
So there. More time wasting, life wasting jibber jabber from your federal government. I figure that on average, we lose two or three soldiers per day in Iraq. That’s my clock and I can barely contain the depth and breadth of my unhappiness that our Congress sits around proposing crap like this as if there is no ticking at all.
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