More Troops?

I am no politician. I will tell you right now that I am not. I still have feelings and rather passionate feelings at that about what is going on in our country right now. Most especially I am very concerned about what is going on in Iraq. What are we doing? What is he doing? Am I so ignorant? Maybe I am. Are we the police of the world? Is it our responsibility? And at what cost? So many lives lost. Maybe that is what is driving me, what is fueling these intense feelings I am having. The situation in Iraq is not only deteriorating but it seems we are not going in the right direction at all--in my opinion, we are going in the exact wrong direction. And now this?

We are sending 21,000 MORE men and women, more AMERICAN soldiers into that country for what? They cannot do what needs to be done. If he really wants to finish what he started, he would need FAR more troops than that. Far more. That is just a small band aid. And what will happen? More deaths, more chances for the militias and death teams, the suicide bandits to kill our men and women? I think it is time for Iraq to step up to the plate and take charge of their own country, it's their responsibility, it's their country. We have done enough. We probably have done way too much. I think we wrongly went in there and now flash forward to all of this; how can we sacrifice more?

How we got here is how we got here. I don't know. We can debate that all day. But now, at this moment in time, I just cannot believe he is saying we are going to send MORE when they need to come HOME. We now have surpassed the same number of lives lost in 9/11 in NYC in Iraq. Does that not strike you as ironic? I just cannot believe it has come to this. I was so hoping he would say something different tonight. I almost can't wrap my mind around it. It's like he's on this mission and it's all his own and while we watch President Bush march to the beat of his very own drum, the people who work under him, the men and women who fight for our country are the ones taking the fall.

I voted for this man; twice. It just feels like he won't listen to anyone. Isn't it enough already? I think this is a sad day.

Jenn