Muscatine

Baby Bird - It was nice meeting you and I hope our paths cross again. I'm gone.....

Baby Bird - It was nice meeting you and I hope our paths cross again. I'm gone.....

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Good enough Gt

I git it now::: you see this as a big joke. You seen the thousands of cheering liberated civilians over there and instead saw the faces of the millions of Europeans after WWII. When Sadam's statue fell over it was the Nazi symbols blown up. You didn't see us having to stay in Germany under fire or in Asia for 7 years and still counting, with a fraction of the enemy in Iraq, that we faced in WWII. You saw the end of Sadam's regime within a year but no end in sight to the "good job." We saw the "mission accomplished," yet we are still losing our soldiers, they are still losing their families and they are still a country under siege by theirown today. Should Nixon have gotten us out of Viet Nam then? Why are we not freeing those tortured and murdered in North Korea? Why didn't Bush send two hundred thousand soldiers to Africa? Good GOD talk a bout totured people! You're problem then with Obama is that he didn't vote for the war? He wants us out of there? Or perhaps he doesn't and obviously can't? The "whining" is that it's been enough already.

Why the long face? My mom and dad were asked that day. "We have done some good there" wasn't their first reply. Our sons and daughters have died because one dictator out of dozens wasn't our friend any more. Your son died because there's more tortured oil and billions of cubic meters of tortured natural gas up there in them mountains we need to get safely to that there sea under that dictators feet. In the mean time another endless string of cars go boom, another IED explodes in front of another school, another grocery store, police station, or worse, in front of another of our fathers, sons, mothers and daughters doing some good there. But be happy Mrs X, Mrs Y, and Mrs Z. while you lower your colors the rest of your life:::Because::: We done some good there.

Our leaders have decided that trading one form of terror for another is doing good.  If my mother were with us and could read this, she'd teach you a little about whining. And:::  by that measure, you'd be marching our over extended, over tired, and underpaid young men and women to the next battle field of tortured and murdered men, women, and children to free them too from a bad dictator. How we gonna decide the next one, toss a dart at the map? Is it whining now? I'm waiting for Mr. Phelp's next Mission to unfold so our government can continue to do more good. The president will be pleased to hear that we are so generous after all, now that we can stop whining about these good deeds of endless wars. I'd just loved to hear your agreements to all that, had it been under Obama's watch we went there. Maybe you have lost someone in this war, I don't know and am sorry for you if you have, but every time I see the tortured faces of my family and that half posted flag in front of my dad's home, plus the thousands of other moms, dads, husbands, wives, and children of our dead sons and daughters, I'll refer them to your happy victory speach.

Because as I said before, there's no honor there but for our dead heroes, none for those who sent them there. Dick Cheney was right in 1993 and we should have stayed in the right. Which is what this was all about in the first place.

When we buried my brother, grandmother wrote a letter to him that chokes us still. The final phrase goes.

"So worry not your tortured soul any longer son. The real glory in all this is that those who sent you to war and those that killed you, will face the lord too." For everyone knows those in the lands of the east have been killing each other since the beginning of creation. Sending our boys and girls there to make a peace they do not want at least from us, was a terrible mistake. We will see you soon son."