This Memorial Day weekend has set me to pondering the question "Why have we, as Americans, allowed our supposed leadership to proceed unchecked into a criminal war, standing idly by, doing nothing more than putting "support the troops" stickers on our huge, gas guzzling, 4 wheeling vehicles?" Yes, we support the troops as long as none of us have to sacrifice a family member to a car bomb or a sniper's bullet. We support the troops as long as our fuel prices don't continue to climb and we have some money with which to go out for dinner. We support the troops as long as we don't have to pay for their recovery in veteran's hospitals.
George W. Bush is, without a doubt, the worst man to ever take office as president. Again and again he has broken his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and our elected Congress does nothing to hold him responsible for it.
Nearly one thousand new graves have been dug to bury our youth in the prime of their life just since Memorial Day one year ago. What does our compassionate president have to say about it: "It could be a bloody - it could be a very difficult August."
That is blood that is on not only his hands, but the hands of the Congress and the hands of American citizens who have not begun to speak out against this abomination.
How can any of us, in good conscience, still display a Bush '04 sticker on their vehicle?
And what's really disheartening is that the opposition party is no better. Except for a few, they obviously learned nothing from the last elections. It's business as usual and it makes me ill.
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