except I do blame the US for its Iraq disaster and the 200,000 deaths and climbing. Small wonder they hate and mistrust us.
But it remains, what do we do to get out of it? When the President attempts to leave he is criticized and when he agrees to stay, same result.
If there is an answer, what is it? Blaming me doesn't help. Nobody ever asked for my approval for the Iraq incursion. Everyone in DU was against it and the music for it when CNN showed coverage of the US entering Iraq. Cities all over the world held demonstrations against it, but our government paid no heed.
Think about the "solidarity" march in Paris. Who will they fight together? The enemy (so-called) is all over the place. We don't have enough men, and the countries involved don't have the expertise to have an army to fight their enemies. Saddam's army is what got booted out of Iraq and is causing so much trouble now and they were cruel when they lived in Iraq.
We have our share of veterans killed or suffering from loss of limbs and PT'S. Good people, as innocent as those Iraqis killed. For their sake I am patriotic, but where our government is concerned, not so much...they do what they are told to do.....thus, the spending becomes lopsided.
Howard Dean was the only politician who was honest and brave enough to protest the war, and his popularity escalated. His picture was my avatar until he recently announced his support for Clinton, which is the same as backing the PNAC. I was so disappointed that he supports the very people responsible for his loss in Iowa, which I guess was the DLC. My Senators Levin and Stabinow also voted against the war, and they now support Clinton.
One more time, what do we do now? We are on the same page as far as saying who was to blame for what's happening now, but we did not draw up the boundary lines for the countries involved.
I'm 76, and never seen us so messed up.
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