Peace is Soooo Scary!

I have spent some time considering why so many of you on the right are so viscerally angry over the left wings persistent cries for peace and justice. Just look at the circus that is transpiring in Crawford Texas. A woman, and her supporters, stand in front of the president's ranch in an attempt to force him to address the issues that the press will not cover. Soon a counter group shows up belligerently accusing the peace protestors of being un-American, communists, traitors who are hurting the troops.

These counter-protestors wear the American flag, adorn there cars with yellow ribbons and believe that, in doing so, they are supporting the troops.

Wrong! You are supporting the president. In your blind support of the president, no matter what new scandal has come to surface, you have completely abandoned the troops. Let's look at your support from a different perspective.

If a man were viciously beating his wife on the street corner and you came upon it at the same time as another group, who were attempting to intercede to help the wife would you step in and prevent them? Would you state, "Your involvement is only going to make it worse! You must be anti-marriage. Why do you hate her?"

The simple fact is, George Bush could not be more abusive of the troops. If he made them march in formation past a viewing platform from which he, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were relieving themselves over the railing onto them, it would be an improvement. Let's not forget that it is the Bush Abomination who....

• lied to the world to push this war upon the troops. Every argument that they made when promoting the war with Iraq has turned out to be false.
• fired the General Shinsiki when he stated that the troop levels that they wanted to fight the war with were not sufficient and would result in an insurgency. (how prescient)
• attempted to reduce Combat pay from $225 to $150 a month (this was prevented by house democrats)
• attempted to reduce Family separation Pay from $250 to $100 a month (this also was prevented by house democrats)
• were successful in reducing "geographic rate protection" for soldiers who are based in expensive parts of the country, reducing the pay to these soldiers by up to $250 a month.
• failed to provide adequate body armor and humvee armor to soldiers
• underfunded veteran's health benefits to the tune of $1,000,000,000 (the zeros make it seem bigger)
• created the atmosphere responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, and then left a few low ranking enlisted personnel to take the blame.
• On top of all of this, Bush taunted our enemies, telling them"There are some who feel that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on." Bush went on to say "We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."

Brave words from a chicken-hawk who spends his every living moment behind the world's most effective security shield.

So, if this is the case (and it is) why are you still supporting the Bush Abomination? Why do you still think that you are supporting the troops? Don't tax your brain, I know the answer: although it is obvious to any clear thinking, objective person, you can not bring yourself to see reality. In doing so, you would have to acknowledge that for the last two and a half years you have been supporting the unnecessary death, mutilation, deprivation and living hell for tens of thousands of living human beings. Many of them are children. Many of them are American boys and girls. None of them deserve this. Take your misguided anger and frustration and direct it at the real traitors.

Face this simple reality: You can not be both a decent human being and a Bush Abomination supporter. They are mutually exclusive positions. You decide which one you are.

Beat me as much as you want with your yellow ribbons and American flags, I'm not giving up the moral high ground to an angry delusional mob.

The above image is made up of the faces of 400 soldiers who

paid the ultimate sacrifice in the ultimate quagmire.