Response to a blogger regarding why I voted for George W. Bush . . . twice
This entry was posted on 6/17/2007 2:04 PM and is filed under Suzanne's Column.
To all of you who visit this website, my last blog entry explains how I feel about a number of things. One thing we have in this country is the right to vote and to vote for whom we please. The Constitution is a fading document enclosed in a glass case in Washington. When you vote or when you make an entry on this website, thank a soldier. Since the Constitution was written, they have made it and kept it a living document. One day the writing will be completely gone but thanks to our soldiers, the Constitutional rights that we all have will live on. I am not anti-military. I am anti-stop loss or more appropriately, I believe in the Thirteenth Amendment as much as I believe in the First Amendment. Now, for those of you who fail (or refuse) to understand indentured servitude, I suggest you do some reading. I could not help but respond to Ms. Freng's ridiculous e-mail which shows that some still fail to understand the thirteenth amendment and stop loss. Ms. Freng admitted that she did not even vote the first time George Bush was elected and it always amazes me that those are the very people who complain the most. This is the path of reason, folks. Resolution 114 passed by the great majority of Congress and signed by the president allowed the president to use force (if necessary) to move into Iraq and disarm Saddam Hussein. Saddam is dead and there is no WMD (at least not in Iraq). Several people on this blog have defended the Army's right to stop loss because of paragraph 9 (c). It is true that there was a national emergency after 9/11 but what we are involved in now (in Iraq) has nothing to do with a national emergency, a war or conflict that we have declared or that has been declared against us. Therefore, anyone stop lossed for a peacekeeping mission in Iraq is an indentured servant of the United States government. We are losing dozens of soldiers each month for a country that will never be civilized. For the most part, they are barbaric. The cultural difference is too great. We gave them the greatest gift on earth and that is "freedom" and look what they have one with it. Not one more of our soldiers needs to die trying to make these people get along. They are simply not worth it. Because three of our soldiers have been tortured and killed in the "Triangle of Death" in the past several weeks, we need to level it. Because Iranian agents and al Qaeda militants are gathering in Anbar province and stockpiling materials tha make the bombs that kill our boys, we need to level it. We need to destroy Iran's missile sites with a pre-emptive strike using non-conventional weapons. We need to send a clear message that, if you choose to kill Americans, you will pay a heavy price. Israel does that and they do it within 2 business days and its a million times worse than what you did to them. That's one reason I admire that country. They don't care about the "hearts and minds" and we shouldn't either. The vast majority of those people are brought up to hate Jews and to hate Americans. To them, we are "infidels" that must be destroyed. If we send a strong enough message and bring our kids home, we will not be fighting the battle here as has been suggested. For dragging 19 of our soldiers through the streets of Somalia, it should be a black hole now. I did vote for George Bush and in the aftermath of 9/11, I'm glad I did. If Gore had been elected, he would still be bunkered down somewhere worried about the 3 trees in Afghanistan and nothing would have been done. At least George Bush did something. So, I will no longer even entertain blogs that say my son (and other sons and daughters) have gotten what they deserve because of who they or their parents voted for. This is about the thirtheenth amendment and the unconstitutional way in which the stop loss policy is being used. Any more questions?
