BUSH USES TROOPS AS SACRIFICIAL LAMBS

Naturally, we all saw this coming: Bush using only two vetoes in his entire Presidency.

While Democrats are saying that this latest stunt by Bush reflects his inability to compromise even at the most basic level, this veto shows once again how little Bush values our own military forces.

Instead of embracing the inevitable that this war will only come to an unsavory conclusion, Bush instead just wants to keep our stretched forces in the midst of a civil war for years on end.

He says that this legislation will only add to more chaos and destruction; not realizing that our very presence there has already done that and more. Bush also says that this legislation will only embolden our enemies.

Sorry. But that's already happened. Long before this legislation ever came into being in fact.

Our enemies are steadily pecking away at our strengths with each passing month. But instead of redeployment, Bush says: "Stay the course."

And with each passing year, our troops are coming back with less and less than what they originally started out with in 2003.

But does Bush care?

Nope. Our troops lives mean nothing to him! Just more sacrificial pawns for a politically sick game of "Risk"...

I shudder to think of what would happen if our nation was invaded by a much more powerful nation in the future. Will our might repel such an invasion or will it not be there to stem the flow?

Given what I see and hear in Iraq, I highly doubt it. Our military strength is being wasted for an ideological notion of faux paz democracy. With no end in sight.

That's the real tragedy here.

Schuyler Thorpe

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