Posted on 03/08/2007 4:45:57 PM PST by snugs
The President and the first lady departed today for a week long trip to Latin America.
The President's deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke at University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service lecture series today in Little Rock.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
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. . . we are truly blessed!
OMG rack it Dr Deb there is few people who I wouldn't mind their memiors that be
Dubya
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
Condi Rice
and RUMMY
"OMG rack it Dr Deb there is few people who I wouldn't mind their memiors that be
Dubya
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
Condi Rice
and RUMMY"
These memoirs will be AWESOME; unfortunately, we're probably going to have to wait at least another two years!
VERY POWERFUL AND BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES:
Hope Rides Alone
By Eddie Jeffers
Sergeant Eddie Jeffers is a US Army Infantryman serving in Ramadi, Iraq.
I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.
I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again...and yet, I too, am just a boy....my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead.
I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid...because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there. There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own...but that are necessary for survival.
I've made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets...who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not and to think, I volunteered for this...
And I am ignorant to the rest of the world...or so I thought.
But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man.
And then, I will be alone.
And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home.
I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant.
Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war.
In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy.
The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward's war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war.
And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets.
And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.
Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military.
America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war.
Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job. It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this.
Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that he was right.
America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world.
The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It's not like World War Two, where people rationed food, and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks.
The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.
But it affects us.
And when it is over, and the troops come home, and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends?
They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.
We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped, and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause, and see it to its end.
But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.
Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers.
Right now, hope rides alone.
But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.
Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news, and let's stand and fight!
Isn't that what America is about anyway?
http://www.therant.us/guest/e_jeffers/02012007.htm
Come think of it I think Rummy working on his memiors right now so probably soon with him
If you can't wait there going be book coming out on Rummy like authroized biography the author talk to him, his wife Joyce and people knew him
I know this coming out later on this year
Lol I love that FReepers recommend stuff to me. :) I've never taken it before but I'll look for it.
WOW . . . thank you for posting Sft Jeffers' eloquent commentary!
Dr Deb:
Thanks for sending it to me so I could share it with others.
Many, many prayers going up for our president. I HATE it when he is out of the country into places that are volitile. I know we won't rest easy till the chopper puts down at the White House and he steps out onto the lawn.
Great pictures although I would rather that he were not going to such a violent territory.
Thanks for Sanity Island tonight Snugs!
I'm about to have some yummy cream of chicken soup from my friend! :D
This is one of MANY reasons that I would NEVER vote for Newt Gingrinch and have MANY doubts about Guliani . . . CHARACTER MATTERS!
"Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_go_co/gingrich_affair;_ylt=Aq7OwHK5t_y4LVhoB4grtnOs0NUE
Thanks for putting that link out again. That was an amazing article. I printed it out for my husband.
It's incredible how these really lame brained people who are so easily manipulated by current fads and media types think they are superior to this man when he is so far above them in every way.
Anyway, great article.
Yes, that should read "Gingrich."
I am staying off of all discussion threads about potential candidates right now.
When it shakes out I will get interested. I do hope we can get a real conservative and a good man like we have now, but I know that I will vote for the Republican no matter what.
If the Republican is about national security, I will vote for him because that's the paramount issue right now.
Other things can be settled down the line, but if we lose the war on terror, that can't be settled.
I would really hate to vote for a pro choice president though. That is a big issue with me.
Thanks for bringing Thumper out for a bow. It's so good to see him. And thanks for tonight's Dose!
Wow! This should be sent out to every congress critter and senator. I plan to copy and send this to some of my more liberal friends. Very moving.
In the photos where Laura is walking to Marine One in DC, she looks weighed down a bit, not smiling as easily as usual.
I am praying for God to raise up a righteous leader who is also strong enough to fight the terrorists.
Like the one we have now........
But they WILL if they have to..............that's why they volunteered to join the finest military force in the history of the world.
They are winners, and they are AMAZING!!
Thanks for the article, Deb!
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