Thanks President Bush...you cretin...

[LowerManhattanite]

What are the numbers today? How many today? 12 Marines lost? Or is it the 100-plus soldiers SkyNews is reporting? Why is it that every report I've seen on TV for the last four days has a shot of a flaming Army vehicle, and scores of guns in the hands of crazed nationalistic Iraqis chanting "(insert name here) go home!" Why is it that what appears brutally obvious is that a corner has been turned and we now find ourselves staring into the blind alleyway of anarchy that is an enraged Iraqi populace.

Why? Can you answer THAT, Mr. Bush? Can you answer why those who saw this coming and spoke bravely about it were so marginalized in the runup to war? Can you answer anything at alll save for "how much bbrush did you clear this weekend?"

My brother-in-law just got back from Iraq this past Friday, unexpectedly, but thank God intact---to see his six-month old son (my sister's baby) for the first time. He's home and I'm ecstatic about it---he left that hell-hole that we've turned the burner up on just in time. But my mind goes to the soldiers who are there still. The poor shlubs who signed up to kick some *ss, and the ones who took a service hitch to get out of debt, or to pay for school, or just to get some structure in their lives. They're there now, fighting an enraged, embittered, nationalistic populace who are battling now with an "invaded homeland" fervor. And these poor shlubs, our fighting men and women are engaged in battle for a million cotton-candy soft, after-the-fact, manufactured reasons. They are coming back maimed, broken or simply with the wick of life snuffed from their bodies for what? WHAT? WHAT?!

My heart goes out to them...as it did for my brother-in-law when he was in the theater of war until a few days ago. My eyes have welled with tears several times today as the wild and wooly news flashes onto my browser's news headline. My brother-in-law could just have easily been one of the rapidly escalating dead these last few days...but the grace of God got him out of there. So I'm saying a heartfelt prayer for those who remain as I curse, damn and rebuke the sick and twisted "Tom-Cruise-movie-esque-I-wanna-be-a-man-so-I-can-measure-up-to-my-dad" coward-in chief who has sent our men and women off to fight in HIS war. I have been against this war from the day I predicted it not long after Bush was installed, but I ask...no, I beseech you fellow posters to do as I am and please say a prayer for the troops who are there. It brought my brother-in-law home. I hope it brings them all home soon too.

And as for you, Mr. President? Thanks. Thanks for nothing. And thanks for actually living below the feeble standards I predicted you'd sink to. Your utter idiocy makes me realize that I'm not as good a judge of character as I thought. I need to work on that about myself. But I'll be done with that long before I die. You Mr. President, have several lifetimes of learning and self-analysis to do based on what I and a growing number of Americans see. Get to learning...and get our troops out of there, Mister Tough-Guy.

[oasis]

1. Intense and sincere post. Welcome to DU LowerManhattanite.

:thumbsup:

[Malva Zebrina]

2. Yeah right and this man, this coward who sends these little pawns to

fight for his greedy business buddies was
AWOL himself in time of war;


How is it that he has been allowed to get away with this disgraceful service and how is it he has been allowed to sacrifice the lives of our precious young for his own greedy purposes? I mean this guy has been a proven coward who was not up the task on 9-11 and we are supposed to put our trust in this jerk? In this idiot? In this lazy prick who does not even read a newspaper?

How did we come to this ridiculous situation where we have more than six hundred of our precious children, dead because of this stupid man?

Our children are dying for this lazy prick's stupid decisions.

Our precious children. Does he even care about our precious children?

Hell no. He onlyu cares about how he LOOKS.

Our children are dying for this lying prick of a coward and of a despicable liar.

and no one is calling him on it.


this is not acceptable for anyone with any sense of a conscience or any sense of justice.

Get him out of there and send him back to a miserable life in Crawford with his tablecloth wearing manufactured lump o frump librarian, that worked for three years of her life, subservient, willing to give up all for the ecomimc benifits , Stepford wife. WOW



This evil and stupid man who was not actualy elected is a stupid and a dumassed evil stupid ignoramus of a stupid evil man

[onecitizen]

3. I was thinking today if..........

I could be face to face with bush and could only say one sentence to him, what would I say? I would say:

"you foolish, foolish little man."

Welcome to DU LM Good post BTW.

[sistersofmercy]

4. Nice rant, LowerManhattenite!

My prayers are with ALL who are in Iraq suffering as a result of this criminal war.

[LowerManhattanite]

7. I'm sorry for ranting...

...but today has just...I don't know..sent me miles over the brink. I'm looking at this footage, seeing what looks like utter confusion and chaos and I'm putting myself in the place of a soldier who in the back of his/her mind can't help but wonder about the rapidly changing multitude of reasons why he/she's supposedly there, hunched behind a car, or a berm wondering from which way death may come.

It must be frightening for them. My brother-in-law could see the searching in my eyes after I embraced him and simply said, "I can't even talk about it now". So I will give him his space for however long he needs it. But he has told my sister things...things which have upset her so much that she's now in touch with a few other women with significant others there who want their people home. "I'm lucky" she said, "but there's a lot of people who aren't gonna be as lucky as I was". I guess getting the brother-in-law home just as hell opened up to spit flames from Fallujah to Najaf to Basra has simply set me off. Maybe I'm soft for putting myself in the shoes of someone who's still got someone there...but I don't think so. It just galls me that the Armchair Rambos in charge seem unable for even a second to consider the folly of this BLATANTLY ego-driven exercise of inadequacy-clean-up.

I'm just...enraged today and I imagine I will be for some time now. Again, forgive me for ranting here. I t's been building all day and I had to vent somewhere.

More than ever,
Peace,
LowerManhattanite

[phaseolus]

5. Amen.

You have 14 posts, and already you're one of my favorite DUers. I feel the same way, it's hard to conceive of any thinking, feeling human being *not* thinking the same way. I don't have any close connections to the war as you do... although I have sons who might end up being drafted for similar idiocy in 10-15 years.

p.s. Just a week ago I got to spend a few enjoyable hours in Manhattan for the first time in my life, it's a beautiful place. I'm envious. Would have had even MORE fun if I didn't have to spend three hours trying to find jeans in my size to replace the ones I ripped about 45 seconds after I got off the ferry.

[librechik]

6. welcome to DU, Lower Manhattanite

moving rant. Hope they don't send your brother in law back!

war is hell.

[Skittles]

8. GREAT RANT

Welcome to the DU, LM; I completely agree.

:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

9. Ranting is encouraged here

Welcome to DU from a *slightly* more seasoned poster
:hi:

[PSU84]

10. WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
BUSH/CHENEY '04


It's all so clear to me now.....

[Blue Gardener]

11. Welcome to DU

Very well said. The young man at the grocery store today said he was leaving for boot camp in two weeks. Wide-eyed innocent probably has no real idea the horrors that await him in a few months. I can't help but thing how scared his parents must be for him after watching the events of the past few days. My nephew is joining the marines after graduation in June. I don't think he fully realized how bad it was going to get when he signed up several months ago. I wish I could talk him out of it, but I think it is too late.