It’s Monday Morning and I’m up early. I kept having dreams of news coverage about the war. It got annoying so I got up. I guess it’s way too easy to get caught up in the coverage of the war. Especially with yesterday’s terrible coverage of Iraqis desecrating bodies of our troops. It wasn’t a good day at all for the war. I guess NO day is a good day for war but yesterday’s horrible events just strengthened the resolve of a lot of people to get this thing over with and get it over with fast.
There are times when you need to know when to fold your cards. I don’t like this war, I never liked this war. I hate the fact that it had to come to war. However, with that said, I know that no matter how much protesting anyone does, they’re not going to pull the troops out of Iraq just because people are marching in the streets of our major cities. Our president is determined to go through this war and through this effort until Saddam is gone. It’s going to be a long drawn out thing. It’s not going to be a Nintendo war and they’ve decided that we’re going to do whatever it takes to take him out regardless of the cost to our country.
So what do you do instead? Watch, wait and remember. Elections are coming up. The Republicans swept everything last time. In my county they did because they ran unapposed or ran against people who had no chance of winning (as much as I admire the concept of the green party, there ain’t no way outside of California is it gonna win an election). Get your forces together, get a good generic candidate and get people out to vote. If everyone who took to the streets this weekend (on both sides of the issue), took to the streets again to vote in elections a lot of things could be done. I doubt it will happen, because it’s much easier to march in a street than vote in an election, but there are options. Wait, organize, gather forces, and wage your own war in the elections. You CAN change things if you want to.
I have an hour until I have to work. I’m taking PTO time this week because I’m an idiot and I need a break. Just don’t ask.
k9