What it the deal?

This day has dragged along. Weather has been dreary with cloudy skies and drizzle. Early morning greeted us with a temperature of 23 degrees which slowly climbed to 32 by mid afternoon before starting a return to another very cold night with more drizzle causing roads to ice over in many places. The next few days appear to follow this pattern and it does so without my approval for sure.

Here is the news of the day. I continue to hear the same speech coming from those that assume this war is destined to end in defeat for America. I can't bring myself to accept those sentiments. I can recall when this war started. I remember thinking how the people seemed determined not to let this war end like Vietnam ended. The people pulled together at first but as soon as things didn't appear as though it would end quickly then almost immediately the same attitude and rhetoric, the same blame and impatience, the same people and slogans, the same blame America first and the same cut and run attitude appeared once more, only louder and through more forms of media, to give strength and determination to the enemy.

I can't bring myself to think these people of America, honestly want the US to loose this war. I do think these people must be naive when it comes to what they believe this enemy wants to do to us. To not understand the true desire of this enemy is to open yourself up to disaster because, they not only want to win in Iraq, they also want to defeat all that area so they once again can reestablish a caliphate from which they could begin to rule with the radical hand of a misguided religion. Ladies and gentlemen that is not their only desire. When they take control of that area they will be able to blackmail the western world through control of the oil.

The US through its adherence to certain rules of engagement in war automatically puts itself behind the eight ball when dealing with our enemy. We tend to be nice in the process of killing those trying to kill us. We try not to kill the people handing our enemies the bullets or passing them the grenades, they are just innocent bystanders. We try to limit any killing of young radicals, while they are in training to kill us, because the media refers to them as children. We also limit firing on their mosques where the radical enemy sometimes pray between the planning of their future battles and the reloading of their weapons.

Let me think now, the presidents critics said his stay the course wasn't working, he changed it. The critics said he didn't have enough troops, he increased the troop level. The critics said the Iraqis' needed to step up, the Iraqis are moving into Baghdad in bigger numbers. The critics said the Iraqi government needed to do something about the oil problem, they are dividing the oil output. The critics wants to know the number of troops that will be killed, the critics want to know when the troops will be finished, the critics want to make sure we don't upset the Iranians, the critics want to make sure we don't piss off Syria, but mainly the critics want George Bush to screw up so much they can hardly contain them selves. That is the real deal my friends.