The Second Seven Day War

I am so sick and tired of the current occupant of the White House going around the country telling the same lies over and over. I know this is part of the Republican/Rove election strategy and sadly it has worked very well in the past, but it still makes me sick. Bring back the good old days when Bush would take 6 week vacations and clear brush. Are we going to have to listen to six weeks of Bush giving the same speech on how his "war" in Iraq is somehow related to fighting terrorists? There is NO war in Iraq! The war was over in about seven days. That's about how long it took for our military to sweep through and take total control of the country. They fought and quickly defeated an enemy that was defending its territory. THAT'S what a war is and that's what our military (and all military) are trained to do. Our forces did a fantastic job and after that week of fighting, we should have started to bring them home and replace them with UN forces. Our military is not a police force, but that is exactly what they have been doing for the past three years as they have been picked off in small numbers (that add up to thousands) by murderous Iraqi thugs. If we had done the right thing and cooperated with the UN and sent in a multi-national force that was led by soldiers from Muslim countries, to act as a buffer among the Iraqi sects, thousands upon thousands of lives would have been saved. These troops really WOULD have been greeted as liberators. And the only cost would have been sharing of the reconstruction contracts with companies other than Halliburton, giving up control of the oil in Iraq, and admitting that maybe you made a few mistakes in your war "planning"...three things Bush and the neocons will never do. These failures are the main reasons, among many, that Bush will go down as the worst "president" in history. In two months we have the chance to vote out of office the enablers of this failed policy and start the process of doing what should have been done at the end of those seven days...start bringing our troops home and getting the UN and other countries involved. The return to sanity begins November 7.