Left-wing political diatribe

I still need to read some books to be sure of this: Richard Clarke's book, and Woodward's. But nobody is saying this, and it bugs the heck out of me that nobody is saying it. So, I'm going to say it.

Going to war with Iraq was a stupid mistake. Bush had an Iraq war on his agenda from Day One, and used trumped up evidence of What He Wanted To Hear to justify an act of aggression against a hostile country that posed no immediate threat to us. In the process, our armed forces have been distracted from the real enemy (the stateless terrorists that nobody knows how to fight), have been spread too thin, and are now enmeshed in a country that appears increasingly chaotic and on the verge of civil war.

The war in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terrorism. They are two separate things, and the war in Iraq is a distraction from and a drain on the resources needed in the war on the real threat to the United States and other free countries: Al Qaeda.

Nobody is saying anything because the 'Publicans portray any criticism as being unsupportive of our armed forces. Well, pardon me, but that's a load. Those of us who oppose the war honor and respect the men and women in our armed services, who are in harm's way because our arrogant, God-fearing, commander-in-chief, on a mission from said God, put them there for no good reason. This is not a war on terror. This is Mr. Bush's war. He started it. Now we have to clean up the mess.

I'm usually not real big on "assigning blame," except as a joke. That is, once you assign blame, you can move on and solve the problem. But it's going to get worse if we don't replace this man. Blame must be assigned so that people can take action. The appropriate action is to vote for John Kerry in November. Because I am absolutely confident that he would never have made such a mistake.