A few words from the Ranter

Wild Bill and I have both posted a few of our ideas for Iraq and the present war on terrorism with the sincere hope that someone will read our words, thoughts and experience from real veterans and perhaps stop and think. That is all we are asking, that America collectively stand up, for one specific moment pauses, reflects on the present war, and think of what the old dogs of war are trying to say.

We have been there, we have been at the forefront of crowd hatred against us, we know all too well the feelings of a soldier when they discover they are fighting a war that their country does not support and people are not only demonstrating, they are battling returning military. This is really not the true intentions of the articles, they are only to do as I suggested, make one American, somewhere, someplace stop and think of what is going on and perhaps that person can change the way things are headed.

If we do not entertain this present situation as an all, out war of winning then we have wasted our time and the precious lives of our military. If we pull out of Iraq without an effective exit strategy, living them as we did the people of Viet Nam and the Montanyard tribesmen we left for slaughter then we have not only wasted the lives of our precious sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, but the lives of the people in Iraq.

We cannot be the paper tiger so often discussed by our enemy, they know all too well that as soon as we begin taking casualties we tend to pull the troops out of harm’s way. We need to enter this war as a war of wining, a war of attrition, a war that leaves one and only one remaining factor, peace in our time.

We must throw out the winds of words of crusade, of religious war for it is not, it is a war against terrorism and these are the people that we are fighting, not because we wanted to, but because we were attacked, our financial system and our way of life. We cannot spend idle moments listening to the idiots of our times telling the people that it never happened, that it was holographic images and controlled demolition. We were attacked on 9/11 and we need to make them pay for what they did and insure it does not happen again.

As Wild Bill pointed out, we will be attacked again, it is only a matter of time, but we cannot sit in our controlled air-conditioned homes thinking we are safe from the ravages of war. England and Israel learned that lesson and we should learn from them.
The unfortunate answer to all I am saying is we will not learn because we tend to forget the things that happen to us, we tend to forget what countries and terrorists have done to us, we tend to forget and if we continue to do so, we just may have forgotten whom we are.