Support is what is needed.
I have to apologize for not posting sooner, but I have had a few problems resulting from my surgeries and I am addressing them. My vision has changed severely, what was once clear is now difficult to see, close up or in distance, my vision has changed for the worse, it is difficult to accept, but I will overcome these problems.
In the mean time, I will try and get back to saying what is on my mind.
Have often stated that I never intended this blog to be a venue for the politics of our country. Many times I have totally avoided a topic, not wanting to violate my own rules. However, the present policy of President Bush cannot be ignored, so with that in mind, I will speak my peace.
President Bush is constantly at odds with a media still caught up in their past laurels, Watergate, Vietnam, Nixon. This media, the New York Times for one, is constantly determined to place the president in the worst possible light. It matters not if the actions are good or bad, in the media’s view they are as bad as anyone has ever seen, in any presidency.
President Bush may be a lot of things to the American people, but one thing remains, he is our President, we voted him in office and no matter what you feel, we should support his actions.
President Bush has instituted a plan to increase the military presence in Iraq and what amazes me is the same people who were screaming for more troops just a few months ago are now saying he is wrong in doing so. This applies from the man and women on the street to the elected officials in Washington.
Let’s be honest here, if we pull our troops out of Iraq the only thing this will accomplish is we leave the country wide open for Iran to take it over. Let alone, the warring parties in Iraq would take this move as their chance to do whatever they wish. The country would be in a state of war and chaos of untold proportions.
If we listen to the media and our elected officials, this is exactly what would transpire. What would this action prove; nothing and it would cost thousands of lives. Of course, the media would be able to place the blame on the fall of Iraq straight into the lap of President Bush.
I for one am tired of all the garbage, I am tired of all the blame, passing the buck, and the media saying whatever they wish, publishing whatever they wish and doing whatever they wish. They are determined to turn this into another Vietnam; they are determined to take down another presidency and to hell with what anyone thinks in the process.
I was going to write how I feel this is a good plan and how we need to have the present government of Iraq working with us, not against us, but I am so tired of the junk going on that it makes me sick.
3 comments:
Seems as tho the Media of today is a product of The Tokyo Rose School of Journalism !!
But you know what, Ranter ?? Even if the Head of the NYT had a last name of Bin-Laden and was guarded by Hezbollah and there was a Cresent on the front door, the booger-eatin-mohrons out there would still soak-up all that bullshit the media puts out !! Why, you ask ?? Because they have the same GOAL.. GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !! GET BUSH !!
It is difficult to convey the complexity of the way DOD works to someone who has not experienced it. This is a massive machine with so many departments and so much beaurocracy that no president, including Bush totally understands it.
I am a 2 tour Vietnam Veteran who recently retired after 36 years of working in the Defense Industrial Complex on many of the weapons systems being used by our forces as we speak.
Presidents, Congressmen, Cabinet Members and Appointees project a knowledgeable demeanor but they are spouting what they are told by career people who never go away and who train their replacements carefully. These are military and civil servants with enormous collective power, armed with the Federal Acquisition Regulation, Defense Industrial Security Manuals, compartmentalized classification structures and "Rice Bowls" which are never mixed.
Our society has slowly given this power structure its momentum which is constant and extraordinarily tough to bend. The cost to the average American is exhorbitant in terms of real dollars and bad decisions. Every major power structure member in the Pentagon's many Washington Offices and Field locations in the US and Overseas has a counterpart in Defense Industry Corporate America. That collective body has undergone major consolidation in the last 10 years. What used to be a broad base of competitive firms is now a few huge monoliths, such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Boeing.
Government oversight committees are carefully stroked. Sam Nunn and others who were around for years in military and policy oversight roles have been cajoled, given into on occasion but kept in the dark about the real status of things until it is too late to do anything but what the establishment wants. This still continues - with increasing high technology and potential for abuse.
Please examine the following link to testimony given by Franklin C. Spinney before Congress in 2002. It provides very specific information from a whistle blower who is still blowing his whistle (Look him up in your browser and you get lots of feedback) Frank spent the same amount of time as I did in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) but in government quarters. His job in government was a similar role to mine in defense companies. Frank's emphasis in this testimony is on the money the machine costs us. It is compelling and it is noteworthy that he was still a staff analyst at the Pentagon when he gave this speech. I still can't figure out how he got his superior's permission to say such blunt things. He was extremely highly respected and is now retired.
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/spinney_testimony_060402.htm
The brick wall I often refer to is the Pentagon's own arrogance. It will implode by it's own volition, go broke, or so drastically let down the American people that it will fall in shambles. Rest assured the day of the implosion is coming. The machine is out of control.
If you are interested in a view of the inside of the Pentagon procurement process from Vietnam to Iraq please check the posting on this blog entitled, "Odyssey of Armaments"
http://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2006/11/odyssey-of-armaments.html
The following links may also be of interest:
http://pogo.org/
http://www.d-n-i.net/top_level/about_us.htm
Thanks for the comments
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