A Pox on Both of Their Houses

by James Glaser
August 23, 2004

Now get this. I have Republicans writing to me, who want me to quit hammering on President Bush, because he is the only Peace Candidate. At the same time I have Democrats writing, wanting me to lay off Kerry because, he will save America.

I have to say that neither of these two, Kerry nor Bush are fit to be President of the United States. I think that either one of them will continue on with attacking one third world country after another. It all boils down to money and there are many rich Americans, who got rich and continue to get richer, because we keep using War materials.

It is no secret that George Bush's dad is an arms merchant and indirectly, our President will be richer because of his dad's company, but that isn't what upsets me about George Bush.

I really, truly believe that George Bush should be in prison for Desertion while in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. People tell me that "everybody was skipping out" back then. Well I wasn't and I sure would have liked to take a few months off when I was in the Nam. George took the same oath as me, he also took over a hundred thousand dollars in training to fly a jet, then he went on the lamb.

Now the man is playing Commander in Chief, only his playing has killed over 1,000 American Soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus wounded thousands and thousands. Thousands of amputations have been performed so that George can claim to be a hero. Now he wants to give Prime Minister Tony Blair, a special Medal of Honor for his help in Iraq, a war we haven't even come close to winning yet. Blair refuses to come over to get it, because he is afraid it will help Bush win in November. Even Bush's friends are backing out on him.

John Kerry on the other hand is afraid that people will think he is a wimp, so he wants to kill even more people than George Bush has. Kerry has said he wants to double the amount of Green Berets we have so that we can attack terrorism in more countries. (That would be, Third World Countries)

Think about this, Since WW II we have attacked two Nations with real armies, North Korea and Vietnam. In one we called a truce and in the other we ran out on our "friends." Sad as it is to say, we have only won when we attack pitiful Third World Nations, who have no chance against our might. Think about this too, Iraq was defeated, they have no army, they never had a navy, or air force, and they are putting a real hurt on us right now.

Yes we did defeat the Soviet Union, but that was Ronald Regan, and get this, he did it with words, money, and talking to the enemy. No bullets shot. Yes, I would say Reagan was good for Peace, well I would say that if he hadn't sold all those weapons to terrorists in Iran and then helped the Contras slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people in another Third World country.

Right now the United States of America has the most powerful military in the history of the world and John Kerry says that is not enough. Kerry wants to add 40,000 new troops. Get this Kerry says these troops are not for Iraq where we need them and that would be fine if Kerry had plans to get our troops out of there, but he doesn't. Just like Bush, Kerry has us staying in Iraq for the long haul. Presidents know it is the Kiss of Death to admit either defeat or a mistake that has caused thousands of innocent deaths.

Both Kerry and Bush have to keep us in Iraq, because it was Bush's idea and Kerry voted for it. Neither man has the balls to say that we might have been wrong this time around.

So come voting time we have to decide if the country and our Constitution can handle four more years of Bush or do we want to go out and kill even more innocent people, in more countries with Kerry. Either way we lose and the troops will continue to die, and lose limbs in Iraq. Oh Yeah, innocent Iraqi kids will have to grow up or die in our War Zone too.


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