by James Glaser
October 25, 2004

I am saying we, because Washington is doing everything they do in our names. Remember it is our Government, our Military, and our Foreign Policy.

Now that we have destroyed Iraq, bombed the electrical grid, water treatment plants, and the sewage treatment system, we expect the Iraqi people to pick up the pieces and reap the freedom we have provided for them.

President Bush told the terrorists to "bring it on" in Iraq and that is what they have done. Now because of the President's taunt, thousands of terrorists are in Iraq and many of them are ready and willing to commit suicide in order to wreak havoc.

On Sunday, 49 new Iraqi soldiers, soldiers President Bush has told us are trained to take over for our fighting men, were lined up and executed by those in Iraq who fight against us. They may have been some of the terrorists Bush invited to Iraq or some of the thousands of Iraqi nationals trying to disrupt anything our government is trying to do over there.

These 49 new soldiers had just finished the training our country provided. They were on their way home for leave before their first assignment. In Iraq, this land of horror and terror, we sent these new soldiers home, in a group, with no weapons to protect themselves.

If you are an Iraqi man trying to keep your family together, then working for the United States in this new Iraqi Army is about the only game in town. We have pretty well destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and with out electricity and running water, most jobs have disappeared. Iraqi men need work and America's puppet government is hiring, forcing young Iraqi men to "join up" to get a pay check.

With the little training we give them, we are now ready to put these young men up against an enemy who has fought the United States Army and Marine Corps to a standstill in many parts of Iraq. We don't want to take these terrorists on in cities like Fullujah, because the killing of civilians makes us look bad. However if we can put this new Iraqi Army out in front, then we can kill whoever we want and put the blame on them.

We are not only bastards when it comes to how we treat the Iraqi people, but we treat our own people poorly too. In an article written by Ana M. Alaya, for the NJ.com Star Ledger, the headline reads, "By the Thousands, Soldiers 50 and Older are Being Deployed."

It seems that the United States Military is stretched so thin right now that men like Charles Thomas, who tended to wounded soldiers in Vietnam are now being called on to fight in Iraq. Thomas, a 58-year-old Army National Guard Sergeant Major will be leaving for Iraq in a matter of weeks to join the other reported 4,119 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are 50 or older. Before getting orders for Iraq, Sergeant Major Thomas reassured his wife with these words, "Everyone will have to go to Iraq before I get called."

So now we have older men who should be enjoying their retirement years being called to Iraq to fight a young man's war and we have young poorly trained unarmed Iraqi men getting killed for an American President who wanted to act macho and taunt every crazy terrorist in the world to come and take us on in Iraq. Well they have.