by James Glaser
September 24, 2002

Our founding fathers set up our government with a way that each of the branches of government can check and balance the others. However when one branch negates their responsibility like the Congress is doing right now with this Iraq war, our form of government no longer works.

There are many meanings of the word honor and the one I like is "an exemplary sense of personal moral standards and conduct." Now don't get me wrong there are people in Congress that rise above that swill I talk about, but they are the minority. Senator Robert Byrd is one of them, but to be honest he has been in so long and feels so very secure in his position, that he is not afraid to say what he believes. Others are so very afraid they will lose votes, they become timid or worse yet will say what ever they think their voters want to hear.

Senator Byrd, "This administration, all of a sudden, wants to go to war with Iraq." He goes on to say, "The polls are dropping, the domestic situation has problems..... So all of a sudden we have this war talk, war fervor, the bugles of war, drums of war, clouds of war."

We have gone from hundreds of billions of dollars in surplus to hundreds of billions of dollars in deficit in the months of George Bush's term in office. In that same time two million Americans have lost their job. A lady down the road told me, that her fifteen years of savings in her retirement plan would have netted her more money, if she would have invested everything in a coffee can or under her mattress.

We still have all the domestic problems that George Bush ran on except for the fact he was able to get a big tax cut in there for the rich. George, Dick, Donald, Paul and Colin have not a clue on what to do for domestic problems, so they will use a war for cover.

Those in Congress that have some sort of a plan for our economic problems are so worried that they will look unpatriotic if they bring them up, they will sit on their hands and not say a peep as the White House steam rolls a war onto the American agenda. Sad to say, Congress won't ask about our problems at home nor will they ask about flaws in this war policy.

Donald and the White House keep saying that Iraq is weaker than last time and the people will throw up their hands in praise of America for liberating them. The Republican Guard won't stand and fight for Saddam. Then please tell me why Saddam is such a threat to America now, knowing these things?

We didn't know what was going on in our own country before the September 11th attack or now for that matter, but we know the inner workings of Iraq?

Now America will be the country (much like those terrorists that hit us) of being a "first strike" country. We think you are evil so we are going to kill you along with tens of thousands of your innocent people. America is sounding like it is trying to join the "axis of evil."

As far as I know in the last eleven years Saddam has not attacked anyone nor fired a missile, so why do we think he has a itchy trigger finger now?

Can anyone in Washington give us the plan for what happens after this war? Is there a plan or is that secret like the rest of the things done in our name?

I would like to see Congress at the very least ask some questions. At least they could make the appearance of being a check to the Executive branch. Do these men and women that take our money and bathe themselves in power have any Honor or have they become so addicted to the attention they get, they will do anything not to lose it? Remember an unjust war is murder plain and simple. Will these people not even ask if this is just, are they really ready to murder children in a land 7,000 miles away so they can stay in office?