With my basically libertarian and constitutionalist views, I don't believe that G.W. Bush should have sent about a quarter million troops outside our borders, essentially to the opposite side of the world. But he did. When, in his earlier State of the Union speech, he defined the Axis of Evil as Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, my response was Noooooooooo. We will now have to fight all three eventually.
So I welcomed the war protests and protesters, and felt that they might do some good. I even agreed with the arguments of the other gang, the D's, who protest only because they must take the opposite side to the R's, in hopes winning the next election.
But now the troops are there, some in tents in desert sandstorms. And the idiots at the United Nations think that inspections are working, and don't seem to recognize, or care, that they're only "working" because of the abovementioned quarter million troops, some in tents in a sandstorm.
So now anti-war demonstrations are increasing, now that anti-war demonstrations only mean that either the men and women in those tents will just have to wait, or at worst more of them will have to die, while politicians of the world play their silly games. All at the expense of the American taxpayer, by the way.
So, get on with it, dammit. No point in waiting, every minute we get another Tokyo Rose or Hanoi Jane who will get more of our troops killed. And I, who have little to say about all this, will never, never, never criticize those young men and women who make up the most awesome military that the world has ever seen. My only hope is that someday we can get rid of the R's and the D's and return to a country which defends itself.