Today is Veteran's Day in America and since I am an American Veteran, I thought I'd offer my thoughts. I'll be thinking about the 22 American Veterans who take their own lives, on average, every day. This seems to be the only day of the year when anyone even asks why that happens. I'll be thinking about the approximately 7000 American soldiers who should be with us as Veterans but aren't because our fool of a President decided to attack a country that had done nothing to us and as a result caused 7000 American military fatalities. I'll also be thinking about the over one million innocent citizens of Iraq who, according to Johns Hopkins University, died as a result of our stupid and misguided decision to go after Saddam Hussein who did nothing to us but who did, as our incredibly insipid Commander in Chief said, "threaten to kill my Daddy."
Speaking of insipid, George W. Bush was interviewed on CBS this past weekend. Ha had the nerve to say that he regretted nothing that he had done as President. He did admit that he had not envisioned the creation of groups like ISIL. Many of the leaders of ISIL were in the Iragi Army which probably wouldn't have disintergrated if some dummy hadn't taken their leader away but that's probably way too complicated for Mr. Bush to even comtemplate.
Lastly, I'm thinnking that it would be nice if there weren't any American Military Veterans because the American public had matured enough so that they decided to look for a better way. One of the things we need to do immediately is reinstate the military draft. If our leaders are going to decide that we have to resort to violence instead of thinking, at least they could have some skin in the game. I'm sure their children and grandchildren would love to serve and protect just like we common folk.
Speaking of insipid, George W. Bush was interviewed on CBS this past weekend. Ha had the nerve to say that he regretted nothing that he had done as President. He did admit that he had not envisioned the creation of groups like ISIL. Many of the leaders of ISIL were in the Iragi Army which probably wouldn't have disintergrated if some dummy hadn't taken their leader away but that's probably way too complicated for Mr. Bush to even comtemplate.
Lastly, I'm thinnking that it would be nice if there weren't any American Military Veterans because the American public had matured enough so that they decided to look for a better way. One of the things we need to do immediately is reinstate the military draft. If our leaders are going to decide that we have to resort to violence instead of thinking, at least they could have some skin in the game. I'm sure their children and grandchildren would love to serve and protect just like we common folk.
