The war and history

I have been thinking alot about the war in Iraq lately. Being a fan of history and realizing that GW didnt take history I always thought he was just clueless due to that fact. But as I myself try to figure it out I come to a fork in the road.

I try to compare it to Vietnam. They are so close. In vietnam you had north and south fighting each other. One was supported by the russians the other by America. In Iraq you have two diffrent religous secs. One supported by alkaida the other by America.

So looking back on history one could say get out, look at nam we lost there after 9 years of bloody fighting. Or, you cant win someone elses civil war.

But then talk to soldiers that were in Nam. "they wouldnt let us fight the way we needed" or "It was a politcians war"

There are thousands of blogs discussing this by people that drink starbucks coffee and listen to NPR so if you want some deep discussions go read them. Me, I just say "we dont know the correct answer, history isnt much help" Either way GW goes (and I am writting this after he commited another 21k troops) he is gonna lose more than likely. If he trys to keep the fight going we will get a new administration in the next election and bail out like a cat at a dog fight. If he bails out now and iraq goes into a total mess (think Iran taking it over? could happen) he will be dished for that.

I dont want to say "support our president" cause personally I think his dumb ass got us in this mess, but now that we are in it we have to work together to figure out a way out.

I got in a fight with an older kid in the 5th grade. The sob was twice my size and was picking on all of us smaller kids. I stood up to him and we went at each other. The teacher broke it up and sent us to the principal. On the way to the prinicipals office we worked together to come up with a good lie to keep both of us from getting spankings. We hated each other 10 minutes before but still worked together to keep our butts from pain. Isnt it a shame that a 5th grader and 6th grader can work something out but those of us that Listen to NPR or Rush Limbaugh and have this great 4 to 8 year college degrees cant come up with some good lie to get our butt from getting spanked?

Ok back to you 8 dollar coffee...me I am gonna make a cheap bourbon and coke