Oh Let's Just Say I HAD to

George Bush goes to a primary school to<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

talk to the kids to get a little PR.

After his talk he offers question time.

One little boy puts up his hand and

George asks him his name.

" <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Stanley ," responds the little boy.

"And what is your question, Stanley ?"

"I have 4 questions:

* First, why did the USA invade Iraq

without the support of the UN?

*Second, why are you President when Al

Gore got more votes?

*Third, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?

*Fourth, why are we so worried about

gay-marriage when 1/2 of all Americans

don't have health insurance?

Just then, the bell rings for recess.

George Bush informs the kiddies

that they will continue after recess.

When they resume George says,

"OK, where were we? Oh, that's right,

question time. Who has a question?"

Another little boy puts up his hand.

George points him out and asks him

his name.

"Steve," he responds.

"Actually, I have 6 questions.

*First, why did the USA invade Iraq

without the support of the UN?

*Second, why are you President when

Al Gore got more votes?

*Third, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?

*Fourth, why are we so worried about gay marriage

when 1/2 of all Americans don't have health insurance?

*Fifth, why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?

And

*Sixth, what the hell happened to Stanley???

Sometimes jokes do tell the truth about a situation.  We as a nation cannot and should not take on the weight of the entire world upon our shoulders.   Waging war should only be done under the most extreme of circumstances - like an actual country attacking us.  Yes, go after terrorists, but what has happened in Iraq makes no sense.  The people don't want us there, they do not appreciate anything that we have done.

I look at it this way, some people don't know how to respond to freedom, they have no idea of what freedom is having lived their lives under one regime or another all their lives.  So we go blasting in...shouting...Your free, free....what does it mean to them?  Their towns, villages, buildings are in ruins, food is scarce, jobs hardly exist....gangs on one side or another feel free to kidnap, torture, maim, kill men, women and kids...all under our label of freedom.

When we fought for our freedom here in this country, we all came together from 13 different States..to form a union, to be free.  We had a common goal for the common good and each man and woman stood tall for what they had to do.  You do not have that in Iraq...yes, they are one nationality but their differences are tearing them apart - they do not have a goal in mind except making their religion the only religion in the area.  What a shame, again the name of religion death reigns supreme.

What eats at me the most is that I've lived through this scenario in the mid 60's and 70's....Vietnam.  The parallels are too close.

Why do we always go barging in like a raging bull? Here we are watching the war begin like a dam movie, hey wait, let me get my popcorn.  Shock * Awe....well, it wore off.   Wag the tail works just so much then the blinders come off as the coffins come home.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that we should fight to defend ourselves and that if war is the only way so be it.   But mark my words in the annals of history this war will go down as a bad error in judgment.   Meanwhile, Osama is still loose - Afghanistan is not really secure and we spread ourselves too thin.

We need to work with the rest of the world to reign in on the dangerous countries like Iran and North Korea.  I also don't believe that Russia is all that squeaky clean either and China is a huge sleeping dragon.  We urgently need diplomacy to be spread around the entire world...as we all know George is not the one to do it.   Hope there is something left by the time he leaves office.