As I watch all the negative news reports and efforts to discredit all the good we have accomplished, and continue too do, I can some what understand the polarization that it has created in our country. What I really find ridiculous is the amount of people that really believe our President and cabinet attacked their own country on 9/11. People really believe it.

I have talked to several people that believe President Bush just wants oil money and the ability to take away the constitutional rights of all Americans.They also believe that we have failed horrbly in Iraq and continue to do so. They love to say Iraq is now in a civil war.and we should just pull out. I always wait until they are finished simply because I find these people very intresting and want to understand where they are coming from.

After they feel they've proved their point I ask them how many people that were there, are are there now, have confimed what you believe, In other words how can you prove your point. It's almost always the same " Just look at all the news from there and the bodies that are being found". I then tell them that I was there for an entire year and was at the base of the Sunni triangle in central Iraq. I tell them that much of the stuff they see is from the efforts of the enemies of Iraq, Syria, Iran Jordan and the Takfiri. The hundreds of Iraqis that I spoke to know this and will tell us often. I tell them that fueds over land, waterways and other property often result in gunfire. The loss of any life is a tragedy but this is life in that entire region. It really is important for alot of the Bush haters to believe that none of what the press is reporting never would have happened had we not gone into Iraq.

The Bush haters all love to say that WMD's were never found, I remind them that thousands of chemical weapons were, in fact, found early in the liberation of Iraq, the press spent about two days reporting it. These were found twelve years after they are said to have been destroyed. I let them know that I also served at the chemical weapons depot in Utah after 9/11 and know that just one drop of this stuff the size of a pinhead can cause violent and painful death. The usual response, from the few that know this, is " Well these were all very old weapons and not really a threat ". People just can't give President Bush credit for anything.

I like asking these people for the names of anyone they know that was killed over there, Iraqi or American, they don't know anyone but believe they are doing all of us a favor by bad mouthing our Government and President, which is their right of course, but they really aren't helping.

I recently saw a young Army officer that lost his leg in combat that was trying to help disabled vets with gainful employment, he admits these vets could just get retirment and not work again, but this would only hurt our vets. He descrbed lots of things these wounded could do. he never brought in

The elections are just a few weeks away and my next lecture to my class will be on registering to vote and actually casting a vote. I will try my best to relate my experience in Iraq taking part in free elections. I wish I could get some help loading a video I took last December 14th. It is something I wrote about on a previous entry.

The men of the 4th Iraqi Infantry were dancing and singing, when I asked them the reason they told me it was because they were going to vote the next day, this kind of joy will never be reported by the left leaning press. What is even more important is that the next day while collecting the ballots the soldiers were ambushed by the Takfiri. We sat there that night and saw the shattered and bloody vehichles came back to the base. I knew that these men still had a long way to go and much more pain to endure, freedom truly comes at a high price and these men are willing to pay it. We would be leaving for good in just three days.

I only wish more people could experience the cost of freedom and repect the fact that it is not only a right to vote but a duty.I can only try a few at a time but I will try to get as many people as I can involved this year.

But I really have to express my discust with the conduct of so many "Judges" that seem to ignore the will of the voters here in the U.S. For those readers that haven't heard, recently the voters of Arizona passed a law that required everyone that voted had to prove citizenship, I know, we didn't already have that as law? Well two 9th circuit court of apellate "Judges" struck down the law. So many of us have to think "What's the point of voting ones consciuse when one person holds the power to supress their will, and enforce theirs" That sounds more like a Tyrant than a Judge.

I really fear for our country when so many men and women have paid the price for freedom we can't even fire Tyrant Judges and, here in California, cant even get a thirty percent voter turn out. And this place that seems to have gone so wrong for Liberals and leftest, Iraq, has an average of eighty-five percent voter turn out. Remember, these people risk death to vote, but still want the freedom to do so. Where's the day to day coverage on all our success?

On a couple personal notes: If "Aus the Terp" is my feind Aus please contact me and let me know how all my Iraqi brothers are. Part of the reason why I haven't been heavy on this blog is because of some legal problems with my ex-girlfriend and the liberal courts. I have had a "Domestic Violence Order" filed against me and have lost several of my constitutional rights. I will just say I have never touched or threatend any woman or child as is alleged, let alone harmed them. Here in California the courts are trying to make it so all that has to be proved is that the female plaintiff is frieghtend, proof not needed. I really have got to write about this because when I do more people will see how corrupt our system is becoming and no one seems to care. This particular "JUDGE" is nothing more than a left leaning bigot and Tyrant.