I spent some time today watching Congress give their opinions on this resolution to "send a message " to President Bush and the U.S. Military, found it to be what I expected. I also spent last night talking in group to some of my fellow students about the Vietnam war, Iraq and Cindy Sheehans upcoming visit to our campus, found it also to be what I expected.

I'll start off by stating the most important thing I didn't hear mentioned by any single member of the leftist speakers hoping to insult our military and President: What will the long term effects be on the thousands of Iraq vets be after telling them, in this completly ceremonial gesture, 'We never ever believed in what you were doing and couldn't care less about the blood you spilled, all that matters is political rheteric and appeasing the liberal media." Somehow I see bond forming in Vietnam and Iraq vets along the lines of soldiers paying the price for politicians cowardice. And that's the only comparison I'll make in the two wars, emotional scarring.

In essence, the lives of those lost were lost in vain. Boy, that's going to feel great explaining
that after coming so close to success and getting closer to a much more peaceful world then we've ever seen, a bunch of cowards in Congress managed to get the world closer to global destruction. Pelosi, just yesterday, let Iran know they were free to develope and use nucleur weapons against Israel and the west. Any person who can't see this coming is dellusional. This is one pathetic human being that definetly caters to the extreme left.

I also seen several newly elected " Combat Veterans " from Iraq speak in favor of this " Slap in the face " to our President and military. I will do my best to find out the record these people that clearly don't represent the vast majority of those that have had " Boots on the ground." I would ask readers to look back at my " REMF's " entry and be prepared to learn the names of Remf's in congress.

I keep hearing the term " Civil war " from these idiots and saying that we should not deploy more troops, Hello ! they are already in place and have started doing there job. We also never hear any member of congress explain that this number of 21,000 is actually only about 2,000 that will actually be "Outside the wire." And the vast majority of the killing and violence takes place in Bagdad, it's not a " Civil war ". The kurds are very much in control up north, my province had zero secatarian violence and many of the bombers we caught had come from Bagdad, or shall I say Syria and Iran. The Iraqi soldiers we worked with were alomost evenly split Sunni/Shiite and NEVER a single problem with relegion.

The news always comes from the liberal media and is never from those living there. If we want the truth we should start reviewing the thousands of military bloggers to get real perspective on the Iraq situation. Of course these should be catagorized by those that actually go outside the wire more than once a month to deliver supplies and take PR pictures, REMFS.

I will say this for the liberals, more troops are not needed. We just need to get more out of what we've got there now, now more duty for styrafoam plate counters at the DFAC. And rotations " Outside the wire " for everyone.

In my class duscussion the vast MAJORITY were not in support of running and were very suprised to hear that none of what the press and Congress is saying happened in my particular province. I also told them of the numerous Iraqis that had lost loved ones and were very willing to fight for there freedom and fellow Iraqis. I also explained to them of the over 14,000 in and around LSA Anaconda only one battalion and some special operations teams ever left the complete security of the base. This is about 400 soldiers. For those that like to use polls and numbers I will let them know that about 80% of the casualties are from the Bagdad area, the very place Syria and Iran send their assasins. And on fourth of all deaths were through accidents, not direct action by insurgents. Yes, they would all still be alive if they never went to Iraq, that's not the point. The point is the media wants everyone to think all were caused by insurgent activities, there not.

I have to wonder if the invasion of Normandy would have been turned into a full retreat ( redployment?) had it been shown live. Thousands died there within hours and Omaha beach took a full day to secure, peace comes at a price and we are trying to move closer to less global conflicts. But as long as tyrants continue to go unchallenged they will continue to murder those that seek freedom. It is most definitly the minority of our population, any country's population for that matter, that are willing to pay the price that the sheltered and ignorant take for granted.

And it is most digusting to see the leftist refer to complete withdrawel as " redplyment " When troops are no longer

I have been home now for over a year and have to say I can relate much easier to some of the old " Twilight Zone " shows by a fellow paratrooper, Rod Serling of the 11th Airborne division. Although everything seems, on the surfice, to be the same it really is very diiferent. I am not in the same world I left. I talk to some of those that have "been there, done that" and they seem to agree for the most part.

I suppose the most difficult thing to understand is how so many people readily believe what they see in these " if it bleeds, it leads" so called news reports. I never get asked about what good we accomplished while in Iraq, the assumption is always the worst and I get asked constantly " will more troops do any good?" ( the answer to that is, in my personal opinion, NO) I also can't believe so many people can not see the threat to humanity by so many butchers that have only the complete destruction of Israel and the west as priority number one.

I have a very difficult time watching any of the reporting from Iraq, simply because I know it is presented as negativly as possible. Does anybody care about the willingnous of the Iraqi people to endure so much pain? Time and time again many of the bloggers that actually live and serve with the Iraqi people are ignored, when we tell of the valour of the Iraqis nobody seems to care,it's not senastional enough to make money. Instead people liston to what that disgrace of leadership "Pelosi" and "Murtha" have to say after several insightful hours in Iraq and give their "sound assesment" much more credibilty than those that spent every day of the last year of their life in Iraq living with Iraqis.

I also notice that life goes on as usual, perhaps that's the best part. Except that my friends and fellow soldiers are standing ready to sacarafice "All of their tomorrows, for their today" and those that profit the most from the carnage of war ( the practicers of free speech ) seem the least to understand the meaning of this very commitment by its military. It's not for those that now have freedom, but for those that need the help of our soldiers to secure it, and that includes Palestine and Israel.

More to follow.