Hey, Jefe...Would You Say We Have a Plethora of Problems?

Politics. Hey, why not. If this blog is to be a plethora of thoughts, I might as well pull politics into the mix.

“Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?”
“A what?”
“A *plethora*”
“Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.”
“Jefe, do you know what a plethora is?”
“Why, El Guapo?”
“Well, you just told me that I had a plethora, and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora. I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a *plethora*.”

I digress.

Bush is an idiot. I am neither democrat nor republican, and so I proudly fall in the “independent” classification. A friend said it best: I am a republican economically, and a democrat socially. Now of course, there is room for interpretation but in a culture where we ultimately cannot avoid (and yet rebel against) generalizing, this is the closest generalization I can grasp.

I fear voting a democrat into the presidency as a great deal of them promise to remove our troops from Iraq by the end of 2007. Kerry, for one, said that this was his goal. Come on, Kerry. Did I really vote for you? In the state Iraq is in now, and will be for the next few years to be honest, we cannot pull a Vietnam. If we pull out, Iraq will fall into civil war and the existing democratic government will surely fall. I have no doubt in this belief.

I do not at all advocate the Iraq war. It seems as if Americans have forgotten, or discredited, the fact that Colin Powel had presented to Congress and America that there was no doubt Sadam had weapons of mass destruction. He sat there with his little concept drawings of the Mobile Chemical Lab Truck Thingie That Will End All Life on Earth When Sadam Can Hardly Support His Army with Current Funds Mythical Creature. We found him in a ditch in the middle of nowhere. He wasn’t in a chemical/nuclear/biological warfare bunker. He was in a ditch, unshaven, and hiding from a super power.

I want our troops out of Iraq, no doubt. But we have started something that we must finish. We left Vietnam in shambles, having killed innocent civilians and losing a large number of courageous and loyal American soldiers. It would be a disgrace to those soldiers who have already died for this war to cut and run, as they will have died in vain.

So to loop back: I will not vote for a democrat with an exit strategy, as they are way too ambitious, nor will I vote for a republican who may spread our lines even thinner by entering into another war. Our focus is Iraq, and we must put blinders on our politicians so that we do not divert from this path.

Bush impressed me with his restraint in the Israel/Lebanon crisis as he put his faith in the U.N. Now, I am not patting him on the back. I am simply giving him a two-finger golf clap, as he did not involve the U.S. more than he should have. Our future leaders need to look at that resolution as an example.

The U.S. has dirt (sand) all over its nose. Its about time we keep our noses clean.