Quotes from the Courier Journal..."Louisvillian Andrew Horne, a retired Marine Reserve lieutenant colonel, and Southern Indiana resident Sam Schultz, a former sergeant with the Indiana National Guard, were among those videotaped.
In his interview, Horne blasted the Bush administration for what he called "criminal" actions in Iraq and for lying when officials claimed they were listening to the troops and military leaders on the ground.
"I think it is important to get the word out that vets in the military aren't in lock step with the president," said Horne, a lawyer who served in Iraq and in the Persian Gulf war. "
And another vet.. Sgt. John Bruhns says in his two-minute video that the war in Iraq is being waged "against an unidentifiable enemy." End Quotes from the Courier...
One man says we are the wrong country to be fighting in Iraq, another says we should not be there because we do not know who the enemy is.
What nation should have gone into Iraq and taken out Sadam Hussein?
This is a man who was determined to attack our country. He was telling the world he had WMD.. HIS countrymen were telling him he had WMD, the CIA, NSA and DIA were handcuffed because of the lack of intelligence on Iraq, and that was NOT due to anything Bush or his administration did. (10 Billion Cut from Intelligence during the Clinton Administration AFTER WTC ATTACK 1)
So tell me what country should have gone into Iraq. Sadam was killing Hundreds of Thousands of his own people. He was trying to find a way to attack the United States, had attempted the assasination of a President... and the UN was throwing sanctions at him with one hand while on the other giving him the cash he needed to buy the weapons he wanted to attack this country with.. (Khofi Anan and his son were taking millions from Sadam for oil sales that were illegal.)
I do not understand?
Please tell me how humiliating men who killed and maimed thousands.. raped and tortured many more, how that is illegal. Abu Grahib was no worse than a FRATERNITY HAZING I went through. I am not one bit sorry for the treatment of those men. I was treated WORSE in High School Gym class.
Bottom line.. This country is not able to win a war any more.
Thanks to the Horne's of the world we will never again be able to win a war. When a nation is at war, it must be UNITED.. A Nation divided against itself can not win. (Abraham Lincoln) The real shame is that Ossama Bin Laden knows this. We are NOT at war with a faceless enemy. We are at war with an Islamic Fundamentalist organization that has spread itself across the world. No sector of society is safe any more.. BUT if we leave Iraq.. if we accept defeat as Traitor Ried suggests.. then we will have Al Queda attacking here.. They are here already.
WE as a nation can not fight a war with only 50% of the population for it.
We can not win with 60% or 70% or 80%. We have to be a nation UNITED to win a war on terror and the Hornes of the world will cause our defeat.
It is time for sacrifice by our country. To spend the money and put forth the effort to win THIS war. Win it NOW, for failure surely means a hundred years of anarchy around the world. Anarchy is the friend of terror. It breeds more terrorists and more anarchy.
Jim Dicken
