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May 13th, 2008 by Rocky 
I have been absent for a while now. Just posting videos and generally farting off. Computer problems, 50th birthday depression and the bad news from my doctors have kept me from posting for a couple of weeks. For my regular readers this may have seemed unexcusable and I am sorry. For those of you who have visited and seen nothing new I have no real excuse. Depressing news has killed my desire to do much of anything. But I will try not to be quite so neglectful now that I have come to grips with all of the crap that is going on with me. I will probably have another few day absence shortly but you wont want to read the post surgery drug addled crap I would write then anyway.
On May 5 I posted the Moveon.org ad that has been running in this part of New Mexico lately. I got one comment that questioned my intelligence. I know I am not the smartest guy on the blog worlds network but it kinda made me sit back and think of what John McSameoldBushit said that day when he threatened to keep our troops in Iraq for a hundred or a thousand years “as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.” Comparing the occupation to our presence in S.Korea he made promises that we would protect Iraq’s oil. At the same time he was esentially comparing the Iraqi defenders with the sheep of Korea.
Iraq and South Korea are two different places. Their cultures are totally different. Their religious zealots have completely different agendas. Our presence in their countries started with completely different ideals. The S.Koreans seem to appreciate our troops being there while most Iraqi citizens see us as an evil occupier. Even the puppet regimes that the U.S. instals have different directions. In Korea our soldiers are keeping the “evil Commies” up in the north. In Iraq the neighboring countries are “friends” of Iraq and are even working together with some Iraq troops to drive us out.
Americans are being killed, injured, wounded and otherwise harmed. They will always be the enemy of the Iraqi people by bringing the western culture that the South Korean people embrace. So no matter how long the United States keep the troops in Iraq they will always be in harms way. More so than they are in Korea.
John McCain is a fool and no matter how undereducated or ignorant I may be I can see through the crap he spews. As long as our men and women are occupying Iraq they will always be under attack. McCain is just looking out for the interests of the big money war machine.
Stumble it!
Category: Human Rights, Iraq, Presidential Race, Support Our Troops, War, greed, politics | 
May 13th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Glad to see you back, Rocky!
I think this post is spot on!
The U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan fuels resistance, both violent and non-violent. The majority of the people who live in those parts of the world (which all of us humans share together) reject U.S. political and military influence. It is high time we start respecting peoples’ right to self-determination.
Wouldn’t we expect or demand that from others?
May 14th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I didn’t mean to question your intelligence with that comment. I have read quite a few of your previous posts and knew that you are quite good at better commentary than what was portrayed by the ad. It simply used the number he through out to prey upon people’s (rightful) discontent with the war, without actually tackling what he said. Having been bombarded for the past couple weeks with people jumping on that comment of his simply for the number without addressing the issue reached a tipping point when I saw you had posted the ad, partly because I wasn’t used to the shallowness of treatment from your posts. So in reaction I wrote a hasty comment worded more strongly than I would have liked and I am sorry for that.
I thought McCain actually made a descent point however, that it isn’t about how long we are in Iraq but the cnditions under which we are there. Like he alluded to, we have been in Japan for 60 years, and S. korea for some amount of time as well, and no one is shouting to stop the occupation of Japan. Now as you pointed out in this excellent post is that the conditions in Iraq is completely different than that of S. Korea or Japan. Well, I think his response would be that we could change the conditions of the war and move from occupiers to rebuilders. Here is the big problem. The results of the “Surge” have just proven that we have little to no ability to significantly change the conditions in Iraq, meaning that if we can’t change the conditions, then time becomes the issue again. Its well past time to leave.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:09 am
meh, don’t let it get to you… hope your surgery goes well and you have a speedy recovery!
as for the individual who attacked your intelligence… that is just a pro-forma type reply to anything that might have maybe been sorta taken out of context…. but as you pointed out, even in the most liberal bending to the commentator’s point of view, it DOES still show McCain as totally clueless!
One of the reasons why we have been attacked is just because of our presence in their Holy lands… as allies, not even as invaders.
Shame we cant just get off the oil tit and call it a day.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am
first off thanks for welcoming me back. Then to Taollan, I didn’t take that as an attack. I am happy you come here to read my rantings and thats the real reason I spend time here. Political and social discourse gives me energy and a weird sense of purpose. I was just responding with the reason I posted the ad video. I make it a point to post all comments that are presented as long as they are not nasty or extremely vulgar. Yours made me feel that I was doing what I want to do with this blog. I hope you didn’t feel I was attacking you either as that was the farthest thing from my mind.
Thanks for all of the comments.
Rocky
May 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Welcome back Rocky! Missed ya.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 4558