What with Georgie giving up his golf game to show solidarity with the soldiers serving in his war based on lies I have been thinking a bit. The false solidarity he claims as he continues to put the troops in dangerous places without giving them a break back home between “stop loss” tours in Iraq. Yeah, the soldiers he is solid with as they wait over two years to receive disability benefits after being torn apart from roadside bombs. That closeness he feels with the mothers whose soldier son or daughter sacrificed their life being respected by giving up a game.

But wait a minute. Didn’t every soldier sign up to defend our country from those who would take our freedom away? No matter how you feel about the war our men and women are fighting in Iraq, each of them are defenders of our safe place to play some cow pasture pool.  I can’t speak for the soldiers but I believe they would encourage all Americans, including the president, to golf. Right out there in the open where everybody can see them. Free to play a silly game chasing a little ball around grassy fields then hanging out with friends and sharing cocktails at the clubhouse at the end of the game. One of the good things in life that every soldier believes he or she is fighting to preserve.

So, with my doctors approval, I think I am going to take up golfing. To show real solidarity with the troops who are sacrificing everything to make sure I can.

Stumble it!