Let’s get something straight …We are not an occupying force.. And we don't want to be there.

This is an open letter to the Iraqi people.

Wake up.. We are going to be gone and in not a few years but a few months. And if you don’t start to pay attention and soon, it will be to late. The living conditions in your country will go from tolerable to devastating, as your cities slip completely into anarchy. You have the semblance of a government, and army and a police force, but you have to support these efforts; they can not do the job of protecting you with out it. And with out a government you have anarchy.

You have to step up and tell the authorities that Uncle Ahmed is building a bomb in the basement, or Cousin Mohammad or who ever is planting IED’s in baby buggies.. You have to tell them that the night group at the local Mosque has a small arsenal of weapons. You have to step up and meet the basic responsibilities of a civilized country, or you are going to live for the rest of your lives under the rules of , who controls the street corner and who has the most rifles. You are going to be living in nightmare, you will not thrive, many will die, and it will be an existence that could hardly be called a life, you will live in anarchy.

I say again, we do not want to be there and we are leaving. If you don’t believe me look at our last election. It was supposed to be “all politics are local“. Well that rule is no longer valid, all politics are now national and the people have spoken. We are history. We came there for mixed reasons, mostly because we had to lash out at someone after 9-11. Saddam was an easy target, and we could do some good, by ridding him from the world‘s stage and from the middle east. We also mistakenly thought, you would enjoy living in a democracy as apposed to a cruel dictatorship. Our naïveté is historic.

You want us gone, fine. Let me use an analogy …What happen when you remove a material that was filling a space, air from a cylinder for instance , you create a vacuum .. Well nature abhors a vacuum, and it will be filled at the first possible instance. How do you want to fill that space. Right now, your space, Iraq, is being filled with our brave soldiers, they are pushing back against the sides of the cylinder that is pressing down on them, and they are being helped by some of your bravest countrymen assuming the role of government, courts, police and armed forces. But unless you support these people and we leave ( and we are leaving) , that pressure is gong to drive them out as well and the cylinder that is Iraq will be filled with a poison gas and you are going to pay that price.

Wake up. You are fighting and killing over religion, you argue and murder each over because your Mullahs are chanting in different cadences. My god or should I say my Allah, how insane can you be. We are not gong to be there much longer keeping you idiots from ripping each other throats out like rabid dogs for much longer. Why? Because frankly we don’t care. Because one asshole wants to visit 18 virgins in his demented vision of an afterlife, 19 of your countrymen are going to die. I can tell you this for certain before that asshole climbed on the bus at least 100 of your fellow countrymen knew about his planned crime and they all said in unison .. You don’t matter. Your life is not worth spit, your daughters or your wives lives.. They are just filth garbage and they deserve to die…We as a nation, can not accept this, and can not understand how you can. So we have stopped caring and we are leaving.

We have a saying, in our country, “step up top the plate“. It means take your turn, and take responsibility for your own future. If you don’t everything you know, love, cherish, have dreamed about will be gone.. Forever.

There are no vestal virgins waiting for the criminals who blow up buses. Killing an American with a high power rifle while he patrols your street should bring tears to your eyes and you should proudly call out the assassin that did it. We are going to be gone, the vacuum that will be filled is up to you.

AS always me first.

RR

We got Texas Thumping.. but just wait

Oh my.. did we step into it this time...

Iraq is not pretty and well I think it bit us in the ass. My guys are no longer in charge, but Bubba boy still has his veto pen, so nothing is really going to get done in the next two years, especially anything that is going to keep me form making and keeping most of my money. But I do have to say enough of you yo-yo's perhaps figured out that Republican’s, and the far right are not really looking after your interests after all. I doubt it, but it is possible you have figured it out.

I guess I just really have to thank the heavens, many different gods, and my wallet, that this was not a presidential election, as then the this tide could have really gotten really ugly.

But I also have to curse the fact that Bubba did not fire Rummy before the election, as this would have and with no doubt, changed things historically. We might have seen a George Allen President one day, but that vision is as dead and nothing, more than a footnote at the bottom of the page and as a Wickapedia entry for Maccaaca.. we sigh for what might have been.

Now we need to count on the short attention span of the American people and get the evanglistas, the right to lifers the haters of homo and protectors of marriage, the NRA and more, and get them focused again on what is important and vital .. that is making me rich. We will convince them again we give a dam about their issues, that we want to fight for what is right, all the rest of the crap that has served us so well. It will take a while at least, a few weeks for you to forget the message you voted for.. that was change.

So I will sit back and count.. made $80,000 dollars, not a great day, but a minor cause for finger wave in the air. We will sit back and wait, you will forget what it was you wanted changed and remember that you don't want Gus and Mike to get hitched. We just will wait.. no problem the stock market still humming. Say, what was that you wanted top change??

As always me first

RR

A Conversation with a Republican

Notice I said Republican not a true Republican like me

I was killing some time waiting for my car and there was another man in the waiting room. He was about my age. He had a gut though that made up 3-4 of mine and I am no slouch in middle age bulge war. Something I need to work on. But anyway I said ….starting a conversation and taking the pulse of America in my own small way.

RR: So who you like in this election

Fat Guy (FG) Bush is my man.

RR: You know he’s not running.

FG: Well I would vote for him again if he was.

RR: HA HA .. The presidential race is not for another two years, this is the mid-term election

( I pressed on) So who do you like for congress?

FG I vote Republican.

RR: Why?

FG: I sure wouldn’t vote for no Democrat.

We really do good work, he said the word “democrat” like it was something you might wipe off the bottom of your shoe.

RR: Why not vote for a Democrat.

FG: Cause they want to take my guns away from me. They want to raise my taxes and they want to surrender to the terrorists.

RR: The evil doers?

FG: That’s right,, democrats just want to cut and run

RR: Do you care about social security

FG: damm straight,, we are going to Florida to retire

RR: That’s great you have a house there?

FG: No we’re going to get a place on the beach and enjoy beers and the sun.

RR: Sounds like quite a life. You have a retirement savings.. a nest egg?

FG: Yeah a nice one we should have near 10 to 20 thousand in it when I leave this dam job.

RR: What do you do?

FG: I am a back-up electrician, I take care of the phones, air conditioning, and heating in this building and the next.

RR: Back up what do you mean “back up”?

FG: I have this job and then I am on call when the regular electrician can’t make it in or is tied up somewhere else.

RR: Sounds important.. pay well?

FG: I get $11.50 an hour and time and half when I work over 40 and double when I work on the weekends.

RR: Imagine working here you get great benefits.

FG: Oh I don’t work for G H and T .. I’m on contract.

RR: Medical benefits?

FG: Take care of them myself

RR: That sure can get expensive

FG: I just don’t get sick

The conversation went on for some time, him telling me his plans for the non existent financial package he dreamt that he had. .

I am still shaking my head.. people must live in a fog. A fog of denial or just plain stupidity. I vote for stupid. Let’s see 40 hours a week.. at $11.50 hour. That’s less than $25,000 per year and before taxes. After taxes it’s more like $19,000. I have that much in my checking account. A house note and a car payment and week of groceries sucks that down. Retirement, savings, health insurance just nothing there, and you yahoos roaming around Walmart all answer to “I am a republican” and I say god bless your stupidity.

Now this guy says he is a Republican and I am sure he would come down on the Republican side of every issue. Just like we have trained him to do. Abortion, gay marriage, gun control, school prayer, stay the course, and so on..( you bone heads are so easy) but he is oblivious as to his plight. Here is in his 50’s in debt over his head, no retirement funds, probably will not be able to make his mortgage payment on his two bedroom brick ranch after he retires, and god knows what happens when he has his first heart attack.. die I guess. But we have him trained to keep the republican’s in control. I feel guilty sometimes, but not often. More money for me.

Me first

RR