Editorial: Get Us the Hell Out of Iraq


 

After six years of confusion, the loss of over 4,000 American lives, the lives of some of our finest young men and women, the silly adventure of the United States on a mission without definition still is underway.

The American people put the Democrats in charge of the Congress two years ago, not because the Democrats are smart, in touch with reality or anything but a collection of elitist nitwits.  There was only one reason for the Democrats to win and that was to get us the hell out of Iraq. 

For all of his faults, President Bill Clinton never got us stuck in a rut with a bunch of fanatical Ragheads fighting a civil war. 

For all of his sincerity, President George Bush can’t remember what he told us was the reason we were going to Iraq and now that the Democrats control the purse strings to the war, they are too damn stupid to close the national wallet and thus the spending now goes into the trillions, draining our economy and plunging us into the most severe recession in history.
The phrase “weapons of mass destruction” has now evolved into a laugh line on late night talk shows.

Simply put, the Democrats are afraid the Republicans will call them chickens.  That would be wrong.  The Democrats are not chickens, they are turkeys.

Blind obedience to a purpose is simply stupidity if the purpose is not defined or fails to hold water.  Rooting out the terrorists is the job we were supposed to be doing and if we would get out of the way of the Iraqis they would quickly decide that they are going to run their own country and hold the Iranians at bay or they will perish. 

Frankly, who gives a damn if they do.

When an American soldier dies in battle there should be a reason we are at war and the baloney we were fed for going to Iraq was false and it’s high time for Congress to do what they did during Viet Nam and cut off the spending.

Bush points to the surge as a reason for continuing the effort.  The Republicans have been playing politics with our war-fighters and the outcome of mutilated veterans failing to get proper attention to their medical needs is just disgusting.  The Republicans were supposed to be good managers but they can only manage to order dinner at the fancy restaurants in D.C.  They didn’t send enough troops to Iraq in the beginning and in fact, they didn’t really know they needed them.  Republicans are pretty good at running country clubs and that’s about it.  Just look at the national debt soaring out of sight again.  The GOP makes the asinine Democrats actually look somewhat competent but a close look at the future of the Democratic Party reveals a phony former state legislator who doesn’t trust the country folks who turn to their bibles and guns for comfort when they contemplate his ilk running the country.
President George Bush is a train wreck but considering the bozos who ran against him, he is still better than those fools.
When this nation was attacked by a bunch of raving Ragheads hijacking our airliners and slamming them into our buildings, no one was fired.  When there was incompetence in the FEMA response to Katrina, Bush told the director of FEMA that he was doing a good job.  When we lose 4,000 lives after the ‘Mission Was Accomplished’, no general or Defense Secretary has been fired.  Is George Bush adopting a new mantra of “No incompetent hack left behind”?  Does Bush not want to damage the self esteem of lousy generals and bureaucrats?

On this Memorial Day, we should remember that we sent nearly 4,000 Americans off to die for a cause which has never been defined and now both parties slam each other over how to get out.    The financial crisis caused by this adventure has devastated our economy and has gas prices soaring to what may be as much as $10 a gallon.

To Congressman Steny Hoyer and Senators Cardin and Mikulski: Get us the hell out of Iraq.

Editorial:

All Aboard O’Malley’s Train…..but where is it?


 

Two years ago Governor Martin O’Malley, while campaigning for office, appeared with Congressman Hoyer, Senators Mac Middleton and Roy Dyson, and Delegates John Bohanan and Sally Jameson, and stood in the middle of the CSX railroad tracks in Waldorf to demonstrate his support of bringing commuter rail to Southern Maryland.

Maryland has the MARC train system, its nothing new, and it serves most of the state, in fact, all of the state except the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland.

The clodhoppers O’Malley appointed to run his Department of Transportation now want to run the MARC trains into Virginia, which is likely a good idea and a good use of trains that now end in Washington’s Union Station, another 5 miles and Maryland commuters could go by rail to Alexandria. MARC trains already start each day in Martinsburg, West Virginia and makes several stops in that state before entering Maryland and winding down through the state to D.C. MARC trains should connect to Delaware.

But how about Governor O’Malley keeping his pledge to bring commuter rail to Southern Maryland?

We already have CSX tracks and they are surely strong tracks indeed, as they carry the heavy loads of coal each day to the Morgantown Pepco (Mirant) Generating Plant on the Potomac River.

The railroad wants indemnification and double tracking and Maryland can accomplish these requirements but it takes state transporatation officials who understand railroads, understand $4 a gallon gas (those who have the taxpayers pick up their own tab for gas can’t understand this issue) and are smart enough to realize that the issue isn’t about generating growth for the region, but managing what is already here.

Making the rail link for Charles, St. Mary’s and Calvert via the CSX tracks which lead from Morgantown, up through Newburg, La Plata, White Plains, Waldorf, Pinefield, Brandywine, Croom, Upper Marlboro and connecting at Bowie to the main line of Amtrak and MARC and shuttle buses to Metro would connect thousands of motorists with their destinations and lessen the use of gasoline by having these commuters parking at the stations instead of spending their time on our traffic arteries.

The tracks and rail system is in place, surplus locomotives and passenger cars are available. All it takes is some brainpower in Annapolis. The Republicans couldn’t do it and the Democrats said they could, now its time to put some trains on the track or we will know all we got was yet another lame promise from a politician only concerned with Baltimore.

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