Tonight G. W. Bush went in front of the American public to ask for them to stay the course and support our troops. Why wouldn't you? This is not a rant for poeple who were antiwar form the begin. I respect your choice, even if I think you are wrong. The world is not filled with people who just what to get along. Sometime you need to carry a big stick with you. This is for all those people who think the war should be over by now, and everything should be Okie-Dokie in Iraq.

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING! That after Saddam Hussien was capture you would see a speeding car driving off into the sunset carrying the Mission Impossible team with the credits scrolling and cool music in the background? Did you really expect the dictator toppled, fanatics routed and status quo just to roll over and die in 60 minutes with commericals? President Bush said it would take a long time, meaning longer than the 5 minute attention spans of most American. It may even take 20 years, a generation just to get Iraq to be stable enough to be left on it's own. Get over it poeple. You can't wave a wand and expected over night change.

This should really suprise me. Americans have always had a warpped sense of time. Did you know that the first battle in the U.S. Civil War (The First Bull Run/The First Battle of Manassas) that people came down from Washington D.C. with pinic basket to watch the battle? Many Poeple felt the war would be over in a few hours with the South being brought to heel. Do you think the North or South should have just given up after one year, two or three years? What is really sad is ever major war the the U.S. has fought there have always been an anti-war movement. Even in World War II, there were many people who felt we didn't belong in Europe, and WWII was purely a European problem. This was after France and Britian served up some of thier fellow countries to Germany all in the name of peace. The only way Hilter was going to be stopped was force, and it is the same case here with the insurgence in Iraq. Stay the Course!

I'm note so cold to ignore the lose of life, but let have some prepective. Current data says the death toll in Iraq is around 2000, and at the most 30,000 wounded US troops. (War Stats) (That the improvements in battlefield medicine, numbers in WWII would closer to 1 to 4, about 8000 killed to 30, 000 wounded.) Tragic, yes, but how many American have been lost on our highways in 2004? (Answer.) Which would you rather have your son trying to bring peace and choice to people, or dying in some drunk driving acident. ( Of course, we would like to have neither or those choices, but waht if you really had to choose?)

Think About it.