Plucking the Hearts of Soldiers
Nobody’s Opinion:
O God of battles! Steal my soldiers’ hearts;
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them---Henry V(1599) act 4, sc. I.
Once again, it’s Veteran’s Day, and here in middle America it’s business as usual on our television: football, Hillary, and the unending political shows analyzing the “race” to the White House. The Christmas sales have started long before Thanksgiving; due to the bad economy, which of course is always great no matter who you listen to.
Yesterday the main concern for Congress was the public lynching of the owners of Yahoo. They had “helped” put dissidents in China in jail to be tortured. Our Congress was more concerned about these few families in China, then our boys overseas.
In fact, you’d never know we were at war if President Bush didn’t come out every once in a while and remind us.
Funny how time changes. During the Vietnam War, every night during dinnertime, the war was flashed and made very real. You saw bodies, and gunfire, and bleeding soldiers.
And despite all the liberals bellyaching about the war, they really haven’t done much about it either. It’s all political score points for them, and nothing else.
But somewhere today is a father who lost a son, a mother who lost a daughter, a soldier who lost his best friend…families who deserve a hell of a lot more recognition than they are getting.
There should be at least one cable station with nothing but news about the war, with victories reported daily. They don’t have to give secrets away…just real news from real reporters, instead of what we get: maps and generalities.
And while the Iraq war is far away, and kept from our sight, America has been invaded from the South. America is being erased without a gunshot fired.
It’s the biggest invasion and takeover of a country that has ever happened in history, which is being sold as “people who are wonderful” for our economy.
Bull.
Yesterday, I got a haircut from the same guy that I have been going to for over twenty years. I always thought he was a liberal. He grew up as a radical during the Vietnam War as many of us did. He only recently cut his long hair.
He has been in the same neighborhood running his own business; it seems forever---a neighborhood which has changed dramatically in the past ten years. Spanish grocery stores are going up on every block.
He was telling me about how, right next door, a Mexican woman put up a barber shop and in the window hung the Mexican flag.
So he got a flag pole and put up a bigger American flag. You bet he was angry.
“The Mexicans want to come to our country, set up their businesses, and use our public schools, but they do not want to become Americans.” he said.
And why should they? Only a very small handful of men in our Congress see the end of American sovereignty as a bad thing.
Just the other day, Daddy Bush was talking about how he has two grandsons that would do very well in “public service”: In other words---as future Presidents.
And they speak Spanish…all the big career politicians do. They want Americans to learn Spanish.
Well I suggest we should ask all candidates if the Mexican flag trumps the American flag and will Americans be arrested for taking down Mexican flags? Hey---it’s a legitimate question.
The plain truth is our politicians are global citizens. Very few of them care about “America” it seems. While they have kept us all fighting: the blacks and whites, the Democrats and Republicans---they opened our borders and kept the invasion a big secret.
How? They just kept it off our TV.
And I’m mad. I’m just as mad as I was last year but more so. While the liberals are telling us we have nothing to fear from al-Quada, and both parties tell us we have nothing to fear from the Mexican invasion…
We all sit here like dopes hoping we can afford the gas prices and heavy taxes.
If the American people don’t get really mad and unite for our own survival soon and defy our own leaders who control us all with their relentless propaganda and divisionary tactics---we fail every single brave man or woman that ever gave his life for America.
Our American soldier's hearts will be plucked out, and discarded in the sands of Iraq.
O God of battles! Steal my soldiers’ hearts;
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them---Henry V(1599) act 4, sc. I.
Once again, it’s Veteran’s Day, and here in middle America it’s business as usual on our television: football, Hillary, and the unending political shows analyzing the “race” to the White House. The Christmas sales have started long before Thanksgiving; due to the bad economy, which of course is always great no matter who you listen to.
Yesterday the main concern for Congress was the public lynching of the owners of Yahoo. They had “helped” put dissidents in China in jail to be tortured. Our Congress was more concerned about these few families in China, then our boys overseas.
In fact, you’d never know we were at war if President Bush didn’t come out every once in a while and remind us.
Funny how time changes. During the Vietnam War, every night during dinnertime, the war was flashed and made very real. You saw bodies, and gunfire, and bleeding soldiers.
And despite all the liberals bellyaching about the war, they really haven’t done much about it either. It’s all political score points for them, and nothing else.
But somewhere today is a father who lost a son, a mother who lost a daughter, a soldier who lost his best friend…families who deserve a hell of a lot more recognition than they are getting.
There should be at least one cable station with nothing but news about the war, with victories reported daily. They don’t have to give secrets away…just real news from real reporters, instead of what we get: maps and generalities.
And while the Iraq war is far away, and kept from our sight, America has been invaded from the South. America is being erased without a gunshot fired.
It’s the biggest invasion and takeover of a country that has ever happened in history, which is being sold as “people who are wonderful” for our economy.
Bull.
Yesterday, I got a haircut from the same guy that I have been going to for over twenty years. I always thought he was a liberal. He grew up as a radical during the Vietnam War as many of us did. He only recently cut his long hair.
He has been in the same neighborhood running his own business; it seems forever---a neighborhood which has changed dramatically in the past ten years. Spanish grocery stores are going up on every block.
He was telling me about how, right next door, a Mexican woman put up a barber shop and in the window hung the Mexican flag.
So he got a flag pole and put up a bigger American flag. You bet he was angry.
“The Mexicans want to come to our country, set up their businesses, and use our public schools, but they do not want to become Americans.” he said.
And why should they? Only a very small handful of men in our Congress see the end of American sovereignty as a bad thing.
Just the other day, Daddy Bush was talking about how he has two grandsons that would do very well in “public service”: In other words---as future Presidents.
And they speak Spanish…all the big career politicians do. They want Americans to learn Spanish.
Well I suggest we should ask all candidates if the Mexican flag trumps the American flag and will Americans be arrested for taking down Mexican flags? Hey---it’s a legitimate question.
The plain truth is our politicians are global citizens. Very few of them care about “America” it seems. While they have kept us all fighting: the blacks and whites, the Democrats and Republicans---they opened our borders and kept the invasion a big secret.
How? They just kept it off our TV.
And I’m mad. I’m just as mad as I was last year but more so. While the liberals are telling us we have nothing to fear from al-Quada, and both parties tell us we have nothing to fear from the Mexican invasion…
We all sit here like dopes hoping we can afford the gas prices and heavy taxes.
If the American people don’t get really mad and unite for our own survival soon and defy our own leaders who control us all with their relentless propaganda and divisionary tactics---we fail every single brave man or woman that ever gave his life for America.
Our American soldier's hearts will be plucked out, and discarded in the sands of Iraq.
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