The Ramblings of a Coward or How to Piss on the Honor of Heroes

I don't think that the man that presumes the Presidency of the United States of America has felt the full brunt of his outrageous blunder. "Blunder?", you ask? In the not so distant past Mr. Bush made a clear and concise separation between the conflict in Iraq and the Vietnam conflict. Yesterday, however, he stepped on his dick and stated that Iraq is like Vietnam. More to the point, he also stated that Vietnam could have been won if we had stayed longer. What kind of horse-shit is he attempting to peddle here?

I take great offense to this man even mouthing the word, "Vietnam", let alone speaking out out with any type of authority on the subject. Mr. Bush, unlike you, my family fought in Vietnam. My family bled in Vietnam. My family has been rendered asunder by the Vietnam conflict. But you see... Not just my family, EVERYONE who was ever close to my family gave to the Vietnam conflict. The Vietnam conflict touched all sides of my family. Even my immediate family paid the price of Vietnam.

I'm reading all that I can at this time on this topic (not Vietnam, but the topic of this post), and I am still struggling to get my head around it. First, what good can come of comparing the Vietnam conflict to the conflict in Iraq? How can it help the country? How can we reconcile Iraq when we haven't reconciled Vietnam? We're still recovering remains from Vietnam, for Christ's sake. How can you hope to further the cause of Iraq by comparing it to one of the darkest times in your country's short history? What hope are you giving the families of those deployed to Iraq by making such a comparison? Hell, how can you hope to maintain the morale of the deployed troops by making such a comparison? It doesn't matter if he said, "Would be like.." or, "Is like...". What would he know of what it would be like? He's never fought in a military conflict in his life. He has no experience, save that of what other's provide him with. He has no catalog of action from which to draw from in order to justify his speaking out of turn.

Again, it seems that the big kids table is not the place for Mr. Bush. But then again, those weren't his words at all. If he hadn't been reading from a pre-written speech, that someone else wrote, we'd be getting words like "Strategery", "Conflictation", "Quagmirification", and any other make believe word that any number of four-year-olds can concoct.

A good friend of mine once said that we are supposed to be nice to little kids and dumb animals. I don't suffer dumb animals.

Oh... Links to the articles or speech from Mr. Bush? Look 'em up.

Edited to add:Michael Vick is the new Paris Hilton. Fuck Vick. Send him away like the embarrassment that he is and forget about him, after making an example out of him in the justice system of course.