So, what is Iraq really about??

I've been thinking for a long time about how to make this post short and easy to understand...let's give it a try...

Most people have watched TV, read the news, but never ever studied a map of the Iraq region. So, first a mental image. Iran is 3 times Iraq's size and its western border neighbor. Syria is its eastern boarder neighbor and about 1/2 its size. Jordan shares a small portion of its Western border. Turkey is about twice its size on the north border and Saudi Arabia is huge and shares the south border. Kuwait is on its southwest border and is tiny. Afghanistan and Pakistan are on the east border of Iran - one country away - and about the same size as Iraq. So, Iraq is in the middle. Comparing the geography to the USA, Iraq is the Midwest of the Middle East.

Maybe you know the names of Iraq's neighbors - Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are all terrorist nations. The majority of the people who drove those planes on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia....although for some reason that is rarely spoken of.

All the countries in the above paragraph work as terrorist support and or terrorist nations....Iraq included. And most, if not all of the terrorists who are plaguing the planet right now are coming out of that grouping of countries - including Iraq, or trained there, or supplied from there. Saudi Arabia, huge and to the south, was the main supporter of the religious minority Iraq regime we just defeated - Now Iran, large and to the east, is supporting the overtaking of the county by the majority religious group. So, Iraq is in jeopardy of simply loosing one terrorist regime, and getting a new one. And both countries are Oil Rich enough to buy whatever terrorist weaponry they want.

So, Lets compare the geography to the United States again- from a strategic view point. How could you cripple the USA's ability to work as an organization? Take out the Midwest. Create a new nation in the Midwest that will not allow the east coast, west coast, and southern states to work through it or with it. Now, geographically the USA can't function very well, if at all.

And without Iraq, neither can the Middle East Terrorist machine. If (and that is a tall order, huge gamble) we can remove Iraq from that group -- we can cripple he terrorists of the world -- and that would be really really HUGE for the planet.

It isn't about oil. Its about terrorists.

Pete

Let's talk about a fence...

Don't mis-read this post -- Mexican Illegal Aliens are a huge problem on many fronts. The War on Terror is the least of those, there are too many ways to get into the US without blaming hungry workers coming from Mexico. There really is a HUGE HUGE HUGE cost to the border states for dealing with the social services we have to provide them, and even thought the US Gov't. mandates that we spend the time, money, and effort -- it won't reimburse the cost. So, take California for example, not only do we only get back about 75 cents of every dollar we send to the Federal Government for Taxes, we also have to pay for the social services of the illegal's -- so we get a huge double whammy cost.

So, President Bush was getting bugged and hassled to do something. To stop the influx. Or reimburse the border state's costs.

The first time I heard about the fence idea, I thought -- Bush has to be funning. Everybody was hassling him about the illegal aliens, so he just said - OK then, I'll build a fence -- so they would all say, that is really stupid. Then sit down and come up with some plausible idea just to make him look bad...and we would get something done. Seems to be, the only time Congress does anything, is if they can make him look bad at the same time. But Congress said GREAT IDEA, LET'S GET ER DONE!!

We signed a Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico - GREAT!!!

Now that we got that done, lets build a fence to keep those Mexicans out --- HOW STUPID!!! Iraq is eaiser to explain than that fence!!....THAT STUPID, RUDE, IDIOTIC FENCE... oh my goodness, how could anybody do that - or even think of it???!!! Those people are supposed to be our Trade Parners, not someone we build a wall to keep out!!!

Uh, did the Berlin Wall work?? Great Wall of China??? Does the fence in your back yard keep the neigbor's kids out when their ball comes over it?? I mean, this ain't rocket sience folks -- THAT FENCE IS THE STUPIDEST IDEA (for several reasons)of the Bush Administration!!! It is stupid beyond stupid, if that's possible!!!

If Bush really wanted a fence, he couldn't even do that right. First of all, it has to have holes in it every so many feet so the Americans can get access to the river -- so it isn't even continuous. Oh, look Jesus - we can't go the US, there is a fence. No problem Chico, just walk down there 100 yards and go through the opening...What were they thinking?? The openings would somehow magically be "one way"??

And the fence does NOTHING to solve the real issues.

It takes 20 years to get the paperwork to come here legally from Mexico. 20 years -- so illegal is the only practical option if you are hungry. We say "send us your hungry..." -- I think they would starve before getting the paperwork from Mexico. Has anybody ever gone 20 years + one day without food?? NOT. Rather than spend the money on a fence, why didn't we invest that money in our "Free Trade Partner's" Visa Research Department, so they could get the paperwork time down to a year, or even a few weeks....then, once coming here legally is a real option, they would probably do it.

But they bring Drugs from Mexico. Invest more money into Mexico's drug enforcement. I know, I know - we already spend a lot -- SPEND MORE, WE ARE GOING TO SPEND IT THERE ON INTERCEPTION, OR HERE LOCKING OUR OWN ADDICTED KIDS UP ANYWAY. And while we are at it, lets spend some money iradicating the pot fields in Humbolt, Ca. and Kansas???!!! I mean, lets clean up our own yard too, huh??

Oh yeah - and we already did this illegal alien crap once before. We gave them amnesty and made whomever wanted to come forward legal. What did we learn??? Illegal Aliens make less then Legal Aliens for some reason - imagine that, the people who use "their poor and hungry" also take advantage of them...At any rate, there appears to be a huge market for people who can be taken advantage of, and just as huge a business group to take advantage. So, once the illegal's became legal - they moved up to the better paying jobs, and a whole fresh bunch of illegal's moved in to fill their old positions. So, we also need to do something to make it totally unattractive to hire an illegal alien -- I know, I know we already have those darn I-9's...apparently that is not enough.

How hard is it to figure out anyway -- if you want to accomplish something, and whatever you are doing isn't working, DO SOMETHING ELSE!!!???

Oh yeah -- that's right, we built a fence...

Pete

Did I just say something bad about Republicans?

How do you pick a President?

This campaign seem weird to me - am I the only one?

There is no doubt - Good Morning America wants Hilary so bad they can taste it, because she is a woman. They even had an interview with her last week picking out clothes and talking about how she seems like a girlfriend by the end of the interview --- HEY, SO VOTE FOR SOMEONE FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE THEY MAKE A GOOD GIRLFRIEND!!!

Rush hates Obama because he is black, and others don't like him because he is not black enough, and others because his name doesn't sound Christian -- HEY, DON'T VOTE FOR BLACK PEOPLE -- ESPECIALLY IF THEY AREN'T CHRISTIAN -- UNLESS THEY ARE VERY BLACK!!!

What ever happened to thinking about whether someone would make a good president -and having reasons pertaining to the job requirements only - being considered?? Seemed like that was what we talked about when Jimmy Carter, Regan, Bush 1, Clinton 1, and Bush 2 were running -- I don't remember discussing their personal traits - or having them presented just because of them.

I thought race and sex discrimination were illegal - and frankly tired and out of date... Don't get me wrong, I fully realize that does not hold true for everyone -- but I sure thought it would for the Public Speakers of the nation...

But it sure seems to be what the current deciding factors of this campaign are all about to the people folks listen to.

Hmmm...

Pete