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The Voices of Absurdity
By Gerald Sheagren, Torrington
The antiwar movement in the United States boggles my brain and starts my blood boiling! The pandering platitudes of Hollywood hemorrhoids and self-righteous academics. The ravings of old hippies. Scathing remarks from dithering Democrats. The liberal airheads who forever see the world as a bowl of chocolate-covered cherries. Signs that read "Love, Not War." C'mon, folks, let's get real! This isn't some love beads, pot-smoking commune of the 1960s. This is an extremely dangerous world that makes the Cold War look like a Boy Scout jamboree.
We have thousands of young men and women in harm's way. They're dying and suffering from wounds! They're being taken prisoner and, by some accounts, executed with a bullet to the head! There are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, wives and fiancees and girlfriends at home, worrying and wringing their hands and shedding tears for their losses! If you can't stand up and be American and support your troops, perhaps you should head for France and sip Chardonnay and nibble on fromage along the "Chumps" Elysees.
And while I'm at it, let me say a few things about my two favorite people: Tom Daschle and Jacques Chirac. Tom, your partisan politics are becoming a bit nauseating. It's about time that you slithered off and crawled back under the rock that you came from. To try to make political points at the expense of a wartime President and our gallant troops is, in my estimation, nothing short of treason. Quit your whining and go buy a pacifier and let your wife lull you to sleep with soothing tales of the Clinton years.
And Jacques, your audacity is beyond belief! You blocked and stymied the United States every step of the way in the United Nations. And now, before the smoke clears in Iraq, you're thinking of all the profits that French companies can make in the aftermath of war! While American and British troops are dying and bleeding, you have the absolute nerve to say that the United States and Britain should be forbidden from rebuilding Iraq! Of all de gall!
Oh yes, let me not forget Russia! It seems that the Russkies were selling night-vision goggles and jamming equipment to Iraq only days before the U.S. invasion. Rootin'-tootin' Putin! Oh well, what can we expect? After all, the guy is ex-KGB.
In the end, our troops will be greeted in Baghdad like our forces were after the liberation of Paris. And when the dogs of war can once again curl up on the couch with a biscuit, the United States would be well advised to leave out France and Germany and Russia in any rebuilding of Iraq. Non, nein and nyet—not a single solitary cent at the expense of American and British and Australian lives!
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