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To War or Not to War

By Joey Vail, Winsted

I am not a political person, but right now I feel I should speak out. President Bush has handled what has happened to America very well since 9/11. But I do not want to have a war with the world. I served five years in the military and I feel that now is the time to put the brakes on, and be concerned about biological or nuclear holocaust.

We have handled our fury and vengeance very well in the past ten months. We also did very well in Desert Storm. We should have finished the job in Iraq while we were there, but we didn't. Now is not the time to go back into Iraq and try to finish a job that should have been done in the first place.

We have enough problems at home with the hundreds of forest fires, West Nile epidemic, floods, tornadoes, and a weak economy. The stock market is very shaky and a lot of my friends have lost a lot of money—some even their life savings. We have waiting lines at the airports, security checks, delayed flights, airlines going out of business, and many financial institutions being accused of false representations of their financial standings to their stockholders and public. Many large companies are in a business crisis. And there is more to come.

Stop! Get me off this planet. We have to put the brakes on. Has the president of the United States lost his marbles? He wants to attack and fight the world. The world is a big place. Enough is enough. I do not want a war against the world. We are not the world's crusaders to take up arms because we do not like another country's policies, politics or religion. We are not God's messengers. We are a country made up "of the people," to be run "by the people," to do what is right and just "for the people." We should read our Constitution and Bill of Rights and try to live and guide our country by those words and actions.

The President of the United States is on a wrong course of action, and must change that course before it's too late. I believe the President should resign and let someone else who is more diplomatic steer a proper course for the country.