I have had many members of my family in the military. I am proud of that. At least three generations of my family have been involved in one branch or the other. I am proud of them. I am also very conservative in my opinions of most things, thankyouverymuchJimmyCarter. I find myself gritting my teeth quite often when I listen to liberals.
The adulterous, thieving idiot that I married came from a long line of adulterers and thieves. Had I know the extent of it, I would have stopped at just dating him, but hindsight being twenty twenty, what can you do? But back to the father of MY adulterous, thieving idiot-he loved to listen to Chris Mathews. He liked to say that he gave both sides of the argument. Right....... and Ted Bundy was just helping out dark haired girls. But one of the things that the father of my personal cross thought was that military service was awful. He hated the Vietnam conflict and all things related to it. From a distance I can see that he was only afraid of his sorry butt actually going more than five hundred miles from home, but that is a story for another day.
He and many others talked about the loss of life in the Iraq war. While he is no longer around to babble his anti war rants (kind of like Cindy Sheehan, huh?) I was curious about some statistics. I saw that 4,487 troops died in the conflict. That is an awful number, and I am truly sorry for the loss of each life. I know what it feels like to hear the phone ring and hope that it isn't a chaplain.
In the last year that I could find accurate statistics, 2009- 10,839 people died in alcohol related accidents. It seems to me that if these folks are truly committed to less loss of life, they will all be signing up to take anti-alcohol pledges. They will surely want to keep innocent people alive by making sure that alcohol is no longer available to fuel these awful tragedies. Right?
I mean, Cindy Sheehan will probably be dusted off and lifted from the mothball exile she has been forced into with the "election"of B.O. Granted, there is already MADD in place, so she would have a harder time profiting from her son's death, but I think she could probably pull it off with the right amount of attention from the msm. The same msm that ignored her like a leper once their boy (and no, I don't mean boy in any sort of racist way. I mean boy as in untried, inexperienced,untested, immature) was in.
We did good things in Iraq. We removed a murderous monster and stopped the use of rape rooms, genocide, and all other manner of horrors. I am proud of my Dad, my brothers, my nephews, cousins, and everyone else who was willing to die for my safety.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you very much. And if you know one of those fleabagging occupiers who still scream hysterically that all wars are immoral and cause death, ask them how they feel about alcohol and illegal drug consumption. You'll thank me later.
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