Does he need a reason?

Topic of the day seems to be Cindy Sheehan's protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas Ranch where he is holidaying.

She has the unmitigated gall to demand an explanation from El Presidento as to why her son died in Iraq. Spc Casey Sheehan, 24, was killed in Baghdad on April 4, 2004.

The worst of it is that she has commented in the media about the war. Her words are not new:

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy … not for the real reason, because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy

I'm actually astonished that this is causing such a ruckus over there in la-la land. Is it because she actually said it or because she said it in a public arena? The critics of the war have been beating the foreign policy drum for some time, so why is this a surprise? Could it be that the American media has been censored to reflect the current policy rather than be *gasp* independant reports of the news?

Cartoons are many, most criticizing Bush Junior, and supporting those mothers who have lost sons in a war that should never have happened.

Don't get me wrong, I support our troops, sailors and air force personnel one hundred percent. They are doing a tough job, that is being made tougher by critics.

What I don't support is the way this has been handled. Has Bushette even heard of an exit strategy? Did Rumsfeld really need to finish the job that Bush Senior had started? Is the Bushling so hard up for parental approval he has to do what his father could not? Is it cynical of me to suggest that no leader of a country has ever lost an election while at war? Could it be that America's foreign policy is so entrenched as to be impossible to dismantle or change? Pitiful reasons, aren't they.

If ever a man needed killin' it's Saddam Hussain, for what he's done to his own people, to the kurds, for turning his sons into psychopaths. That killin' should have been done by his own people, not the West.

Why was Iraq selected when Al-Qaeda was clearly in Afghanistan and Pakistan? The argument of weapons of mass destruction could have easily been checked via humint. Of course, all this has been said before: arguing to and fro is not helping. What needs to be done is for the US to actually get their shit together and start acting like a modern, well armed and disciplined army. Take a leaf out of the Brits or the Aussies book and stop being such pussies.

Get on with the job, stop this incessant hand-wringing about x-country not liking you and how noble your pursuit of democracy is and come up with an exit strategy... soon. Because until El Presidento Bushling starts acting like a president instead of a little kid dressed up in his Texas Ranger outfit, riding a hobby horse, more good men and women will be killed on both sides for no other reason that it seemed like a good idea at the time.