When Johnny Comes Limping Home

Another Memorial Day has come and gone. Everybody feels good for having watched the required number of parades; for having listened to the usual blasts of hot air, exuded from the usual politicians, extolling the sacrifices made by "Our Veterans." And our President has made the usual stiff-legged walk, with the floral wreath, at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery.

In the meanwhile, the wounded from the Iraq war are beginning to come home in increasing numbers for (mis)treatment at Walter Reed Hospital and for the interminable delays combined with callous indifference at Veterans Administration facilities. Incompetence and confusion, the dominant features of the Bush Administration in connection with the Iraq war, continues -- now, with the returning Iraq war wounded and those scheduled for their second, third or fourth Iraq deployment.

In the event you loved this post and you wish to receive more info about xxx porn free videos please visit the website. Post Traumatic Shock Syndrome, the "hidden" casualty number, may well be a far greater casualty percentage in the Iraq war compared with earlier wars because of the repeated redeployments of reserves in an Army already stretched beyond the limit. Neither has it been sufficiently understood how different the Iraq war is compared our nation's previous wars.

Every soldier knows that each trip in the "Sunni Triangle," or in almost any other part of that wretched country, is a date with possible death or injury at the hands of an Iraqi who is indistinguishable from any other, an Iraqi insurgent who has become increasingly more adapt at killing Americans. It is only a question of the number of trips it takes before a soldier's increasing mental strain becomes Post Traumatic Syndrome, a true illness that will stay with him for the rest of his life.

For the first time in our nation's history of waging war, we are in an "Assymmetric" war, one in which our enemy's weapons are simple, inexpensive and easy to make compared to our sophisticated and expensive weaponry, requiring massive and long lead research and development time and costs. Ironically, our enemy's kill rate is greater than ours. It costs the enemy far less to kill one of our soldiers than it takes for us to kill one of theirs.

Seemingly, there is no end in sight. Can any one predict with even a 50-50 chance of success that, in the foreseeable future, the Iraq government will be able to enforce stability and security throughout the country?

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel: the Bush Administration has warned that American troop withdrawal at this time will lead to utter chaos in Iraq. Since Bush & Co have been consistently proven wrong about virtually everything for the past six plus years -- ergo this means that we should immediately withdraw all of our troops.

Withdrawal will be the spur to action for all concerned in bringing stability to Iraq itself, to all of its Middle Eastern xx x por neighbors, especially including Saudi Arabia whose aristocracy doesn't want to see Iran become the dominant figure in that region.

Besides, could anything be worse in Iraq than what has been going on? It would be a Win Win for the US. We would put an end to the loss of our blood and treasure. And then we could concentrate on the real War on Terror, striking at Al Queda in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Stupidstan and elsewhere.