I went to bed last night after reading the current Reuters article about the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on Iraq with a few questions on my mind. With Militarytracy this questions at bedtime mindset usually doesn’t lead to a GOOD THING.
On Iraq specifically, 56 percent said they disapproved of Bush’s work and 62 percent said they thought the United States had gotten bogged down in Iraq.
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Despite growing criticism of the administration’s performance, nearly 60 percent of those polled said they believe U.S. forces should remain in place until civil order is restored in Iraq.
Before I begin may I just say that I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and unlike the rest of you Blue Bloods the closer I get to Canada the crazier I become. I haven’t had to take medication in Alabama yet, but in Colorado I spend 3 months out of the winter on antidepressants.
Okay, now I want to get this right and I want to understand. So, almost 75% of the Americans polled said the administration underestimated the challenges involved in Iraq and a majority said that it had also “intentionally misled” the public in going to war and 62% said that the United States has gotten bogged down in Iraq. So far so good? Then 60% say that they believe that U.S. forces should remain in place until civil order is restored….right? Would someone please explain to me why soldiers must die for the lies of others. Do you know one single person who would step up and volunteer to take a bullet for the lie of someone else? I thought this was a democracy! I thought that we were each responsible for our own actions! I didn’t vote for these people in office and my husband didn’t vote for these people in office either so why should my husband have to eat a bullet for their lies?
Does anybody see how Americans can be construed as maybe suffering from some kind of group mental disorder right now? They like certain ideas but refuse to process the entire equation required to get to the desired outcome they get all misty eyed over. Seems a little bit DELUSIONAL to me! They seem to live in some weird happy pink cloud idiotville in their noggins.
Here in the United States there is no way anybody can make another person risk their life for the lying of another person and not face criminal charges and trials and jail time. I thought that all men were created equal here in the United States of America! When does anybody get to order anybody else to risk their life for another person’s lies? When does any labeled group get to decide that others of the group should risk their lives straightening out the lies and the consequences told by a group leader so that the labeled group as a whole won’t ever have to feel guilty about those lies they let the leader put over on them and the consequences thereafter suffered before the scrutiny of the entire world?
I am having one hell of a fucking temper tantrum today about my fucking countrymen. When people began to no longer enlist in military service and the numbers dropped like a stone I said fine, because if I were in their shoes I wouldn’t do it right now. We were in this military long before these Son-of-a-Bitches in office ever came along though.
When people get pissed off talking about a draft I agree with them on that also, I don’t think it is needed. If our military isn’t abused there are plenty of people called to the position of warrior/protector, and they study and train very hard for their job. If these people were ever genuinely pissed off I shudder to think about the force that they really are under REAL America in danger circumstances.
Also according to the poll 38% think that troop levels ought to be decreased in Iraq……..well, if they want this all to have a nice happy ending and as of like this moment the whole country is being blown to Jesus or Allah, and 62% say that we are bogged down in Iraq, how in the hell will decreased troop levels get us to our nice happy ending that 60% are dreaming of? It gets better though because another 43% think that troop levels should remain the same. In attempting to understand this segment of the population’s thought processes all that I can come up with is that everything has been working so fucking well so far that we shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken and you are interrupting my Big Mac with this stupid fucking polling business.
Everybody wants Iraq to become one big happy country full of American liking people. Me too! I am married to a soldier though so let’s start talking some fucking reality. This administration ripped the infrastructure out of a pretty volatile cultural mix of people. I didn’t do it…….they did it. Fueling the fires with our troops there will not quench the fires either unless you all want to do some real quenching. If you think you don’t have the stomach for the not so happy ending to all of this so far then believe me, you have zero stomach to go through with this quenching thing! And if we haven’t quenched “it” yet with the troop levels that are there, then maintaining those troop levels or decreasing them will do…………………?
I’m sorry that I don’t have any “happy purple dinosaur” answers for anybody concerning Iraq……and I know it may be easy to buy oneself a tad of disillusionment that maybe there is one out there when the soldiers you see on T.V. aren’t YOUR SOLDIER. If you are part of the 60% saying that we need to stay until there is civil order though then you better have your soldier where your mouth is because it is going to take more soldiers to get what you want done DONE, and to quell all of your guilt over what you have allowed to happen in your name and the name of your country and the name of American patriotism and American liberty.
MY HUSBAND VOWED TO GIVE HIS LIFE PROTECTING AND DEFENDING YOURS! YOUR EGO THOUGH ISN’T YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FALSE PRIDE ISN’T YOUR LIFE AND IF YOU TAKE MY HUSBAND’S LIFE BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO SMALL OF A PERSON TO BEAR YOUR OWN GUILT, SHAME, HUMAN SUFFERING, REALITY, OVER INFLATED EGO, or ENERGY DEMANDS FOR YOUR FAT MENTALLY DISORDERED AMERICAN ASS………I WILL NEVER LET YOU FORGET IT!
A List of Symptoms that can Signify Bipolar Disorder
*increased strength and energy
*decreased sleep
*extreme irritability
*rapid, unpredictable emotional changes
*racing thoughts, flights of ideas
*increased interest in activities
*overspending
*grandiosity, inflated self-esteem
*increased sexual drive
*poor judgment
A brief description of Dissociative Disorder
Dissociation is a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. During the period of time when a person is dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. For example, during a traumatic experience, a person may dissociate the memory of the place and circumstances of the trauma from his ongoing memory, resulting in a temporary mental escape from the fear and pain of the trauma and, in some cases, a memory gap surrounding the experience. Because this process can produce changes in memory, people who frequently dissociate often find their senses of personal history and identity are affected.
I find myself torn. Is the majority of America suffering from a group Bipolar Disorder or a group Dissociative Disorder. I have Grandiosity, Inflated Self-Esteem, Overspending, Flights of Ideas, and Poor Judgment verses certain information not being associated with other information as it normally would be, and trauma is involved and we do have 9-11, and we do seem to have some mental escaping taking place over fear and trauma…….but then we have unpredictable mood changes whenever someone reminds some individuals about certain escaping of facts and fears and traumas……so maybe it is a Bipolardissociative Disorder!
You be the Doctor.
