Sunday, November 05, 2006

I Will Not Stay This Course and I Vote

Stay the course? Over 100 US soldiers died in Iraq during the month of October.

Stay the course?
Over 2800 US soldiers died in Iraq since the initial invasion.

Stay the course? Over 2000 US soldiers died in Iraq since the declaration of “Mission Accomplished.”

Stay the course? Over 10,000 US soldiers wounded in Iraq since the initial invasion.

Stay the course? Even the Army Times, a pro-military publication, does not believe it is the right course. They published an editorial saying that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld must be removed from his position.

Stay the course? What course? The course that has created more terrorists than before the invasion? The course that has killed or wounded over 13,000 of our best and brightest citizens? The course that has the United States in the middle of a civil war with no end in sight?

I will not stay this course. I will not be swayed by slogans and campaign rhetoric. I will not accept the failed leadership of a C student who has learned nothing except how to be more arrogant and petulant. I will not support the killing of US service members for a president who believes in the power of imperialism over the will of the people. I will not march in lockstep behind a failed policy.

I will do my patriotic duty and vote. I will do my patriotic duty to use my vote to send this president a message regarding my displeasure with his policies. I will do my patriotic duty and use my right of free speech to tell everyone that this is one citizen who does not feel that this president represents the greater good but his own self interest.

I am a citizen against the failed policies of this administration and I vote!

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