War is an interesting subject….the causes and effects.  I got my interest in the issue after returning from Vietnam back in the Dark Ages….I enter school and majored in International Relations with an emphasis on the Middle East….so this situation is in my wheelhouse…I’m loving it!

The words have been spoken and now the real results of the speech will be known….nightly.

And after the words have been spoken the first thought I had was FUBAR.  For those not serving in the military..FUBAR means F*cked Up Beyond All Repair.  Or I could use the more common…SNAFU….Situation Norrmal All F*cked Up.

For days now the analysis has been almost overwhelming at least to someone who has NO idea of the region and the true situation.  Every channel has its analyst to give expert opinion….they are even letting Cheney voice his views which shows the depths some media outlets will sink to for ratings.  Even the actually ‘reliable’ news outlets are going to McCain fr his expert opinion…..and that is foolish……let a person who has been wrong on the Middle East for 30 years as some sort of expert…….

Anyway…I was listening to a former undersecretary of state, Paul Brinkley and in his analysis about Americans in Iraq he stated…..”US troops will be manning the forward positions and not on the front lines”…..my question to the tube was……just where these forward positions would be?  If by definition the front lines are not in a forward position where would they be?

This is what I bitch about…the media lets these twats babble on and never challenge their statements….this is how they sell BS to the masses…..this is how they get the public to play their games……misinformation.

There are so many statements being made that it is hard to distinguish fact from BS….for instance….we will train and arm the Syrian opposition…..good one…..but just who are the opposition….and why does the US have to do that…..let the cowards in the region fund these ‘fighters’.

I am still concerned about arming the Kurds.  why?  their fighters have been on the terrorist list for at least ten years……so now they are not so bad?……….is that the way we do this terror list now.  We know how that can come back to bite us….if you recall we were arming and training the Afghan rebels during the Soviet days and one of those was AQ.

Then there is the promise of no American troops on the ground (I refuse to use the de-humanzing term “boots on the ground”)……we already have them there and then what if a plane goes down who will retrieve the pilot?  This will take troops doing what they do….hit the ground running.

These are just a couple of my concerns…..we are not being fed the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth….and I do not like that…..we are about to force more Americans to risk their lives in the name of…..WHAT?

I know all this may sound like nit-picking…….or even redundant………and it is……..but I will continue to do so as long as we are throwing our young men and women into a meat grinder….for you see I have seen human lives wasted during war and do not want to see any more…..our young deserve a life without the problems that war will bring.

War is good business….invest your young!