The “Presto-Chango” Approach Winning…

People, ask yourself, have we been led down the primrose path?

Have we been hypnotized into believing something that has not one iota of truth behind it.

Has repetition of what is untrue deafened us to the facts?

Why are we, therefore, committing more troops to bringing peace and democracy to Iraq?

What does Iraq have to do with 9/11?

Sorry to bust your illusions; it has nothing to do with 9/11.

So why are we talking about committing more troops there?

Good question? Could it have something to do with illusion and smoke and mirrors and a little personal payback?

We are told that unless we add troops to the Iraqi equation, we are likely to see the current condition in Iraq continue to dissemble into chaos.

First of all, no one has been able to make a case for why adding troops at this stage of the game without a well thought plan is going to do much of anything. If they thought so, why didn't they add troops before? Okay, now here's my point: . I feel sorry for what we did to the Iraqis but what does that have to do with getting bin Laden?. Remember him.

I don’t mean to be callous here but everything we have touched in Iraq has gone down the tubes. Therefore, by adding more manpower to the equation, how does that address the problem?. The problem is not the current condition, it is one that we have lost our way and two that this government is incapable of putting together a credible plan and is merely groping in the dark and leading the entire country along in this misguided exercise that leads nowhee..

What we need to do is get real. . Here are the facts one last time: It was not the Iraqis who invaded America, it was members of Al Qaeda; and it seems we have continually neglected the pursuit of both they and their patrons, the Tailiban, turning much of our job over to surrogates as we embarked on a totally different venture which as I recall was to bring democracy to Iraq after all of our specious charges were revealed for what they were.

It seems from what we read and hear, America has come down with a form of national amnesia and seems incapable of maintaining one coherent thought: The reason we went to war was to clean up Al Qaeda and while we have been spinning our wheels, Al Qaeda has only gotten stronger and more entrenched.

What is going on?

For two years, Vice President Cheney aided and abetted the confusion by insisting that the leading operatives of Al Qaeda were in cahoots with the Iraqi leadership. Today, many in the armed forces and elsewhere are suffering under this misinformation believing that the Iraqis were responsible for 9/11.

Don’t we have an obligation to pursue the original culprits with all of our energies and not be distracted or diffused with our engagement with another country that did not make war on America?

How can Americans show the same ardor for pursuing a state that has never been linked to the American aggression with one that clearly has been responsible for the death of thousands in our premier city?.

We need to wake up and shake the dust out of our heads and get back to the original misson of finding bin Laden and putting Al Qaeda out of business at this juncture while we still can. It is he and his growing minions who pose the biggest threat to America lest we forget it. And, it seems to me, that before we run off getting involved in clashes between Sunni and Shiite that we attend to the business at hand which is the business of putting bin Laden and his cohorts out of business—

Les Aaron