Sign the Antiwar Election Oath Petition!

I hate the war as much as anybody. More that some, because I'm a high school teacher and it's my recent ex students who are going over there to face the uncertain traumas of war--a war that does us no good at all. But an immediate withdrawel is a recipe for compounding an already existing disaster.

For an analogy, I want you to imagine how you'd react if your dog broke into your neighbor's home, killed their cat, and destroyed their furnishings while looting the kitchen for dog treats. If you saw that going on would you just fetch your dog home and end it at that? Of course not. Your family would have an obligation to fix up the mess and make restitutions. It's your dog, just like it's your government, and regardless of what you wanted, the beast that you're responsible for has down a godawful volume of damage.

We owe the Iraqis a clean up--an effective clean up. I think we should take the profit out of the occupation (both for Bush-friendly contractors and all mercernaries in there--killing should not be a for profit venture). But high tailing it out just because the rest of the country is coming around to see that the war was a stupendous blunder and a product of lies is too dishonorable to reasonably consider.

candidates for national office who make pulling all of our troops out of Iraq a central plank in their platform. And I tell that to anyone who calls wanting donations.