What Do We Celebrate This Year?

The Fourth of July is coming up and I'm wondering how we will celebrate?  Or should we even be celebrating at all?

It is immoral for the United States government AND the U.S. citizens to stand back and allow American soldiers to needlessly die until September.  That is the time frame General Petraeus has to make his "surge report" and Congress intends to force the President into any necessary adjustments at that time.  This entire "Democracy By Force" policy was doomed from the start as the entire war was based on misinformation, miscalculations, ignorance, and lies.  This "surge" tactic hasn't shown one inch of progress and many military experts believe upwards of 500,000 troops would have to be on the ground for it to even have a remote possibility of working.  

Between now and September, how many hundreds of troops will needlessly die?  What will we be forced to conclude in September that we cannot conclude now, or even back in December when this was first proposed? The media allowed itself to be exploited by Ann Coulter this week so she can publicly state how the U.S. won't be successful in Iraq until we blindly carpet bomb millions of Arab citizens with the insane idea that only this will break the will of the insurgency/terrorists.  Meanwhile the American people distract ourselves from everything but the reality that we allow innocent men, women and children to die because we're too lazy and complacent to put pressure on our political leaders to find a resolution NOW. 

Congress will be taking a 10-day break for the Fourth of July and eat hot dogs, hamburgers, and watch firework shows, while we shake our fists at the job they'™re doing thus far.  Well I'™m sorry, we should be kicking their asses back to Washington and make them stay there until they actually accomplish something of value.  For example, saving valuable American lives by allowing the Iraqis stabilize their nation.  It's impossible to win another country's civil war, especially when the two major opposing sides (Shiites and Sunnis) will ultimately be enemies of the United States.  I don'™t care if the Democratic majority doesn'€™t have enough votes to get their bills through.  It is their duty to at least send the same bills up to the White House OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again.  The odds are that one of them will slip through because President Bush and the Republicans can only deny world opinion and REALITY for only so long.  The Democrats have to remind President Bush and what's left of his base that the real issues facing this nation will need real results, and those results MUST come sooner than later.

While you're celebrating your day off from work with friends and family, please remember that a micro contingent of the American population fights them over there to allow us to be immoral, greedy, hypocrites over here.

Happy Fourth of July America!