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After the State of the Union address last week, Monkeybush is showing his lack of understanding as to what is going on around the world and what is directly in front of him. Perhaps that is what the case has been all along but it was ultra apparent in his speech last week, at least in my opinion. This whole business about stay the course, let freedom ring, and that this is for the liberation of the people is a bunch of hooey. And what really drove this point home to me was watching a documentary over the weekend called "Sir No Sir!" about the GI protest to the Vietnam war and what it finally took to get the government to listen. There were movements which were outward protests from the servicemen which of course never got any air play by the media or in any realm where they could be heard. What it took was mutiny on the battle fields where the soldiers turned on their commanding officers because they didn't want to be sent out into the slaughter. And with good reason. No one should have ever been placed in that position. Ever. Furthermore, those who did protest in uniform or otherwise spent serious jail time for speaking out for what they thought to be true. I was shocked. But then again, why should I be so much? The media and the government pair up to tell us what they want us to hear and it's really nothing new. And in this day and age of information overload, I figure we are hearing even less about the war in Iraq due to the fact that so much can be silenced due to technology. Coupled with the fact that the general public is very disconnected from the war--a total sense of not caring or importance or that the protests will be left for someone else to worry about. I fear we are headed down the same path today. Bushy MckBushBush wants to send in 20,000 more troops for a "surge". A surge to kill innocent victims and soldiers. He is whining like a three year old saying "I want it! I want it!" but he really isn't convinced that this will work. You can tell in his delivery. He is so far down the attack path that he can't possibly see anything else. Congress now has the control of the purse strings. They have the control to cut this war off at the pass and dump no further money into it. Now the democrats have to get some balls and make it happen. Life is all about difficult discussions from time to time. It's time to have this one! If they don't take a stand, they might as well forget about winning back the Whitehouse in 2008. So get on it elected officials in Washington. Take this war back, bring the troops home and cut off Monkeybush's thrifty spending habits. It's that easy!