Okay, the military isn't going to level with the American people about when we're going to accomplish whatever we're trying to accomplish in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American people have to do something to demand accountability.
I get sick and tired of morons with uniforms and medals appearing on television and answering questions with non-answers, evasive double-speak, and nonsensical military smokescreen lexicon.
The American people need to demand accountability. No more vague answers from military fools like "we're making progress," or "we need to turn it around," or "light at the end of the tunnel." Or, "be patient."
BE PATIENT?
I remember Bush saying that six years ago. Be patient. It's time for you to be patient with me!
I call on millions of Americans to engage in civil (peaceful) disobedience, walking off the job in a general strike, until our military leaders come clean with real answers, answers we can understand, not vague double talk ie. "Progress, turn-around, tunnel."
Plain talk.
WHAT ARE WE ATTEMPTING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THESE CONFLICTS? HOW MUCH MORE TIME DO YOU NEED?
A simple direct honest answer.
If they refuse to answer. Walk off the job.
Otherwise, they'll keep the war going with no plan to end it. The plan is currently no-plan, or I call it the Vietnam non-Plan. In Vietnam, we had no plan. The Enclave System, one of many plans, occupying key cities in Vietnam and letting the enemy rule the countryside didn't work, like the body count system also didn't work. In the end, the plan was no plan, hope the other guy got tired and gave up.
This is the same non-plan today. Hope the other guy quits. Keep the war going forever and hope for the best.
They haven't been honest with us. Why should we be honest with them?
When there's a problem at the local level, citizens call for a hearing at the board of supervisors or the city council and give testimony. The officials are forced to hear it and respond.
There is no such accountability at the federal level.
I DEMAND A FULL ACCOUNTING including the acknowledgement that we went to war under false pretenses, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that didn't exist. Bush and Chaney can claim they thought there were weapons. It doesn't matter. They lied before. They'll lie again.
No, I don't want to hear from these no-good bastards that the surge worked and accomplished the objective, to tamp down acts of violence in Iraq, that it's quieter than it was. That wasn't how the war was sold to the American people and they know it.
Obama is a decent and an honest man, but I'm afraid he's going to get sucked into the military industrial colossus. He's already shown a reluctance to prosecute Bush's war crimes.
They'll just go on forever with the war as long as the American people remain gutless, un-involved and apathetic. There's only one thing the powers-that-be understand, direct pressure. Protest.
WHAT IS THE PLAN TO END THE CURRENT CONFLICT? They can't answer because they don't know. It's a train going down a track with nobody at the wheel.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PLAN TO WIN, AT LEAST SOME KIND OF EXPLANATION OF WHERE THIS IS HEADED, THEN WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
Winston Churchill had the guts to say "blood, sweat and tears." I want the same consideration.
I CALL FOR A ONE-DAY PEACEFUL WALK OFF THE JOB, THE BIGGEST SINGLE AMERICAN PROTEST WALKOUT IN HISTORY, A STRIKE, UNTIL OUR SO-CALLED LEADERS GET THE MESSAGE AND COME CLEAN AND LEVEL WITH US.
It's time to turn up the pressure.
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"The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.
"The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.
"As one deeply invested in the Armed Forces of this country, I am grateful for the senior military commanders assigned to leading this fight and the men and women fighting on the ground. But I dismiss men like Cheney who inject partisan politics into the profound deliberations our Commander-in-Chief and commanders on the ground are having to develop a cohesive and comprehensive strategy, bringing to bear the economic and diplomatic as well as the military power, for Afghanistan -- something Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld never did."
- National Security Network Senior Adviser Gen. Paul Eaton (Ret.), who served more than 30 years in the United States Army and from 2003-2004 oversaw the training of the Iraqi military.
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