by Rex Coker

Created on: September 16, 2007   Last Updated: August 13, 2009

Since America was started by our fore fathers, there have been conflicts of interest on all fronts. I have to hand it to the president because he has stood up for what he believes and he has double timed his efforts to try and show the American people that he sticks to his word, no matter how right or wrong he may be. Just how important the country of Iraq is to the rest of the world is his main concern. Knowing his reasons for solidarity to unite the American people to this conflict would be unfair to judge because the president said "We would run the course,no matter what the time table."

The Idiots in congress and the senate want to say all this was a big mistake by the president. If you ask me, the mistake was getting attacked in the first place. We had the Intel and we had people in place at that time. The problem was no one was listening. Abraham Lincoln faced these same problems during the civil war, where it was brother against brother in the conflict. I did not see the president's side of the story,until I read the Gettysburg Address. He faced enemies in both houses of the capital and still he stuck to his beliefs that a country divided will surely fall.

Franklin Roosevelt must have had some of the same problems, The people of the United States sat back on their laurels and we lost a lot of service men at Pearl Harbor. Why does it seem that we always have to have some one to blame when there is conflict of interest abroad? We are either behind our President or we stand divided. When the President asked for General Petraeus's report, he already knew that the Iraq people were not ready for a troop pull out. What do the presidential candidates do? They criticize and rake General Petra us over the coals, Why? Because he is suppose to know about war more than anyone else. I applaud General Petraeus because he gave all the candidates what they needed to know and left it at that. I think it is true what my Dad use to tell me, You give a person enough rope and they will hang themselves. I ask the American people. Do we want to wait until we have a new president in office?

Do we want history to repeat itself and let a loose cannon dig us a deeper hole by pulling troops out of Iraq to soon? I would hope not!

No matter what the decision may be, How can the American people of this country be so naive as to think we are safe from all our enemies here and abroad. The behind the scenes war has never left our soil and to just sweep it under the rug and forget it is the wrong approach to make.

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