Reply #19: I'd like to agree with you, but [View All]

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

I recall how I was feeling in those months after 9/11, when the discussion quickly turned from finding OBL to invading Iraq. I, who have never been at a political rally or protest in my 33 years, began to watch the news more closely and critically. I attended protests, read all I could about the upcoming resolution. It seemed obvious to me that since Bush kept changing his reasons for invading Iraq, there was in fact nothing to his argument. It was painfully obvious that he was using the Fear Factor to control Americans.

I recall how angry, no infuriated, I felt that the Congress didn't listen to the millions of protesters world-wide who did see Bush's desire to invade Iraq clearly for what it was. I saw how other people in Congress saw through Bush's masquerade as well, and begged others in Congress to vote their collective conscience and not vote for political positioning.

When I think of those in Congress who voted for the war, those who had more information than me, but clearly decided they wanted another term more than they wanted to keep our military men and women safe, I get sick in my stomach.

Will I vote for Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards, Lieberman if they are nominated. You bet. I'll bring along some soothing tea to quell the disguist in my stomach as I do so, but I want Bush gone.

Until that time comes, if it does, I'll be putting my entire heart, energy, and donations behind a man who stood up for what was right, not what was politically expedient at a time when the masses were against him. A man who, with little foreign affairs experience, saw what was going down as something flat out wrong, and made no bones about saying so, even though it was a GREAT risk to his presidency campaign. I'll be voting my whole heart in the primaries, that you can count on.

Because I will never forget how angry, frustrated, disguisted, disenfranchised I felt when those in Congress voted for their political gains because they valued their jobs more than they valued the lives of our soldiers.