Sometimes you just go off on rants and are not sure why. This being my first time blogging(I prefer to see how people react to my random insanities) we shall see how it goes. Unfortunately it's too late to rant to any people and I can not sleep. As you can see what we get. Now to start with I had someone today tell me that we have no right to have our troops in Iraq (no arguments everyone is entitled to their own opinion). However then this individual proceeded to tell me about how much worse off the world is because of the soldiers over there currently. Now needless to say I was at work so had to control my temper (thank god for helping me with that, 9 months ago I would have been out a job). Again I am not one to say anything derogatory about someone's opinion but this quite disturbed me. I mean it makes you wonder how many more people out there believe this? Agreed we are the world's policemen and I agree that Saddam technically was no worse than Stalin(whom for those of you that don't know their history killed hundreds of thousands of Russians, US did nothing) but I digress. But to say that the Iraqi's would be better off just sent me through the roof. For anyone that has been there, or has talked to any people who have, the place was horrid and is on the up swing. And slightly off this portion of the rant, I don't want to hear anyone else tell me we need to leave Iraq now and pull the troops back. We do that it will be another Vietnam and that's not good for anyone. I've had too many friends and watched too many friends die out there and am not ok with calling it quites because popularity says we should. Folks need to deal with it, we are in for the long haul. Well I think that sums up for now. In the long run the people on here that support their troops/Police/Firemen, we love you guys, you make it so much easier to fight for everyone that doesn't care about us. Coming home(yes it was like 2 years ago but remember it like yesterday) and getting off the plane seeing somewhere around 500 people cheering and waiting for all the soldiers, some people driving all the was to Dallas Texas from Maine, happiest thing I've seen in a long time. If you made it this far thanks, leave a comment tell me what you think. John
