Memorial Day

Story here.

Bush: Fallen troops' sacrafice helps build better world

Better? Really?

"From their deaths must come a world where the cruel dreams of tyrants and terrorists are frustrated and foiled, where our nation is more secure from attack and where the gift of liberty is secured for millions who have never known it," he said. "This is our country's calling. It's our country's destiny."

Tyrants and terrorists? Who is the one using fear against their own people here? FOLLOW US, OR BE A TERRORIST TOO. THEY WILL COME. Wasn't he the one that said they would come for people's children? What is that, if not the use of fear?

When has our country been more uptight and scared?

Calling? Destiny? Who comes up with this stuff? Seriously...

"For the fallen, we will avenge you; for the lost, we will find you."

Vengance. Is that what war is about? Getting back at those who oppose us? An eye for an eye? Or an eye for a fingernail? Giving so much more than you get... they do something to us, and we do so much more to them.

This is not a day of celebration. Memorial Day shall be a day of mourning. Mourning for the soldiers. For the draftees of long ago. For those who went against their will. For those who thought they were doing a good deed.

But most importantly, those who got stuck in the middle of raging battles. The ones who had nothing to do with the war. The ones who didn't ask for their country to be ripped apart and raped by the savagery of war.

For them, I will mourn.

And for my country, I will also mourn.

Eventually, they will leave. Eventually, there will be nothing left for them to fight and they will leave, claiming "Mission accomplished!" Infrastructure ruined. Houses destroyed. Cities full of people with nothing to support them.

What will they do then? Will they just leave and leave it up to the people... those who never asked for any of this... to help themselves? Will it be a case of, "Hey, we ruined your country and now we're out of here. Have a good day?" Is that how this will end?

Truly, only time will tell.

At least election day 2008 gets closer by the moment. There is peace in that knowledge.