John Edwards

I was struck favorably by the news late in December last year John Edwards had officially announced in New Orleans his candidacy for the presidency. I won't be voting for the former Senator from North Carolina in my Ohio primary should his campaign survive through until March of '07. I will be voting for Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, just as I did in '04. However; I'm a realist. It is going to take a group effort to stop the well-funded and politically savy, gender-enhanced, campaign of New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A Spring Plan for Iraq

I actually thought my last plan for Iraq was reasonable. Bringing the troops home for Christmas would have been an excellent idea and one I thought people could rally behind. But ... nobody got behind it, saluted it, or even paid much attention to it. So ... what the hell ... let's run the old one up the same damn flag pole and see if some of the opposition to simple solutions has abated somewhat, eh?
 
The problem seems to be that these carping ass republicans and democrats in the legislature just don't seem to get the obvious - we should declair victory and get the hell out of Iraq - fast.
 
We have serious security issues at home people. 95% of incoming ocean cargo is left unexamined when coming into our ports. Our borders are unsecured. Power plants, nuclear plants and chemical plants that are still vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The Katrina disaster has left a festering putrid wound on the gulf coast of America. All of these are more worthy of our attention and wealth as a nation than a handful of insurgents in Iraq.
 
There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Mission accomplished. Sadam Hussein has been removed from power. Mission accomplished.
 
Bring the troops home.

Oil isn't getting any cheaper. In fact, we are probably pouring a kidrillion dollars a day in oil and fuel down the lusty throat of our Iraq war machine. Not to mention the cost of Our kids dying and being wounded. If not dead or wounded from insurgent sniper fire, or from RPG attacts, or from increasingly effective IED attacks, then How about something even more sinister - residual radiation from the depleted uranium weapons and explosives in our expended arsenal that is spread across Iraq in a fine dust and in concentations in some local areas 1000-1500 times greater than the normal background radiation levels?