Troops Must Stay/Bush Must Go

said “I’m

conflicted. I actually

pissed, I’m livid,

agree

blow

with a

into Iraq

man I hate:

make a mess

can’t back

must fire

out of Iraq.

Bush and Rumsfeld.

Such

They

a move

have no

will embolden terrorists.

business, no credibility

cleaning

hesitated in

up blood

Rwanda in part

they themselves spilled

because

of Somalia.

Iraq matters.

Troops must stay.

Bush must go.”

-- from an ongoing conversation with a man I greatly respect, a Vietnam vet, a pacifist, who among other uncharacteristic things has said he hopes Bush gets assassinated, such is the fever of his passion

-- he and others have pointed out the irony of saying to cut-and-run in Iraq will embolden terrorists when the war itself has been a boon to extremist recruiting in Iraq and elsewhere, as well as providing a "state-of-the-art" training ground