The War President?

So Congress sent the President a bill that tied war funding to troop withdrawal. The AP described the bill as "a rare rebuke of a wartime president" And that's the problem. The Republicans and the media still call him a "wartime president." The war is over. It has been over for a long time.

I am not pitching my tent in the camp of those who say the war is lost. I believe we won the Iraq War. We won it quickly and decisively. And we won it a long time ago. If I had to pick a date, I would say we won it four years ago on this very day. Four years ago today, Bush donned a flight suit and landed on a U.S. Carrier that was ordered to pull back so that the Coast of California was not in sight. Our President stood under a banner that read "Mission Accomplished and announced that major combat operations had ended.

I support our troops. They did what they were supposed to do, what they were trained to do. They won a war.

Since then, our presence has been an occupation. We have failed miserably at this task. 6 out of 7 major reconstruction projects have failed. Oil revenue and oil is missing. Our troops are targets. There is civil war. It is an ongoing disaster and it is killing people.

Most of us want our troops to come home. Most of our troops want to come home. The only reason our troops are still there is because we have not yet convinced (coerced?) the new Iraqi government to pass the legislation the powers that be here want passed - the oil legislation. And now the Iraqi government is set to take two months off at the end of May. I am tired of throwing good money after bad and more lives after lost lives. It's time to bring our men and women home.

Please, do something, anything to help bring this about. Call, write, and e-mail the White House. Support our Congress and do whatever you can to help hasten the day that we pull out of Iraq.

And any time someone says that we are at war, please correct them. Tell them we won the war, and it is time for our troops to come home.