To quote from a column I read the other day:

It has become popular to say that the time to object to these policies is past. The administration would like us to shut up and fall in line, to "support our troops" by muzzling dissent.

I have a big problem with this sign:



Supporting the troops has nothing to do with supporting President Bush. I sure as hell do not support President Bush, and I support the troops in hoping Bush gets them out of Iraq as soon as possible before too many of them die.

I'm not someone who protests much of anything, I don't pick issues and make a stink about them because I have nothing better to do. Most of the time I point and laugh at protesters just like everybody else.

If Bush's goal was to get rid of Saddam the whole time, he shouldn't have tried to string along the rest of the world with talk of disarmament. It has become clear that disarmament was never the goal.

All Bush did by initially supporting disarmament instead of the removal of Saddam was make himself look like a hipocrite to anyone with enough of a sense of cynicism in them to not blindly follow the administration and assume their best interests are being served.

Getting rid of Saddam is a good thing. Bush's methods for starting this war were stupid. He's a horrible diplomat, and even Colin Powell in all of his skill can't make Bush look like anything else.