TWO MONTHS ON THE ROAD!
After almost nine weeks away from home I am finally back in Boise. I returned just in time to suffer the indignity of a whipping by Georgia over our BSU Broncos 48-13. We had such high hopes for this season and this game was a huge test...we failed. We have a tough game next week too as we are on the road to take on Oregon State, a team that wants to avenge a whipping they took on the blue turf that was nationally televised on ESPN.
My travels have taken me to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. I am now pretty much based in Ft. Worth, Texas, but I did make it up to the home office in St. Joseph, Mo. for a corporate meeting. While there I was able to make it to Kansas City for a Wednesday afternoon game between the Royals and the White Sox. It was a great game that went 13 innings with the home team winning 6-5. Hopes were high in KC after taking two out of three over irst place Chicago. The Royals then went on to lose 18 consecutive games!
While in Texas my job took me to Waco, Amarillo, Wichita Falls and even to Crawford. I saw the Cindy Sheehan group. There were only a few of them. It hardly seemed to warrant all the media attention they were getting. Cindy Sheehan certainly has every right to demonstrate, but I really don't think she is doing her cause any favors. The noble cause she always asks about is clearly the fact that an entire country was freed from a brutal leader and that country is no longer a breeding ground for terrorist groups. Perhaps those groups will simply relocate, but having severely disrupted whatever operations they may have had in Iraq and ridding the world of a brutal dictator is certainly noble at the very least. Also, those in that part of the world who hate America and who want to do us harm are forced to take us on on their home turf rather than hitting us at home as they did on 9/11. They are forced to do battle against our soldiers rather than against innocent citizens and those in our military who are in the line of fire are true, real-life heroes. I salute them all and thank them very much. Not everyone would agree, but I am convinced that what they are doing and the entire reason for us being in Iraq is to make all of us safer and I believe that we indeed are safer.
I spent last weekend in football-crazed Norman, Oklahoma. That entire town is WAY into their Sooners and they were WAY ready to start the season at home against TCU. Too bad the football team was not as ready as they were. It was a crushing defeat and I can only imagine how bummed they are now that their hopes for a national championship have been dashed.
posted by pgreg @ 2:17 PM
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Has Boise fired their coach yet?
Welcome home, amigo.
What planet are you living on anyway, Petey...or is it just that you're spending waaayyy too much time opening wide so Rupert Murdoch can spoon feed you that horse manure? There IS a country in a land far away that was and still is a breeding ground for terrorists, but it starts with an 'A'. How's this for a course of action worthy of a strong and decent country, my country, that the rest of the worlds' citizens might have even respected. Rather than spending billions of dollars (food, education, health care and infrastructure building money) and tens of thousands of mostly innocent lives (yes, Iraqi's are people too) invading a nation where bin Laden WASN'T, we had used our considerable resources and intellect to hunt down that murderous pissant cave dwelling bastard, hauled him back to the United States for trial, hung him, then sewed his body up in pig skin (like a large football, Pete) and buried him in an unmarked grave. After that, we should have directed all our efforts toward the eradication of every single training camp, cell and individual advocate of bin Laden's brand of Islam in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I'm surprised no one told you that was the ACTUAL breeding ground for those terrorists....must be that Fox "news" (news haha) thing again. But you're not completely wrong. Iraq is a terrorist breeding ground .....now. They followed us there.
It has been 1472 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes and 31 seconds since George Bush said he'd "get" bin Laden dead or alive. 1926 Americans dead and 14,362 wounded. $197,489,090,790 tax dollars spent. For what??? Our invasion of Iraq was predicated on a pack of lies, and there is nothing 'noble' about that. The neocons in this administration have proven themselves buffoons in the running of an operation of this magnitude, with almost no understanding of the culture of the people living in the country we attacked. They actually believed Iraqi's would be sticking flowers in our gun barrels the day we hit the shore. This isn't about our safety or anybody's freedom...its about oil, plain and simple. Its naive to think otherwise. And its also naive to think we've changed venues in the terrorist fight. Those people aren't an army confined to some theater of battle. They'll be back again, and they'll keep hitting us (like they've done in Europe for decades) as long as there are virgins in their heaven. As to Cindy Sheehan, she is the catalyst of the upcoming groundswell. Bush's numbers are reflective of Johnson's on a bad day, and the doo is just going to get deeper for that good ol' boy.
Hugs & kisses
Suzie
Pete:
I see Suzie is speaking with you again!
js
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