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I am very content with the new Democratic Congress that was just sworn into office. I do not like how the media is focusing on the one Muslim Congressmen who choose to be sworn in on a Koran instead of a Bible. At least he made the effort to be sworn in on something that he believed in. I mean how would it have looked if he put his hand on the Bible and said that oath when he doesn't believe what the Bible has to say? I think it would have been hypocritical and offensive (or even more so for those who already found his actions to be so). Another thing that has been bothering me is the constant comparison of Presidential hopeful Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and most recently to the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the way he dresses. The buzz surrounding this candidate and the comparisons that are being made do not belong in politics. They belong in the tabloids and now it is safe for you to assume that they should not be written about at all.

 

Moving on now to Bush's address to the nation this past week and his "new" Iraq strategy. First things first, he finally admitted that he made a mistake. It only took four years for him to do, but I see that as a step in the right direction. However, I think he's making another mistake by suggesting that sending another 20,000 troops into the mouth of hell will fix his first mistake. We've already lost over 3,000 hard working, patriotic Americans. The number of Iraqi civilians killed is unable to be measured. It is time for Iraq to stand on its own two feet that we as a nation have forced under them. We as a country do not understand that culture and the atmosphere of their nation, and we think that by giving them the democratic freedoms that we cherish so dearly will make them like us. They don't want to be like us, and they cannot be like us. It is arrogant and pigheaded for the United States to believe that it can change the way their country functions and works. Yes, they could become a great democratic nation, but not the same democratic nation that we are.  

 

Many Americans, politicians and analysts do not see the war in Iraq as having a favorable outcome. Not only is Bush's decision to send more troops going against what countless people have told him, but it is challenging the new Democratic Congress. I think he's testing to see if Congress will have what it takes to put an end to all of this. They can cut funding to the war, which would make it difficult to proceed with his plan, and here's an even better idea, they could use the evidence that has mounted over the past six years of his administration to perhaps impeach him…something that should have been done when it was revealed that he went behind the Congress's back and began his domestic spying endeavor. It's all turning into one big cluster that I don't think anyone will be getting out of anytime soon.

 

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