Our troops will never come back from Iraq

Kodiak, Alaska

Our troops will never come back from Iraq. The reason can be found in a common catch phrase. "We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" This is all too true. And it is a dishonorable, destructive, selfish thing for us to do. We didn't go to Iraq because the terrorists were there. The terrorists are there because we went to Iraq. The fight with Osama is in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Our weakened forces are fast losing ground there.

But no matter. By picking a fight in the middle of the Muslim world, we have attracted terrorists from all over the Middle East to the Thunderdome called Iraq. Their energies have been turned to killing each other, destroying their own homeland, and blowing up our sons and daughters as they drive by in Humvees.

Meanwhile, here in America we enjoy our tax cuts and vacations, going on with our lives pretending there is no war. All it costs us is our economy, our honor, our civil liberties and the blood of our brave soldiers.

But don't ever expect them to come back.

As for the coming election for governor here in Alaska, I have only one word of advice: Not Knowles. Tony's selling point has been his experience. In other words when he goes to sit down with oil company executives they can clap one another on the shoulders like old friends before sitting down to cut a deal. We should not want BP's buddy negotiating for us with BP. Tony typifies the good old boy network.

In Paint Your Wagon, as a woman is about to be auctioned off in the mining camp, her former husband says "But you don' know what you'll get!" Her reply: "I know what I've had!"

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