On This Memorial Day, We Honor 3400 + (And Still Counting) Buried "Bumper Stickers" by Doug Wrenn

On This Memorial Day, We Honor 3400 + (And Still Counting) Buried "Bumper Stickers"

By Doug Wrenn

May 29, 2007

Senator "Pretty Boy" John Edwards, the Democrat Dandy, seeking to be our nation's next leader, is probably in some spa for rich, pretty boys right now, enjoying a mud bath, a manicure, a pedicure and sipping a glass of carrot juice with a celery stick in it. The closest thing to heat he'll find this Memorial Day weekend is a sauna or a hot tub. Meanwhile, some poor, young grunt in Iraq or Afghanistan is miles away from his loved ones on this holiday, doing his job, and probably for long hours and on little sleep, while eating rations, inhaling dirt and feeling real heat that most of us couldn't even imagine. Oh, and one more thing, I doubt Pretty Boy is overly worried about getting shot or setting off an IED in his current posh digs at the local spa for pampered politicians.

Like with the other "filthy fifth" column Democrat America-bashing cowards who have badmouthed our country, our President, our troops and our mission, both from the shallow halls of Congress as well as abroad, Edwards doesn't see the big picture. Just days before Memorial Day, Senator Edwards, in speaking to the Council Of Foreign Relations (CFR) called the Bush administration's "war on terror" a "bumper sticker." Perhaps he didn't mean it. Who knows? He may have still felt a little uncomfortable from a previous bikini wax.

Edwards expounded that this current strategy is "no plan" and that President Bush is using the war to "bludgeon" his political opponents and that his doctrine is a "sledgehammer" to justify the abuses of this administration.

I won't defend the President on some of those abuses but unlike Pretty Boy, I have no confusion over the chronology of the arrival of the chicken and the egg. As far as bludgeoning goes, what I have viewed in the cheap seats, up here in the nosebleed section, is a President who was true to his word when he told us years back that this would be a long process and a President who has continually told us to "stay the course." He does have a plan. It's called victory. OK, granted, the mission is not "accomplished," but it is also not "lost" as Pretty Boy's Senate boss, Harry "The Retreater" Reid would have us believe. The war is ongoing and I haven't heard any fat ladies sing yet. For all this droning on about exit strategies, there cannot be an "exit" until we have secured victory. And a timeline merely tells the enemy what date it may move in. You folks are good at saving whales and funny looking owls, but you're way out of your league on this one, and it is you who are doing the constant bludgeoning. Now, settle down. Pretty Boy, sit down on a nice, velvet cushion, elevate those freshly clipped and painted dogs of yours, sip a latte, close your eyes, think relaxing thoughts about cool breezes and chill for awhile. The Prez may be right. This might actually take some time.

Now I understand why the Democrats support gun control. Every time a "gun" is put in their hands, they can't quite pull the trigger. For all their bluster of cutting off funding to the troops, somehow they just can't do it. Go figure. "Stay the course" wasn't good enough for them, so now we have a troop surge and already they're hitting the buzzer and want to get off the bus. They keep calling this war a civil war, like they did during Viet Nam. We pulled out of Viet Nam and look what happened there when we did. Now the stakes are higher but the Party Of Pithy Sound Bites doesn't care.

Years of ignoring radical Islamists led to continued terrorist attacks against our people, both on our soil and abroad. The Democrats would like us to believe we caused this war, but in fact it came to us from people who simply hate us for who we are, and long before we ever entered Iraq. And now the Democrats don't want victory. They just want us out. Their microwave, drive-thru impairment ignores the bigger question of "Then what?" I'm glad the Democrats are worried about our troops. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that pretty much all Americans are on that same page, but does September 11th ring a bell? In remembering the 3000 + soldiers we have lost so far, have we forgotten the 3,000 + civilians we lost on that day? Their only crime against Islam was either going to work or boarding a plane that morning. The fact of the matter is we are holding a rabid dog by the tail here. We don't want to hang on, but letting go is out of the question. If death is inevitable, than call me crazy, but better the recipients of it be our enemies than us.

In our current dilemma, not only will Iraq collapse if we pull out, but the battlefield will cross the globe and soon arrive at our front doors, our back yards, our transportation hubs, sports stadiums, shopping malls schools, churches, and watch out, Pretty Boy, maybe even a spa or two.

Then there is our credibility in the world to foe and ally alike. Neither will ever believe us in the future. Osama bin Laden called us a "paper tiger" after Somalia and then his cronies hit the World Trade Center for a rehearsal of a bigger event to come. We responded as if the matter was a police action. Our nation was attacked, and we sought to write someone a ticket. By the way, China's documented interpretation to our withdrawal from Somalia was the same as that of bin Laden. Lots of eyes watch us, especially now in the era of the Internet. For every inane remark some bonehead, knee-jerk Democrat spews out, millions of our enemies around the world hear it and become that much more emboldened. (By the way, our troops and their families hear those insidious remarks as well!) Does anyone really still wonder why Iran did not release our hostages until Ronald Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter as President, or why, after already enduring Reagan's strength, Libya's Kadafi suddenly wanted to give up his nukes and play nice after President Bush hit Iraq? These same Democrat cut-and-run wonders of today want to negotiate with North Korea and Iran as well. Negotiating means give and take, bargaining chips, I have, you want. You cannot and do not negotiate with someone whose only desire and goal is your death, as Chamberlain soon learned the hard way with Hitler. President Reagan succinctly summed this principle as "Peace through strength." For Democrats, they haven't yet grasped the concept and still believe in "Close your eyes and wish for peace by hope." Pray that you aren't standing anywhere near within range of these naïve, cowardly, childish fools if or when the bombs start dropping and the bullets start flying.

This war is about our survival. Our troops are fighting for much more than a "bumper sticker." The only bumper stickers that should be distributed during this war campaign as well as during this presidential campaign are those bearing a picture of a jackass (appropriately) with a caption that reads, "Wimp On Board."

President Bush said early on in this war of other countries that "You are either with us or against us." I would link that saying to a phrase often coined by radio personality Michael Savage, a phrase that is also now rightfully the title of one of his best-selling books, "The Enemy Within." Not all our nation's enemies are outside of our borders, such as those borders are, and indeed, you are either with us or against us. There was a time not all that long ago when Democrats were still liberal, but they were also still patriotic. During that time, country still meant more than party. Sometime since then, we must have legalized prostitution and the entire party has since gone to hell, figuratively, and undoubtedly in some cases, literally.

Today is Memorial Day as I write this column. Yes, we have freedom of speech, but we also have freedom not to listen, too. I don't want to again have to hear any yuppie, fancy-boy metro-sexual, silver-tongued ambulance chasing trial lawyer stepping all over the graves of men and women far better than him because he has the tainted, soiled, grossly erroneous illusion that he has even a scarce scintilla of qualification to actually lead them during time of war, or even peace, as their Commander In Chief. Those graves aren't filled with bumper stickers, Senator Edwards, but they exist so that even so-called "Americans" like you can freely denigrate them to fill your own self-centered, self-promoting, self-prostituting, but hopefully, not self-fulfilling prophesy. This Memorial Day, Senator Edwards, stay in the tanning salon, lest your filthy shadow even scantly encroach upon the graves of these gallant and true American heroes as they now rest in well deserved peace, and bask in their well deserved sunlight as the rest of us remember and reflect upon their sacrifice and their families' loss for a cause much more significant and noble than some smart (jack) ass remark plastered to the back of your Volvo.

Bumper stickers are typically for cheesy slogans for wannabe political hacks. Freedom is a virtue, cherished by all Americans. Those 3400+ (and sadly, still counting) decorated graves are collectively the high and continual cost of that cherished virtue of freedom. No man or woman of any party has yet even begun to earn the right to be called "Commander In Chief" unless he or she has at least first gotten that fact straight.