It is time to come to our senses and leave the quagmire now. Many of our finest young people are dying, leaving mothers, fathers, wives, and children to suffer the great loss and fend for themselves. 'Enemy' action is not waning, but increasing in numbers and sophistication. Even our presence inflames the resistance. The native populace has not shown either the will or the ability to police themselves militarily or democratically. One cannot even tell friend from foe from outward appearance or daily activity. We cannot afford to continue in this 'Viet Nam'.

In effect we have even created the monster through our ethnocentric policies. (Perhaps I should say rich-ocentric.) Instead of trying to understand the culture of our 'enemy' and meeting his needs to encourage cooperation, we kill and imprison him. We have refused take responsibility and correct our errors, but contrarily we have only stepped up the pace of our arrogant attitudes and mistakes to increase the problems. And increasing they are. Money wasted and blood spilled with no palpable gain. We must get out and let our boys return safely home.

Indeed, we must get our police off of the American streets of quagmire. This 'Viet Nam' has continued for over 200 years at great loss to our nation. About 150 law enforcement officers die in the line of duty annually. The result of their heroic actions? Although there are 2.1 million prisoners incarcerated in our federal, state and local gulags, the political imprisonment is still growing at a rate of 3.5% per year. Our capitalist society has created these 'criminals'; they have failed these living, breathing, feeling individuals. Many may label them criminals. In truth, however, they are freedom fighters. They fight altruistically, often sacrificing their own lives and freedoms just as the revolutionaries of our nation's founding. They fight to throw off the domination by the oppressive rich just like the signers of the Declaration of Independence. They fight to overthrow the dominion of King Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, and big oil. These god-king wannabees, and their likeminded rich puppeteers, have long been pulling the strings of their police puppets and allowing these noble but ignorant suffer for them. The oppressors just get richer upon the backs and by the blood of the peons. We have failed and must get out. I support our police so bring them home. We now need the aegis of the U.N. more than ever. It's the most patriotic thing to do.

Grunt, strain, sweat... Must...get... tongue....forced... out ... of....cheek... All...ugh...satire...and... errg... no... sobriety...nnhg...make... Steve...a... cynical...boy...uhhh, POP! Whew! Forcing myself to speak like a member of Moveon.org is tough. In preparation I needed to plug my anus with a cork for 2-1/2 weeks beforehand as well as snap a mousetrap on my privates. (So it really wasn't my tongue I was struggling to extract nor was its removal the source of the POP that you heard.)

"Linda!! Get out of the bathroom... I need it BAD!! You always tell me I'm full of it and this time I can agree with you."