Guest Author - Gary King

The letter D does not stand for Democrat! The letter D stands for DISGUSTING! The letter R does not stand for Republican! The letter R stands for RIDICULOUS! The two words new direction and the Congress and the Senate have nothing in common.

The American people need to learn how to dig foxholes, how to deal with the Taliban and terrorists and to learn what it would be like to deal with death and destruction because if we pull out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that is what will probably happen. The Congress and the Senate seem to have started on THEIR NEW DIRECTION to aid and abet the Taliban and the terrorists by asking for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

The words we have seen displayed that tell us to support our troops should not be displayed in the Halls of Congress or the Senate chambers because all they have done in those hollow places is to show our troops AND the American people just what it means to cut and run. They have, in reality, proved they DO NOT support our troops. Instead, they try to cut funding so that our troops are carrying toy guns with no ammunition, vehicles without adequate protection, and sending a signal that they do not feel our troops are qualified to have what they need. The war in Iraq has not been won and will not be won because of three factors: the Congress, the Senate and the Media!

The high cost of gasoline, the high cost of prescription drugs, Social Security, the inability to deal with Iraq accurately and with common sense, and other problems can be put on a platter and handed to those responsible: Congress and the Senate. You and I both know what would happen if members of Congress and the Senate were to drive up to gas pumps and have to pay out of their own pocket for the gas, like we do. You and I both know what would happen if these same people with their own political and personal agendas were to have to pay for prescription drugs like we do. You and I both know what would happen if members of Congress and the Senate were under Social Security. If they were, THAT situation would be resolved within days.

I believe in freedom and I stood up to be counted for many years while serving on active duty. I am proud that I did and I would do it again if I had to. I have watched a nation move from one combat situation to another and have watched as courageous people stood up to be counted and showed what kind of courage it takes to make and maintain a nation like this. We have ALWAYS stood up to be counted and to do what is right. We have been doing that in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere and we have been helping to preserve the right of not only America to be free and remain free. We have been standing up to be counted to help other people in this world so that they can have the right to exist and to be free like America.

The cost of lives in Iraq has been tremendous but could have been less if troops were adequately funded and protected. The total cost of the war in Iraq has been tremendous but could have been and could be less... if troops were adequately funded and protected! You can preach all day what is right and what is wrong, but then you tell me why when Americans and other people are beheaded and their heads placed to platters to be marched before thousands of people and it is all right for someone to do that? BUT, when we capture someone who would be more than glad to behead Americans is captured, that person can cry foul and tell everyone how bad they are treated.

The bottom line is that the American people have been fed a pack of lies by a cringing, crying media who does not have the guts to stand up to be counted to support our troops. The bottom line is that our Congress and our Senate make more money on high gas prices, high prescription drugs, and at our expense than they do by doing what is right.... and fair.... and just.

A new direction? The only direction we are now moving is farther down the road in the same direction we have been heading since any of us can remember. The direction we are on is the same direction we have always been on since our political comics started playing their political agenda game. They DO NOT resolve what needs to be resolved, like lower gas prices, lower prescription drugs, etc., because it is not on their agenda.

I bowl as one of my hobbies and in one of the bowling centers I bowl in, there are the newest sophisticated monitors that sometimes display some comical things when a person throws a gutter or channel ball. One of them shows Homer Simpson behind the wheel of an old worn-out, beat up car and asks the question if the person rolling the ball fell asleep at the wheel? The Senate and the Congress should take heed because they have not only fallen asleep at the wheel, but they are not doing exactly what the terrorists and Taliban want. They do not need someone named Bin Laden to promote their cause--our Senate and Congress are doing it for him.

The Congress and the Senate of the United States need to stand up to be counted and remove the walls of dissension and the bands of hypocrisy and start doing the right thing. They need to take a long good look in the mirror and ask themselves what someone named John F. Kennedy once said: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what YOU can do for your country?"