Citizen with a stand

Today alot of things happened, but only the most insignificant got me thinking. As I passed by Whole Foods there were a hand full of people with the same signs you always see at that corner "Impeach Bush" "Only way out of Iraq is to get Bush out" and the such. Here's my thing- Chapel Hill is supposed to be a fairly educated area. Someone please explain to me how starting an impeachment process that will take a long time- probably at least 6 months to a year, is going to get us out of Iraq? After this coming week I will have 6 friends in Iraq/Afghanistan so I feel as though I have some knowledge to base my opinions off of as I am hearing some stories first hand (Although thanks to the US government's ban on myspace and other popular sites unless it is registered with the government it is harder to get info out). Here is basically what I can tell you I believe right now: I don't like Bush more than anyone else right now, I especially don't like the choices he made regarding the war, BUT his counterparts in both elections I do not believe would have done a better job and Clinton kind of rocked the boat for this whole fiasco anyways. No one noticed because of his "indecent" incident. I don't think we should have an exact date to pull out either because then the enemy knows when to take over. I do think we should get the Iraqis an ultimatum (those always worked in my family)- you either get your stuff together with our help or we are pulling out. From what I hear they are mostly depending on the Americans and not stepping up.

Now the emotional side of me- I want my boys home! I want to tell Melissa she can finally spend an anniversary with her husband, I want to tell Diane she can enjoy the honeymoon stages of marriage (since they were married less than a month before her husband was shipped off), I want my other friend and his wife to actually spend time together since they have spent like 1/10 of their marriage actually together (they are both military), I want to give Melanae's brother back his arm and leg he lost when he was hit with an IED, and I want to know everyone is safe. I won't deal with a loss.

So that's my opinion- we need to get out of Iraq if the Iraqis won't step up and impeaching Bush is not the way. It's ignorant people standing on street corners with dumb signs that is creating an upheavel of the uneducated masses standing behind something that has no likelihood of happening.

I will step down from my soapbox now.