We have a bright & shiny new name!!

No longer is the war called "Operation: Iraqi Freedom!!!"  

So-- War on Terror.  Out.  Lame.  No real imminent threat.  

Operation: Iraqi Freedom-- Who really wants to lose American lives to better a different nation?? You're just asking for bad PR

Operation: New Dawn-- YEAH!  Vague, promising, will make for a GREAT movie title in 10-15 years!!  

 I mean, with a name like Operation: New Dawn, it's almost like we're not fighting a war!!!  I mean, my buds who have pretty much been to Hell and back during their service to this country would probably have appreciated the name change sooner!! 

The moms and dads of the kids who returned home for burial rather than joyous reunion... they're probably PUMPED for this!!

New "plan," new surge... new name!!

Or maybe.. it's still a fucking war.  

Men and women, and Iraqi civilians and children are still FUCKING DYING.

Throw an upbeat, vague representation of the horror of war to make us feel just a little warmer and fuzzier on the inside.  

New Dawn.  A rebirth.  An awakening.  

Or maybe it's all a giant load of shit.

Maybe it's the same fucking war, with no pheasible end in sight.  Thank you Republicans.  Enough pressure from the right, and we have a continua...I mean-- plan for withdrawal in the war.  But with a brand spanking new name.

I feel like in more and more diaries I have to defend my approval of the President...  I knew (way back during his campaign) he didn't feel the way I did about the Iraq war... 

I wasn't expecting him to pull out (bah... men!).  But this name change feels more like propaganda to change the minds of the FUCKING SHEEP in this country... "End in sight" my ass.  Appease the pro-war righties by continuing the war, appease the anti-war lefties by... calling it Operation: New Dawn??

Great.  Fantastic.  Somehow I feel like we got the shit end of the stick there.

So... I'll leave you with a bumper sticker I happen to have on my car.  One of my Favs.