Reality vs. Fantasy
Deborah Venable
02/28/07
If
there was ever a nation in bad need of a reality check, the good old United
States of America is it! I know some
folks have a hard time with reality, but that is their problem and should not
affect the rest of us!
Reality
– The Congress of this great country is acting as useless as tits on a
boar. Forgive the colorful language,
but in reality, that is the best way to put it!
Not
only are their recent exercises in non-binding resolution arguments useless,
but they are also extremely dangerous!
To make these arguments, reality is left by the wayside and fantasy is
embraced to fullest. Facts are
forgotten, enemies are placated, heroes and future generations of Americans are
put in great jeopardy, and a huge percentage of the American public, both in
and out of politics, are shown to be nothing short of stupidly selfish.
We
are forced to pay attention to people who would be president in two years and
IGNORE the one person we elected to do the job now. How dumb is that?
Do
we honestly believe our world will be here all pristine and wonderful for this
future president to take up and lead out of the bowels of Hell if we continue
to throw the present president under the bus and paint a fantasy world that
doesn’t exist?
The
American people are more willing to listen to the likes of Hollywood
entertainers, WHO GET PAID TO ACT, than to the people who are laying their
lives and reputations on the line for their country. Wow! What kind of reality
is that to be proud of?
Let’s
cut to the chase and get one thing clear.
We invaded Iraq back in 2003 for several reasons. Every intelligence source we and the rest of
the world had indicated that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and nobody
doubted that he would be willing to use them.
That was reality.
Now,
we seem to be living in the fantasy of, he didn’t have them, he wouldn’t have
used them if he had, and we had no business invading the poor man’s private
country. My only question is HUH?
Of
course he had them. Of course he would
have used them if he had the chance. Of
course the world is a safer place without the devil!
Was
I the only one who heard about all the sites our guys found that had contained
WMD? They even found small quantities
left behind, but we KNOW the bulk of the weapons stores were MOVED – probably
out of Iraq. We didn’t have bad
intelligence, but the politicians and Bush haters have had a heyday pushing the
fantasy that these weapons never existed!
That is a far cry from reality, folks.
Now
we have the likes of Lady Clinton and other pres hopefuls declaring how wrong
they were to vote for the war. Even if
these folks were sincere, there would be no way I would ever vote them into
office for Dog Catcher, much less the highest office in the land! Mistakes like that cannot be allowed – that
is reality. It is also reality that
they didn’t make any mistakes in reading the intelligence and voting
accordingly – which means they are liars now and even worse for the country.
Reality
is that the American people want to “feel good” about their opinions. They want to be judged on the purity of
their feelings about war and peace and prejudices, and they seem not to care so
much about honesty any more. So, if they
can feel good with denouncing American war, they don’t bother to think about
what the results might be if America never went to war.
Think
about THAT alternate reality for a moment, if you will.
Why
does America go to war – ever? Conspiracy
theorists – those elite among us who know more than everyone else, would have
us believe that America has to go to war to keep the well-oiled machine of the
military industrial complex operating at the forefront of the world stage. America must throw her weight around,
enforce a compliance to the American Way by every two bit dictator and
otherwise innocent, friendly, and power worshipping barbaric society that dares
to hate us. We go to war for oil, money
and more power. Meanwhile, the world does
have its way with us, doesn’t it? We
are the only people on the face of the earth that are so stupid we are willing
to believe the worst about our country and the people we put in charge of
making decisions for us to the detriment of our children’s futures! We are the laughing stock of every demented
regime that wishes to unravel American will, and we trot out our dirty laundry
for the whole world to see.
Fantasy
– America is no better than any other country on earth. Fantasy – any other country with the power
and wealth of America would handle that power and wealth much better than
America ever has or ever will. Reality
– a world without American values communicated with America’s great wealth and
charity would be a world of total political and physical misery!
I’ve
had a cognizant half century of watching and participating in America’s great
battles, and reality has taught me that people lie, cheat, steal and murder in
an attempt to change history and the reality that is true history.
Human
beings who do great things in life have a discriminating sense of right and
wrong and they are not afraid to take a stand for right and condemn wrong. They don’t pussyfoot around the real issues
with “gray area” speeches about good being relative and bad being a matter of
opinion. They don’t spend millions of
dollars to get elected into office under the auspices of “representing” an
immoral people who haven’t earned the number one place in the citizenry of the
world and don’t deserve to call the shots for our own lives and the futures of
our children! They, instead, recognize
that if they have been elected to serve the American people, they should serve
them with truth and dignity. They don’t make excuses for anyone who wants a
piece of us, and they sure as hell don’t try to tell us that they “made a big
mistake” years after sending us into war for our very survival! They also don’t stand on a holier than thou
platform of “we never have a good enough reason to fight evil because we don’t
have a right to judge evil.”
Reality
check time, people – stop being so gullible that you’ll believe anything a
calculating, misfit American who only wants to be king (or queen) in two years
tells you. Take a good look at whom you
elected in the last couple of elections TO REPRESENT YOU in this imperfect
government of ours. Which ones have the
most to lose if you happen to see through fantasy and discover reality before
they can spin it away from you? Most of
all, learn to tell the difference between true history and that manufactured
stuff of fantasy!
If
we don’t soon get on the same page of fighting the Islamic fascists wherever
they are with the same determination to win that THEY certainly have, we may
all live to see a glimpse of the awful world we will leave for our children to
inherit – right before the truth finally dawns that maybe, just maybe the
academic elites and those genius personalities we worship as entertainers
should be relegated to the palaces of fantasy and shunned from the credibility
of reality.