The Flip Flop Girl

END THE WAR!!!

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO ACHIEVE PEACE!!!

HERE'S WHY THE JOHN WAYNE APPROACH WON'T WORK

It's never too late to achieve peace. Thousands of protesters made their voices heard during demonstrations around the globe last weekend, on Saturday, September 15, 2007. Photos from the demonstrations in Washington, D.C. indicate that today's youth are not as passive as some pundits would have us believe. Is all this too little too late? I'd say it's never too late to speak up against this stupid war!

I do believe that a lot of people, particularly Democrats, regret not having spoken up sooner. The fact remains that this war was and is a wrong war to fight. We should never have invaded Iraq. Those who support the war believe it's too late to argue those points. The White House & Co. won't even admit to them and just wish them to all go away. No, it's essential to stress that this is an illegitimate war. There are also those who demand some sort of "victory" as if John Wayne could ride all through Iraq, knock out the bad guys, and make everything a nice red, white, and blue. Everyone would be so grateful and in awe of the good ole U. S. of A. We'd all have a big helping of mom's apple pie, salute Bill O'Rielly, and we'd be so very happy. Sorry, but that's a crazy fantasy!

John Wayne, God bless him, is long gone and not the answer. Dubya and Big Dick are not John Wayne. "VIctory" is a fantasy that draft dodger rich boys like Dubya and Big Dick have no trouble selling to the gullible.

We need to think hard about why we went into Iraq (admit our mistake) and the chaos and agony we have created. We need to think hard about our exit strategy while we still can and while we pull the hell out of Iraq. This is not going well for us and is not going to get better. Diplomacy needs to be our highest priority. I guess Bush & Co. are going to leave that for Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton or John Edwards to achieve. Whoever our Democratic president should be, he or she will have quite a lot to fix!

Some say that the US in Iraq could be the beginning of World War III. Not 9/11 but the US invasion of Iraq. We need to turn this situation in Iraq into a truly international effort to achieve peace. It's a mess. No doubt about that. The last thing we need is to be fantasizing about some John Wayne victory.

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STOP THE WAR!!!

GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS IS BEING USED TO SELL THE WAR JUST THE WAY GENERAL COLIN POWELL WAS USED!

And even with that being the case, Gen. Petraeus is not painting a rosy picture!

It is Gen. Petraeus who concludes that the situation in Iraq demands a political solution not a military one!

The war was a scam to begin with. We should never have gone to war. The Democrats should have fought Bush when he was gearing up to invade Iraq. Some did but most were unsure and left with doubt. We have to also remember that the Republicans held the majority in Congress up until only recently! Most Americans are now speaking up against this war and Democrats are doing what they can. Yes, politics will always get in the way but there are many trying to rise above politics like the respected Republican, Sen. John Warner, who has come out against the war.

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Wake Me Up When It's Over

Oh, I wish it were only that easy.

Dubya has a new speech tonight where he's going to tell us he's pulling back on some troops. Well, he just had a surge! To pull back some troops now is just bringing us back to the same troop level. Whatever the troop level, it's a crazy war and it has to come to an end. The Bushies really don't give a flying fig what you think. All we can, and should be doing, is demading action from Congress every single day until Bush backs down. Aside from that, vote Democrat.

Funny how just a day after Rove, "Bush's Brain," made it out the door, Bush gives that speech comparing leaving Iraq too soon to the "tragedy," as his new brain sees it, of America leaving Veitnam. How much longer would Bush have had us in Vietnam?! That was a dumbass war just like Iraq! Yes, we always salute the people that wear the uniform and go fight these wars. It's the powers that be that are crimminal. Look it up, it was Henry Kissinger who said the enlisted were just cannon fodder. What do you think the Bushies really think of our armed forces? The real tragedy is how the Bush administration has abused the military!

JUST A NOTE AFTER SEEING THE BUSH SPEECH: It wasn't anything productive. Bush just said a small number of troops would come home. And later he said that the generals need to have all the flexibility they need which can mean anything. Troops going back to Iraq that already served. More troops in the future, etc. So, unfortunately, it was just a lackluster sales job. What Bush & Co. want next is a permanent role in Iraq, like in Korea, I guess. That sounds screwy.

THIS JUST IN FROM OUR FRIEND DICK CHENEY: The day after the Bush speech, Big Dick came out fighting and touting out the rhetoric against pulling out too early. This from Reuters:

If U.S. and coalition forces left Iraq before Iraqis could defend themselves, moderates would be "crushed," extremists would push the country into "chaos," and competing factions including groups backed by Iran "would unloose an all-out war, with the violence unlikely to be contained within Iraq," Cheney said.

"The ensuing carnage would further destabilize the Middle East and magnify the threat to our friends throughout the region," he said.

OK, so that's classic Cheney. Nothing new there. Just a lot of hot air. What people like him are neglecting to say is that this is really an issue for the Iraqi people to sort out. If they want a civil war, they are going to have one. What they really should be doing, and here's where the US could help, is sitting down and talking peace. It sounds nuts but it can happen. Also, this will not mean the end of the world if the US pulls out. Iran and Iraq were at war with each other through most of the '80s and the rest of the world didn't care. It finally resolved itself. An Iraqi civil war, if it came to that, would have to resolve itself too.

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We Love Britney and We Love Chris Crocker!!!!

I have been inspired to post! Your flip flop girl is still out there! It's been taking me awhile to get inspired but Chris Crocker is the real deal and got me off my ass to say something. He, if you don't know, has released an impassioned plea to all the media, and whoever else is profitting from hating Britney, to stop, stop, stop! You can see it on YouTube. I have a feeling you already have and, if that's the case, why not leave him a nice positive comment?

Britney Spears is a modern day goddess. We all used to worship at her feet. Now, that she's been having all these problems, the people with the so-called power to build up or tear down a star, are all too ready to knock her down. It was this need for greed from all the interests out there ready to profit from Britney that pushed her into the spotlight when she was vulnerable and not ready. Sure, Brit can take some of the responsibility but it's a whole different world she runs in and I can see where it would be easy to be led down the wrong path by all her advisers and handlers. I do hope that Britney can somehow find the right people for herself and do what she needs to do. The song, "Gimme More," actually is very good. And her body too is just fine. It's a natural look. It's up to her if she wants to tone up some more but there's nothing wrong with her body right now. And her talent is still there. If Madonna can remain a star, then there's got to be way for Britney to find her way back.

No more hating on people!

Chris Crocker you are an angel!

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