Highly Qualified Teachers Need Not Apply -- Bush is trying to weaken teacher credentialing

It was my pleasure, and thank you for your support of our troops, as represented, in this case, by my humble self. I expect something like a 20-year working life as a teacher, and I believe I can have just as much impact on American lives as I did in assisting in the killing of perhaps as many as .5 million Iraqi soldiers during the first Gulf War. Hopefully, this will be a more positive impact, and I will need just as much help with it as I got back then.

I believe I can have just as much impact on American lives as I did in assisting ....

I would say you also assisted in liberating millions of Iraqi citizens, and brought new hope to women and children. Stabilizing that region certainly will have a positive impact on the world, including America.

No, that was left for my cousins and some of my young friends, the new crop of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines, to take care of. We were required to leave the mess for later back in '91. We killed a bunch of people who, mostly, had no choice but to be under arms, and many of them did not have ammunition for their weapons. Not all of them, certainly, but enough. Because of the political decision not to pursue Saddam, at the time, their deaths were pointless.

And now, I have to listen to people slam the current president for being too aggressive in this matter, so I have to try to educate them, too. Mostly at my college, but often here on FR, too. As far as I'm concerned, the mural on wall in the Iraqi command post that had Iraqi airliners crashing into the World Trade Center proves that G.W. was right, and we had to do what we've done. We have to finish the job, and get Iraq prepared to begin to govern itself democratically. They're going to need a lot of practice, and they're going to make a lot of mistakes, but that is how they will improve the situation. Not to mention that a democratic and free Iraq IS a dagger pointed at the hearts of all the dictators in the region.

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Sorry, the soapbox just appeared under my feet!

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