It saddens me to say the things I’m about to say.  But I’m an American citizen having spent over twenty years in the United States Armed Forces and feel this is definitely the time to express my feelings about the state of affairs within our country today.  I will use no lies, no spin – however, at times I will give you my personal opinions and advise you that the statements I make are in fact, my personal opinion.
Let’s face it, a politician can spin anything.  One party will say, “The sky is blue.” The other party will say, “THEY lied to you!” You don’t believe me?  Remember these two little words: “...define, sex!”

Until the first election process of our current president, I payed zero attention to politics. Let’s face it, the majority of politicians are lawyers and who in the hell wants to sit around and listen to a lawyer politician, elected by the people, look you straight in the eye and lie to you?  But over the past six years I have watched, read and listened to politicians, TV news, and the newspapers spew out their garbage and place our wonderful country further and further in danger by NOT telling us the truth.

I am a firm believer that we should NEVER humiliate or embarrass our president, especially when our country is at War!  All this accomplishes is weakening our country in the eyes of the world, and gives our enemies propaganda to aid in destroying us.

In America today, we are a people entertained daily with a variety of “reality shows”. We can’t wait to meet at the water cooler at work and discuss the latest episodes of Survivor, Bridezilla or the ever popular, Wife Swap. Oh yeah, true reality, manufactured by the entertainment media to...entertain us. And while all these reality shows are blasting across our TV screens, we fail to see the "true reality" that has been infecting our world, and now our own country...terror.

I have absolutely no idea, whatsoever, what it’s going to take to wake up the people of America and open their eyes to the horrible and worst reality of them all...the war on terror. So, let me try this: People of America, there is a huge group of people, all around the world, whose deluded concepts of their own religion, preaches hate and the complete destruction of those who do NOT believe as they believe. They have NO thoughts of changing your minds or ways of thinking – they do NOT care if you are a new-born or 80 years-old – man, woman or child – they CANNOT be negotiated with – there is NO diplomatic manner with which to communicate with them – their ONLY reasons to live...is to die.

This group of individuals is planning to kill YOU and your FAMILIES wherever you live, sleep or eat...and they WILL NOT be stopped!  I can’t put it any clearer than this. Please, take the time to re-read the previous paragraph because it is the biggest reality of our lifetimes.

And to make matters worse, we have a political party within our own country that not only does NOT believe this to be a reality, but is doing everything it possibly can to ensure that YOU don’t believe it, either.  Okay, you don’t believe this statement? You think that I’ve just lied to you? Or do you think I’ve just put a little spin on a subject we have all become complacent with?  Alright, let’s do this: Ask yourselves a few questions such as, what problems within our country are you deeply concerned about and cannot understand why they exist. When you come up with these questions, then do something about it!  “How”, you ask?  Well, this is actually very simple today...use the internet, but NOT politically biased links!

For example, let’s say you’re angry with all the problems we’re having within our school systems today.  Okay, search the internet for links to these problems and go as far back as possible to when you think the problems first began.  Then, and this is very important, discover what political individuals, AND their political party, were responsible for introducing and passing legislation that actually CREATED the problems.
You're unhappy with all the severe crime in America?  Do-the-research!  Go back about 40 or 45 years and search out Crime Bills and legislation that changed the law enforcement community forever in our country, and allowed what is occurring today.

Who were the politicians who introduced the Bills?  What political party did they represent?  Ask yourselves how it is possible, within our great country, for law enforcement officers to drive through our city streets, point to specific houses, and say this: “A drug dealer lives in this house, a drug supplier lives in that house....”  Okay, got the picture?  Now ask yourself this single question: If the law KNOWS these individuals are living in these houses, then WHY is it they CANNOT ARREST THEM?  Do the research!  Discover what politicians prevent our law enforcement from doing their jobs and making our country safe for us.  Find out what political party they represent and then go on to your next research item.

After all your research is complete, what you will discover is this: The Democratic Party was and is mostly responsible for most of these Bills.  Oh, you don’t believe me...then do-the-research!

Why is it that American children are NOT protected in our country?  What judges allow child molesters to run free on our streets and within our society?  Do the research!  When your research is complete, then act!  Yes people of America, you CAN do something and that something is voting these individuals out of office, forever!

Here it is in a nutshell: All the things that you, your family, your grandparents and all those as far back as the individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence believe or believed in, the Democratic Party does not.  Do you believe in moral values?  They do not.  Do you believe in a God?  They do not. Do you believe in family traditions?  They do not.  Do you believe in the traditions of our country, such as Christmas and the sanctity of marriage?  They do not.  I can go on and on and on, but by now, you should understand what I’m talking about.

People of America, don’t you understand that even our Pledge of Allegiance is under attack by the democrats?  They have this somewhat, avid disdain for God, and over the past few years, have managed to make us afraid to even mention God anymore...why IS that?  Let me take this time to say this, I am not trying to generalize the entire Democratic Party for there are those democratic politicians who still hold our country’s traditions in high esteem and are not always in-line with their fellow party members.

Everything I’ve spoken of thus far leads me to the War on Terror...IT-IS-REAL!!! The democrats actually believe there is no war...and no terror.  To them, this "non-war" should be managed by law enforcement.  They believe whatever terror there is – within our country – is actually a law enforcement issue!  C'mon, America!  What planet do we live on?

And by-the-way, just in case you haven't been listening, the dems also believe... whatever terror is happening around the world is not only those individual country’s personal problems, but our president is the CAUSE of those problems! And they have made a great deal of Americans believe this, also. Oh, I’m lying about this? Okay, there was NO terror assault on the twin towers in 1993.  There was NO killing of American military personnel all around the world prior to Iraq. The USS Cole was NOT attacked by terrorists and there were no American naval personnel killed in that attack...which, of course, did NOT happen.  Please listen to this next one: There are those liberals who actually believe there was NO attack on our country on 9/11. It was just a “fear tactic” designed by the President and other Republicans.  And although about three thousand Americans were actually killed, our president did NOT plan on that happening when he, “planned the attack”...that did NOT really happen.  These incidents, and many more like them, are being taught to your children in colleges and universities throughtout our country by some left-wing liberial professors.  Exactly how much money are you paying for your children's "higher education"?

What is it going to take? What is it going to take to make us ALL believe and understand that an extreme radical group of Islam is planning to kill every-single-American around the world?  At this very moment, they are plotting to kill Americans... on our own soil!  But if you listen to the democrats, and read the liberal newspapers and watch TV news with liberal talking heads, they will have you believe that our president, our Commander and Chief, is a liar, a cheat, and the lowest form of human being ever to have been given birth, and is LYING to us.  This is OUR president, people, OUR PRESIDENT!

This is the party that wants us to pull out of the War in Iraq using the excuse that our president lied to the country and “our military is getting killed” for nothing. The war is not going well...the President's plan is failing...too many Americans are dying for nothing, etc.  Trust me, people, the democrats have the same love and respect for our military personnel as they do for law enforcement!

The "Perfect War" has yet to be fought by any country.  There were many, MANY things that went wrong with operations during WWI and WWII.  How many of our brave brothers, fathers, and sons gave their lives to defend the freedoms we all love in our great country?  They gave their lives so we could continue to enjoy these freedoms.

The Abu Ghraib scandal is a great example of the democratic party's political spin, and was completely blown out of proportion by them. And what did they desire to do? They wanted more and more pictures to be shown all over the world about the scandal, knowing full well, that the pictures would incite the Arab people.  But they don’t give a damn about that at all, as long as they can get their “shots” in at our president and make him look bad in the eyes of the world.  This is nothing but unwarrented HATE  for our President.
Thispolitical party is thoroughly steeped in such a vicious hate for our president that they are willing to play with the lives of Americans to make him look as terrible as they possibly can.


 This is NOT trying to find solutions, America.  THIS, is becoming a part of the problem!  How fierce did the democrats push the Abu Ghraib incident?  And here’s the irony about that incident that absolutely EVERYONE in our country knows to be true but is afraid to admit because of "Political Correctness".  There are college pranks that are a hundred times more serious than anything shown in those photos, but the democrats managed to turn those stupid and ridiculous acts into the most grievous forms of human torture the world has ever witnessed before. A few stupid GIs did a few stupid things and all of a sudden, there are political committees on torture being formed, the USA is a terrible country for using torture, etc.  What a joke!

Okay, here’s a question for you...a REALISTIC question that the democrats don’t really give a damn about.  If your family was about to be killed...murdered...your wife, your children, your parents...and you had one-single- individual in your hands that could prevent this from happening...HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO??? See, we don’t really care about this because we have the philosophy, “It just ain’t gonna happen to me!”  The democrats have already said that under no circumstances would any form of "torture" be used. Well, it’s easy to say it, until it affects you and your family directly.  And what party is intent on protecting all the prisoners of war from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan?  Hell, as soon as Sadam Husain was about to be placed on trial, what individual, from OUR country, immediately flew over there to become Sadam’s legal council?  Did this individual ever hold a high position in our government?  What political party does he represent? Do the research.

The democrats are constantly complaining on TV during their 10-second sound bytes, of the number of American Military personnel that are killed and wounded each day in the War on Terror.  This is something that I cannot tolerate! They enjoy keeping a “running body count” because their trying to make our Commander and Chief look like an uncaring bully who’s intent on taking over the world and doesn’t give a damn about our military personnel.  Our brave warriors are fighting and dying over there so that we Americans will never witness A SINGLE DAY, when we must fight them on our own street corners.  And believe me, in reality, it’s coming to that if we persist with our current attitudes. Hell, the dems don't even want our country to listen in on terrorist's phone calls coming into or leaving America.  Theyt refer to the plan as: Allowing the President to "SPY" on Americans!  Talk about spin, huh?!

Okay, America, how about this?  What would these same democrats of today have said if they just received the results of American dead and wounded during just the first day of the landing at Normandy?  Just think about that.  America has the mightiest military in the entire world and the greatest of military personnel. We have the most powerful navy, artillery, aircraft, technology, etc.  However, the terrorists have no army, navy, air force, tanks, artillery...they just have an avid desire to kill us and weaken the minds and hearts of the world... AND THEY'RE DOING IT!

I guess everything I’ve spoken of thus far can quite easily be spun into all various directions.  It is so difficult to try and make Americans believe what we are facing when the TV News, the newspapers and democratic politicians are telling them something else.  So, I’m going to give this one final shot by setting up this scenario.  Listen carefully... It’s World War II, and we have the democratic party of TODAY...IN POWER, including the same TV news stations, talking heads, and newspapers, WITH, of course, imbeeded reporters. What would have been the results of the War, AND the United States of America?  Just contemplate this for a minute.  We would ALL probably be speaking German today, as far as I’m concerned, and the freedoms we all enjoy today would have been a thing of the past.  But you go ahead and consider this scenario based on everything you hear and read in the newspapers and then form your own opinion. What really would have happened during World War II?

So my fellow Americans, is the War on Terror a NON reality show or not? You better believe it IS reality because ALL our lives are at stake here. Oh, and here’s one final thought, listen to what TV news network the democrats are constantly bashing...the network THEY say is NOT fair and balanced.  The network they don't want you to listen to.  Now go ahead and tune it in for an evening...talk about a reality check!  You will hear news on this network that is not mentioned on the other networks, or in the newspapers.  Okay America, Why-IS-That?

Joe Tuffy Tofuri
USAF MSgt, retired