What is America today?

I served in our armed forces for 10 years(ten). I served in some in really poor nations and some not so poor.I've been out of the military for 13 years now and I'm enjoying a day off from my labours. I just spent the 4th of July weekend working for our soldiers who are wounded, their families and the staff of Walter Reed. I admire these brave, young souls who have begotten injuries suffered mostly from IED's, roadside bombs. I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! they should be loved. they fulfilled their promise, a promise to go where their leaders, appointed over them, tell them to go. They have HONOR, COURAGE and INTEGRITY. Which brings me to my topic today; where's the integrity,honor and courage of our Congressional leadership?

We the voters, appoint them to go where we want them to go( Washington DC) and fulfill THEIR obligations to the american people. We voted them into office to fight for us and our freedoms! These same politicians have no problem sending our young sons and daughters to IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN to fight for their freedoms and democracy in those countries but, "Do they even WANT freedom and Democracy anyway?" These criminals have sent your sons ans daughters to war under the premise of freedom and democracy but, more realisitically for profiteering! I think the REAL reason why Obama hasn't brought any charges on these politicians who allowed for illegal waterboarding is because both Democrats and Republicans have blood on their hands. To top this all off, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house claims she never knew. Why not? first, she's third in succession for being president if both the President and VP are unable to perform the job. Next, she had an obligation to investigate the inital allegations when they came up several years ago. She and her Pussy Democrat colleagues were afraid to go up against the big bad nasty bear, Bush and Cheney! But aside from that, why not simply for the principles of breaking the law and ruining the honor of the office of the president? The world hates us and Obama seems to be trying to repair that reputation around the world.

I really find it hard to find any honor in this country today because of our political leaders who seem clueless as to what their job is really about. I look at things this way, if our congressional leaders spent as much energy as they do sending money to our wars, ripping off the american people, giving money to their wall street criminal friends as they do, how wonderful this nation would be if they redirected their energies to truly helping our nation!

But there's a line in the sand today, between the rich and the poor. As George bush said during a formal dinner years ago, "America, a land of haves and have mores." Simply put, America has been taught by our leaders and corporations that greed is the NEW american dream.