Originally I was going to write this for the boys but I am certain that they already know what it is I am about to say.

There seems to have been an incident in either Iraq or Afghanistan in which some of our service men threw stones at a dog. From this incident a petition against those soldiers is being circulated. Those who are in favour of the petition are saying it is proven that anyone who would hurt and animal would certainly hurt a human being. Well, I certainly hope our boys are not only ready and willing to hurt another human being, but also prepared to do so. It is actually their mandate. It allows stuffed shirt spandex wearing fat assed people the freedom to have time to spread around foolish petitions. In a land where children are brutalized, and I am not just talking about Iraq and Afganistan, we see shadows of ruthless killers in our boys throwing stones. I do not condone anyone hurting any animal but then again I do not have to worry about losing my life when I judge those who are in harms way.

To every story there are actions and incidents that precede it and follow it. Just like there are actions and incidents that cause those tree hugging, self righteous, petition grooming, fools to lead up to the petition and they will still be as smug and self-righteous after it.

We live in a time when our largest industries have run into communist china to benefit from not only the lack of rules and regulations but from the sweat of slave labour. We continue to send natural resources into communist china as our enemies smile and welcome us in. That's right I said enemies. One morning they will walk all the greedy traitorous fortune seeking fools to the ocean and kick their democratic asses out of communist china. Of course our industry, our technology and our natural resources will remain there. Our enemies will soon follow them to land on our shores and eagerly return some of our lead and copper and brass to us.

We, however, long for a gentler fluffy kinder warrior one who says excuse me while a suicide bomber embraces his comrades. We are no longer lethal, we are lethargic.

I suggest we replace the stones in the soldier's hands with grenades. I suggest we replace the dog with our enemies. Then let's get this job done and bring our boys home to wait for the enemy that grows ever stronger as our industrialists provide them with the means to our end.

There is of course one other solution to this problem...those petition mongers could replace our soldiers and show us the proper way to embrace hostile territory, nightmares, sleepless nights and body bags full of our buddies. Of course that will not happen. Although spandex can hold in a considerable amount of pompous bullshit, it is not weather or bullet proof. Thus we must conclude that the gentler fluffy side of war will always be seen through the eyes of those thousands of miles out of harms way.

©Mike McConnery/Baden K9 Incorporated, 01/20/07

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