Sending People to their deaths should never be easy or Answering for your actions.

     I justifiably go on and on about Republican Warhawks who constantly preach we should bomb the heck out of this Middle Eastern Country or invade that Middle Eastern Country all in the name of Oil...err democracy.  They ignore the multitude of disasters of the past and blindly believe that THIS TIME things will be different.  (Disagree with me, feel free to show me one time where the US actively invaded or attacked a Middle Eastern nation where it all worked out right in the end.)  We have had some minor successes in working from behind the scenes such as when we helped insurgents oust the USSR back in the day, but even those rare wins are overshadowed by the failures.  Still we try the same shift over and over again.  The great John Stewart said it best in this clip:

Learning curves are for Pansies.

     Now the Warhawks are making saber rattling noises again.  When several major nations, including the US worked to negotiate a treaty with Iran over its nuclear programs, 47 of these idiots actually wrote a letter undermining the negotiations and essentially saying, Neener Neener.  Instead, McCain and others of his ilk keep preaching more and more war either direct or indirect such as sending arms and supplies to people that might oppose Iran.  (We saw how well this has worked out in the past.  ISIS is very well armed because we sent billions of dollars in arms to the Middle East and then just left it all there OR gave it to the Iraqi and Afghani troops who were supposed to use it to...well stop people like ISIS.)

     So here is the problem I have with people sending other people to die in foreign lands.  Well, I mean aside from the actual sending people to die in foreign lands part.  Most of these men and women currently ruling America have never served or bled for the country.  A large chunk of them have never had their sons and daughters shipped off to die or come back horribly maimed.  In short, they have never experience the horrors of the evils they propagate.  

     It is high time these people come down from their ivory towers and face the public for the disasters their actions cause.  If you want war, suck it up and come down to our level to declare it.  Face the families of the soldiers you are sending to die far from home.  See how tough and how vocal you are when all of the people you will hurt will be staring right at you..

     I have a good friend whom I have never actually physically met who (In one of his rare lucid moments) came up with this petition.  

Public Declarations of War

     I humbly ask all of my readers to sign this petition.  Let our so called leaders on both sides know that we are tired of warmongering and hate.  If they are going to commit the crime, then make them face the shame of doing so.  Our freedom is never free and it is time they stop spending our dearest blood so freely.

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