Sep 27, 2006 2 min read

A call for a Republican Guard – what a great idea. A National Guard made up of all Republicans. After three years of war in Iraq, it’s time to get all you “John Wayne” Republicans over there. You know who the John Wayne Republicans are; they talk tough, act tough, like John Wayne. But they actually never served in the military. I can’t say they would “cut and run,” because you have to fight first. With our current Commander-in-Chief you will have 6 1/2 hours of actual time in a combat zone, if you add the combat experience of serving a turkey to our troops in Iraq. Now you have a chance to fight them so they won’t come over here. Of course our enemies in Iraq are thinking, “Why go sneak 6,000 miles away when there are 135,000 of America’s finest six miles away. “

Our troops are outnumbered by 125-to-1, and as long as they stay the course they can be ambushed for years.

Don’t worry, the body armor is finally over there, but the Humvees are having a terrible time with those IEDs and car bombs filled with 155-mm artillery shells. They got them from all those ammo dumps we left underground when we invaded Iraq. It could have been worse. If Bush had been right, there would have been WMDs left instead.

Hey, you could get Rush Limbaugh to come over and do his show from downtown Baghdad. “Bring your own generator.” On your time off you can put your Club Gitmo T-shirts on and explain to the Iraqis “the moral high ground” of how we are torturing their people humanely.

Good luck and don’t worry, Vice-President Dick Cheney says the war is almost over. Again.

Bill Horne, Vietnam veteran

Uniontown