Of all the places on the internetz for me to comment on the war it is on a comic diva’s website. Only in America - this still is America right? OK, first off thank you for speaking your mind on this topic, and thanks for being funny. Not about the war - nothing funny about that - but for being actually funny. Caught me unawares. I hope that your star shines bright one day.

I live in a town, lets call it the district of craptatica cuz it is. The town (DC - not intentionally funny) that has kept comedians in bidness since we stole the place from the red people and had black people build it and have brown people clean it.

In this town, no one talks about the war… I mean no one… not even the military peeps. It’s like they pretend that topic is not on the table - they won’t have to comment - or be sent there. It’s like living in a bad episode of Hogan’s Heroes with no blonde secretary named Inga to ogle at.

They don’t like it much either and that is the damnable thing about it all. I was against the war in Iraq (totally useless waste of people and treasure) and pretty adamant about it to my snooty neighbors who thought I was a commie for telling them so. I got the “you don’t support the troops, you don’t support the war “crapola speeches.

Here is what I told them… over five freakin’ years ago. “I am against this war and the way they are trying to sell it to the American people” I am in the ad biz these days, but before I became a huckster I was a warrior - I served in the USAF in the first gulf war (the one we won - and yeah I am in my 40’s and have no bidness being on this website. On the upside I did attend the same high school as John Stamos did - JFK, but not from his class year… OK I prolly banged his mother and forgot all about it till now, happy now?)

but I digress…and I realized then that there are million other options to getting what you need from a country (oil) without invading it, killing lostsa people and having the planet look slack jawed at you in total awe of the idiocy (we are talking pretty awful here when the peeps in the middle east think we are some crazy mofo’s). We just chose not to use any of them and came out shootin’. Bad idea, bad results. Tragic.

I want this war to end soon. I want the troops to come home and be welcomed as the heroes they are, but most of all i want some freakin’ leadership in this town that will actually use ALL of the freakin’ tools that this nation has, including asking professional smart people, oh let’s say the state department - what options we can use (no kidding, we have a few here, they just consult though, wouldn’t be caught dead here in August.) before we pull out the big guns.

So keep rattling the cages Miss E., use whatever star power you got to get people to realize that peace is not just for pussies, it takes great courage and character to be for peace these days.

Thanks for showing some. (Character not the other p-word)

All the best and keep it up (finally got to say that to a woman!)

LT