Bring the troops home? Does that mean ALL the troops

To the Editor:

Presidential campaigns raise a lot of questions, but provide few answers.

I get very aggravated when I hear these foolish calls to "bring the troops home." This is not a sincere call, but a campaign tool used in raising the emotional level of the sheeple.

It is a Democrat weapon. Do they mean, bring the troops home from Germany, Japan, Korea, Bosnia and the Gulf? Or do they mean to bring them home from the Middle East only? If they include all our troops on foreign soil, I will agree. To single our troops out in the Middle East only is a slap at George Bush. That's all the Democrats have done for the last seven years.

The bring them home idea in itself is a good idea, that is all of them! The greater question is -- "why" are they there in the first place? Was our nation threatened? What was the threat to our country, when our "doughboys" were shipped to Europe in 1917? How about 1941? What was the threat in Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia? Why were our troops sent to these places, to defend what? We are told that these troops were deployed to defend and protect our national Interests. Would someone be more specific and define the term "national interests."

How much of these "national interests" happen to be big business and big oil? Isn't it ironic that our young men and women are sent to defend big oil interests, at the cost of life and/or limb? Look at how the oil companies repay America for this protection. The price of fuel, which is protected by American blood, is what is generally referred to, as obscene. The greed of big business is obscene.

Maybe we should bring our troops home and let big business pay for a private security force to defend their interests.

Get in touch with your senators and congressmen. Urge them to pass legislation to rescind patent protection from all products manufactures outside of United States. Also, rescind patents on all products and formulas that are idle and not in production. I believe such action would raise a firestorm of howling and screaming in the "ivory towers."

Do we have anyone in Washington with enough guts to propose this action? I doubt it!

Thanks for listening,

Robert M. Weyer

Linton