Someone has taken the big war drums out of storage. They continually play and pound out the same beat. It is a rhythm of noises--a cacophony if you will-- which are familiar to anyone who paid attention to the prior eight years in this country.  The loudness is bellicose. It hurts the ear and a sense of decency because it is foul. We, as a country, were lied to and told that Iraq had mobile biological weapons. We were told that once the smoke cleared---we were warned about a mushroom cloud during the run up to the war-- we would find a stash of weapons.

When the smoked cleared what we found is our government printing billions of--if not trillions of-- greenbacks to pay for the war and to pay off the people who had every right to be mad as hell with our government for destroying their country. Dear Iraqis, please forgive the stupidity of our government.  Our government had no problem funding an illegal war but it is hard pressed to find money to pay for the care of its citizens. Maybe the war was ultimately waged against us? Look at what we have to show for it: Nada!

Dear Iraqis, a fairly large number of Americans are mad as hell with our government too for lying and trying to make the war against you palatable. It left a bad taste in our mouth too.

Dear reader,  Mr. Cole has given us ten reasons why we shouldn't even be thinking about a war with Iran. Mr. Cole really doesn't have give us ten reason because it seems like we can't afford health care.

The pipes in my kitchen are busted. My bills are due. Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games failed. Someone fired off a few rounds outside my window. The train isn't on time. It is starting to getting cooler. When it warms up for a couple weeks---high fire danger--it will all be Obama's fault. He is damned if he does and damn if  he doesn't.

The list of Republican complaints against President Obama is, by now, fairly long. He's leading the country into socialism. He's doing too many things at once. He's not bipartisan enough. He's an enemy of humanity. And, of course, he bailed out Wall Street and the auto manufacturers late last year.

Oh Buffalo Soldiers, where have you gone? Do they not remember that you fought in the War for America? Do they not know that you sacrificed for something that was not your own? Freedom. Not your freedom but the freedom of a country, a nation that might become one. You where taken from Africa for the War in America.

Fightin' for survival, fightin' on arrival.
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.