McCain shouldn't call him 'friend'
John McCain in his speeches refers to us as "my friends." Webster defines "friend" as 1. a person whom one knows well and is fond of; 2. An ally, supporter or sympathizer.
Well, John McCain, I am neither of the above. If you were my friend you would not support the greed and corruption that is going on in Iraq. You would not try to feed me the same lies that the current administration has fed me for the last five years of this war.
General Petraeus can tell us all how well things are going in Iraq and how the surge is working, but that don't mean a thing to my fellow American citizen who is losing his home to foreclosure by the banks while Iraq is sitting on more than $30 billion in American banks and doing nothing to help us back for the sacrifices we all suffered helping them out.
Our citizens have spent $47 billion dollars in taxes helping to build up their country while they have only spent $13 billion. Our tax dollars are employing their contractors with high-paying jobs while my fellow citizens in this country are losing their jobs and can't find employment.
By year's end Iraq will have made $100 billion in windfall profits on oil and we are stuck paying $4 a gallon for gasoline and our truckers are being gouged more than $4 a gallon for diesel fuel, which will cost us more money for goods that are trucked into our grocery stores.
And last, but not least, the sacrifices my brothers and sisters in the military gave in human life and the combat wounded coming back to our country who will require so much help and rehabilitation and support, and you won't even back the new GI bill.
I ask, is there something in that GI bill you don't like, just as you did not like the terms in the Air Force refueler contract that would have given Americans jobs in this country, but after you stuck your 2 cents in the contract went to France and our citizens got the so-called trickle down benefits?
No, Mr. McCain, I am no friend of yours. And don't disgrace me by calling me a friend, because, like the old saying goes, "With friends like you, who needs enemies?"
Mark Urbane
Lake Zurich