Sean's editorial

There is a group of people that meet on Main Street in Sheridan and protest the war in Iraq. These people drive me insane for a lot of reasons. There are currently 900 men and women from Wyoming National Guard deploying to Iraq.
One thing that is going to bug me the most is the fact that most likely a lot of the people that meet to protest the war are going to be at the farewell party for the troops. If that isn’t a hypocrite I don’t know what is! They tell the men and women putting their lives on the line, good luck or we support you, then they turn around and protest the war. Why would you do that? These people that protest the war are making a huge mistake.
Most of the protesters have no military background themselves and they think they know what is best for the people in the military and what they should and shouldn’t do. That is not right to me because they haven’t seen what is happening in that country. They rely solely on NBC or ABC to show them what the war is like and they twist it way out of proportion. For years people have worried about government conspiracies when they really should worry about media conspiracies controlling their minds. I know that news stations have the right to say what they want but if they are going to tell people about something they need to cover the whole story and cover it truthfully. My father has been there once along with an ex brother-in-law and they both have shown me pictures of what the people in that country have had to live like because of the way their country is run. Nobody should have to live in terror everyday wondering if when they walk out the door if somebody will have a bomb on them at work or at the market.
If you have ever seen a group of children missing arms and legs you understand that there is a reason why we are there. The news always shows people mad that our troops are there yet if you ask almost any soldier that has been there they can tell you stories of people giving trying to give them gifts as thanks for what we have done for them.
I’m tired of people downgrading the military and this war its time for people to look at all the facts and stop being such hypocrites.