Burning the Koran, removing a public prayer, Obama ended the Iraq war, really?

Today on the news people were killed over the military burning the Koran, 2 reporters killed in Syria, a statue that has honored Veterans for over a half century and a child's campaign to remove a written prayer from a public place.  I read earlier in the week where Obama fulfilled his campaign promise to end the Iraq war, posted by a history major, what?  The Today show tried to explain how to be politically correct when talking about politics.  Ok, I am a self admitted moderate republican.  I find the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement both the end extremes of the same problem. I loved Nixon and took a lot of ribbing about him in my high school years. Yes, he got caught covering up his men's mistakes and yes, he should have reported them and not tried to cover it up but on the whole he was the model for my politics.  He was a moderate republican.  He meant the democrats in a place where they could actually work things out.  Do you really think the Tea Party and the OWS have time to shut up, see anything from the others point of view and figure out how to get our country back on track, not likely.  I find Obama to be as extreme as the tea partiests in the house and senate both causing our country alot of harm.  It is funny to me that any one would write a list of accomplishments for Obama and include the end of the Iraq, what about the July 18, 2008 agreement Bush signed with Iraq, Obama was just honoring an agreement that Bush already agreed too.  If you want to brag about your man at least credit him with something he actually did or set in motion. 

I think politics fueled by faith differences is much in the news.  Why should it be any different to burn the Koran than destroying a statue of Jesus or a Prayer displayed in public.  One we are demand to remove by the offended but the other we have to apologize for?  Both should be equally wrong.  I hate that the atheists want equal treatment in public displays but since they don't believe in anything they come out on top because they don't care about anything enough to display their passion.  So, to be politically correct we display nothing, isn't that their statue, their prayer, the government just enforced their beliefs on us in a public forum, the honoring of nothing.  I saw the little girl that is so adamant about the public prayer being removed.  She said when she was ten her mother had cancer and she prayed and prayed to God but God didn't hear her so there must not be a  God and she was out to make sure no one could honor publicly something that doesn't exist.  Ok, is that a spoiled child throwing a tantrum or what?  I pray to God all the time and never presume that God will always answer my prayers, my way, in my time.  She didn't get what she wanted when she wanted it so God must be a lie.  I am thinking she probably didn't have the faith and the patience to wait for God to answer her prays and didn't know enough about praying to know that it is God's will not ours.  I am sorry but I know lots of people dying of, or who have died of cancer; and just because I prayed to God they shouldn't have died or I got to disavow the fact that God lives. What? I think her faith was less than a mustard seed or never was there in the first place, or she was a ten year old who didn't understand pray in the first place and now has a jaded view of God.   I find it sad that the two reports died in Syria but that was part of their passion and job.  Doesn't that bring new light to the Social Media war, the Arab Spring, that a year ago the young people thought it was going to change the world in a peaceful manner with out blood shed, to the history majors of the world, young and old, study your history and pay attention or you will repeat the past.  Revolution doesn't occur without the passion of youth and the bloodshed of innocent bystanders.  Change always has a cost, sometimes huge atrocious costs, look how many have already died and how many will follow.  If it is worth the cost these people are willing to pay to change their world it will happen, but not by sitting at home behind a computer screen, anyone who thought so was deluded and not paying attention.  Obama is touted for bringing health care to the US, well is the end result of health care going to be the cost that Europe, and especially Greece, is currently paying, surely the Senate, the House and the President can get off their bums and compromise to make it something we can all live with, without breaking the backs of our children for generations..... just a few words of thought about today's news and headlines.... tomorrow.