Often, I find myself disagreeing with Mayor Daley. I would have liked to see a formidable challenge in February but Representatives Jesse Jackson Jr., and Luis Gutteriez decided against such a race.
Today, I realized that I was nodding my head in approval at the words of a father who just happens to be Mayor of Chicago.
You see, Daley's son Patrick is stationed with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
"People are worried about the safety of the men and women going over there," the mayor said. "There is urban guerrilla warfare going on. There are gangsters and criminals. ... We're really sending our military into a police action -- a 24-hour [a-day], seven days a week of trying to control violence within the city, which ... is very challenging and different for the military. They have never been trained for that.
"Dealing with urban guerrilla warfare is completely different from a military action. ... The fighting is different. ... It's really like a police action, dealing with violence in a large urban setting. It's really unfamiliar" territory for the military.
The Mayor is speaking, publically, the same thoughts that the average Americans have been expressing for much of this war.
Our troops are dividing into nine patrols stationed in the Iraqi police headquarters across Bagdad, which was reported on Keith Olbermann's The Countdown but I am unable to find a link. They will be less secure and furthering themselves into more dangerous grounds. Americans' want out of Iraq, we want our troops to come home, we don't want more to be shipped out like pawn pieces on a chess board.
These are human beings, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. Bring the troops home now.