Hello once again TU, I hope you have enjoyed your first week of classes and have started your September off to a wonderful start. I know I have!

Want to know why? If you do, keep reading. If not, focus your eyes elsewhere. My birth month of September has begun amazingly because I happened to have stumbled across this quote from an online CNN article as I was doing my daily blogging. It reads:

“At 5 p.m. ET Tuesday [August 31],-at a cost of more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel killed and 30,000 wounded- America’s combat mission in Iraq will officially draw to a close.”

At last, there is some sense of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ in this world!  Finally some of the money Congress foolishly gives away to the Department of Defense will not be used towards a pointless battle. Note the emphasis on the word ‘pointless.’ For those who do not know, under the George W. Bush administration we as a country were, for a lack of better term, brainwashed by the government and media to believe that Iraq was this hearth of evilness that wanted to destroy our country for its religious beliefs.

When all along, the people that hated us for our country’s so called ‘Christian beliefs’ and terrorized us on that horrible morning in September nine years ago were located in two totally different Middle Eastern countries. Our focus on troop deployment in Iraq was centered on this country’s drastic need for oil. But of course, most Republicans covered that up by saying Iraq had, cough, “weapons of mass destruction.”

We have yet to still find these so called weapons by the way. But I digress from blasting my political views upon you devoted Towerlight readers.

I’m just very excited that all combat troops are out of a pointless war and perhaps this country’s tax dollars will not go towards funding such madness. With that said, I would like to conclude this week’s segment of ‘Mild Enjoyment and Curious Suspicion’ with some little known facts about this country’s military and it’s payers.

First, did you know that if Congress decreased the percentage of money it gets from the tax payer’s that is given to the Department of Defense every fiscal year by 50 percent, the United States Armed Forces will still be the most dominant military world wide?

Interesting. But if that fact doesn’t fit your fancy, try this one for size. Do you know who has the absolute most powerful air force in the world?

It’s the U.S. Air Force. Go figure. But guess who has the second most powerful air force worldwide? I’ll give you a moment to think it over. That’s right, you guessed it! It’s the U.S. Army!

So as you can see, this country’s last threat is another country’s military dominating us. Our focus should be on the fact that in this country most college students can name all the ‘American Idol judges,’ but do not know their state’s senators without pulling out their handy dandy iPads to Google it.

Now run and tell that … homeboy!