pooftis wrote:
They are going to reinstate the draft in the next 2 years, neither I nor my fiancé, nor my son will be going to fight for oil rights or a vendetta that president has that is his own problem. Add to that the fact that patriot act has basically eroded our constitution and bill of rights to make them about as useful as toilet paper. (Torture? Secret prisons in other countries? Wiretapping?) They are working to make this country a Christian collation led republican regime, the very crimes they accuse Saddam of, our own president does. He stole the first election and no one protested, he waged a war that has killed countless people *because the people of Iraq are not any less of people just because they aren't our troops and no one seem to be counting them* cost billions, and if you say anything against it you are labeled "un-American" and your phone gets tapped, your internet is monitored, and you could end up being detained as a "terror suspect" indefinitely without a lawyer or access to a phone. I am watching the political climate of our country unfold and I keep waiting for the candid camera people to jump out because it can't be really happening. The idea of sticking around and watching this country become a republican Nazi regime holds no interest for me, and I have no desire to try and lull the ignorant masses out of a 6 year stupor when the obviousness of the situation has failed to make them sit up and take notice thus far. Fighting sounds very proactive I'm sure, but it is also nothing more than a bumper sticker tag line like all the yellow ribbon "support our troops" magnets. Try and stop the tide, you'll have better luck. *incidentally I wouldn't be running to anything, moving out of a house that is falling down is not running away from it, it is realizing you are in a bad situation and changing it, this would be no different.
here's an interesting theory....what if iraq did have materials for weapons and those weapons were provided then later removed by the russians before the americans got to them and were shipped off to syria?
it's not too much of a stretch considering iraq and russia's past relationship and russia's current market/military structure/level of corruption. there were reports a while ago that the large cache of missing weapons that we couldn't find in iraq were actually shipped out by russia and nothing much more was said about it.
don't get me wrong, i hate bush and i hate everything he stands for in his quest for a theocracy and a reversion back to the "good old days" that weren't really good at all...but the war in iraq is kind of an in-between point. i think it was approached tactically wrong and timed horribly....but i do believe it was for the good in the end...relatively....maybe. there's a sociological side to this that's just really hard to start to get into about what isn't good about it and what is good.
23 Mar 2006, 6:03 pm
