Really we should have done this years ago, but better late than never.
Also, I promise more timely posting when I get back to work. I am still job hunting, and also still working off dial-up most of the time (on that note, whoever started the free wifi at public libraries movement has my eternal gratitude). Once I'm employed, I'll have high speed internet and something to procrastinate on at work.
There was a news flash just before I left to come to the library that CBS fired four high ranking producers and staffers over the forged National Guard memo controversy. That's sad, I mean I don't condone what they did becuase I think it was sloppy, but the fact of the matter is that forged memos or not, the basic underlying story is true: GWB got preferential treatment in the National Guard during Vietnam. Too bad no one ever sees fit to cover that little tidbit.
My little brother's now in Kuwait waiting to see where he and his fellow Marines are getting sent in Iraq. If one more person says that they will pray for him, I'm gonna scream. Pray!?! Yeah, dumbass, how about instead we rewind the clock a few months and you vote for Kerry so my brother wouldn't be in Kuwait right now? How about that? Or how about you stop worrying about God, and get off you lazy ass to make life in this world better and safer? I am hard pressed to deal with such lunacy without totally losing it.
As scary and real as this is, it all still seems a little surreal to me. Looking back, it is hard for me to comprehend how the American public got talked into this war in the first place, and even more so, why there hasn't been a popular outcry against it yet given all the facts and all the lies we now know. I'm cynical enough to know that most people are pretty dumb, and pretty complacent, but I also have enough latent idealism to hope that they can shake off the stupidity and complacency in time to precent GWB et al from turning the Middle East into a giant slab of fused sand from Israel's eastern border to the Gulf. Or at least stop them from creating American funded and trained death squads.
2 comments:
I'm with you on all but the "rewind the clock a few months and vote for Kerry" thing, I have no idea how that would help your brother since Kerry offered nothing different than The Schrub, and voted to authorize the war in the first place.
Now Howard Dean would have been a difference story, he may have actually do something to stop it.
BTW, I've missed you, so Welcome Back
Well, I didn't vote for Kerry either, which is not to say I don't wish he had won. I probably would have voted for Dean had he secured the party's nomination. The same goes for Kucinich and perhaps even Edwards. As it stood, I had to vote Green, as I have in every presidential election I have voted in.
Yeah, Kerry's not a great choice, but I do believe that he would be stepping down our involvement in Iraq, and trying to secure needed U.N. backing to stabilize the country. No one can say whether or not that would have worked, but it's a better policy than the one we have now.
Also, Kerry wouldn't be considering invading Syria or Iran.
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