*Warning* (added after completing post) This is my occasional political rant after being reminded how messed up this all is. I do not intend to start a debate here, I merely want to remind all 3-ish dutiful readers to join me in my frustration. Thank you.
hello all -- in case you, like most of the people i live with in south carolina, forgot: we're still in iraq.
yes, we're finally pulling troops out and baghdad was FINALLY given over to the iraq army. but we're still there. and i'm still pissed about it. i try, oh yes i try, not to be too political, but i've decided to forego that option in my life until i am legally forced to keep my beliefs to myself (if it comes to that).
i, along with many, am happy we're leaving iraq and continue to be worried about afghanistan. i worry because this president (who i am a fan of overall, obviously) has ramped up afghanistan operations. i'm afraid of not just americans dying, but all people dying. is there no value to a human life? i guess it matters what you are. i don't think i'm the only one who's mad here.
sometimes in the south, though, it makes me wonder if anyone in the red part of this state i'm living in is pissed. when we were in subway at lunch and forced to watch Fox News with (your friend and mine!) Dick Cheney blathering about Obama making America "less safe," a coworker said to me after my knee jerk response of "Dick Cheney is the antichrist" (it happens frequently): "well, at least when Cheney was in office we knew the terrorists weren't winning." because that statement clearly ends the conversation.
the biggest question i have after a statement like that is: HOW DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO'S WINNING AND LOSING?
clearly there really is no way to judge, as the iraq quagmire has gone on for 6 more years than necessary and afghanistan is getting worse by the day.
and people are dying. for what? for what?
i was thankfully reminded to be pissed again by this blurb from AP in the Times Today about the number of American deaths in Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/05/us/AP-US-Iraq-US-Deaths.html
now i understand why my dad still gets mad every time Vietnam or Nixon is brought up. i'm going to be mad for a long time too about this, assuming that the world won't end before i can tell my kids about this.
i at least know steve-o's with me.
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me too sarah. me too.
i could hardly even enjoy the Rockies game yesterday (not that i even like baseball) because i am so upset and angry about war and the reasons that people use to justify it that every display of over-the-top patriotism sets me off.
and they played toby keith all night.
so just know that i, too, am angry.
You're damn right I'm still pissed at pols sending kids to die for nothing!
Always have been....still am!
To be not on topic, excellent use of the word "quagmire."
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