I'm a Child (547 hits)
Category: Politics -> IraqRating: -0.23 on 17 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (View user info) at 2005-01-28 15:41:49 EST
I get to work around 9-9:30, take a lunch from 11:30-1:15, and cut out early around 4:30. My job is great - low stress, good pay. I'm in good with the main man here - the one who gets his ass kissed by everyone else - which is like a protective shell around me. It keeps me safe from my bosses, and anyone else who'd give a shit about my work habits. I've worked for him the last 7 years. Actually, I just got a promotion last week. Even better, they backdated it 6 months. Two days ago I received an envelope full of checks making up for the difference. I'm getting a second degree in acting, and will leave here to pursue it once I'm finished.
I'm lucky - my parents support me with this. We didn't get along very well the first 20 years of my life, but the last 5 have been more than enough to make up for it.
(hmm.. how does one say this..) I'm pro-wa..... I'm "for" the =-war-= in Ir.... Let's just say I've been in favor of removing Saddam ever since the first Gulf war.
Remember that war? Most of us didn't even know who or (quite frankly) where on the globe Saddam Hussein was. Yeah - that war. The one everybody was in favor of.
I could go off on all the reasons I'm in favor of this... action. I remember being with my college roommate on 9-11, and telling him that day "Well, we're going to go get Saddam now."
I often think (as I'm come home from work, smoke myself silly, and fire up my PC games until my girlfriend gets over) how fucking wrong it is for someone like me to even SAY their in favor of something like this. Who am I to have any positive opinion about this? Something that's killing not only humans, but humans my own age? - How can I feel as though I have the right to be in favor of this - or have any opinion at all?
I've been severely depressed before, like others. I'm convinced the only things that kept me from offing myself in the past were the thoughts of people I'd upset. I don't have kids, nor do I plan on it, but I couldn't fathom what it must be like for a father and mother to lose a son.
In the end, I'll just go to work as I usually do, work maybe an actual hour a day, come home and numb my wits for awhile, drink heavily on the weekends and within 2 years, go after my dreams with a nice wad of cash to keep me going.
I'm lucky, my parents support me. I once didn't give a shit, now I do. We didn't get along very well the first 20 years of my life, but the last 5 have been more than enough to make up for it. 25 years.
I've had doubts about my beliefs. I'll go through spells where I'm wrong about a dozen things in a row. I know the effects the media can have - more specifically, with photography. I know how photos can mobilize the sheep and sway their opinions. They can be positively or negatively biased, and are (or are not) limited in their overall validity.
Fuck it - I'm in favor of this war. I think after 9-11, we need to go after men like Saddam. I never needed the WMD argument - we've sold some to him, and he's used them. I honestly think they should've just lied and showed some bullshit footage of soldiers unloading barrels of pig urine from a bunker in Kansas.
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All of that bullshit aside - for or against the war. I saw this picture in Newsweek last night and I scanned it on lunch today. Never have I been more bothered by a "wartime" picture. Forget the majority of it and just look at the boy. Look at that boy for at least 15 seconds. I can't keep my eyes on it for anything over 25.
I whole-heartedly believe there is a cause, and I'll always honor every man who served. I'd hate to wonder, "what if this is another spell?"
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Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2005-01-29 00:55:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't really like your political views.
But I do like that you seem to have such an accurate picture of your life and your surroundings.
Way to go.
Submitted by Jesus_Loves_TwEE (user info) at 2005-01-28 18:06:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Fuck you.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2005-01-28 17:40:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Rokinroj (user info) at 2005-01-28 17:10:35 (#)
Ranking: -2
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I hear ya Rokinroj and although you're wrong about the way I feel, I understand your reasoning.
I see nor believed no connection between Saddam and 9-11. 9-11 showed me a weakness that could've been 1000 times worse if a chemical weapon was airburst 800 feet up. Now, you'll counter that with "we didn't find any WMDs" but as I stated before - he's had and used them. My understanding is 9-11 was so huge to us, that we have to go after anyone capable of making another 9-11 worse.
I didn't know anything about Saddam until later in the 90s - I was 11 during the first Gulf War and didn't know anything about it. I supported the troops. I only stated what I know now.
I'm crossing my fingers about this election and the spread of democracy into Iraq. I can't say one way or the other if I think it'll work. If I had to guess, I'd say it was too soon.
Now it's foolish to say "we got him, let's go." That's just an impossible, silly argument.
I've wanted Saddam out for a long time - along with many other people here who fear what he was capable of - and has done - in the past. Because we didn't find WMDs, I know I'll never technically win this argument, but he's had them.
It's now 4:39 - and I'd like to go home.
Submitted by Rokinroj (user info) at 2005-01-28 17:10:35 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
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"I remember being with my college roommate on 9-11, and telling him that day "Well, we're going to go get Saddam now.""
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What does one have to do with the other? You actually made that connection even before the government had?
Perhaps you can enlighten me as to what event will trigger the war with Iran. Will we do it if some Saudi's attack us again? That'll show those damn Iranians for living in the same region.
Your support of this war is one of those things that you should probably stew over a bit more. If your support was based on getting men like Saddam out, then why do you still support our being there? He is gone.
Does your support include financial support? Is it ok with you that we have spent $152,066,597,960 so far and still have utter chaos? And requisition for another $400 billion is in the works. Who do suppose is footing that bill?
Do you support that over 1400 Americans are dead and somewhere over 15,000 human beings are dead? If so why do you feel that way?
Does your support go so far as to say you support what we are doing by propping up their government with our people? If so why? Why is it important to you that Iraq have a democracy? Or perhaps you should ask yourself why is it so important to the U.S. that Iraq have a democracy?
How could you have been in support of the first Gulf war? You were like 10! What could you have possibly understood about the Iraqi occupation of our oil providing friends? I suspect back then you supported and believed whatever your parents told you to. (Not to say that is wrong at 10), but I got to wonder if that's what you're still doing today.
Your writting was ok, but -2 for the blind support of pointless war.
Rokinroj
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:57:17 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
It's funny. Right aftr 9/11 I said the same thing - We are going to Iraq - 9/11 was a nice convenient excuse to go start a few wars.
And you are a dipshit.
Submitted by SAECULUM.AUREUM (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:54:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
exitus acta probat
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:51:28 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
if this gets most heated I am going to be pissed off.
at least this has an outside chance.....
http://www.ubersite.com/m/57943
Submitted by freshspinach (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:43:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
On the saber-rattling lies of our fearless leader, we invaded and occupied a sovereign country that posed no imminent threat to us. We should be forever ashamed.
Submitted by The_Grammar_Nazi (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:35:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
OK,the picture's vaguely disturbing, but after reading the caption, i have no pity... but then i've also advocated the cannibalism of people who die as a result of their own stupidity.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:34:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Sounds like my job.
The iraq war is something that had to be done better sooner than later.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:26:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
and that invalidates everything, right?
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:14:06 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
we're at war
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:09:39 EST (#)
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I didn't say he did - I only said that after 9-11 we need to go after men like him.
*sigh*
Submitted by Obi-wan (user info) at 2005-01-28 16:07:35 EST (#)
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9/11 was bad but Saddam had nothing to do with it. Not even remotely.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-01-28 15:58:09 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2005-01-28 15:57:29 EST (#)
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It wasn't about "why." It was about "is."
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-01-28 15:50:58 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
What the deuce, good fellow? If perchance they are propelling themselves toward you, it can be readily inferred that their motivation is an irresistible desire for some unspecified thing. Is it not more seemly that you should be their champion and benefactor than that they should become urchins, skulking about the slums, forsooth?