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I was just listening to NPR. The talk was about  how we dont see photo's of dead servicemen in Iraq, how this war is so much different on a visual front, and how disconnected Americans are from the death and suffering of even our own soldiers that is occuring over there.  One solder or former serviceman called in and said that the soldiers go over there so other Amercians dont have to, and that he didn't think that Americans should have to see that kind of horror, that the solders were sparing them from it. Excuse me? That is such a wrong and scary sentiment to me. Seperating the people of America from the suffering and even accomplishments that the US soldiers are doing. That is just WRONG. Because even if not all Americans go to war, or want to go to war, being a Democracy, we are responsible for what our soldiers do, and how they are treated. To 'distance' ourselves, to let others do the job 'for us' is irresponsible and lazy and reprehensibe. The least we should be is informed, not insulated. America doesn't need more ostreches with their heads in the sand. Heavens knows we do that enough as it is.

I am always bothered by the idea that the military is a seperate entity from the rest of the US. That kind of thinking get you a cue.

Why is beach vollyball an Olympic sport? And why don't the men play in Speedos if the women play in bakinis?

A while ago I got into a debate about how the Iraq war was in essence, when boiled down to it, about oil. I was told that nations doing go to war over oil, that that is 'unsafe' so to speak and jeperdizes the oil.  Yet here we are where Russia and Georgia are at war, over what? OIL.

"I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you."
"I kill you."
Okay, so it's not that easy Ryther.

I have little tiny eggplants forming...