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I want to start a movement, but I'm not sure where to begin and I don't know if enough people care. Ever since Obama's speech about sending 30,000 more troops to war, it's all I can think about. Last night me and Rick were talking about the war, and I started to talk about how sad it is that thousands of young men are sent to war before they even have the chance to THINK about what it's like to fall in love, and get married, and have kids who will look up to them. I started to cry. When I was 18, I had no idea what it meant to live.. I lived for the night, I didn't care about the morning after or the day before. Me and my friends at the time, we hopped from warehouse party to basement party and that was our whole world. We didn't understand how precious time was, and how unfortunate it is to waste it. I was with a man I thought I loved, and at the time I suppose I did, but only because I didn't know what love really was. I thought love was just fun and attraction, and that's part of it, but it's so so so much more, it's about taking care of someone, it's about changing for the better and growing together, it's about support, encouragement and it's about finding someone who makes you want to be the best you possible, and someone who you can dream of the future with and smile. At 18, who could know that? No one does, maybe a rare few, but most people at 18 are still trying to figure out the bigger picture, yet we send 18 year old boys to war before they even have a chance to understand. Because when they understand, when they fall in love with a woman who they don't immidietly want sex from but just to hold her hand, then they're gonna see that besides love, nothing is worth fighting for. Especially not this war... we don't belong over there, it's going to end in disaster just like it did when Russia invaded and tried to turn their government communist. We want it democratic.. same concept, different ideology.
And Obama, I can see right through you. Say your sending over 30,000 troops for those who support the war, and that we'll be out in 18 months for those against the war. It's all just politics and doesn't mean anything. How could we be out in 18 months? And what about all of the Taliban who has resorted to Pakistan? Do we fight there next?
It's really disheartening to me. Let's start something. Who's with me?
And Obama, I can see right through you. Say your sending over 30,000 troops for those who support the war, and that we'll be out in 18 months for those against the war. It's all just politics and doesn't mean anything. How could we be out in 18 months? And what about all of the Taliban who has resorted to Pakistan? Do we fight there next?
It's really disheartening to me. Let's start something. Who's with me?