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I am nauseated and I am enraged by the knowledge that our country is responsible for the deaths of over six hundred thousand people.
Ever since I started paying my own taxes, I've become one of those people who complains about it. But not for the reasons you might think - if I knew my money was going to education, social welfare, environmental protection and humanitarian aid, I'd be just fine with that. I understand that taxes are a necessary component of keeping a society like ours running. But instead, when we write out those checks to the IRS I know full well that the bulk of it is going to fight this fucked-up war that is responsible for devastating countless numbers of people. And it makes me want to vomit.
I read a story yesterday that said the latest plan called for keeping us in Iraq until 2010. Another four years of this! Another six hundred thousand people - dead! Another six hundred thousand families - ruined! AND FOR WHAT? I don't feel any safer! Nobody does!
Well, I take that back - the Rethuglican sheeple claim they do. I don't believe them, though - I think it's racism, pure and simple. The entire party platform for the GOP depends on fear to work - fear of gay people, fear of brown people, fear of women, fear of sex, fear of the outside world, fear of TV, fear of popular music, fear of schools. If a certain section of our population didn't feel justified in writing off an entire nation of people as "terrorists" for the egregious crime of being born in Iraq, if they had perhaps spent more than five seconds at a time interacting with someone who wasn't exactly like them, then this would have never have happened.
Ever since I started paying my own taxes, I've become one of those people who complains about it. But not for the reasons you might think - if I knew my money was going to education, social welfare, environmental protection and humanitarian aid, I'd be just fine with that. I understand that taxes are a necessary component of keeping a society like ours running. But instead, when we write out those checks to the IRS I know full well that the bulk of it is going to fight this fucked-up war that is responsible for devastating countless numbers of people. And it makes me want to vomit.
I read a story yesterday that said the latest plan called for keeping us in Iraq until 2010. Another four years of this! Another six hundred thousand people - dead! Another six hundred thousand families - ruined! AND FOR WHAT? I don't feel any safer! Nobody does!
Well, I take that back - the Rethuglican sheeple claim they do. I don't believe them, though - I think it's racism, pure and simple. The entire party platform for the GOP depends on fear to work - fear of gay people, fear of brown people, fear of women, fear of sex, fear of the outside world, fear of TV, fear of popular music, fear of schools. If a certain section of our population didn't feel justified in writing off an entire nation of people as "terrorists" for the egregious crime of being born in Iraq, if they had perhaps spent more than five seconds at a time interacting with someone who wasn't exactly like them, then this would have never have happened.