My thoughts on the protesters....
I was watching the news two days ago before work started and I saw something that surprised me. Yes, I know there are a lot of protesters in this country and they are all trying to make a point with their chants and signs in the air. But what surprised me was the fact that they were standing in front of the New York New York in Las Vegas; the city
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All i see is the same tactic hitler used being used on me.
"Shock and Awe" is the same thing as the blitzkrieg.
It is inhumane.
If you were to cause thousands of civilians and soliders to cower in fear from such a bombardment, i'm sure they wouldn't want to support their leader anymore.
Just as if it was turned around on us, and we were being attacked by ground forces, i'm sure you wouldn't fight if you knew the numbers were 400 to 1. The first human instinct is survival. When people become very desparate, terrible acts are commited. What we are doing to the Iraqis is a terrible act indeed, and i await the horrible retaliation, which will not be by soldiers, but by the horrid weapons that yes, saddam does have, the ones that were sold to him by our country when it was 'Fight the Soviet' times.
No, i haven't forgotten the fact Ashcroft wasn't allowed on a commercial plane for 6 months before 9/11. Nor have i forgotten how bush siezed the chance that the terroristic act gave him, and began ripping our rights out from under our noses, and started a christian campaign stating that we should destroy everyone who doesn't have the same beliefs as him and his fanatic followers.
I don't have the same beliefs. Maybe i'll be one of the first people secretly arrested once The Patriot Act II is established as law.
"Again I say, I am proud to be an American, and I would die to keep this country safe. There would be no hesitation, no doubt in my mind to what this country can do. This is where I live and I'll be damned if I am going to let a foreign dictator tell how I will or won't live, or even threaten my life and my way of living."
Funny how...that statement could be changed slightly, put in the hands of an Iraqi citizen or military man, and it will be correct.
Anyway, I know either a: you'll say "I pity you for being so ignorant as to feel that way" or b: Be totally pissed off at me for feeling the way i do.
I support no war. I support no view as such as "We are good, they are evil" because that is rhetoric, that is what is wrong with people. Good and evil are only points of view. There is no human instinct of good and evil, it is taught and conditioned into us. Enough people have been brainwashed by the constant barrage of patriotism (which is now basically we only care about ourselves) that there may not be enough people left who can see it from different points of view to fight back.
That is all. I am not alone in my feelings, and I am not an ignorant little kid. I know what i speak of as truth, because there can be no other. It would only not be truth if all countries and peoples supported the United States in this 'war'.
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No, I do not hate you for what you believe, nor do I pity you. I just think there is a time and a place for everything. With what I saw happen at the New York New York, in front of a monument for the very thing we are fighting against, THAT is who I am calling idiotic.
Think what you must, and I shall do the same, but keep it out of the sight of the, so many, others that think, feel and live the way I do.
This is for the better whether you think it is or not. It's long over-due and needs to be dealt with. We know exactly what Saddam has, and we are willing and ready to deal with whatever he can throw at us. If we weren't then we damn well wouldn't have bothered sending 250,000 men and women over there to fight for the freedom those people deserve.
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