Dear Mister President,
Even though, technically speaking, this is NOT a war. It is an extended military stay.
I haven't talked about the war in a long time; a big part of me feels guilt for not supporting the efforts of our government. But feeling guilty about my opinion is un-American. NOT the fact that I don't support what the politicians are sending my friends to do. I support the troops, but I don't support the war. I shouldn't be made to feel guilty about that.
I guess what sparked this post was this: I was sitting in the waiting room at the optometrist's office on sunny Monday afternoon. Diagonal from me were to old ladies, talking about trivial things like shopping and the weather. I decided to move to the row next to them, because my dad was sitting there. Then they started talking about how Bush is messing up our country because we are in SO MUCH debt and many of our people are living in poverty or on the brink of it. They also started talking about all the drugs from Mexico and how worried they are about the future of the country. How the men (they didn't mention women) are going to come back/have come back psychologically damaged. How the country has changed so much and is in SO MUCH trouble.
These are things that I do think about a lot. These are things I want to fix. Want to help fix. Want fixed. With his approval rating at an all-time low, I wish he would consider how "his" people feel.
It's enough to make me wish I were Canadian.