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CAGiversary!
So here it goes... reply as you will...
On this election nights eve, I feel a certain excitment, saddness, and anxiousness. Excitement because its going to be an awesome awesome race. I swear im going to be up all night tomorrow following this thing. Its going to be DAMN cool. This race has been damn intense, and I've gone through a bunch of stages since the Dem's primaries. To be COMPLETELY honest with you, Al Sharpton actually felt the most in line with my views during the primaries (laugh if you will...) When Kerry took it... I had no idea who the hell the guy was (except for the fact that he looked like Lurch from Addams Family). I was never a fan of a lot of things Bush did (and is doing) in this election. I hear alot of people say that "the two cantidates are the same", or that "people are just voting against Bush... not for Kerry". The problem with both statements is this. One man has been president, one man hasn't. One man has had 1460 days, the other hasn't. I cannot tell you that Kerry will be an awesome president... I cannot see the future. What I can tell you is that I've lived under 4 years of Bush, and he doesn't deserve the job anymore. Thats it... plain and simple. After four years of Kerry, then I can tell you what I think of him as a President.
I never supported going into Iraq, simply because I'm a dove... and I (and most of the world) wasn't convinced that it was necessary. It angers me to see people cheering for war, people getting all pumped up because "we're going to kick ass", and "win". This is ING WAR. PEOPLE DIE. YOUNG PEOPLE DIE. FAMILIES DIE (if not always physically). What the is wrong with your head?!?! This gung-ho attitude seems... to me... antihuman. How can someone get excited about death? Not only death, but death on a massive scale. War was necessary for 9/11... I understand that and it saddended me... but it was something that was inevitable. Iraq wasn't. There are a lot of horrible people in the world, a lot of horrible leaders in the world. A lot of atrocities being committed. It sucks. In a perfect world, these things wouldn;t exist... but they do. Saddam isnt the only one. He wasnt the first, he wont be the last. BUT Saddam was not trying to take over the world. He wasn't ing taking over one country after another, he wasnt turning into a super power. He wasnt sitting atop his throne collecting countries and running shit. There was no reason to fear him.
DO NOT tell me that there were WMD's there. Do not tell me you are going to war as a last resort. Do not tell me you are a ing god-fearing christian man. Do not invade a country, find nothing, then change your "goal" to be humanitarian. You didnt care about Iraq, you didn care about the iraqi people. You cared about money, and perhaps finding WMDs. You are not a cowboy, you are not our knight in shining armor. You are a liar. You are an intimidator. You make us fear our own. You make us quiet down when we disagree with you. You ing prick. How dare you, how dare you even run for another 4 years. How dare you send my peers to war without reason. How dare you alienate us, when we need to world the most. They've been dealing with terrorism a lot longer than we have, we were naive.
I am young. I am passionate. I am informed. And you know what... I AM AMERICAN. Just because I'm not voting for good ol' W doesn't mean I'm a traitor... it doesn't mean I'm a communist, it doesn't mean I have nightly flag burning sessions. I love America, I don't like my worlds representative. In the above, there may be flaws in logic. By all means, lace into them. I'm not changing anything about the above because I think its the rawest I've ever been in this thread.
/off my chest...
EDIT: Just some minor spelling things... passion=bad spelling...
On this election nights eve, I feel a certain excitment, saddness, and anxiousness. Excitement because its going to be an awesome awesome race. I swear im going to be up all night tomorrow following this thing. Its going to be DAMN cool. This race has been damn intense, and I've gone through a bunch of stages since the Dem's primaries. To be COMPLETELY honest with you, Al Sharpton actually felt the most in line with my views during the primaries (laugh if you will...) When Kerry took it... I had no idea who the hell the guy was (except for the fact that he looked like Lurch from Addams Family). I was never a fan of a lot of things Bush did (and is doing) in this election. I hear alot of people say that "the two cantidates are the same", or that "people are just voting against Bush... not for Kerry". The problem with both statements is this. One man has been president, one man hasn't. One man has had 1460 days, the other hasn't. I cannot tell you that Kerry will be an awesome president... I cannot see the future. What I can tell you is that I've lived under 4 years of Bush, and he doesn't deserve the job anymore. Thats it... plain and simple. After four years of Kerry, then I can tell you what I think of him as a President.
I never supported going into Iraq, simply because I'm a dove... and I (and most of the world) wasn't convinced that it was necessary. It angers me to see people cheering for war, people getting all pumped up because "we're going to kick ass", and "win". This is ING WAR. PEOPLE DIE. YOUNG PEOPLE DIE. FAMILIES DIE (if not always physically). What the is wrong with your head?!?! This gung-ho attitude seems... to me... antihuman. How can someone get excited about death? Not only death, but death on a massive scale. War was necessary for 9/11... I understand that and it saddended me... but it was something that was inevitable. Iraq wasn't. There are a lot of horrible people in the world, a lot of horrible leaders in the world. A lot of atrocities being committed. It sucks. In a perfect world, these things wouldn;t exist... but they do. Saddam isnt the only one. He wasnt the first, he wont be the last. BUT Saddam was not trying to take over the world. He wasn't ing taking over one country after another, he wasnt turning into a super power. He wasnt sitting atop his throne collecting countries and running shit. There was no reason to fear him.
DO NOT tell me that there were WMD's there. Do not tell me you are going to war as a last resort. Do not tell me you are a ing god-fearing christian man. Do not invade a country, find nothing, then change your "goal" to be humanitarian. You didnt care about Iraq, you didn care about the iraqi people. You cared about money, and perhaps finding WMDs. You are not a cowboy, you are not our knight in shining armor. You are a liar. You are an intimidator. You make us fear our own. You make us quiet down when we disagree with you. You ing prick. How dare you, how dare you even run for another 4 years. How dare you send my peers to war without reason. How dare you alienate us, when we need to world the most. They've been dealing with terrorism a lot longer than we have, we were naive.
I am young. I am passionate. I am informed. And you know what... I AM AMERICAN. Just because I'm not voting for good ol' W doesn't mean I'm a traitor... it doesn't mean I'm a communist, it doesn't mean I have nightly flag burning sessions. I love America, I don't like my worlds representative. In the above, there may be flaws in logic. By all means, lace into them. I'm not changing anything about the above because I think its the rawest I've ever been in this thread.
/off my chest...
EDIT: Just some minor spelling things... passion=bad spelling...