Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Our state can't possibly make sense to half the country.

Our state can't possibly make sense to half the country.

Why does a president need extraordinary wartime powers when we are not in wartime? If this is a war why have we not made a declaration? Why have we gotten "Authorized use of force" instead of war? This is not palatable. We are not fighting a threat. If Iraq is such a threat why are we not at full scale war? Why are we not being supported by a league of nations (the coalition is/was/and forever will be a joke)

I don't have the energy. I don't know what common sense is anymore.

If terrorists are such a threat to our country why are we still eating butter? Why are 30,000 people being laid off at Ford instead of being kicked into high gear in order to build more military supplies? Why are people walking around without being taxed feeling like there is nothing going wrong? Can't you just taste something is wrong. Why am I able to type this down without any worries? Where is the draft? I don't even see people riding around with flags any more. Is it possible that 9/11 was a fluke?

Maybe we aren't destined to not be attacked ever. Maybe, just maybe, 1775, 1812, 1865, 1917, 1941...maybe the Cold War and Vietnam, Maybe something is going to happen to us. We are not invincible. We do not live in a bubble. We are part of the world. if we are struck every 40 years it is not because we are not focusing on the "terrorists". It is because as a citizen of the world we must interact with others. Sometimes others will be mad at us. I don't know one person who is friends with everybody. Someone will be mad at you because you're friends with everybody. But in this country's case we're just jerks.

It is completely understandable that 9/11 occurred. I'm not going to belittle any of the people's lives or anything but get over it. You can do everything you can possibly do outside of putting tags on ever citizen and non citizen in the U.S. (and I mean tagging their brain so you can press a button and off us) and there is still the possibility of getting hit. Put that on top of our mentality to put others down in order to stay ahead and you will always have an enemy. Iran is going to hate us for stopping their nuclear energy program. Russia already warned us about messing with Iran and China has got it's hands in Iran's pockets (much like they have their hands in the rest of the worlds pockets). You can't account for all this. it's a complex system that can lead to trouble whether or not you soft step everything. If it wasn't 9/11/2001 it may have been 2/26/2015.

Impeach bush. he broke the law.
This is the "Authorized use of force on Iraq" not the "War on Iraq"
Gonzales is one weak puppet.

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