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Battle lines being drawn.
2005-01-30 at 1:32 p.m.
Yawn. Sleepy.
Church was kind of a disappointment today. Our pastor is very programs-oriented; he's always after some cause or witnessing program, and... my family is very lack-luster in the evangelising area.
I love our pastor, but I don't like being berated for an hour about how I'm not hungry enough for God because I don't come to the church-sponsored prayer services or witnessing opportunities.
Sorry, that's not my cuppa tea.
So today is Iraqi Election Day. Whoopee! The 100 people who managed to stave off the car-bombing fanaticals will elect a new leader to be puppeted by our current, vocabularious Administration.
I don't know what to think, really.
Do I really believe that this Democracy thing will stick over there? No, not at all.
Do I think this is the best thing for the country? No. I think that the president will have little to no power or control over his people, and that the people will yet again turn to a young up-and-coming "revolutionary" who can promise to take care of Iraqis and boost their economy after a devastating war.
I pray that that doesn't happen, but it's very liable to. It's how dictators come into power. They are put there by desperate people. Hitler is a good example of that.
I can't blame that on Bush. This whole war was misguided, and while I still don't agree with his stand on many issues in today's world, the war can't be pinned solely on him.
Faulty intelligence was the culprit, but it was believed by everyone. The people questioning it now are the Liberals, but just how effective are they at doing it? Are they furthering anything by pressing points that everyone knows now?
No, of course not. They're pointing fingers and nyah-nyah-ing and acting immature and bitter when, of course, they were silent when it mattered most.
The Conservatives (and I use this broadly, I know) aren't doing much better, either, though. I mean, you have people who still support the war, even though it has been made clear that our reasoning was wrong.
They support it because of the mass graves, or what Saddam was doing to his people.
Yeah, fine. We can't be in charge of taking care of the entire world. We cannot do it. Our country is being split down the middle in a vicious war of our own.
The lines have been drawn, and the mud has been slung, and now it's just a desperate tug-o-war that will end up with us all face down in the mud, left with no allies and no excuses for our behavior, on either side.
Christ, this is just so frustrating.
I do not like Bush. I do not like this war. I don't agree with this war based on what little reasoning some supporters give it now. But we are in it whether I agree with it or not. We're in it whether the Democrats impugn Condi Rice or not.
We're dying on both sides of the ocean, metaphorically and literally respectively, and I'm sick of it.
I don't like being in this rut. I don't want to be called unpatriotic for not supporting Bush. I don't want to be accused of being a Democrat and a Liberal by people who don't even know what I stand for, and who made those words "dirty" anyway?
I wish there was an easy solution. I wish that I didn't feel like we're in this war for nothing but oil now that the WMD reason has gone absolutely down the crapper.
And most of all, I wish I could get hold a conversation with some of my friends about all of this, but I don't have any people nearby who are intelligent enough to look at both sides of this and weigh out their own opinions.
I have Agent Muslim in my Fourth Period class who simply rubs Bush Bush Bush into my face all day, and Hail Bush that, and Viva Bush this, and... urgh. And I have Sherman, my Jewish friend, who is SO Liberal that you can't bring up a word against any policy she believes in and be treated like an equal in her mind.
And in between all of that, besides me, are a bunch of kids who don't know their Right from their Left.
Which is just as well, because I'd rather they be spared this stupid tug-o-war.
And besides, of all the political figures I want to see wrestling in the mud, Bush and Dick Cheney and Kerry and Ted Kennedy are not in that list.
Though an Obama/John Edwards fight might be fun.
Just a thought.
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