If You Build It, They Will Come.

Thursday, March 27, 2003

I think that most anti-war protestors are not anti-american. It's the ability to protest and the freedom of speech that allows them to protest. But I think we as americans have come a long way since Vietnam. I think most anti-war protestors, like myself, support our troops. We realize how dangerous a storm they're walking into, (lately figuratively and literally) and there's no way we can thank them enough for what they're doing, other than to try to get them home so they don't have to be there anymore. I know people in Iraq. And I don't want them to get hurt. I respect what they do. Their world has gone mad, and they're there for us. We don't protest them, because we love them. We protest war, because we hate war.

Most of us protest this war because we don't buy it. George Bush was talking about attacking Iraq even before he was "elected" during the debates. He gets into office and within two weeks he's bombed Iraq again. We knew back then it would lead to this, we just didn't know why, and most of us still don't. After September 11, the focus shifted to a "War on Terror," "The Axis of Evil," The Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan... and then almost inexplicably the focus started to slowly shift back to Iraq. We still never caught bin Laden, but suddenly we don't care anymore. Now it's a war on terror against Saddam Hussein. When no one bought it, the reason for war became "He's hiding weapons that are in violation of UN Resolutions." So we sent in inspectors. They found nothing. Then the reason for the war became "To liberate the unempowered Iraqi people." And apparently we liked that, because the approval rating for the war went up. But us, against war, realize that the reason isn't any of the above, because war with Iraq was a forgone conclusion the day Bush first sat down in the Oval Office. It doesn't matter what excuse he makes up for it to feed us, we were going anyway. And now we've said that WE get to pick who gets Iraq after the war, not the UN. This sounds fishy to me and to the people blocking traffic in NYC, Boston, LA and whatever other city Bill O' Reilly is calling un-american. How much money would Haliburton Ind. save if they could take oil from Iraq instead of buy it? Billions a year. Where would these billions go? Dick Cheney.

We protest war, we love our soldiers, and we don't want to see them die to line the pockets of some rich old white guys. Is that un-american?

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