Sounds like you are saying being on the internet keeps you from plotting a revolution, you know this and yet you continue to post away. ??????
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(for this I credit the patriarchal religions those men followed).
Comment by unbelievable — June 24, 2007 @ 12:38 pm

Here’s a novel thought for ya: personal responsibility. It means that we are all responsible for our own actions. Yeah, you read that right, responsibile for our OWN actions. It wasn’t religion’s fault or their mother’s fault or anyone else’s fault but their own. They chose to cheat on their spouses, yet you want so badly to worship them, you have to make them victims instead of holding them accountable for their own actions. Oddly enough, you don’t extend that grace to those you oppose. Bush is a Christian just like MLK and JFK, so you ought to be saying that he is a victim and not responsibile for any of his actions either. How bout a little fair and balanced treatment here. ;)

We all know that this happens because the cowardly terrorists hide among civilians. Very, very lame argument.

Hmmm — maybe it IS cosmic!

Now that I think about it, you’re right. While I don’t often catch the “news” itself, I do watch a lot of political talk shows, and they haven’t been saying anything about insurgents, just al Qaeda. Thanks for pointing that out. It’s someting else we can question our “leader beans” about.

Yeah, they’re framing it so that ALL Iraqis are “the enemy” so that ‘Merkans don’t care how many die. So we’ve gone from “Liberating” the Iraqi people, to “Obliterating” the Iraqi people.

yes.

SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
SUPPORT A GENERAL STRIKE TO EXPRESS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

I agree that those who commit these acts are desperate and feel they have nothing to lose. I wonder if any promises of taking care of the family members they might leave behind are ever followed through, assuming such promises are made. How else do you convince someone to sacrifice his life in such a violent, useless way.

And I appreciate the compliments. I decided to take what I wrote, fix it up a bit and post it to my blog. That will take a while. People can enjoy the silly songs in the meantime. :)

Iraq vets are returning from an urban warfare situation, and have witnessed atrocities perhaps more frequently than Vietnam vets.

I am not seeking to diminish the fear and stress they endured as soldiers beset by an enemy hiding in a jungle…

In this urban conflict, the soldier has no way of determining an insurgent from the everyday citizen in the street, and he or she lives expecting every paper bag or trash can to blow up in their faces, and at least maim if not kill them…
Every ride in a vehicle for them is an opportunity to go up in a ball of flames.

These factors will all combine to create a true nightmare world for soldiers returning to our own cities and towns.

That alone is a powder keg in the making. These poor vets have to fight and fight for care. Many are uninsured and will never get the care they need.

What is that going to do to our country?

You mean, out of the Iraqis who survived?

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight its roots. Unfortunately, most of the world has or is going to the American version of capitalism which translates to overwhelming greed. This is not to be confused with, say, overwhelming drive to succeed. I am talking the Dick Chaney kind of greed where you have millions and billions of dollars and it’s not enough. Where you have a win at all cost type of capitalistic mindset where someone HAS to lose when you win. And if you couple that with not helping others who need help, who have nothing, who have no hope or no prospects for a better life, who are ruled with an iron fist and no compassion exists in that ruling.

Ron Paul was right in his assessment of what caused 9/11. Israel continues to cause terrorism in its region. You can’t treat people like animals – especially for generation after generation – and expect them to not become animals.

The saddest thing is that we are seeing that same thing that causes terrorism taking place here. How long before we breed our own batch of terrorists?

I never thought it possible that the US could be considered a rogue state. How proposterous is it to think that our own won’t turn to desperation?

And it’s impossible to fight terrorism militarily. It only fuels the problems that feeds terrorists. What happened in Iraq is the ultimate example. Iraqis like America. Iraq was a peaceful country ruled by a horrible person. But their needs were met – albeit poorly, but they had food, water, etc. How many of those Iraqis are now going to become terrorists because of what we have done; what our country has done.

The MSN (now) talks about American deaths, but they still rarely talk about the hundreds of thousdands of innocent Iraqis who have died, lost their families, lost everything. They still, after five years, don’t have consistant electricity, gas, jobs, a life. How is THAT going to affect us for years to come?