Apparently, my brother, who is in Afghanistan and is due back in home station in April, will be spending much of 2007 in Iraq. That deployment will put him past his 4 year commitment, and by the end of it all, he would have spent 2 of those 4.5 years in combat zones, and the rest of it in Korea and Germany.
You know, until now, I really tried to be objective in viewing Bush. But now, I’m fucking pissed. You know how sometimes a girl asks another girl, ‘what do you see in your boyfriend?’ kind of question… At this point, I don’t know what anyone sees in Bush. Our economy is considered ‘healthy’ at 4.7% unemployment. I don’t even wanna know what ‘unhealthy’ economy would look like under this administration, but I have an idea it would make the Great Depression of 1929 look like a huge success. Our international relations is in the shits, we are struggling with high inflation and high interest rates at the same time, hundreds of people died in New Orleans for which he took responsibility for, our budget will probably never balance in the next decade, we’re financing a ‘war’ AND cutting taxes at the same time (I support doing one of those things at a time), energy prices are much higher than ever before, more than 2000 have died in Iraq, government funded stem cell research is at a stalemate, and most of us that are paying for Social Security now will probably never benefit from it. We’ve succumbed to the lowest powers of influence now. I mean when even France is making more of an impact on Iranian plutonium policy than we are, it means something.
When the Congress gave the go ahead for war if absolutely necessary, it wasn’t a call to arms. It’s like giving a man the right to concealed weapons, so that, if necessary, he can use it to defend himself. It doesn’t mean unloading your magazine into anyone that looks at you the wrong way and pointing your big gun at the rest of the world and screaming ‘you’re either with me or against me.’ I believe most people would categorize that as being ‘immature’ in the real world. It’s called Department of Defense, not Department of Preemptive Strike, for a reason. We struck in the assumption that Iraq was about to look at us funny when it wasn’t even interested in us at all. Talk about paranoia.
Meanwhile, people like my brother and I continue to serve for a cause that has long been lost, fighting an illusive enemy that ‘hates freedom.’ Who is really ‘hating freedom’ when the NAS is tracking our every move? Did we really have to give a bit of our freedom and power to the government for it to scrutinize whatever we have left? And what is up with that anyway? We couldn’t even use the information we had at hand to apprehend the terrorist suspects for 9/11, it wasn’t the lack of necessary information. So we’re going to overload ourselves with even more information, and that’s supposed to help us? And in the White House, men and women who have never been in a combat zone continue to use 9/11 and its victims’ names in vain to justify their own personal agenda.
All in all, fuck Bush and Rice and Rumsfeld.