Well, things are still the same here in Baghdad, Iraq. Day after day I sit here wondering why my country feels a need to have me...ah...hmm...sit here. Seriously, the job I am performing this go around, here in Iraq, is quite possibly the biggest waste of my time and the tax-payers money that I've ever seen.
After perusing numerous blogs and news sights, it would seem that the Judith Miller apology is the big news of the day. This woman, as well as many other journalists like her, lost credibility with me long before all of the proverbial "shit" hit the fan. She and all the rest of the chickenhawks in society are to be held accountable for the erroneous intelligence and the saber rattling that led us to war. I'm just waiting for the people responsible to grow a spine and admit they are to blame. Once this occurs they need to start sitting things right.
With all that has occurred over the past year I still keep asking myself the same question, "Where is the uproar?" Where are the masses of American's upset that they have been lied to? Where are the American's who are angry at the needless loss of lives? Why aren't people screaming for "impeachment?" I keep on thinking back to Bill Clinton and the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. Mind you I've spent the majority of my time since 9/11 overseas, so I could have missed the uproar, but I remember the American people who were aghast at what Bill had done in the Oval Office. "It has stained the office of the President of the United States, and ruined our reputation," said one individual I spoke to. (to this day I don't think he understood the humor I find in that statement) I heard people saying that he should be impeached for such a disgraceful act. Fellatio in the White House! Don't even get me started on the White Water investigations.
The only thing I can boil the lack of uproar from the American people down to is that it's just not interesting enough to catch their attention. I know, Bush has a 37% or so approval rating...I've read the polls too...but that's not the type of uproar I'm talking about. I honestly feel that my country only cares about simplistic entertainment, sex scandals and chasing the "almighty dollar." Sad times we live in.
One young woman I work with, she is 19, actually told me she doesn't vote because she hates politics. I found this just plain frightening. Here is a woman who has only recently gained the right to vote. She is enlisted in the United States Army which is at war, and she doesn't care about politics??? So, being the argumentative type, I asked her why. She replied, "It doesn't make a difference. Politicians are all alike." A little background on myself...I considered running for city council before I left to join the Army. I wanted to make a difference, and I felt that I could change things. I still feel that way. However, this 19 year old girl has it all figured out. She's never worked a real job before the Army, she never owned her own house or even rented an apartment, but she has the entire political system figured out. Well, I try to find out her knowledge base (I've known some brilliant people in my time and age doesn't figure into it). I asked her who ran in the three most prominent (she didn't know that there were more than three people that ran) parties. She couldn't tell me anyone but George W. Bush. I told her that she should really start trying to educate herself on things before she just wrote off the entire system. She blew me off. Life will continue.
Well, I got off on a tangent there. Eitherway, that is what I think the world is coming too. "If it isn't fun then to hell with it!" that's the new motto.
Back to the grind....
After perusing numerous blogs and news sights, it would seem that the Judith Miller apology is the big news of the day. This woman, as well as many other journalists like her, lost credibility with me long before all of the proverbial "shit" hit the fan. She and all the rest of the chickenhawks in society are to be held accountable for the erroneous intelligence and the saber rattling that led us to war. I'm just waiting for the people responsible to grow a spine and admit they are to blame. Once this occurs they need to start sitting things right.
With all that has occurred over the past year I still keep asking myself the same question, "Where is the uproar?" Where are the masses of American's upset that they have been lied to? Where are the American's who are angry at the needless loss of lives? Why aren't people screaming for "impeachment?" I keep on thinking back to Bill Clinton and the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. Mind you I've spent the majority of my time since 9/11 overseas, so I could have missed the uproar, but I remember the American people who were aghast at what Bill had done in the Oval Office. "It has stained the office of the President of the United States, and ruined our reputation," said one individual I spoke to. (to this day I don't think he understood the humor I find in that statement) I heard people saying that he should be impeached for such a disgraceful act. Fellatio in the White House! Don't even get me started on the White Water investigations.
The only thing I can boil the lack of uproar from the American people down to is that it's just not interesting enough to catch their attention. I know, Bush has a 37% or so approval rating...I've read the polls too...but that's not the type of uproar I'm talking about. I honestly feel that my country only cares about simplistic entertainment, sex scandals and chasing the "almighty dollar." Sad times we live in.
One young woman I work with, she is 19, actually told me she doesn't vote because she hates politics. I found this just plain frightening. Here is a woman who has only recently gained the right to vote. She is enlisted in the United States Army which is at war, and she doesn't care about politics??? So, being the argumentative type, I asked her why. She replied, "It doesn't make a difference. Politicians are all alike." A little background on myself...I considered running for city council before I left to join the Army. I wanted to make a difference, and I felt that I could change things. I still feel that way. However, this 19 year old girl has it all figured out. She's never worked a real job before the Army, she never owned her own house or even rented an apartment, but she has the entire political system figured out. Well, I try to find out her knowledge base (I've known some brilliant people in my time and age doesn't figure into it). I asked her who ran in the three most prominent (she didn't know that there were more than three people that ran) parties. She couldn't tell me anyone but George W. Bush. I told her that she should really start trying to educate herself on things before she just wrote off the entire system. She blew me off. Life will continue.
Well, I got off on a tangent there. Eitherway, that is what I think the world is coming too. "If it isn't fun then to hell with it!" that's the new motto.
Back to the grind....
posted by L.J. Abershawe at 15:13
1 Comments:
Wow... yeah... mmm... should we curb check her? I find it very frightful the stupidity of Americans.. I'm not the brightest guy around... but at least I try to learn... I'm seriously considering the cabin in the woods, living as the crazy Army Vet with the shotgun in my hands and the 45 on my thigh..
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