Elections - bluh
Local politics I hate. Who really cares what the leader of any party says before elections? After elections they stick to the status quo or introduce expensive reforms that don't really work, or only make matters worse. The news and papers at the moment are full of leader debates, etc etc, ad nauseum. I avoid them.
Well, I made the mistake of commenting on a blog - an extremely popular one, obviously. I only responded because it appeared from what was said that Iraq was being blamed, or that the war on Iraq is justified because of what happened on 9/11. Iraq had nothing to do with it and it angers me that this erroneous justification continues, not helped of course by Bush's lies. Whether the writer had actually meant to relate the two I don't know, but to mention both in one sentence, it certainly appeared so. Of course, I should have read more of the blog, but being tired I didn't. I assumed wrongly that this writer was just another ignorant American (the sort you meet in chatrooms and who abuse you if you have an opinion about the Iraq war that goes against mainstream media propaganda). Evidently she's not, so I apologised. Enough said.
Regardless, the war is wrong and more of the soldiers who are actually involved are realising it too. They must wonder what the fuck they're there for. There should be more stories from the inside. Interviews such as the ones at alternet:
The injustice of it all really appals me. Not to mention the hypocrisy, the lies, the illegalities... I could go on and on, but I'll only end up steaming.
