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ysobelleI have one, brief, explosive vent:
"Those men and women are fighting over there so you can live free over here!"
Bullshit. I lived free here before we ever got to Iraq. There were no WMD, there was no tie to 9/11. Our sending men and women to die in Iraq didn't have one fucking thing to do with my ability to go out and buy a loaf of bread at ShopRite. And I find it wilfully ignorant and jingoistic to grossly twist the reasons our friends and relatives went there just so some people can beat others over the head with the "disloyal" and "unpatriotic" club.
Now that we HAVE destroyed the country and further destabilised the region, of course, we have shiny new terrorist cells everywhere, born of radical Islamic rage. But call a spade a fucking spade: this is a problem we had a large hand in creating in the first place.
"Those men and women are fighting over there so you can live free over here!"
Bullshit. I lived free here before we ever got to Iraq. There were no WMD, there was no tie to 9/11. Our sending men and women to die in Iraq didn't have one fucking thing to do with my ability to go out and buy a loaf of bread at ShopRite. And I find it wilfully ignorant and jingoistic to grossly twist the reasons our friends and relatives went there just so some people can beat others over the head with the "disloyal" and "unpatriotic" club.
Now that we HAVE destroyed the country and further destabilised the region, of course, we have shiny new terrorist cells everywhere, born of radical Islamic rage. But call a spade a fucking spade: this is a problem we had a large hand in creating in the first place.