Stop, children.
Mar. 17th, 2003 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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papersky's journal, and then realized I needed to say it here, too.]
I have been writing like a mad thing all day, because every time I stop, there's Shrub's stupid face again, and the fact that this country is being led by people who want something the rest of us DO NOT, and that somehow we cannot seem to make them understand that we (and most of the rest of the world) mean it when we say we do not want it. And a lot of people are very likely going to die, many of them Iraqi civilians who have no more choice than, apparently, American civilians do, because their leader and our leader are a pair of teenage hoodlums playing chicken. And, you know, the terrible thing is, I hope that's the worst that happens.
I did not go to the vigil last night. I literally forgot about it, sometime between four o'clock when I thought, I should do this, and 8:30, when I thought, I should have done this. I don't understand what happened in my brain, and while I know that in fact it would not have made a blind bit of difference, because George W. wants his war and by golly he's going to have it, I still feel guilty. I am glad I made it to the rally on Feb. 15th; I have not been an entirely spineless worm.
I hate the way the American government is treating as "irrelevant" anything and anyone that does not match with their preconceived notions of "Showdown: Iraq" as CNN persists in calling it. I hate that the person in the White House is someone who has no right to be there, and yet somehow, no one in Washington seems to care. I hate that my country is turning into some kind of Orwellian nightmare-state right before my eyes. American politics are like a sewer and have been since Reagan, and I'm sorry that our cholera-carrying rat-bastard selves are infecting the rest of the world.
When I find myself agreeing with George Sr., you know the world is in an extremely fucked-up place.
This isn't going to solve anything. So why are we doing it?
papersky's journal, and then realized I needed to say it here, too.]I have been writing like a mad thing all day, because every time I stop, there's Shrub's stupid face again, and the fact that this country is being led by people who want something the rest of us DO NOT, and that somehow we cannot seem to make them understand that we (and most of the rest of the world) mean it when we say we do not want it. And a lot of people are very likely going to die, many of them Iraqi civilians who have no more choice than, apparently, American civilians do, because their leader and our leader are a pair of teenage hoodlums playing chicken. And, you know, the terrible thing is, I hope that's the worst that happens.
I did not go to the vigil last night. I literally forgot about it, sometime between four o'clock when I thought, I should do this, and 8:30, when I thought, I should have done this. I don't understand what happened in my brain, and while I know that in fact it would not have made a blind bit of difference, because George W. wants his war and by golly he's going to have it, I still feel guilty. I am glad I made it to the rally on Feb. 15th; I have not been an entirely spineless worm.
I hate the way the American government is treating as "irrelevant" anything and anyone that does not match with their preconceived notions of "Showdown: Iraq" as CNN persists in calling it. I hate that the person in the White House is someone who has no right to be there, and yet somehow, no one in Washington seems to care. I hate that my country is turning into some kind of Orwellian nightmare-state right before my eyes. American politics are like a sewer and have been since Reagan, and I'm sorry that our cholera-carrying rat-bastard selves are infecting the rest of the world.
When I find myself agreeing with George Sr., you know the world is in an extremely fucked-up place.
This isn't going to solve anything. So why are we doing it?
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Date: 2003-03-18 11:06 pm (UTC)Small nations with funny names of the world, beware!