July 2004 Archives

I've been waiting for this day, and it goes into effect at the end of March, next year. Randy Kelly can suck it while his stupid city of St. Paul is filled with smokers.

Well, I've been wanting to get a new camera for a while, but I wanted to wait until there were SLR digicams that I could afford. I like Canon, and I'm not really into digital photography, so I think this is a good choice.

I would like to know how it is possible that the CIA got everything wrong about Iraq. I can understand when they say that they know the exact locations of WMD plants that they could be wrong on one or two, or even miss some, but all of this fabricated intelligence had to come from somewhere. Do they rely on one paid source for all of this information?

Isn't it at all possible that the Bush administration put pressure on the CIA to give them all the proof they had, no matter how shaky, to help them in their march to war? I can understand why nobody in the CIA would testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were directly pressured by the administration, they would probably lose their jobs.

The other major problem is that everyone believed these lies. Back when Bush was making the case for war, the questions were over who should deal with this WMD problem, the UN or the US? Bush made the case that the UN weapons inspectors were so inept that they couldn't find WMDs. The administration then kept saying that they knew the exact location of these WMD plants. Three questions:
1. Why didn't Rummy give the UN the location of just one of these places?

3. Why doesn't every asshole who knocked France for not supporting this war apologize and say, 'I am sorry for being a horse's ass; you were right and I was wrong.'

What have we learned from all of this? The US has ruined its reputation in the international community. We went to war without a UNSC resolution to protect our national security because they wanted the inspections to continue and didn't want to authorize a pre-emptive attack without solid proof to justify it. We liberated a people that have no reason to love us (since we were the ones insisting that sanctions remain against Iraq, even if it hurts the people more than it hurts Saddam) and have no reason to believe that a friendly democracy will arise. We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars, nearly a thousand US soldiers have been killed, countless Iraqi civilians have been killed, and for what? Are we safer now then we were a year ago? Have we alienated ourselves from countries that were helping us to curb terrorism because of the war in Iraq?

I know that Saddam was a horrible leader, I do not support him or what he did, but that was not what this war was about. Why aren't more Republican's outraged that they were duped into supporting this war? Why do we have to have a Democratic nominee for president that was a sheep who supported this war?

I still do not see how a large part of the American public still supports this war and the president that led us into it. I'm beginning to lose faith in the American public.

I'm planning on re-doing the entire blog, from the ground up, using CSS.

I love Movable Type, so there's no way I'm dropping that. I just got a new plug-in that shows the word count of the entry (not that it really matters). [The Movable Type Word Count Plug-In].