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Originally posted by Carrie@Mar 23 2004, 03:54 AM
Meni, let's imagine something.
Imagine that there is a man that gathers your family together and forces them to watch as your father is lowered feet-first into a meat grinder.
Imagine that he takes your mother and your sister and locks them away from everyone - even each other - and rapes them repeatedly. He also offers them up as "prizes" for his sons and as payoffs for his buddies, and they are raped by these men as well.
Imagine this man decided that he needed to test out a new gas bomb his scientists had just developed, and he chooses your hometown that you grew up in, with all of your childhood friends and high school sweethearts who are still living there with their kids - as his testing area to see what happens.
Imagine that this man is telling the world he has no weapons at all, but everyday your children come home scared to death, talking about all of the men who came into their school and brought "space suits" and gas masks along. Not to mention the very large guns that each of these men was carrying in the school hallways in front of your small children.
How much money would it be worth, to you, to find this man?
At what point would you say "No no, it's just not worth it anymore, it's costing too much money. Leave him alone and let him keep doing these things to other people."
A few thousand? A hundred thousand? A million? 80 million?
Hussein and his sons did these things to families every day for decades, Meni.
How much money is "worth it" to end decades of fear, torture, terrorism, and gassing?
And how much money is "worth it" to rebuild anything we knock down in an effort to find this man, to rebuild basic necessities like water lines and electricity lines that this man had disabled in order to keep his people weak and frightened? To stay there and work with the people so that they could come out of hiding and take control over their own lives, government, and future again after living so long under this man's control?
How much money is that worth, Meni?
Quit bitching about Stern's latest bullshit numbers on Bush, quit blaming everything on people who happen to have faith (whether they're right-wing, left-wing, or none of the above), and instead go down to your local City Hall and throw your hat into the ring as Mayor or for a position in your State's local congress.
You want more jobs for people? Then YOU work to bring those jobs to your area. While you're at it, convince the people who are on welfare and are perfectly healthy that yes, they really CAN get up and get a job at McDonald's, that it isn't more of a smack to their precious pride than sitting and watching Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake all day long.
You want better education? Then YOU work to get more money out of the hands of superintendents and filtered instead down into the classroom so that the kids can have the things they need. YOU work to set standards in your community that teachers have to pass tests in order to teach. YOU help get rid of bullshit "quotas" that force teachers to pass failing students.
YOU do something to fix it, rather than sitting on your pretty little high-pro-glow ass bitching about how one man in government isn't fixing all of this FOR you.
That is, if your tanning sessions, gym appointments, and watching Jenna's dogs doesn't tax your schedule too much already.
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Carrie, I have to pay to save Iraq?
really?
I'm sure there are other dictators doing crazy ass shit
We going after them too?
no we went after GW's daddy's old enemy
You are telling me there are no other evil doers in this world?
Cheney going duck hunting with Scalia
then Scalia ruling on his case?
this administration needs to GO
Clear Channel dumps stern, zero tolerance? oh really, so far there are atleast 3 Clear Channel DJ's being fined, and they are KEEPING their JOBS
Ryan Seacrest says fuck 2 times on the air?
is he fired?
fined?
Oprah talks about penis' and tossing someone's salad
did Oprah get fined?
We go into Iraq looking for WMD's
oh oops, bad intelligence, there are not any
lets rebuild Iraq, and make sure our (bush/cheney's) friends get the contracts
And once we leave Iraq, civil war.
Are we safer?
word is al quaida has a dirty bomb
oh boy, good job since 9/11 getting those guys!!!
We were worried about Saddam and his kids
were is the real threat?