Peace In Our Time!

[SykkBoy]

I'm an odd liberal leaner...
I'm registered as a Libertarian, yet a lot of my views fall more left than right

treehugger? check. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but have this crazy notion that we need to keep our environment cleaned up so my kids don't have to drink tainted water or live next to a nuclear waste dump or wade through tons of garbage to see a couple trees and appreciate nature...

distribution of wealth? nope, I'm a firm believer in helping our less fortunate and downtrodden, but I'm also big on spending those dollars for more education and areas where the person recieving the money can get something more out of it (low income housing, etc.). I've just never viewed compassion as a weakness.

anti-war? sure, I'd much rather live in a utopian society where it was peace and singing all the time, but I'm realistic enough to know that we also need to have an adequate defense. I was actually for going into Afghanistan, but felt and still feel that Iraq was and still is an error. Imagine if Saddam Hussein wanted to liberate us Americans from our current evil dictator? I also find it funny that so many people who were all for going in and bombing the shit out of more brown people in Iraq have never actually served their country to begin with. I guess it's easier to send someone else's son or daughter into battle to die.

I just think it's absolutely tragic we spend more money on bombing brown people than we spend on teaching our children to read. I sometimes wonder if we only start bombing people so our school students can finally find places like Iraq and Afghanistan on a map ;-)

Maybe all of the increased FCC fines against "indecency" can be used to buy more schoolbooks....but I'm sure that money will just go to buy more bombs....