I apparently have to clarify a few things with my friends . . . not yous guys online, but in the real world.
First of all--I was in Navy ROTC in college but I got kicked out for having bad grades. When the United States invaded Afghanistan, I almost dropped out to enlist but I knew I would miss that fight. When the United States invaded Iraq, I almost dropped out again to enlist . . . but NOT because I support the reasons the United States went to war.
I love America. I love the military service. I love it. I have cried at night because my generation is fighting and dying and I'm not next to them. Now though, I am feeling the idealogical strain of fighting and dying for a war I didn't support to make a man I hate a little bit more rich and/or famous.
My friends assume that since I'm a man who was all about military service that somehow that makes me a right-wing hardline conservative. Sure I'm religious, sure I'm in support of the defense of the United States. But I am NOT a Republican. I am NOT a conservative.
I am NOT a Democrat. I am NOT a liberal. I am fed up with this for us/against us bullshit. I am an American. I am an independent, and that means I'm an independent thinker. I don't want to read what some right-wing nutjob has to say about why Kerry is going to destroy America and only Bush can save it. I don't want to read what this nutjob, who has no formal military training, has not meticulously reviewed Congressional voting records, did NOT ever serve in combat or even SEE combat, has to tell me about "you're living in a delusional world, you stinking liberal," et. al.
Conservatives, you don't have it right. Liberals, you don't either. Nobody will know the truth for another 50, 100, 150 years. Nobody may EVER know the truth.
So to all my real-world friends (whom I acknowledge will probably never read this) please stop sending me your Bush-loving garbage. I will not trade a dictatorship in Iraq for the future that one might exist in my country thanks to the Patriot Act. Read that right--I'm not accusing Dubya of wanting to be one, I'm saying something about the law and what one madman might be able to do with it. Hell, that madman might even be John Kerry.
On the same note, I don't want to receive any left-wing nutjobber's interpretations of what "truth" is . . . you're equally wrong, if not far more off-balanced by your stupid idealogy.
That's all I've got to say about that.
First of all--I was in Navy ROTC in college but I got kicked out for having bad grades. When the United States invaded Afghanistan, I almost dropped out to enlist but I knew I would miss that fight. When the United States invaded Iraq, I almost dropped out again to enlist . . . but NOT because I support the reasons the United States went to war.
I love America. I love the military service. I love it. I have cried at night because my generation is fighting and dying and I'm not next to them. Now though, I am feeling the idealogical strain of fighting and dying for a war I didn't support to make a man I hate a little bit more rich and/or famous.
My friends assume that since I'm a man who was all about military service that somehow that makes me a right-wing hardline conservative. Sure I'm religious, sure I'm in support of the defense of the United States. But I am NOT a Republican. I am NOT a conservative.
I am NOT a Democrat. I am NOT a liberal. I am fed up with this for us/against us bullshit. I am an American. I am an independent, and that means I'm an independent thinker. I don't want to read what some right-wing nutjob has to say about why Kerry is going to destroy America and only Bush can save it. I don't want to read what this nutjob, who has no formal military training, has not meticulously reviewed Congressional voting records, did NOT ever serve in combat or even SEE combat, has to tell me about "you're living in a delusional world, you stinking liberal," et. al.
Conservatives, you don't have it right. Liberals, you don't either. Nobody will know the truth for another 50, 100, 150 years. Nobody may EVER know the truth.
So to all my real-world friends (whom I acknowledge will probably never read this) please stop sending me your Bush-loving garbage. I will not trade a dictatorship in Iraq for the future that one might exist in my country thanks to the Patriot Act. Read that right--I'm not accusing Dubya of wanting to be one, I'm saying something about the law and what one madman might be able to do with it. Hell, that madman might even be John Kerry.
On the same note, I don't want to receive any left-wing nutjobber's interpretations of what "truth" is . . . you're equally wrong, if not far more off-balanced by your stupid idealogy.
That's all I've got to say about that.