A word about the war
This blog is so not about my opinions about what is going on in the world -- there are way too many people out there doing that much better than I ever could. However, I just need to go on record by saying that I believe going to war with Iraq would be a gigantic mistake.
Until last night, I maintained a sort of neutrality, stuck somehow on the idea that the President and his people had access to some kind of incredibly compelling information that made it necessary for us to go to war, and they just couldn't disclose it for whatever reason. But I watched the President's speech last night and he kept making the connection between Iraq and 9/11. Iraq and 9/11. Is he trying to say that Iraq is planning another 9/11? Is he saying that Hussein had something to do with it? Is he saying Iraq is funding terrorism? What the hell is he saying?
I always assume, when I don't understand something, that I don't get it because I'm lacking some kind of knowledge or I'm just stupid or something. But you know what? Much smarter people than me don't understand the Iraq -- 9/11 connection either so I can't be that dumb. At the end of the day I think that he's grasping at straws. I don't think there is a real connection and he's just using 9/11 to get a knee-jerk reaction out of the American people so that we'll get behind his pet project -- war with a country that really isn't an immediate threat.
So even though I think it's inevitable, I think we should take a rain check on this particular war, thanks.
7:34:38 PM 
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