Posted 10:50 by Grote 0 comments

We now interupt this blogger with a rant

Yay! The war is almost over! Great I'm happy. Saddam Hussein was an evil man and he probably needed to go. But what now? Do we say, "Well since we're in the neighborhood, let's go get that other Axis of Evil(tm) member Iran,"? Let's face it, this war was never over WMD; even the administration admitted that in the end. Operation Iraqi Freedom(tm) doesn't exactly scream out WMD. But if we're looking at evil regimes why don't we look at Africa? In the 90s Rawanda killed (or more to the point ethnically cleansed) 800,000 people. Central African nations in the midsts of Civil Wars are using children as young as 12 to fight them. Why don't we go after them? Easy, Rawanda isn't sitting on that black gold, that Texas Tea, but I digress. What now? We instill, truth justice and the American way in Iraq which means a democracy of course. The problem is we'll never have friends in the Middle East. Why? Because we support Israel. Osama Bin Laden has always hated Saddam. Their common enemy though, has been The Great Satan, America. Does this mean we should stop supporting Israel? No but I think we've got to tell Mr. Sharon that if he doesn't cut that sh*t out over there we will. My biggest fear is that if we install a democracy and the people elect a fundamentalist Islamic government, like they have in Iran or they had in Afghanistan then what have we accomplished?



What it comes down to is that I still support the current administration but on very tentative terms. We currently hold American Citizens (link goes to an example) with out charge basically on material witness writs. Basically what that means is the government (depending on the prosecutor it could be city, state or federal) believes that you have pertinant information in realtion to a crime and/or that you are likely to flee the jurisdiction. Now, Republicans in Congress want to extend the Patriot Act indefinitely.(Thank you, Jim) Suspension of our most basic civil liberties? This is beginning to smack of Nazism. Although, with our current head of the Justice Department, I can't say I'm surprised in the least. I never liked Ashcroft from day one. He's ultra Right Wing and as I've said many times before "I never trust anyone who lost an election to a dead guy." Ok, I'm glad I've got that off my chest. We now return you to our regular blogger already in progress