okay sorry to all your right ringers
but i gotta say it
the shit in Iraq is feeling like such a deja vus of Vietnam its scary
the deja vus part for me is that here we are a year after the war is supposedly over and our boys and gals are still getting blown up over there
the country is getting torn apart
the people are not loving us
hell even the anti saddam folks are trying to kill us now
its just a big bloody pile of crap
you know any war is horrible
i just went to see "The Third Man" with Orson Welles
a gorgeous snazzed up copy of one of the greatest films ever made
and a film I'd never seen on the big screen
(actually never saw it on TV either...)
and what really got me was the real star of the film
The back drop of war torn Vienna just after WW2..
The city was so beautiful and so scarred with blown up buildings, burnt holes,
burnt people all around like a giant open wound..It reminded me that even in a war that we absolutely had to fight..lord knows we had to take down Hitler..there would be innocent lives taken...occupied cities further hurt...
i once was told a piece of wisdom to remember
you may have heard it
"when it comes to love and war..there are no right decisions"
and i guess this is true
yes..we had to get rid of Saddam Hussein..he was a murderer, a dictator, a tyrant..but did we handle this the right way?
is all this infighting and terror and destruction we see now in Iraq a huge improvement over how their lives had been?
I wish our president had not tried to shnooker the U.N., had not lied about weapons of mass destruction and had just taken us to war for the right reason..
to remove a tyrant..
but then he would have had to explain why other tyrants and other terrorist supporting nations like say ohh saudi arabia not only go un-challenged by us..but make a huge pile of cash from us...
So what's the answer now?
Pull out and leave the country to turn into another Aphganistan..ruled by a fundamentalist Moslem group that will terrorize women, perhaps stone them for exposing their face or burn them for wearing lipstick...and anyone else who doesnt conform to their standards..
Do we stay until we know that some sort of democracy is there and then try to help that democracy take shape...but meanwhile..risk having every inch of Iraq blown to smithereens by the groups who want us out already?
Sadly...there doesn't seem to be any right answer now...
and all the efforts now to make things better seem to fall on deaf ears..
No..I don't think this was well handled at all...
The next time I travel over seas...I think I'll tell everyone I'm a Canadian.
