Such A Sick Feeling!!

Watched the debates. I almost couldn't tolerate it. Looking at and listening to George Bush has become just about unbearable to me. He is ruining the nation and the world. The security of our world, the world my children are growing up in, is at serious risk if this man is allowed to stay in power. It sickens me. I never thought I could feel so much fear and dread and disgust in my heart.

I stay the course. I don't change my position. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...... IF YOUR CHOICES HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE INCORRECT AND HARMFUL, YOU RE-EVALUATE AND CHANGE!!! IT TAKES A STRONG PERSON TO ADMIT MISTAKES AND MAKE CHANGES TO CORRECT THINGS. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DEAD FOR NOTHING! THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONALITIES KILLED BECAUSE THIS WORLD HAS BECOME EVEN MORE UNSAFE SINCE 9/11/01. I never thought I could feel as much anger and fear and emptiness in my soul as I did the morning of 9/11/01, but I feel it even moreso today, because of the things the Bush administration has done. Our world would be safer with a monkey as president than George Bush.

I'm literally sick!! I am sad and worried for my kids and all the kids of today's world. My heart and soul are filled with sorrow. I am beyond hate for Bush and Company. I've passed that stage and am in deep mourning. That is how I can best describe it.

Comments

[Rick]

Amen to that. George Bush looked totally ridiculous in the debates, and I am ashamed that someone so inept at practically everything he does (or has ever done in life) is our standing President. Try living with a Bushie...Mom and I are constantly in heated discussion with Chip, it's enough to drive you crazy.... Almost had a great picture the other day, all the Bush supporters were on the corner of Edwin Raynor Blvd., holding their signs, and in the middle of them was the Little Caesar's guy with a sign for five dollar pizzas...The Daily Show and Jay Leno could have had a ball with that one, but when I drove by they had their signs facing different streets.

[Tony Smith]

Military Story -- "Don't Close Your Blinds"

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My
husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in
the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend
our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good
explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in
our front living room window. He said "Son, stand there and tell me what
you see?"

"I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.

"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
States of America and you are President Bush."

Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend you see
Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is
hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he
throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are screaming and crying,
they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and they are
afraid of their father. You see all of this son.... what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do son?"

"I'd call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take your
call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you
do then son?"

"Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to
whine.

"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband
says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you
to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."

"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door
neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get
involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my
husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for
help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and
then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window
and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

"Daddy..."

"WHAT DO YOU DO?"

Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the blinds,
Daddy."

My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him..."Why?"

"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who needs
them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are supposed
to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop
him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself Daddy....I can't look out my
window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do
nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds... so I can't see what
he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."

I start to cry.

My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking
pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husbands questions and he
says..."Son"

"Yes, Daddy."

"Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front door..."WHAT DO
YOU DO?"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up his
tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without hesitation he
says: "I'D DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY
SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to his chest
and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late to fight him, he's too
strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have stopped
him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old lady across the
way. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before
it's too late." my husband whispers.

THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good men
stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is the greatest EVIL of all. Our
President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand
that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men from power so
that we can continue to live in a free world where we are not afraid to
look out our window so that my nine year old son won't grow up in a world
where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds the atrocities in the
world won't affect him.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT
ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT
THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA!! SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER
HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."

[Keena]

What a HORRIBLE story. I get the basic point you're trying to make, but my first thought, when reading it, was "How horrible for a father to say those things and scream them at his 9 year old son!" A little bit harsh. Explaining the war is one thing, but to that degree is bordering on emotional abuse.

Besides the tone of the father's argument, it is just completely unrelated to what REALLY is happening in Iraq. It is not like we invaded Sudan and are stopping the atrocities from happening there for HUMANITARIAN reasons. There was NOTHING HUMANITARIAN about the invasion of Iraq. Yes, Saddam was a horrible man who did horrible things. There are also MANY, MANY other countries with leaders who do horrible things. I guess if we are invading countries for humanitarian reasons, we need to go invade North Korea, Sudan, many African countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, many Latin American countries, Cuba, Russia, and so on and so on. Yeah - the WORLD would be such a great place if we started wars in all these places. Why not just blow up the whole damn world with all our nuclear weapons, which we can have, according to us, but no other country should be able to have. Apparently we are better people with better leaders and can be trusted with nuclear weapons. The people in other countries - well, they are just not as wonderful as us. I certainly care about my neighbors and I DON'T close MY blinds when bad things are happening. I get involved and do things about it. I also care about the people in other countries of the world. And somehow, I don't think Iraqi people are safer and freer today than before we invaded. It's basically a civil war and a war against the invaders. People are SO SAFE with all the gunfire in the cities and groups in control that rape and kill women and children. Give me a break.

[bradford]

That story was the biggest piece of shit I have read in some time and the fact that people are circulating that to rally support for this war is a fucking joke.

gotta love ignorance!