i know we all feel passionatley about this war. we all have our patriotic and philosophical biases. but this is my view:

this is a war in which the liars are set to win. the american people may not want to beleive it, but they are ruled by liars. they are ruled by men and women who, though they only have their nation's best interests at heart, acheive those goals through crooked means. read some modern history, read it from the perspective of other nations, and read about all the things the US government has done "for the good of the people." the civilian deaths, the political assasinations... and this is not right.

i'm not speaking against capitalism: i'm speaking against immoral capitalism.

well, since both utah and jon crosby are talking about it, i may as well mention my opinions about this war.
it's not that i'm anti-war (though i'm that too. i've watched tanks roll down the boulevard of the revolution, and i felt my teeth rattle, and i know how it feels to be afraid that way), but it's that i don't like these covert, secret tactics, this underhanded, sneeky way of doing things.
what did bush think he was doing, encouraging the UN? what does bush think he's doing, still trying to play this off as being about weapons or terrorism? why are army people trying to tell me they are trying to minimalize civilian casualties when they're not?
this is about one thing: oil, oil, oil.

i hate the secrets and lies about it. and of course, i understand they are necessary: you don't become the richest country in the world by paying fair prices for foreign oil. but i hate it none the less.

on an unrelated note, i have one bit of advice for everyone: know what you believe before acting on it.

i'm quite miffed with blogger. i wrote my nice long end-of-march-break thing, and it ate it! ate it and digested it and deficated satisfyingly!
let's just say i had a GREAT march break. i'm looking forward to easter ^_^

i just went to see "bowling for columbine," and it is the moze amaxing movie i have seen in a very long time. i advise everyone to see/rent/download it.
it was a documentray on the american society of guns. during the film, the director, micheal moore, dried to answer the question "why do americans kill eachother?" it's not that there are more broaken homes (britain has a higher divorce rate), it's not the violent video games (those rule japan), it's not the music (gothic rock was born in gernamy), and it's not gun availability (there are 7 million guns in canada, spread amongst 30 million people). but why are there only 300 gun related deaths in germany per year, 200 in britain, 100 in canada, and 70 in japan, but over EVELN THOUSAND in the united states?
the film also showed how to boys, who became paralyzed during the columbine shooting, convinced k-mart to stop the sales of all forms of ammunition in their stores.
it also featured a sequence during which it showed all the assacinations and civilian casualties that resulted from american foreign policiy, set to luis armstrong's "what a wonderful world." i cried during this.