warning: laughing hysterically at work may be hazardous to your employment.
on a more serious note:
Subj:
Reasons not to be apathetic....
Date:
3/18/2003 11:03:57 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: GNtMoon
To: Pseudoeverything
Here are some reasons not to be apathetic. I mean, I respect your apathy, but yeah...
So first off, the whole idea that we are going to take over another country is just wrong, wrong, wrong. That's what people did during colonialism and then everyone in the world decided it was a bad idea. Not only is it just sort of fucked up in a general way, but it really pisses other countries off.
Not liking Saddam and being scared is cool. I mean, most "hippies" I know are scared shitless of being bombed. The problem is that when the US gets bombed/airplaned/etc the whole world looks at it and says that we had it coming (even our buddies in the UK). I mean look at all the bombing we are doing after they fly three planes into three buildings. We are going to kill a thousand times more people than they did (and most of them will be children--the exceeding majority of the people in Iraq are under the age of 15). Bombing people only pisses them off in the long run. The US has suffered very few attacks from the outside and most of them had histories of us beating up on the other group.
Also, the whole Saddam/Osama link thing is bullshit. They are two totally different religions and would never, ever have anything to do with one another. Osama is like your average hardcore fundamentalist and Saddam is nothing of the sort. You grew up in Redding--you know how much fundamentalists hate everyone else. You can't justify going to war over a nonexistent link.
And finally, there is the oil thing. America needs oil. We think we might not have it and everyone panics. Gas is fucking $2.15/gallon minimum here. Bush has openly admitted that he is primarily concerned that the US secure the oil fields. Back to the colonialism thing--you can't say we should bomb a country just because they have the oil we want. Once we do that are we going to enslave the Iraqi people and make them pump the oil for us? Not good.
So yeah. Even if you look at it from an American-centered point of view, at least some of our soldiers will die. That is horrible. We are probably going to be attacked which is really fucking scary. And we are just furthering the whole world hatred of the United States. We do shit like this all the time and nobody wants us to. I mean the UN is practically falling apart because everyone is so pissed at us. It just doesn't make sense.
You loving hippy friend,
Katie
Subj:
Re: Reasons not to be apathetic....
Date:
3/18/2003 11:27:25 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: PseudoEverything
To: GNtMoon
so what do we do instead?
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in other news, i have a microsoft usability test today. wootin it up, samplewhore style. i get a microsoft program for free out of it, like ms windows xp home, and if i sell it i get two hundred and fifty very-much-needed big ones.
i just heard through the grapevine-o-eavesdropping that the bitch is moving to the country. not fucking soon enough.
i slept at aaron's last night because he was working til 6am. i chugged some nyquil in hopes of thwarting this evil virus (fruitless) and, as expected, had horribly vivid nightmares in which i went to a pool hall called shorty's in search of aaron and caught him drinking and spent the rest of the dream hiding from him so he couldn't convince me that it was a one time mistake.
i played designated driver last night for michelle and the elusive smitty. i watched half of white oleander while they were out getting shitty - what a perfect movie for the mood i've been in. onward with femme strength and not regretting revenge! i mean, it's an awful movie so far, but the themes are relevant.
oh god. my manager just coerced me into being on our bowling team and then she coerced the bitch. there will be a bar; thus, i will be drunk. and heinous. should be a gas.