Lefty Soapbox

Monday, August 09, 2004

I'm voting for Obama. I bet you're all jealous. 
Steve:
As a new Illinois resident, I get to vote for Obama in the upcoming election. More importantly, I get to vote AGAINST Alan Keyes, who has replaced Nader as the official "egomaniac running for office in 2004" in my book. It might be the hypocrisy, it might be the brimstone righteousness that he speaks with when denouncing Obama's "straying from the will of the creator," it might be just the fact that he used to be a conservative talk show host, but whatever the case may be...fuck off, dude. Try a few more times in Maryland.

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

If you really want to follow the election.... 
Doug:
...bookmark this site.

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Bush uses War on Terrorism to his own political advantage? Impossible! 
Doug:
Bob Harris says it best, no need trying to one up him. Go there and read, it's short.

It's morons like you that got us in this mess 
Matt:
My job can be very frustrating some times, mostly because of people I work with. FOr example, take the conversation I just overheard/joined in. John was talking to Marc, and John waws offering his views on how to fight the war on terrorism and win the hearts and minds of the people. His idea is that we should go to where we think the terrorists/insurgents are, ask the locals who the badguys are, and if they don't tell us, kill them all. Then move on to the next area and repeat. Eventually they'll become so afraid of us that they'll pooint out the terrorists. Either that or they're all be dead, and hey, no loss. According to John, this is the only way to do it. You have to use fear.

Wow.

So I slide my chair over and comment that the problem with that strategy is that we'll just make them hate us more and breed more terroists. That you have to fight the root causes of terrorism. Economic aid, respecting their religion, rebuilding the country, giving them freedom, showing that we aren't as awful as the radical islamic jihadists picture us out to be. Marc agrees with me, and John says that yeah, you can glad handle them (making a masturbatory motion as he said this) but fear is a more effective weapon. (Wait, I thought killing them all and making them fear us more than the terrorists was the only way?) I say you can't kill them all. He maintains we should try to.

What a flaming idiot.

Last week I attended a conference where the keynote speaker was Dr. David Kay, the guy in charge of the search of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He gave a very interesting speech on the root causes of terrorism and what we have to do to fight it. I'll give some more information on this alter when I can write it up, but one thing I have to share is this fact. Did you know that 62% of the Iraqi population is under the age of 15?

Just think about what that means.