AUSTRALIA!

Hey Y'all! I'm goin' down under! Be back December 3rd.

Peace!
-marc

War

I hate the war. I think it's pointless, harmful and pure evil. I think our president is doing a horrible job, we should pull out of Iraq, and he should be impeached today. I hate feeling so helpless. The war is wrong, people are dying every day senselessly, but there is not one damn thing I can do about it. Sure, I can organize a protest, make a video, take a stunning picture or write my congressman. I can post a blog about it, call my friends and get everyone really worked up but ... other than that there's nothing I can do. Bush isn't going to change his mind even if I walk up to the White House doors and speak to him one and one. Everybody is pissed about the war, but nothing seems to be working and it's still going on. As an American I feel helpless and voiceless. No one cares what I think. (except you faithful readers, thank you) BUT we still can't do anything.

I just watched something on Current TV about a normal family in Iraq. It was an awesome video; the first half was just showing normal Baghdad living...swimming, eating, loving family and all that good stuff. The second half of the video was about how the kid who was making the video's uncle got "accidentally" killed by American troops. I don't wanna get into details, blah blah blah, but the video made me so upset. Here was this perfectly good family, much like mine, and then because someone happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and our troops were there too...a life was ended and a family destroyed. This is just one life we're talking about too, ... think about how many have been lost.

But I guess this will be the last time I will say anything about it. I feel so helpless. No matter what I write, who I talk to, what I say or how many people hear me say it ... we're still gonna be in this stupid war at least until next November. I would run away to another country but I think the entire world is as screwed up as we are in some way or another.

I'm sorry, as an American, as a human, that this is happening. I wish I could change it, I wish I could stop it, but obviously I have no power to do such thing.