Because I Still Have Wine To Drink...

a little bit about politics, which most of the time I would rather not approach quite so directly.

I'm sick of hearing people whine about George Bush, the war in Iraq, and Ratnerville. I'm mostly sick about hearing people whine about the first two because whenever they do, they expect you to agree with them 100%, and I most certainly do not.

I spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not it was a good idea to invade Iraq, back when we were close to doing so maybe just after we did, I'm not sure which. Either way, I wanted to ultimately know how I felt about war, and war in this situation. What I came up with is actually has nothing to do with why we said or say we're fighting the war. In the end, I came down on the side of fighting the war because I thought people like Saddam Hussein should be removed from power. I still do, and I think we have as responsibility to protect and fight for people threatened by their evil leaders elsewhere too. It's kind of a Jewish thing I'll admit, Never Again.

As for Bush, he embarasses me as an American to no end. He looks like a liar, he's abused the constitution, and he has endangered Americans throughout the world, by his mistreatment of POWs and other detainees. Insofar as all that goes, I agree with most people I know, but I would never compare him to Hitler, and that too is a Jewish thing, but it's also a common sense thing.

And then there is Ratnerville isn't there? I'm going to cover this separately. See Our Little Piece Of Turf