By Dani Thompson and Kate Richardson
It is ironic that old men start wars and young men die in them. Does that not seem wrong to anyone else? Not to say that Bush Jr. is the only leader to attempt to solve violence with violence, but others just do not make it so obvious.
When you put it on paper, the idea, “I’ll just hit my kid because he is hitting” seems really stupid and pointless, does it not? It is the exact same thing with the war in Iraq. Except it was not Iraqi terrorists that flew planes into the World Trade Center, and to the best of my knowledge that’s how this whole thing got pushed to the front page. Obviously we have nothing but sympathy for those who lost loved ones on 9/11. However, we also have nothing but sympathy for those who lost loved ones and are still losing loved ones in Iraq right now.
Yes, we think it is wrong that Saddam Hussein let his own people starve and beat his country’s women, while he and his guards slept in palaces with food and blankets and books. However, two wrongs do not make a right. It is not our job to play parents to the rest of the world. Our country promised them food, education and the right to live in a dictator-free nation. So far the food has been delivered, and American teachers have been sent in to help. But their system of government is still in shambles. But since we are so wonderful we’ll get around to it in a jiffy.
Apart from the war there are other problems with our fascist leader. George W. believes in making the rich richer and making the poor poorer. He believes in making a woman give up her right to choose what she does to her own body. He believes capitalism is a good thing. He believes that teaching abstinence is more effective that teaching prevention and contraception. He believes that spending hundreds of millions of dollars on killing people is more important than using that money to feed starving babies, better young minds, or find a cure.
In short, we believe President Bush is a bad, bad man because he is a killer, liar and a cold-hearted human being. Sounds a whole lot like somebody we just physically took out of power in the middle east, doesn’t it?