The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog

Peace, Dog

2009-07-02T06:44:00.000-07:00

I'm still been trying to figure out why we don't just try peace. ON Iraq. Instead of war on Iraq why not peace on Iraq. It could be like a commercial (Peace: Try It.) I could totally imagine it. It would have someone who's crying (like a little Afghan girl with those green beautiful eyes - but there crying).

Why we don't we even TRY it?

I think I figured out what it is. You know how you almost never eat corn dogs? Like people are all "eew corn dog". And if there's girls around they'll TOTALLALY freak out if you get one like "I just want something light like a salad. Like somehow there's something shaneful about corn dogs (!). But the thing is. Whenever you every HAVE a corn dog your all like "Dude, this is so good. Why don't I eat this more often"? And you scratch your head b/c you can't ever figure it out.

Consider the corn dog. With the almost sweet corn based covering (almost like fried corn muffin) on the outside. And then the dog on the inside. On a stick. It's possibly nature's perfect food IHMO (for me it's between that and marshmallows). What's not to like? There's nothing not to like. While your crunching into it i'ts just mind boggleable why you're not eating this practically all the time.

But? I think I figured it out the reason is: You always forget how good corn dogs can be because you never TRY them. Only like if your at a carnival or maybe a Six Flags-run amusement park. But the rest of the time? Corn dog availability in communities is rather limited. Government hasn't done nearly enough to help increase access to corn dogs. It's a textbook example of a market failure.

So in result nobody eats corn dogs (much) and thus nobody rememebers how awsome the are. Well that's like peace. Nobody tries peace (much) so nobody remembers how awsome it could be if we did.

If we just did some peace on Iraq for a change it's just incredible hwo the results would be I bet. Like biting into that crunchy sweet umami corn dog for hte first time in years. It would be a breathe of fresh air.

Are you listening Bush?

Stating The Obvious

2009-06-27T06:24:00.001-07:00

On Iran, howcome nobody's mentioned the obvious cause of all the problem's there (and anywhere else with Muslim's): The Iraq War.

I mean ok if your going to complain about stuffs happening in Iran then ok, but let's not forget that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. INVADED IRAQ.

Surely that's hte main blame for whatever bad thing's you think are happening in Iran, and meanwhile therefore nobody in Iran should be blamed themselves (if indeed you think something bad is there, which is a judgmentalist statement but ok, if you think that).

Iran is a Muslim country. We had no right to invade Iraq. NO RIGHT. Think how much you'd be fit to be tied if you were in Iran (on either side) and the United States invaded Iraq. You too would probably be either a protester yelling stuffs, or a militia guy axing protesters, respectively. (depending)

It's call empathy people. Put yourselfs in a another's shoes. The shoes of someone that we did a Iraq War on, or someone nearby (in The Muslim World) that didn't like that we did a Iraq War. Once you do that you'd see you need to shut up about judging people for anything they do and start apologizing for everything other people do. Because you did The Iraq War. In 2003. Never forget that.

Yggie Profile - Disappointing

2009-06-19T04:39:00.000-07:00

I read this normblog profile of Yggie and you know what I thought:

BOOOOOoOO-RING.

First of all it doesn't even MENTION that Yggie's dad is the screenwriter of the movie classic Dark Water with Jennifer Connelly. (a excellently screenwritten film) I get SO TIRED of Yggie not mentioning his screenwriting New York family not nearly enough.

Second of all where does it mention that Yggie went to Ivyleague. Ok there is one mention of Harvard at the top but where is the others? Howcome we don't get to hear more about HOW MUCH Yggie went to a Ivyleague, what his experiences there, who he partied with ect. For crying out loud this is what I live for, and yet even on his own blog, Yggie seems to kind of hide his Ivyleague roots (mentioning it only in about 30-40% of his posts by my count).

On a similar note I don't see any mentions of celebrities Yggie might know or have been acquainted with either at Harvard or while growing up in New York environs. Did he grow up & go to school with anybody from N'Sync? Has he met Chelsea Clinton at a hedge fund party? Did he shake hands with Johnny Depp once on the set of From Hell? We don't know. We just don't know.

There is no mention of rap or hip-hop. When you and I both know that Yggie is a HUGE fan of rap and/or hip-hop, a student of the genre, if you will. By the same token, nor does it mention Indie Rock Music. (there is one mention of the Clash but that's not quite Indie). Yggie is right up there in the forefront of these musical styles. I bet he has even gone to clubs to see Indie Rock shows. So why is he hiding that?

He does mention basketball ONCE. Yggie is suddenly a WAshington Wizards fan. One assumes that this is an h'omage to the fact that he lives in Washington DC like a real mover and shaker. Yggie knows ALOT about basketball. Or "hoops" as he probably calls it. I bet he does good trash talk on the basketball court in pickup games. (I bet he does pickup games). He probably calls the ball "the rock" and everything. I love thinking about this stuffs.

But overall, a disappointment all around. Did Norm edit down Yggie's answers, which were presumably more interesting to start with? Answer in comments,

What Liberals (Like Myself And Yourself) Should Think About Iran

2009-06-18T04:06:00.001-07:00

As liberals, we sometimes have a struggle figuring out how to react to the events of the day (Current events). Should be be for something. Should we be against something. What do dhingers think because we want to make sure were the opposite. Which side will make there be higher taxes because that's the liberal side. And so on. It's all very complicated.

So on Iran I thought I'd run down teh basics in a primer for you. So you can know what to think What your suppose to think. As liberals.

1. Iran is a Muslim Country. We like Muslim's. As liberal's, Muslims is pretty much are favorite religion. Because first of all, there a minority. Second of all, it's the largest and fastest-growing religion in the world. Third of all, the don't like dhingers or the U.S., which we respect. As liberals. This feeling Muslims have of disliking America because of how America caused all there problems in particular is something we need to make sure to nurture and coddle and play up. (Because of respect)

2. So we support Iran. That means to say, we support the government of Iran. Which is Ahmadinejad fair and square. We're pretty impressed by how much he represents not only himself but all Iranians everwhere, and indeed, all Muslim's everwhere. We can tell this on account of how much he hates Amreica (and Israel) and America. Anyone who hates America and Israel that much must be a authentic voice of Muslim's. In fact if ther'es a Muslim who doesn't visciously hate Israel/Amreica I get kinda of suspicious. Like, are they CIA tools?

3. Well but now there was a disputed election (recount/protest/ect) wherein, Ahmadinejad (the true ruler of Iran) but there was a another guy (who there was protesting that he really won). Now. As liberals we like democracy and all. But the thing is, this is now become a attack against the GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. Which is Muslim's (Muslim Country). That's not good.

4. Now don't be fooled though . At first I saw only some fires and youths on a TV with the sound down (at my work at the investment bank - I was down on the trading floor and it was tune to CNBC and they were showing it briefly something about Iran, but than it went back to that guy with the blue shirt and sleeves rolled up (Jim Cramar?). And when I saw those fires and youths and rocks, I figured that presumably this was probably something that I, as liberals, ought to be in support of. But that was before I knew all the facts. Fact: this is a protest against the GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. Fact: which is a MUSLIM COUNTRY.

5. And one more final Fact (probably most improtant): dhingers don't like Ahmadinejad. Dhingers are running around saying the election was stolen and I guess the want the other guy in there. So how can we, as liberals, in good consciense, not be on the side of the Iranian people (which is the Iranian government (which is Ahmadinejad) against DHINGERS? I think taht pretty much says it all right there. Once I realized that, it's all I needed to make up my mind who to support in Iran.

As a liberal.

Less Safe

2009-06-11T18:45:00.000-07:00

I was eating my Greek strained yogurt (with honey) this a.m. when I got so sad I could barely speaken. Because I realized how doing The Iraq War (2003) made us less safe.

Think about that. Just think about how less safe we are (on account of Bush did The Iraq War on Iraq), in 2003. Before, we were more safe (then we are now). But now, we're less safe. It's so obvious and sad (because of how obvious it is) that it makes me sad.

Since we did that The Iraq War, in 2003, there have been other years happening. One of them was 2004. (We were less safe that year due to The Iraq War). Then there was 2005 (also less safe IRRC). And of course 2006 when we were TOTALLY less safe as you recall. And on and on: 2007 (less safe), 2008 (less safe), and almost halfway through 2009 (less safe this year).

It has been my objective experience that all throughout that time (6+ years) we have been less safe due to the fact that we did The Iraq War (in 2003). I know it and you know it. Please, people in your homes and at work just think about how less safe you are, and have been, continually and continuously, all that time, day in day out, due to The Iraq War.

Reason I think it's improtant to bring it up being, it was one of the better arguments against doing The Iraq War in the first place. Remember? "Doing The Iraq War will make us less safe." I distinctly remember saying exactly that and having other people say exactly that phrase to me, and so on and so on, several hundreds of times when trying to make Bush not do The Iraq War.

Well, we were right. Oh, how right we were. Because just look at how less safe we are.

P.S. Also let's remember that The Iraq War created terrorists. Just look at how many terrorists it created! I can't even talk about it its so depressing. GOD we had such great arguments, they totally should of worked.

Let's Repeal

2009-06-09T07:08:00.001-07:00

Hey what if we repealed The Iraq War. Just repealed it. Like the did with Prohibition.

Some history: First for some reason that hisotirans are still trying to unravel, there was a Prohibition. This was back before the Constitution, back in Elliott Ness times when nobody had rights so everone went around to ``speak-easies`` because you couldn't get a cold one, not even on Sundays to watch the big game. The government put Elliott Ness on the case, and did he ever. He almost didn't even care if a baby stroller was rolling down the stairs like in Battleship Potemkin, that's how focused he was. So you try to go somewhere for a Bud Light when BAM Elliott Ness kick's down the door- your busted fella! Now you're spending hte night in the slammer.

Either that or you stay at home throw some potatoes in your bathtub and try to make gin (or something like that, which I don't even know how it was suppose to work, I think it was a superstition of some sort, like a rain dance). Either way, it's wasn't a pretty sight as you can imagine. (There was also ``flappers`` which I don't even want to know what those were).

Basically you had a society like: the big cities were run by Machines (a Boss man). Then they cut deals with Al Capone. Al Capone gave beer to everone and smashed people with baseball bats. And if you don't watch your back you get mowed down with a machine gun by Machine Gun Kelly. But if you try to hit Albert Finney he'll just roll under the bed and blam you instead. All the gangsters liked to go to opium dens and maybe there dead maybe not (you can't tell). But they would have a fascinating and at times incomprehensible and anachronistic dream about the future.

Well anyway I'm simplifying/getting off track but that's the basics. At night everyone danced to the musical stylings of Scott Joplin. By day, maybe you do tricks/scams on people with your friend (while Scott Joplin plays in the background). Or you wander around the estate felling frustrated because you're part of the Lost Generation and got shot in a bad part during the Great War. Especially when the news comes over the ticker of you're stocks and you have to jump out the window.

Let's see what else. Well there was the Black Sox Scandal when John Cusack couldn't read so he hit .350 even though they gave him money. There was the Monkey Trial which is where the Supreme Court decided once and for all- are humans monkeys (science won over backwardsness religion that day, because the answer came back yes). I think there was barbershop quartets or maybe I'm getting that mix up with some another time. Finally, let's not even get started about if you were black, you could totally be accused of raping someone and even if you had a progressive white lawyer to give a great speech, you could still have a local girl who happened to be his daughter get the bejesus scared out of her by Robert Duvall. Until she realizes Hey, he's ok, I was being prejudgiced, so everthing's ok. (But the black guy still goes to jail).

What's my point oh yes. My point is that one fine day FDR got in there and say "Wait a minute. What the heck are we doing here. With this Prohibition stuff. This is all so stupid. Talk about lame. LEt's Repeal it. (Basically; paraphase)

And you know what? That's exactly what he the did. They Repealed it BAM just like that. Suddenly, no more Prohibition anywhere you looked. In fact not much is even known about the time after Prohibition was Repealed until WW2, that's how peaceful/uneventable it was. Basically I think we know about three things, like that some folks decided to up and go from Oklahoma to California and get dust all over themselves in the process for no apparent reason. We also know about a bunch of colorful people who lived in Monterey and/or Salinas, California in and around the fish packing industry. But after that, I'm at a loss frankly. So you see, the Repeal worked. At least I'm pretty sure the ``flappers`` went away

So isn't that exactly what is needed here? Let's Repeal The Iraq War. If we Repealed it. Then there wouldn't be one. (That's how the Repeal process works, which I find fascinating). Just imagine if Documents Of Repeal (or whatever there call) were put on Bush's desk tomorrow. OH man I'd love to be there to see the look on his face.

Wouldn't we all would?

Web 2.0 And Related

2009-05-24T07:01:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know how to make you're websight into Web 2.0 compatible. I was reading a old magazine (Wired) that Phung left in his closet and it was talking about Web 2.0. I think I want to get it. If anyone could do it thank's. I would be converting the whole TWIIIBB into Web 2.0 (not just some page's but not others - the whole thing) so if you got the knowhow for that sort of thing (pro bono) in comment's.

I'm still kind of miffed about the way Phung left BWT. Even his desk he left behind which is big and HEAVY. On the plus side he left his tamarind candy's which I eat sometime's (hurts my teeth). But ther'es also his yucky medicine which I don't even know what is it. Sometimes I think I never really knew Phung.

So what is your guys'ses plans for Mennorahial Day. Me, I'm planning a quiet little day- first a Imax movie in the a.m. and then maybe hit the waters slides. Another plang would be, (like if the weather) I would start my novel. (I'm going to write a novel. It's going to be kind of about me but only secretly). We'll see manana I guess. What is it anwyays. Is it a another one of those Neocon holidays. Noone seems to know (I even asked the girl who sit next to me who looks Neocon (25% sure but maybe it's more that she's lesbian (45%).)

My latest thing is kombucha tea. Have you guy's tried this? I'm drinking kombucha like all day long nowadays. Tastes YUCK but suppose to be good for you. They never know whats good for you though. Like it use to be that meat was bad for you, but than later it turns out your suppose to just eat only meat all day long (Adkins). Then fat was bad for you but now all I want is fat (fried califower- YUM). If its fried and you get your vegtables at the same time well what could be better is what I say. This is why the Japaneses were RELLY onto something.

The economy WOW. Anyone have any thought's on the economy? I mean it seems RELLY bad. Like I'm seeing approx 50% less iPhone's than I use to. (Of course maybe I just notice it less cuz its no longer new).

Howcome were not out of Iraq yet? Every notice that? We lost that war like 3 years ago I thought. Even Harry Reid (a Senator) said so. But were still there? Nice going Bush LOL talk about stupid. How could you still be in a place occupying a country whose war you lost against. This is just backwards make no sense. Classic Bush RFFLOL what next, seeing Spy Kids 3 before 1 and 2?

Sequel

2009-05-19T15:15:00.000-07:00

What are the chances of the iraq war (iw1) having a sequel? . I'm thinking how WW1 was a bad idea and a bad war. Everyone agreed it should never have been made to begin with but after some years passed they made a sequel anyway, starring Churchil and Hitler and some others (Lenin?). Even if now when we're in the thick of the wrong war on iraq we are painfully aware of how wrong and bad it is, we mustn't let them make a sequel. We mustn't let them forget. And I guess that's part of why this blog exists...

As Of This Moment, I Am Officially Declining To Participate Any Further In The Iraq War, Mr. President

2009-05-14T04:23:00.001-07:00

Well thats the last straw. I heard on the radio that the President was going to stop the release of detainey (sp?) photos. I had to pull over my car as waves of tears rushed over me. It's been hard for all of us.

No photos. We're not going to get to see those photos. Photos of detaineys being torchured and harrassed and placed into pyramids (that sorta of thing). The photos will just be gone lost down the memory hole. Like tears in rain. (BOY was I looking forward to persuing those photos too).

I bet this is all just a ploy to win the election I bet. With the photos safely under wraps. Bush can just cruise control home to victory now. This just shows the need for more reform of are system.

What I realized is that this is the last straw for me. No I mean it. That's all. I can't take it anymore. I'm out.

I know I've talked and threatened about this before. There has been times I've hemmed and hawwed about it back and forther. I say I'm out. But than I'm not somehow. And we still keep doing The Iraq War. And I do nothing about it. I get complacant. With are hectic day in day out lifes, with iPhone's to play with and comic book movies to see, its easy to lose sight of the big picture.

The big picture, Mr. Bush (yes that's right you can soncider this a open letter to you President Bush), is that I am as of this moment no longer participating in your The Iraq War. Not in any way shape or form. You are going to have to carry on this war without my help from this day forward. I am withdrawing utterly and completely 100% of my support from this war.

Phiw. That fells better.

Yggie, not going "poof"

2009-05-12T06:10:00.000-07:00

What is yggie up to these days? I've been wondering about that for a while, wishing somebody would check and write it down here, as a 'yggie in brief'. Finally, I decided to do it myself. Wow, did I get burned!! Almost every blog entry is way over my head.
Is there anyone who can dumb down yggie's arguments for the masses?
Anyway, for those of us who have too little time in our day to day lives to keep up with Yggie, here's a yggie in brief for may 11:

The Pointless DC Voucher Debate

There's apparently a pointless and riveting debate going on. It's impossible to really understand but this sentence encapsulates the gist of it: "I would also note that during the voucher era, the number of private schools serving low-income children has actually declined as some private schools have converted themselves into charter schools. The other thing happening in DC, of course, is Mayor Fenty and Schools Chancellor Rhee’s continuing efforts to get the Washington Teacher’s Union to agree to a new collective..." (read the whole thing).

Free Market Health Care

Yggie brilliantly points out that "If you think about free markets’ ability to, say, deliver falling prices for high-definition televisions I think you’ll quickly see that one key element of the process is that our society is very sincerely prepared to say that if you can’t afford an HDTV, you’re going to have to do without one"

And that's a crying shame right there.
Yggie then adds: "This process works really well. But when you replace “has to watch the game at a friend’s house if he wants to see it in HD” with “gets sick and dies” then suddenly the process looks not-so-good.".

It's obvious when you think about it.

Complementary Policies Do Much of the Heavy Lifting in Waxman-Markey

This is much too difficult for me to explain. It appears there's a system by which starting from 2011 or so, emissions would suddenly lurch downwards and would continue dropping until they possibly intersect the x-axis with zero emissions around the year 2065.

Stanley McChrystal to Replace David McKiernan as Top Commander in Afghanistan

Yggie explains he's for it since we want a change. That sums up his blog entry and it's the only entry I can honestly say I really understood.

Against Check the Box

Did you know that a firm can open up subsidiaries a and b in 2 countries and generate profits through subsidiary a but pay back high interest loans to subsidiary b, so that it looks like sub. a didn't generate the profit it did whereas sub. b (which has very low taxes or maybe none?) did? As yggie eloquently explains: "...These are the kind of issues where, if it’s hashed out behind closed doors, the bad guys are destined to win. But if the fight turns public, the good guys will win".

Our Moment of Socialism

We are now enjoying our moment of socialism and "we’re talking about enough “big government” to put us in the middle of the European pack.". Most of it will vanish soon enough but hopefully not all of it will "go “poof.”".

That was a good blog entry.

Lots of excellent blog entries follow but I'm running out of time here, so skipping ahead: How Much Space Do You Need to Plot?

Yggie realizes that we don't need to worry about having islamists control large territories or countries. As he points out, "You need a lot of territory to raise cattle or build a parking lot. But plotting doesn’t strike me as a particularly space-intensive activity." and "When the ThinkProgress team gets together to plot, we usually do it in a small confined space".

In fact, when you think about it this way, having a big territory under your control is actually a problem. How would the ThinkProgress team plot if they were scattered over a large territory? It's probably better to have groups like the taliban control large areas so that, being scattered, they'll find it hard to get together and plot and train terrorists. It's as if people got confused between "a plot" as in "a plot of land" and "a plot" as in "plotting a terrorist attack".
In any case, as Yggie notices: "A terrorist in the Swat Valley is, by definition, not in a position to blow something up in a western city."

This is so blindingly obvious that I'm surprised nobody ever pointed it out before!! It's something we should mention again and again, crediting Yggie for the insight.

How You Know How Sincere We Are

2009-05-05T02:36:00.000-07:00

You know howcome you can tell we're so sincere in are antiwar views. Is because we're so consistent about how fervant they are over time. Like in 2005 and 2009 equally we're protesting the The Iraq War. We're out there protesting having troops in Iraq (=The Iraq War) right now every bit as much as we did in some certain other years like 2004 and 2006 and 2008.

Some people would probably not be like that, if they weren't as sincere as we are. Like let's say there were people whose entire stance on The Iraq War traced solely to political opportunism (which ours doesn't) - like that all they cared about was winning a election and using antiwar agitation to stir up resentment against the incumbent party unless/until they could win that election (which is not a description that we merit). Then they'd probably be like whining about the war only when the President was a Reputzi but, once the President switched they'd suddenly become miraculously silent as if their supposed angst about the war is suddenly sated and nothing is really wrong anymore.

But not us. Aren't you glad we're not like that? Like, if Obama get's in there I'm TOTALLY going to protest The IRaq War the exact same amount I do now. I'll still blog about how the war (The Iraq War) was wrong and everything. That's a dramatic demonstration right there of how sincere and non-phony I am.

And the same will be true of all the other antiwar people - if Obama gets in there and they complain about The Iraq War every bit as much as they were with Bush that's how you'll KNOW how sincere they are and how little their anti Iraq War stance was based solely on crass political opportunism. So, you'll see.

Stimulus Never Forget

2009-04-30T19:35:00.001-07:00

You guys just remember, every month the don't pass a Stimulus package 500,000 Amreicans lose there jobs.

Take The Time To Listen

2009-04-28T17:18:00.001-07:00

I've hadden this song in my head all day (two days in a row). Thats how catchy it is. It's from a DVD I have.

This is the kinda of song we could of listened more to of the past 8 years of Bush unilatelism (if you ask me).

Is turning off the lights for an hour once a year really enough to combat global warming?

2009-04-28T14:08:00.000-07:00

I'm not encouraging anyone to do the following but if some readers of this blog (like jason, aunti-dhinger etc.) would decide (of their own free will) to sabotage/bomb power plants then I wouldn't actually shed any tears. You can find out how to build bombs on any number of internet sites. If you wish to take active action to safeguard our environment and stop the exponential increase in global temperatures but you - for various reasons - balk at actually bombing electricity grids and power plants, try pouring some sugar into the gas tank of your neighbor's car. If everyone who reads this blog will try doing that (against my wishes) then maybe we can make some real headway and not have to look down at our smoldering shoes when one day our sweaty great grandchildren ask us what we did back in 2009 to hold back global warming.

Let's face it. Turning off the lights for an hour once a year just isn't going to make global warming go away. Get real = get radical.

Stay Tune

2009-04-26T16:58:00.001-07:00

I'm working on a blockbuster post coming up. It's about how The Iraq War was wrong. My findings. That it was wrong. I'm going to type it up soon and its going to say all sort's of facts (links, like to Yggie) showing it. (That The Iraq War was wrong).

It's gonna be a good post.

Piracey Revisited

2009-04-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

On "so" called "pirates". Haven't followed it big time but seems to me before the Necons shout there mouths off they should doublecheck were did are ships even get the right to be in Arab Water in the frist place.

But I've brungen up this point before so, I guess just ahead of the curb.

The greatest danger we face

2009-04-18T08:05:00.000-07:00

In one word: rogue government agents (and agencies).
I just watched one of those spy films ~~with~~ featuring matt damon and it seems pretty clear to me now.

The Kinda Of Thing We Could Be Doing

2009-04-13T16:32:00.000-07:00

One thing that's been keeping me up at night is, do people in improverished countries know that The Iraq War Was Wrong? I mean do the RELLY know it?

If you think about places of the South of the World. Like Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Moldova, New Zealand. How much time do you think they spend focusing on the wrongness of The Iraq War? Not much I bet. Whose fault is that? Ours.

Access to information about The Iraq War and how wrong it was promises to be the civil-rights issue of the coming decade. In some places/villages one wonders if the subject ever comes up. Whether because of illiterasy or poverty this is a issue that sorely needs to be redressed.

If Obama get's in there he should make this priority #1. I'm envisioning something like a Peace Corp's (public private/public partnership) where young people could fufill there compulsory national service requirements by going to, let's just use Rwanda as the test case, and teaching/spreading hte word about how The Iraq War was wrong. (As a bonus, this would work as Stimulus because it would undoubtedly involve the government spending money on something).

Friends, the people of the world are STARVING out for information/instruction on The Iraq War and how wrong it was. Some of them are probably told/instructed that The Iraq War was wrong as seldom as 20-25 times per month. (That's MONTH, people). In less idealistic administrations of hte past this deprivation would probably be ignored. But we can ill afford to ignore it (ignore at are peril) any longer. The more we ignore it the more we're ignoring it in fact. In the modern 21st Censtury of technological advancement, next generations warfare and a globalized interconnect world, can we afford to let there be people out there who haven't heard the word on this (that The Iraq War was wrong)? Folks this is just a no brainer.

Let me just paint you a picture. Imagine a 14 year old villager youth near some farm in Zimbabwe. He hasn't eaten in three days. And when he does he subsists on peanut paste. When all of the sudden comes to town a guy with a backpack who looks kinda like the guy from Coldplay, or maybe Jason Schwartzmann (when he's in the band, not from Rushmore), or perhaps even Yggie. In fact let's just go ahead and imagine it being Yggie himself. In that backpack he's got some literature about how The Iraq War was wrong. He's got a iPhone and a MacBook and a blog about how The Iraq War was wrong. He's got a nice supply of Schlarfen Berger chocolate, cool Crocs, and a year's worth of Moleskine's. He Twitters everything he does back home while the rest of us follow along.

But at this moment he says to that confused villager, "Hey, 'tsup. Did you know The Iraq War was wrong."

Suddenly things are not so bleak. Taht's a kind of world I want to see.

Protest Morans

2009-04-04T05:25:00.000-07:00

I'm going to do a protest today and tomorrow this weekend. (Wish me luck)! It's going to be a protest against The Iraq War. I'm going to protest how The Iraq War Was Wrong.

I made a sign. It sign says "STOP THIS EVIL WAR BUSH". I need a good picture on the sign to and I was thinking maybe to print out a picture of Mumia. But if you have a other ideas, in comments.

I really think I we need to get more on this sort of thing. The Iraq War was still wrong yet where's the people protesting? I don't get it. Well I've had enough of the not protesting. Every time I see people not protesting The Iraq War I get RELLY irritated.

You know what I want to say to those people?

"You protested The Iraq War in 2005 when it was wrong (in 2003). A wrong war happened in the past of 2005 and you found time to protest it in 2005. And same for 2006. But now? When that wrong war is was STILL in are past? And yet you don't protest it by pointing out that it was wrong like you were doing before? What's a wrong with you?"

That's what I want to say. To those people.

FACT: Given that the protests made sense in 2005 and 2006 etc, there is NO logical reason not to be protesting RIGHT NOW. Or in 2010 or 2020 or 2263. NONE. You have NO excuse people. This year and all of those future years will STILL have a wrong Iraq War in there past (every bit as much like 2005 did). So what's your excuse for protesting in 2005 but not 2009. Huh. What. Yeah. Thought not.

Logic. Try it out people. And GET OUT THERE. Because The Iraq War is a thing that happened in are past, which was wrong. THAT"S WHAT PROTESTING IS FOR you morans.

Thinking About The Bagdad Museum

2009-03-31T20:29:00.000-07:00

One thing there should be more obsess talking about is how the Museum was looted. Bush just let it be looted. Like he could of stopped it but was like "nah let's not and say we did". You can just see him saying that on account of how he is.

Howcome ther'es not alot of people talking about this daily. See this is what's wrong with are country. People are not involved like the should be. In a healthy country people would be talking about the Baghdad Museum pretty much all the time. Like about all the precious priceless treasures taht was in tehre I bet. And how Bush was like "gee people's looting the Museum well that's great" like that. Like laughing and laughing like when someone give's you a wedgie. To him that's all it was. A wedgie on the Iraqi's peoples.

And by extention all of us. Because just imagine what was in that Museum. Well I don't know but I bet it was alot of unreplaceable stuffs like the Rosetta Stone and King Tut probably. Because it's from Bagdad (the cradle of civilization) so I'm pretty sure there was some amazing stuffs in there. Does anyone know where it is like on Google Maps cuz I'd like to take a closer look at there.

Reason being I bring this up today being that I brought it up to a guy at lunch and he looked at me like all "whatever". See this is what I HATE. People just want to move farther in the line to get there quesadilla they don't even want to hear if someone behind them wants to dwell on the Bagdad Museum with them. It's like oh ok I see I guess your to busy with your oh so improtant lives doing whatever you do (I didn't recognize this guy before so not sure what floor he work's on).

And that's why museums get LOOTED when Bush let's them. Because we don't even talk about it. I can't overemphasize how improtant this is. This is was one of the best arguments for how The Iraq War Was Wrong for crying out loud and we've totally dropped the subject? What is wrong with us people. We got to keep this in the forefront of peoples' minds because somehow, the Bagdad Museum is was symbolic of like everything basicelly. There's practically nothing it's not symbolic of actuelly when you thing about it.

Anyone got a link on what was in there (specifically) cuz, I'm in the mood to check it out so if you got a link post in comments thanks.

More Cover Fluff- When Will The Grow Up

2009-03-30T16:35:00.000-07:00

Did you guy's see that one magazine cover. You know what tick's me off is how the media poretrays (sp?) her. First she's a fluezy supposably on drugs all the time (ya right). Then, questioning her sexuality AS IF THAT"S IS ANY OF THERE BUSINESS. Basecally the ignore her AS A ACTRESS which is like kind of commiting a hate crime and Blacklisting her all at once. Like how can she get the respect she daserves (like from the John LENnon movie- WOW). I think its payback time I think we need to boycott them. (All of them).

UPDATE 3/30: OOPS sorry TIWWWB reader's this was meanted for my other blog. But I accedently posted here. I'm so absent mind sometimes. Ignore

How My Day Was You Ask

2009-03-29T16:31:00.000-07:00

Ok well you insist. Here's a what happen today. I was thinking (in my head). And the words of thinking (not actual voice but more like my own voice) in my head was: The Iraq War was wrong. That's what I was thinking about. This was like 8:45 a.m.

Next was (after waffles), I made a idea that I should do a blog post on that. Like if I made a blog post with the words "The Iraq War Was Wrong" in it, but also some other words around those words. To show more how wrongness it was (buttress). You know, like Yggie does alot. That's the idea I made (to do that).

Well then for the most of rest of the day I did some other stuffs.

But I got back home then right now and so I goed to the computer. And I sat down and I remembred how, I was thinking of the idea from before to do a blog post on how The Iraq War Was Wrong. So I wented to my blog new post page and strated typing a blog post. On how The Iraq War Was Wrong. Which is this post.

Alot of days is like that actuelly.

Yggie And Economics

2009-03-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post a blog post posting that Matthew Yglesias is a RELLY smart person who TOTALLALY knows what he's talking about.

Enspecially when he talk's about Economics. He TOTALLALY knows ALOT about Economics.

Just wanted to post that (in general).

What Is This Blog Is About

2009-03-28T06:46:00.000-07:00

Some people what is this blog is about you ask (new comers). Well to be sure there's The Iraq War Was Wrong. It's about that.

But what about on a deeper levels? Relly when you think about it this blog is about LIFE.

Life, and love.

our cowboy president is so dumb that...

2009-03-22T08:18:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to come up with some "Bush is so dumb that" sort of jokes.
Heard a rumor he did something incredibly stupid (even by his standards) recently. With some visiting prime minister. Stood him up for dinner or something because he's too busy on account of the economy he collapsed + the troops being mired in iraq, which is in an intractable state of war and perpetually on the brink of Civil war (as if uncivil war isn't enough). Trying to find more info on this. (I think it was the prime-minister of Guatemala. If anyone knows any details or has links, plz post).

At this rate, it wouldn't surprise me if Bush would go one better next time. I don't wanna sound like some second rate comedian so would it be over the top if I'll say: "He's like so dumb and he's such a chimp that he'd give a visiting dignitary a box-set of dvd's haha (and not of obscure stuff.. just general Greatest Classics hehe)"?

He's got advisers who'd talk him out of it but that's the sort of cowboy he is or would-be if left to his own devices.
I wish we had a civilized President. The kind of President that'd make other nations sit up and say "wow, america isn't a cowboy country anymore". That'll be the day. Well, sometimes soon. Dhingers, we're going to take this country back!!!