Forgive me this is my first Diary. I am sitting here thinking about how all the blustering done by the Republicans about Iraq is quite Ironic. It is ironic in that while they say Democrats want to surrender to the terrorist it is they who has surrendered.
As defined by the all mighty wikipedia..."the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." " n one modern definition of terrorism, it is violence against civilians to achieve political or ideological objectives by creating fear.[4] Most common definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal
So basically they use fear to perpetrate ideological goals. Their goals are to put an end to our freedom. The attack on us on 9/11/01 struck me in a very personal way. I had just gone to college, I was finally free in this world and all of the reality came crashing down on me just like those towers. I was outraged I wanted blood that day, I wanted to fight, I wanted to join up and show these people what American might was really about. I was prime fighting age I was the one who should be out there.
I watched in the next years as we went to war with Afghanistan, then onto saber rattling with Iraq... I got into arguments in the dorms because "war" was the cool thing and Saddam was a bad guy. My feeling of pride for this country finally gave way to the "no way in hell am I fighting for this"
I watched as our civil liberties were taken away from us, and we were told not to worry because we weren't terrorists. Again I lost friends over these arguments. I simply could not convince people just because they were innocent and they knew it that it didn't matter. It matters because the government doesn't care if we are innocent.
Today I watched the democrats we helped to elect, we fought and argued and lost friends over. I helped in 2002, and I was laughed at for naivety. I wasn't cool because I didn't want to go to war. What i believed turned out to be true. I remember an AIM away message I put up... "Winning the war is easy, winning the peace will be the hard part" ~May 2008
Today I watched my heart be pulled out as the people I thought would help fix this country only lead us back down the same path.
We have allowed the terrorist to scare us into shredding our constitution.
This country has done more damage to itself than the terrorists ever did.
The terrorists attack brought down not only our buildings but our constitution with it. And what does the American public think?
Regrettably they are willfully ignorant, criminally negligent in allowing this to happen.
We lost this war already... but he we killed a few bad guys enroute, who needs a constitution?