Today, co-workers were talking politics, so naturally I was interested. The people talking were not so much republicans, but just ignorant; an effect of the MSM.
One 'justified' the war on Iraq "because of September 11th." Once I explained that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and that Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein more times than Osama Bin Laden ever did, another member co-worker said that we needed to remove Saddam. I asked how he was an immediate threat, and he responded that Saddam killed 5,000 Kurds a day and was a bad guy. Saddam was indeed a bag guy, but the reason we went was supposed WMDs. I then explained that when UN weapons inspector Hans Blix reported finding no WMDs, he was fired.
Then people at other times talk about global warming. They think it is a joke, not realizing what a threat it is to the entire world. Why do people in this country not realize this?
Every day I here people make racial comments about Middle Easterners, African Americans, and homosexuals, as though they are a terrible evil.
And then we have a 'leader' who stole his way to office, lied about WMDs to get us into his war for oil, and illegally spied on his own countrymen... and he gets away with it all. Where is the justice?
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