just to be clear

i oppose war. i opposed the bombing of afghanistan, based on nothing more than my feeling that it was fucked up, and that it wouldn't accomplish shit. it was, and it didn't. i opposed the current iraq bullshit our kids are fucked in. i opposed kosovo, i opposed fucking panama, grenada, the international terrorism supported and managed by our government in every poor resource-rich country in the world.
did you know it took years to get the across-the-board resistance to the vietnam war that ended up defining a generation? and before any hostilities were statred there were MILLIONS protesting around the world over the fucked-up Iraq invasion plan. not a shot fired. 12 years of ruinous (to the iraqi people, not the disgusting US-supported dictator) sanctions had given people an idea of what was coming, i'd imagine, but still, there was not the "grace period" of a few years of unremitting violence, including bombing civilians, initiating free-fire zones, and chemical warfare that the government had in vietnam. it was instantaneous. millions around the world marched the streets.
the news coverage? ZILCH.
that's all kind of an aside. war is stupidity. its worse. war is anti-human. if you're a human being, and you believe human beings are worthwhile, war is the ultimate worst thing there's ever been. period. that's what i think anyways. and it's right.