Laptops aren’t what drive our economy, energy is. You are comparing apples and nose hairs.

If I suddenly changed everything about myself, I would be an idiot to expect my girl to stick around longer than it takes to find out that I couldn’t be compromised with.

Vote DW.

trust me, as nice as you are for saying it, my ex doesn’t give a rats ass if you support him. he’s destroyed himself, and wants nothing more then to come home, or reverse time.

but also, to clarify. i don’t think our soldiers are bad people, or “babykillers” to quote assholes from the vietnam era. i just don’t agree with thier decision. i don’t feel safer because of them, i don’t feel obliged to them. and the fact that i can’t be openly gay and join pisses me off. this war has done nothing but kill people, and destablize a major area of the world (at least worse then it was). its wrong. plain and simple. and it’s helped bush warp the constitution and increase executive power beyond reasonable means.

i’m only semi-liberal. this is my PERSONAL point of view. so don’t feed me any “typical lib” lines because i’m pretty sure most “typical libs” would slap me if i went around espousing this idea all the time. and, just to say, the only 3 other people who have ever agreed with me- 1 was an independant, and the other 2 Republicans.

i’m sick of all the “hero” talk, and people who say it my ex, and to my brother as well, it really pisses them off. i don’t think you get to be called a “hero” unless you actually do something heroic, and justy singing up to join the military and be a grunt, doesn’t cut it. now if you save a family from a roadside bomb, or your unit from a sniper, have at the title. you get it then.

I mean, yes, marriage. Sacred. Stuff… Unperverted thoughts. Yep. Oh look, a lol about an old barbie who is a trophy wife.

People say things like “don’t support the war but at least support the troops”.

I can’t. I can’t support someone who volunteers for the military while we are in this war. The war is wrong from the beginning, and people keep feeding me these lines about “serving the nation” and “they protect YOUR freedom” and blah blah blah, but I mean, we’ve lost more rights and freedoms it seems to me since this war started. I don’t feel protected or free. I feel maligned and indignant.

My brother was in the army, but he joined in 99, when it still seemed like a respectable choice. I’m proud of what he did, and at least before he got out, he never had to go to Iraq. He is scared right now that they might call him back. He was so happy to get out, and has been working with the Obama campaign here in Fl since it started. He’s been against the war from the beginning as well, and he only joined because my parents couldn’t afford to help him with school.

My boyfriend and I recently broke up over this. He decided out of the blue to join the Army. It had somehting to do with his parents and we argued over it for days. With him it made me even angrier, because he had to change everything about himself. He got rid of his fav CDs and clothes, and went online and switched all his accounts from “gay” to either say “straight” or nothing at all. He practiced “walking striaght” and “talking straight”, not that he was flamboyant, but maybe just not maculine enough to where it could be called into question. I was infuriated. Here he is , completely chaning himself, getting rid of parts of himself that made me fall for him to begin with, for what/ To serve in the Army, and Army that would kick him out if it ever learned the truth, to serve a country and a military that doesn’t like him, and wont even grant him basic rights. It disgusted me. I left him, I told him I couldn’t support him doing it, and he was just becoming another part of Bush’s war machine, and that I wouldn’t be here for him when he got back. He’s in Iraq now, and I pray that he’s safe, but he shames me, and he tells me how miserable he is (we do talk when we can), but I mean, WTF did he expect. All vesitges of the guy I loved are gone, and he can’t even remeber his reason for doing it anymore.