I'm just your basic cheerfully angry, intuitively unobservant, sarcastically uncontradictory, future world dictator who will never do anything. :-P
I try my best to tell it like it is, and I have few regrets!
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thewonderchef
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ok i dono bout other people but i really think that it was the most dumbest thing to go to war i mean i am a christian and we learn tolerance and well going to war wow and now the hamas is in power for the palestines i dono its just that now are troops are stuck there and also in africa people are getting killed every single day i mean the whole reason we are in iraq is to help those people rite so why aren't we in africa rite now well i just think we are in iraq for oil i dono can i get your guyses opinions on it please (link)
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I too am a christian, so I get where you are coming from. I also used to wonder why we hadn't pulled out of Iraq yet, until last semester in my English class. The guy who sat next to me had just spent 5 years as a sniper for the Marines, and was on the first sweep into Iraq.
He wrote an essay explaining how the people there still need help, because although there is a new government it is still very unstable and there are lots of threats that could topple it at any moment. He wrote about how the people there greeted him and the other soldiers with joy, and how much the natives of Iraq supported them.
I guess his point was that the people of Iraq still need help, even though the US media makes it seem like the relief is unwelcome.
Hearing first hand from a guy that helped bring freedom to the people really changed my perspective.
As for Africa: I agree that something needs to be done. If you feel moved to help, try contacting a charity that works in Afria. Just because our government is focused mainly on other areas, doesn't mean that nothing is being done. Search around and get involved where you think you can be used :-)
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