So? So?! That’s all the VP can say? What gets me is that smirk he had on his face, as if he was thinking, “you really think I give a shit? how funny.”

I’m so angry I can hardly type.

This weekend, I went to my parent’s house for my mom’s b-day and for Easter, the first time our family would be all together since Christmas 2006. And you know what happened? My little brother got absolutely, horribly drunk on my mom’s birthday, the night before church. As in wake up the entire house, puke all over the floor drunk. The incident just about ruined the weekend.

Once he was sober enough to talk, we found out why he’d done such a boneheaded thing. Seems that he just found out that his good friend had gotten blown up in Iraq. He and his friends did what stupid, 22-year-old guys in the Midwest do: drink a lot. After finally telling us what happened, little brother cried, a lot, and it just about broke my heart.

And all Dick Cheney has to say is, “So?” Fuck him. He should go to South Dakota and tell my little brother that his friend was a volunteer and explain to my brother what, exactly, his friend died for. ‘Cuz he doesn’t understand it, and neither do I.

Does this asshole even know anyone who has died in this occupation? Does he care about anyone who has died in other wars? *rumbles off into incoherent angry ranting*

I have nightmares that Huckabee becomes president and China steps in, as they did in Tibet, to “liberate” us from theocracy… ::shivers::

What cold, unfeeling people we have in office. I heard the “So?” comment first on the Daily Show…my jaw dropped to. the. floor. That anyone who is supposed to owe their position to the people would show such open disdain for those people…My mind just boggles.

I have a friend whose husband joined the Army Reserves just before they got married, right after they discovered she was pregnant. What they thought was that he’d make a little money and be able to get some education, and provide for their new family. What they got was a tour in Iraq, and then a second stop-loss tour. How he survived, given that he wasn’t in the relatively safe area they told him he’d be in, I don’t know. He’s a young black man. If we go to Iran, he’ll probably be on the ground again, and I don’t know that he’ll make it.

He and Bush want a return to the days of aristocracy. What they do is fine, what the peasants do is execrable.

He’ll need his SS protectors. Lots of ex-mil might just be ticked off or damaged enough to want payback.

.Fuck. Iran is so much bigger than Iraq, and they have a BIG army. We simply do not have the (hu)manpower to fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here.

A few fun facts comparing Iraq and Iran, from the CIA World Factbook:

Iraq has 432,000 square kilometers of land. Iran has 1,600,000.

Iraq has a population of 27 million. Iran has 65 million.

But, hey, the fact that we can’t control Iraq only proves that it’s a good idea to attack a larger country that has a larger population. Because if at first you don’t succeed, try try again!

We’re gonna nuke ‘em. Cheney’s had a hard on for nuking–he’s always brought up ’strategic’ nukes as an option.

The Saudi Arabian paper just printed crap about how the gov’t is ready with plans in place in case of lethal fall out from Iran. Why would such a tightly controlled country print something like that (after a visit from Cheney) if it weren’t a real possibility.

If W nukes Iran, will impeachment be back on the table? B/c if he nukes Iran, China and Russia are going to kick our butts.

Fuckers. It blows my mind that the Commies may be the only ones who can stop this madness. China already owns our economy.

Here’s hoping it’s just a lack of sleep on my part, and that wiser heads will prevail.

All I know that every single dead soldier is one too many. So is every single civilian killed in a war. So is every single person traumatized or displaced in the course of a war. Not only in Iraq just now, but in any war on this planet.

What a despicable individual he is. Truly.