The day after tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Five fucking years! A child who was born when the US invaded Iraq would be five years old now! A child who was five years old at the time would be ten years old now, and so on and so forth! Traditionally the 5th anniversary is the wood anniversary. But giving wood seems somehow crass and not a little suggestive. How do you shop for the war the has it all anyways? I mean, this war gets paid $275 million per day, that's upper middle class by anyone's definition, and, I don't know, what, like a set of encyclopedias? I don't even think this war deserves gifts at this point, it's been a total fucking failure after all. The price of oil has increased over 300% for fucks sake! How many people do you have to kill before the price of a scarce non-renewable natural resource stabilizes at $40/barrell, for Christ's sake?! Or for anyone's?! And don't even get me started on all the death and destruction and stuff! At least there seems to be less crazy talk about OPEC pricing that shit in Euros, so the 500,000 to 1,000,000 human lives (what's a couple of 100,000 between friends, right?) haven't been snuffed out completely in vain, I guess.
Anyways, I'm gonna do my part and make an impotent public display of my frustration. There's actually some good shit going on, or at least protest activities that are creative in comparison to the bullshit that the movement has been coming up with for the last 5 years. Blockading the IRS, a couple of recruitment center occupations. It'll be cathartic if nothing else.
Joined: 2007-04-17
Location: USA