
In my watchings of CNN, I caught the great George Dubya Bush saying this:
"Freedom is a two way street"
For some reason this statement came across as horribly ironic to me. Mr. Bush, you need to take a big dose of the medicine you're trying to administer to everyone.
I can't stop thinking about this Haditha business. How does the killing of one Marine condone the killing of so many civilians? Innocent women and children? I don't get it. This happened last November and it's only now being brought to the publics attention, for some reason the word
propaganda comes to my mind. How is this any better than driving planes into buildings? What an extreme double standard.
Since the war began 2471 soldiers have been killed. All of these deaths were recorded and people were remembered, honoured. What about the faceless masses of Iraqi civilians that have killed? Someone needs to take the time to honour them by fighting for the justice they were never granted.
It seems like the Matthew Good song rings true, the only place to find freedom is in the dictionary: under f.