SansPretense

This whole War in Iraq is getting old. It’s immoral and it’s illegal. The Iraqi’s should be able to live thier lives the way they wish? If they can’t control the violence on their own, do they really deserve our help? In any case, the US has no right to impose it’s morals and views of how society should function on any other country. They have the right to self-rule as we do. Who’s to say that our way is the best? We live in a society that values money and corporate greed over helping our fellow man. In this country, women are still discriminated against, making less than men only because they are women. Of course, the evil conservatives would have you believe that something other than misogyny is the cause, but that makes no sense. There is no other reasonable or possible explanation, therefore, it must be misogyny. Do we really want to impose our system of beliefs on anyone? Clearly, Iraq has been doing much better before we invaded and removed Saddam from power.

I think it is clear that the Iraqi’s have a better sense of right and wrong and unselfish sacrifice than we do. We unfairly force young, poor, minorities to join our army and send them over to fight an unjust war, while the Iraqi’s all-volunteer insurgency sacrifice their lives to repel the invaders.

And considering they don’t have the high rates of teen pregnacy and single mothers caused by the lie of abstinence-only education and propaganda claiming that a fetus is a human life, they must be on to something. Maybe we should adopt some of their strategies? Take for example this story about a 17 year old Iraqi girl who was publicly stoned to death for committing a most heinous offense: she was…dating a boy of the wrong religion. Well, HeLL! I’d have stoned my daughter for dating a religious man as well! He might have tried to have sex with her and then prevent her from aborting the unwanted thing since we know he wouldn’t have allowed her to use a condom! It is much better to die from a stoning than to ruin one’s career and education by becoming pregnant or worse: religious. I’m sure he would have insisted on getting the child raised in his religion, thus corrupting both the girl and the child to believe that morals aren’t relative and what makes a human isn’t a social construct. Next thing you know, he’d convince her that slavery is ok and that Christians and Jews don’t deserve to die. And yes, I am aware that the ones doing the stoning were of a religion, but since that religion is a minority religion, it deserves to be equally protected as Christianity. Besides, Stoning Women was used long before Christianity came and destroyed the practice. If it was good enough for the ancients, why can’t it be good enough for us? Christians have no right to impose their warped sense of morality on any of us! I say stone away. Good sports and practices never go out of style.

I’m sure glad we’re losing this War. With any luck, our immoral war won’t give the Iraqi’s the idea that morality is anything but relative. It would sure suck for those Iraqi women to have to go through the sexism and discrimination that our women face!