i have no readers, so i can say whatever i want.

george bush makes me sick. he keeps beating the drum about terrorists, using the victims and their families' grief as a political tool to build support for his homicidal ways. like in his last speech about this war in iraq where he kept invoking the name of 9/11, an event that happened almost four years ago. he claims to be doing what he's doing in iraq to avenge those killed in that attack, and all of america, but a government investigation showed no connection between saddam hussein and al-qaeda. furthermore, they're not finding these weapons of mass destruction, which means the official reasons we attacked iraq were wrong. it's all a big mistake.

you want to know something, though? there is a country with ties to al-qaeda. a country that funds them and helps recruit them and probably even protects them despite it's claim to be helping the united states. what is this country? saudi arabia. president bush has ties to saudi arabia, and that country has the largest deposit of oil in the world. attacking it, overthrowing the government, would jeopardise that oil, and certainly would disrupt production and send prices soaring. furthermore, a democratic government might not be so sympathetic to america's oil needs, and might work to drive up prices. in fact, it would probably be much less helpful than the present monarchy/dictatorship. so we support non-democratic institutions even while we struggle to build democracy in a war-torn country. if al-qaeda accuses us of hypocrisy, we have nowhere to run. if they claim we're only engaged in the middle east for oil, they aren't far off. if they think we're a threat to their worldview, they're absolutely right.

only one of those strikes me as an ok thing, and it's not greed or hypocrisy.