(no subject)

[karenor]

so i've been avoiding coming online since yesterday afternoon. i didn't want to see friends' antiwar postings. not that everyone isn't entitled to an opinion. i just get really angry that i have almost no one to talk to outside of my family. and honestly, it is absolutely beyond me how ANYONE can be against this military action. for reals. i was arguing with my best friend last night. she says the bottom line is she wants no dead people, that's why she's anti war. well fuck, i'm anti war too! i want the least amount of dead people possible, that's why i SUPPORT the decision of our government to oust a TERRORIST and save lives. i've tried and cannot undersand the other perspective.

i am so freaking mad. and sad. and frustrated. and my mom has been putting off calling her sister in israel. my cousin (her son) and his family recently moved there. he is an accountant working for the american government in israel. they were always told that at the first word of war with iraq they were to up and leave the country with like one suitcase. but they've got nowhere to go...since their house in d.c. is rented out...

i've spent most of this day in such a funk cuz of all this. i think its the right thing to do, i really do. i just hate feeling like everyone around me hates me for feeling this way. still a majority of the country is in support...but hardly any of them live in southern california or go to my school...that is having a walk out when "the bombing starts". PA LEEZE.

that's me piece...

Comments

you're not alone...

[about-worth.livejournal.com]

like that stupid walk-out is going to do any good...

oh my gosh, says president Bush, Cal State Northridge doesn't want us going to war. we'd better not blow up Sadam.

i mean give me a freaking break, please.

they scribble all over the ground in their pastel chalk, "Bush is leading us down a path of destruction." you're leading me down a path of destruction with your stupid slogans. and what a unique metaphor...path of destruction...oh i'm frightened.

the news media keeps talking to troops, hoping they'll come out against this whole thing, and they keep right on supporting the war. makes me grin.

and now france is saying they'll support us...why the heck did we have to go through all that crap with the UN in the first place? so they tell us not to go to war...we don't listen and go...and they all get on our side so we don't bomb the heck out of them. it's stupid.

i say we wear red, white and blue colors thursday night and freak everyone out. ;)

Re: you're not alone...

[karenor.livejournal.com]

thanks hollie! we SO should. i want a shirt with the flag on it or something. or maybe a sign that says "remember sept 11? i do" i say we write in chalk ourselves. i hate when people speak for me. when they say "blah blah blah and let them know WE don't support the war". they don't speak for ME. i wish there were more people at our school who saw things our way. then i wouldn't be so scared to speak out.

Re: you're not alone...

[about-worth.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean. it's so hard to stand alone, you know? there has to be others...it's just everyone's keeping silent. tolerance for everyone but the position that they can't tolerate themselves...

Re: you're not alone...

[karenor.livejournal.com]

yeah. i hear you. i painted my nails blue and white, with red thumbs. then it occurred to me that they're also the colors of france's flag. eh, oh well.

Re: you're not alone...

[about-worth.livejournal.com]

lol! well, so many countries have those colors in their flags...it's okay.

[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm a day late but I still have to say that you can talk to me about your feelings, any time! I purposely haven't written anything about the war...not because it doesn't affect me, but because it just isn't something I need to spout off about. I'm tired of reading other people's posts about it even when they seem to feel the ssame way about it as I do. I think of you all the time though, because it is just so cool right now to be anti-war and nobody treats the people who don't feel that way with the same respect when they try to voice their opinions.

So anyway, yeah. I love you! Keep feeling the way you do.

Re:

[karenor.livejournal.com]

thank you alannah. i appreciate your comments. i appreciate you!

it's getting so that its hard for me to go to school. i don't even want to be in that environment. being constantly as angry as i am is not good for me. ppl make such flippant remarks, and they just assume everyone agrees with them...ugh