Watching Iraq disintegrate makes me want to break things.

[liberalhistorian]

139. I am especially sad, frustrated and angry

since a beautiful young cousin of mine just joined the army and will start basic training in a couple of months. After that, who knows where he'll be sent and what they'll have him do. This young man is just a couple of years younger than my son and I have known him well since he was born twenty years ago. It makes me sick to think of what may very well happen to him, as well as all of the other young people in his shoes, and the innocent citizens of Iraq, all because Bush and Cheney had to get their macho freak and greed on. Nothing makes me sicker than war profiteers, especially since it is not THEIR family's blood that is being spilled.

Sad thing is, most of that side of the family is just absolutely thrilled that he's doing this, they think it's a great thing, they have no problem with the never-ending war and militarized empire we've become and to suggest to them otherwise is "treason" and "unpatriotic". Now they're bugging me and my husband about when my own son will "do the right thing". Getting them off my back by reminding them of his Asperger's Syndrome, and, thus, his unattractiveness to the military (not to mention that he has absolutely zero intention of it anyway) only makes it worse and my cousin's parents more resentful.