Samantha’s Blog

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1722955,00.html

All I could think of while reading this story, are the three people I know that lived through the Iraq war like this soldier, James Blake Miller, has. All 3 are suffering from PTSD.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19733160/the_troubled_homecoming_of_the_marlboro_marine

the meaning of 4,000 dead

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1725642,00.html

Death Toll:

4,004 U.S. soldiers
~82,000 Iraqi civilian deaths

Do you remember where you were the night of March 19, 2003, when the first attacks on Baghdad fell five years ago? I do. I was at my boyfriend’s house at the time. We were all gathered around the TV, in disbelief. His dad, a republican and supporter of the war, did not seem saddened. His mom, a very sweet woman, but also perhaps very passive, only said “Oh my goodness” and walked into the kitchen to bake like she always did when something was stressing her out. My boyfriend (now ex) an independent, gripped my hand and said quietly and astonished, “This is really war”. I sat there on their leather couch, in their world, nauseous and in complete disbelief. My phone rang, my mom called… then my brother. We cried very quiet and scared tears. “What the fuck is happening?”, we asked.

I’m still asking myself that, what the fuck IS happening?

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Here’s a somewhat complete breakdown of Bush’s war. Try to ignore all the screwy characters in the type. What can I say, Pat and I never would have let that be published w/ all those errors if we still worked there!

http://www.time.com/time/2007/iraq/1.html

Sources:

* http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx

*http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

UHM… shouldn’t a current inventory already exist and be continuously checked like every fucken day. I mean I’m just saying…

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/27/pentagon.nuclear.review/index.html

And what about just destroying them all? Why should the U.S. have them, but god forbid Iraq, Iran and N. Korea? Nuclear weapons are the most frightening example of human stupidity out there. And they shouldn’t exist. Period.

Albert Einstein: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”