Does anyone else start to feel sick when they think about the War in Iraq?

[pstans]

I have been listening to the Majority Report on AAR tonight and they were talking about when we can leave Iraq. I am a firm believer that we won't be leaving Iraq ever, 14 military bases are being built for a reason. I then started to do some surfing online and found myself on Bushflash (http://www.ericblumrich.com/) and I viewed some videos about Iraq (the Wage Peace one is great at http://www.afsc.org/iraq/).

I am really starting to feel sick to my stomach. I have heard Scott Ritter on Randi Rhodes talk about the plans for Iran that could take place anytime after June and have researched the PNAC Fascists. I turn 25 in 2 weeks and have training in GIS (computer mapping) that the military could definitly use. I have to say that this is the first time in my life that my future doesn't look bright. I am contemplating if Canada, Mexico, Ireland, someone else should be a place for me to settle.

What can 1 person in medium sized town in middle America do?

[jobycom]

1. I don't feel sick, I feel a rage like I've never felt before

Republicans are simply evil.

[uppityperson]

2. I've felt sick a long time

Angry too. Confused. Conned. Manipulated. Scared. Sick.

[Jacobin]

3. John McCain let the cat out of the bag

He said we will be there for two decades.

I predict that McCain will be proved, as usual, wrong.

We will not be able to sustain the losses in life and treasure for that long.

It's another Viet Nam

[FreedomAngel82]

6. The only thing is

they control everything now. Unless we can take back the government next year then we will be there for years.

[laura888]

4. Yeah. Every day.

Being a 40+ female, I don't face a possibility of a draft. but I daily feel the weight of all the destruction that is being caused in my country's name.

I feel for you, pstans...yes, I would seriously get a plan together so that you can flee the U.S. quickly, if you need to.

[demgurl]

5. I am actually more upset than anything.

At first I was upset with * and I still am but I am spreading the blame these days. I think the American people have a huge say in this and if everyone were protesting and didn't walk around in a zombie stupor, this would not be happening. It happened because 'they' knew they could put one over on a lot of people.

But the blame does not stop at * or the people. There is enough blame to spread around to the corporate media. Do they think they are immune to the effects of the propaganda they are spreading? They, too, are effected by gas prices. Their brother that went off to war can be killed just as easily as someone else's. Their parents need SS just as much as everyone else's parents do. I wonder if they see the correlation of sleeping with the enemy and the effects it has ravaged on their own well being? Will it be too late when they do? Is it already too late?

[oblivious]

7. I want to apologize to those poor people for the evil done to them.

I feel sick, ashamed, horrified, angry.

[ohio_liberal]

9. Me too

I wish I could apologize but I don't think anyone wants to hear it. Too little, too late.

[oblivious]

12. Yes,when I look at this woman in Avid's OP, I know it would be meaningless

What can you possibly say or do to assauge her grief?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3656087

[ohio_liberal]

13. Nothing

It's the same with Riverbend (I'm assuming most people here know who she is). She doesn't want to hear how sorry we are. They just want us to go away and leave them alone.

[morningglory]

8. Every night when they show a couple of photos of our dead young

men and women on CBS news, I just bust out blubbering, boo hoo, big wracking sobs, tears running down. This administration is killing me emotionally, killing our kids. Red state here, and we all know the best thing for an emotional problem such as this is to talk about it, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! we have to keep our big mouths as shut as possible at work. I am starting to feel shunned.

[G_j]

10. yes n/t

[ktowntennesseedem]

11. I feel sick when...

I think about how many Americans still don't see how ugly this is, how many blindly support the war because they foolishly equate approval for the president's deceitful policies with support for the troops, how much the media are controlled by this administration and spin the war for a gullible public, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, the war makes me sick!

:puke:

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Start to?

Start to, seriously?

I've been feeling alternately sick and enraged over Iraq for well over two years now. I've cried my head off, I've prayed, I've written letters, I've marched against it, I've just lit a candle and sat there and wished and hoped with all my might that the death, the carnage, the violence and destruction would END.

It's for a pack of lies. bush shouldn't just be impeached, he should be BEHIND BARS. He sent US troops to their deaths and to attack a country that never did anything to us, that didn't have the capability to do anything to us, and worse yet, HE AND OTHERS KNEW IT. Lies. Crimes against humanity.

I've been so sick over the needless loss of life and property I can't imagine feeling any sicker over it, then I learn something else about it and find my capacity for disgust goes further than I ever knew.

[Swamp Rat]

18. Yeah, me too. Been there, done that.

Now I am sick about Iran. There are many other things to be sick about: North Korea, Darfur, Colombia, Tibet, Afghanistan, and of course Iraq. But Iran gives me a hard feeling in my stomach. I can't explain it with words... just pictures.

[NMMNG]

15. *Start* to feel sick?

I've been sick for years! Sick, furious, and utterly in awe that people could actually support this travesty. We go over there and kill thousands and thousands. We were supposed to be out of there by January 30th, yet we are still there, still killing and being killed. We're never going to leave--and now Commander Cuckoobananas is talking about waging another war!

It's sheer insanity :crazy: :wtf:

[PurityOfEssence]

16. My country's soul disgusts me now

What could have and should have been a guiding light has been taken over by the dark side of our consciousness: selfishness. We are a country of refugees seeking a better roll of the dice, and as one who's family's been here since the early sixteen hundreds, I have to say that we've made a dreadful hash of it. We will only leave Iraq after the 112.5 billion barrels of oil have been extracted. We may not even do it then, if sustaining Israel is still an issue or other resources nearby are vulnerable. It takes a lunatic with extraordinary denial ability to dispute that.

The bright side of our heritage is opportunity, but the forces of control have always outweighed that: it is the land of power. Assailing privilege and money have always been sins in our culture, and punishment for such transgressions is the right of the power elite and the communal "individuals" who protect the group fantasy with endless zeal.

We have the heart to be a great nation, but the core selfishness that is at our root has taken ascendancy. As time wears on and resources diminish in the face of ever-increasing competition from a species unable to harness its primitive need to reproduce--much of it from religious mania and dogma--we just get meaner. We're also faced with many more desperate and angry foes scrabbling for the fewer and fewer resources. What goodness--and there is/was much--that existed at the core of the American consciousness was buried in the 1980 election and the glorification of selfishness that followed.

We are now the bad guys. Make no mistake about it, we are the villains of the world. Sure, there are many other countries that are much more wicked than us, but only a handful who also have the power to make their nastiness felt, and we whup 'em big time when it's all sorted out. The sting of our lash and the weight of our yoke is felt worldwide, and this makes me sad. We haven't been the "good guys" for a very long time, and the depths of our ruthlessness are now dark and cold.

It will get worse, and we all share the blame

[Karenina]

20. What you said...

:cry:

[Sapphire Blue]

17. Been feeling sick about it since the plan was being fabricated

[Sapphire Blue]

19. CO info & resources

Peace-Out

http://www.peace-out.com/