I’ve adopted a new ideology when it comes to this war, and it consists of one word; meh. You can’t really fit this ideology anywhere between the pro-war and anti-war stances; it kind of is out there on its own. Sure, before the war I was anti. Then for a brief period of time I got a surge of what we were doing over there was right. Now I’m looking at both those stances and am weary of believing in either of them.

To be truly against this war you must believe in all of its reasoning. You have to believe that Saddam, however tyrannical, is free of bio/chemical/atomic weapons. You must believe that he does not support terrorist organizations that could potentially attack the US or its allies. Along the same lines, just flip everything around and you have the pro-war reasoning.

I’m not writing to argue one side or the other, everyone but me seems pretty entrenched in their beliefs either way. That is the problem. I think both sides potentially have it wrong due to the lack of proper facts, and to believe strongly either way is to insinuate that you have it all figured out. I’ve argued both ways now, and both sides have keen arguments. No wonder this is such a heated debate, for both sides sound completely reasonable. I have seen people I respect argue both sides. These people are not ones who believe everything they are told, but have seriously thought of the issue and have come to a conclusion. So I can only see the problem as one thing; it all boils down to how you interpret the information.

Important shit that information is. After all, we do live in the Information Age. I think I can safely say that if you look back in history you will find that in every age, the people who didn’t have what the age was defined by were pretty much useless; simple pawns to the people who did.

This war was started with, and heavily relies on information. Bush did not come to his conclusion because Saddam invaded, assassinated, or recently killed masses of people. True, he has done or attempted all of it in the past, but it wasn’t the kick-starter to the war. He (Bush) relied on information, and has blatantly held the facts away from both the American public, and more importantly, the world. In this war, words speak louder than actions.

What an awful predicament the Bush Administration has got into. What an awful leadership they really are. They get no brownie points for holding back the factual, unequivocal, and outright proof for this war they claim to have (guess that was had because nobody seems to care anymore). Whatever propaganda you believe in, just blame it on them. The time came and went for them to give us the proper facts. They have made the supporters of this war their pawns. Likewise, France, Russia, Iraq, and more have made people their pawns.

Meh. Mmmmeeeeehhhhhh!!! This war is more a battle of words and banter than bullets and bombs. In this battle everyone has been given a gun and bullets made of dust. Although it’s funny to see everyone running around yelling at each other and getting all dirty, I’m tired. I’m just going to go sit in the corner and watch. Anybody want to play rock-paper-scissors?