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2003-02-23

Piggy's specs were nicked at: 9:04 p.m.

WAR.

Or something.

Seems it'll be happening once again, soon enough. Eventually. No, let's wait a few more weeks. You have one more month, Saddam! We swear it!

I think going to war with Iraq is a dumb, dumb thing, and I hope Canada continues to stay far away from Bush's latest after school activity, but that's all I'm going to say about the matter, because whatever I say won't make a crumb of difference. This entry is about something-else.

That is, war in general. I expressed my distaste for Slowdown: Iraq on another MB, and a jolly 14 year old Republican who knows exactly how the world should be run accused me in nasty tones of being a liberal-humping, tree-hugging, slogan-screaming anti-war feminist witch.

I am not anti-war, and it's important I get that across. Neither am I pro-war. I accept war as a part of mankind's nature, and that's about it. I also firmly believe there are no "good guys" or "bad guys" on the battlefield, just a lot of young kids who are out there because the Council of Elders said so. One person I work with told me about his father getting captured during WW II, and imprisoned in a POW camp. He was fed nothing but bread, and had insufficient water for years. He was, as it turns out, Itallian. He was in a British POW camp.

Humans are capable of nice things, and then there's the backdoor of our souls. For every friend we make, there's someone we hurt. For every loved one we scroo, someone is getting raped. For every tasty, lovingly prepared meal we consume, there's crap later on. For every poetic metaphor, there's some desperate garbage spewed. Example.

And for every civilisation we build, there's a war lurking in there somewhere. We'll never escape it.

And sometimes I wonder if it's a good idea to do so. When you were a kid, did you ever put two bugs in a jar and then shake it to make them fight? I think God does the same thing to us, once in a while, when we grow stagnant. Nothing brings about more change than a large war. War jolts a sagging economy (unless you're the losing country, of course), and there's usually a mixing of genes involved somewhere, which is very healthy for the race as a whole.

And sometimes, there just isn't an alternative to war, and the act becomes necessary. Take note, I don't think this is one of those times. At all. Ah quick, hand me that stapler! ::Staples mouth shut.:: That's better. No wait, that hurts like hell.