Observation

I'd love to say I've received a tremendous amount of feedback on my last blogging effort, but, well, I haven't. Zero comments on here, and three in the real world. One, offering shock and anger, a "How could you" attitude from an uninformed, and unfortunately biased, old Jewish friend of mine. Another, from someone out to show they do care about the news of the world by expressing how they do pay attention and would love to discuss it and blah blah, and finally one tremendously positive friend with nothing short of praise.

**Tear** He keeps me going, he does.

And of course, I've got no qualms with someone being upset over my political or informational stance. Yes, it could be argued that it was highly opinionated, which may be true, but one thing it's not is biased. Conspiracy theories, they can be more easily argued as biased or "you're off your rocker get a life kid" categorized, but that's why I've kept that from the forefront of this new, informational form of blogging (For now...) And of course, I'd never think less of a person for their opinions or reactions, as all I can do is maintain a friendship or relationship or whatever and just continue to try to educate those misguided souls (Kidding.....kinda)

Anyway, I was going to make a much more light-hearted, college living oriented post following the Israel one, but, well, the world is just too bloody and potentially capable of being tipped on its head right now for me to just ignore it. Or maybe it's because the internet put me in a bad mood and these news bytes pissed me off. Either way, random notes below:

Welcome to Operation Iraq: Civil War. If you think we're doing okay over there, stop. If you think the casualties are as low as the government tells you, enough. If you think we're ever going to stablize the mess we've created and get out of there peacefully and respectfully, please, pass me the drug you're smoking, because it ain't medicinal chief. We've destroyed Iraq. Plain and simple. People can still kind of argue about why we went in or what purpose the invasion served, or hell, if it was even legal (Lack of UN support, invasion of a foriegn and soverign land without cause or provocation or PROOF, lies, etc) but the one, undeniable fact right now is the fact we've lost. And no, we didn't just loose the fight, we've lost everything. We've lost control of the ground (Which we probably never had in the first place, for long). We've lost control of the North to the point where Turkey is getting so pissed off at the milita wrecking havoc there that they are now coming to the table with potentially violent reprocussions towards them, and the US, if action isn't taken. The rest of the region is so ridiculously destablized it's difficult to decide where to begin. Surely not with the idea of a government that people hoped would be in our 'corner' and support Israel as a state, and promote 'democracy' in the region, because, NEWS FLASH, the new Iraqi Parliament UNANIMOUSLY condemned all this Israeli violence and called on the UN. Whoops. But hey that's okay right, because at least innocent people aren't dying! This is a war on terror, and we're getting those terrorists! Yeah, except the, uh, small amount of people killed in the past two months alone.

Let's pause for a moment. Speaking for myself and those I know, and probably most people on this planet, it's hard to comprehend one death. Or two. Or ten. We lost 3000+ people on 9/11, and, honestly, I still cannot picture that many people in one room in my mind. 6000 people in two months. Six THOUSAND. Can you even begin to wrap your mind around that? No, didn't think so. But you think that's hard? Then brace yourself for this: 40,000. Yes. It's estimated now that roughly 40,000 people have been killed since 2003. And that's a LOW end number, because you can bet your bottom dollar all the deaths aren't reported. And the point? Not only have we lost troops (And I can bet you anything we're being lied to on a daily basis about how many of our boys aren't coming back) but people have lost interest. Iraq is mentioned maybe once or twice a day on the major news, if that. And it's in passing. Articles have grown short and passive, news reports seem off hand and dismissive, and all in all, the American people, spoon fed their media by 'reliable' and 'trusted' outlets like Fox, forget. And I don't blame anyone for that. Life is hard enough day by day to fine the time and patience to get coffee in the morning in the right, four flavored extra large cup people order, let alone to read the paper for the story buried on page eight about some no name, no faced people a world away dying because bombs went off course or, well, means way too gruesome to be mentioned here (or even believed). But they are. Daily. Entire families are being wiped out, for a cause that's lost all meaning, and by a people that have forgotten all about them. I'm as guilty as the rest, so I'm not looking to preach. But the situation is terrible, and to take time, even 10 minutes, to write about it, to keep passion and sympathy alive, well, maybe that'll do someone, somewhere, some good in the future.

- This wasn't meant to be an Iraqi based post, but by the time I was finished I had a huge entry, and people's attention spans are short enough as it is. There are more headlines, including the blood raining down in the skys of Lebanon and so on and so forth. But I think this is enough for now. Oh, and for those of you who think, hey, it could be worse, you're right. You could be this guy.

Aww, crap....