War is an obsolete measure. War is a tradition that we seem to feel we need to bring into modern times with us, our mental baggage that we need to load on to the shoulders of the next generation, just as the generation before us did. Constantly, we are reproducing the pain, we are bringing about unnecessary anguish, trial and suffering.

I would certainly like to think that the human brain has evolved somewhat since the days of Alexander the Great and William the Conqueror. Their tactics of land conquest and conquer were needless to say, barbaric, but are the tactics of the U.S. army much different? War is still war, war is still barbaric, war is still children crying in the burned remains of the village looking for for their lost mothers. War is still people starving in the streets, due to our police force "help."

War doesn't seem this way for us though, not for the United States, we sit at home and watch the televised war, and cheer on our respective sides, reminiscent of a thanksgiving football game. We comfortably enjoy the destruction, we will not suffer from famine or disease. We are fooling ourselves if we think that the way war is conducted has changed much since the days of the great medieval conquerors.

One thing has changed though, proximity. We certainly do not just send our soldiers in with Bowie knives. Our soldiers do not stand in the face of their enemies one on one and barbarically pull out his opponent's intestines. They sit in planes and flip a switch, they drop a bomb and fly away, they never have to see the destruction, they never have to see the pain they inflict, they never have to see children witness their parents horrible fiery deaths, and neither do you. There is no pain to this destruction, we are a world away, as far as we are concerned the government could tell us that no one ever dies, and how would we know any different.

I find it hard for us to rally on a war of such pointlessness when we don't have to suffer, when we sit at home and don't know a god damn thing. The only people who do know are the soldiers, and we shouldn't have to put them through this either. War is obsolete. It is a measure that is totally unnecessary, truly. Our army is merely a collection of pawns, brainwashed to fight for our government. Who is the enemy to the soldiers? George W. will push this war until he has it. It doesn't matter if he has just cause in this battle, he wants a war, and unfortunately for the rest of the people on the earth, he is going to get one. The government tries to tell us that the Iraqi government is such a horrible thing because it is made up of a bunch of blood-thirsty savage, sadists. Sometimes I wonder if our government is much different. The Iraqis can't have weapons...why? When we harbor enough nuclear power to blow the world up some 17 times over. I wonder who is really more of a threat.

I don't know if I have even heard any of the Iraqi people complain about Saddam Hussein before, as far as I can tell they don't think that they need to be liberated. Some of them think that Saddam is the best thing that has happened to their country and in some aspects they may be right. Not many of us Americans know much at all about this place, except what we hear from the media...and if you think that for one minute that the media is not biased on this subject you better think again. As far as I know, I have no judgments to make about Iraq until I have lived there. If the people of Iraq need liberating than it is a noble cause, but really is it a cause that we cannot gain with out peace?

We have to ask ourselves what will war gain us that negotiations won't. That is how every war ends any way, with negotiations, even after the killing, the whole thing ends exactly the way I propose the whole thing should start. Talking and treaties are the real war, war should be nothing but a heated debate, no one ever dies in a debate.

I am not sure but I suppose they tell me war is inevitable... dying is inevitable, but you don't see me killing myself. The Apocalypse is inevitable, but as humans we should not impose it upon ourselves. If the taboo against nuclear weapons is broken, I can assure you that it is the end of the world as we know it. And all of this, all of this, just because Americans are too pushy in the first place. Of course we wouldn't admit that it was our fault to begin with.

I am sick and tired of thinking that some stupid, bible-belting, bomb-hugging, trigger-happy, oil-loving, cowboy is going to end the human existence. It is not his right to start this war, it is not right for him to start us on the path towards certain destruction. I have a say in this world, I have a say in my existence, this is a democracy isn't it. I am anti-war, this is the anti-war sentiment. I DON'T LOVE MY COUNTRY...I LOVE MY WORLD!!!!