Post-linkery and ... other stuff.

[agilebrit]

aadler_ has some very good points to make re: When you say you support the troops but oppose the war, make sure the first part isn’t just lip service to cover the second. As a guy sitting at the sharp end of the stick, he says it way better than I ever could. Go forth, read, and have some food for thought.

In other news, today is the 22nd anniversary of the day I said "I do" to the Hubby. Happy Anniversay, Hubby! *kissyhugs*

In writing news, I...er...don't have any. I should be hearing from at least three markets any time now. The Muses are still off in South America drinking exotic Mayan potions and leaving me out. *sigh*

Comments

[zilly14.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!!!!

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary! May you have many more.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary! Yesterday was #27 for us.

Enjoyed the link to aadler's LJ. Well put.

[http://users.livejournal.com/opalescence_/]

Happy Anniversary! ::throws confetti::

I love that post of aadler's.

[(Anonymous)]

Happy anniversary!

I'm just gonna point it out here because aadler doesn't allow anonymous replies...

Questions: While your president are doing/have done questionable things and you still support him...What does that make you if not gullible or "thugs" as aadler put it?(I'm not accusing anyone) When due to president's decisions,a nation is suffering and the future is bleak for them.What does that say for his intentions? What does it say for him when people "he brought democracy to" are living their every day in fear? What does it say for him when "his fellow americans" feel like their privacy is being raped due to "Real ID"?

Just some false notions of people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAH3AeFy0SY&eurl=

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Thankee!

That depends entirely on what you mean by "questionable." Let's not forget that every single intelligence agency in the world thought that Saddam had WMDs. Indeed, he'd used them previously on his own people! Not only that, but we found, completely by chance, the remains of the Iraqi Air Force buried under ten feet of sand. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the same thing happened to his WMDs. Personally, I think the world is better off without him--and so is his country. The future for them is certainly better without rape rooms and children being murdered in front of their parents to get them to talk to interrogators.

Maybe the soldiers over there believe in what they're doing because they're seeing the results first-hand, rather than having it filtered through a media that has an agenda of hatred toward anything conservative. They're seeing the schools get built, they're seeing girls get educated, they're seeing roads and hospitals going up. The only reason the people are living their lives in fear over there right now is because of Islamo-fascists who see their control slipping, and who are trying every means possible to bring those people back under oppression. It's not us blowing up mosques and houks in suicide attacks.

As for RealID, while I'm opposed to it on principle, I do understand why it got passed: It was a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. Let's also remember that the President's powers are very limited when it comes to things like this. He can persuade, and cajole, and use political capital...but Congress still has to pass the law. 218 Congressmen, and 51 Senators, have to agree on something before it gets sent to him to sign. So we get to blame the House and the Senate for that as well.