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I just watched Charlie Wilson's War and I'd like to start off by saying I recommend this movie to everyone. All throughout the movie I remained with a sunken heart because it's such a glaring example of how we've become exactly what we used to hate. One qoute especially sticks out in my mind and that's when Charlie said of Gust, "what he fears is one day God will be on both sides". 
The movie does a good job displaying how we meddle. I personally have no qualms with what what we did in Afghan other than we're fighting the people we trained today. That would've been avoidable if we wouldn't have bases in countries that aren't the USA and wouldn't fund Israel. Pretty simple root cause to 9/11 and a pretty simple solution to the root of the problem, but no one wants to do it.
I was pretty much with the tax and spend Republicans up until they took over power and I oppose the 1st Gulf War. I didn't really split till GWB and Iraq though. Too many lies, deceit and just no benefit for the average American, the same ones who are truly sacrificing with their lives while the US military is used to defend private companies. It might be different if we were serving anyones best interests other than big oil, Osama's soaring recruitment, and Israeli interests.
It's a rape of our country and what's even sadder is the thought-crime laws that are around unopposed today. We're becoming just like the USSR and no one seems to care because Americans are falling for the fear-mongering. It's always an enemy, now we have an invisible one.. "terrorism". Good luck winning the war on a tactic. So I broke from the Republican party, no longer have faith in the current 2 party system and am a Libertarian who votes for the best man. I'm also a strong Methodist (that's a Christian) but completely seperate my beliefs from my politics. I use common sense and I guess my belief does effect some of my politics, my belief system is 100% opposed to everything George Bush has done. He claims to be a Methodist too but the church is absolutely opposed to him. It's a very "liberal" church, though in reality they are just good Christians who don't kill people for no reason. The Christians that give Christianity a good name because it follows the golden rule in the adult world rather than just teaching it to children then laughing about bombing innocent civilians in Iraq.
The best man for the job right now thats by far, hands down and no questions asked Ron Paul. Out of Juan McAmnesty, Hillary and Obama.. Obama is clearly the best but a bit much of a war monger when I say we had our shot at war. Time to try peace, no more invasions.. period. If you don't have Osama by now, I'm not going to personally support losing more lives. I don't trust the government anymore and its time to come home. No more of this bait and switch crap. If someone thinks more wars are a good idea, time to suit up. Get the job done. We've lost enough lives in vain, no more blood on American hands. It's a national disgrace.
I'm also worried with all this crying wolf that we've done with Vietnam and now the Crusades 2.0 that when a real threat confronts us we'll be so demoralized from LBJ/GWB's shananigans that no one will be willing to go.
Mostly the rape of our civil liberties is the biggest affront and the true downfall of the USA, not the economic inflation disaster and resultant theft of the middle class's hard earned savings, but really the fact our Constitution is being raped tag-team style by nearly every politician.
Economic prosperity comes and goes, but a once in a few thousand year chance to have a true Constitutional Republic that is actually respected doesn't. Besides, I'm not big on materialism and fake consumer culture. I think it's ok it exists but I'm not much for celebrity worship or watching braindead television (in fact I refuse to subscribe to cable and use AppleTV).
Anyway, this movie made me think a lot during it. Mostly sad but also that sometimes a statesman like Charlie Wilson can break dogmatic party politics and do something he personally feels is right and to have the courage to do so. Knowing his story makes me feel proud to be an American and that moment in the movie where he explained when he fell in love with America made me think of when that was for me. I think definitely the moment I found out there was a guy out there like Ron Paul, who even breaks rank from the libertarian stances and supports his own views on certain issues.. I respect that. So much so that I stayed up till 3am writing a speech advocating for him and delivered it in front of 500 people, was interrupted in the middle of the speech with loud applause and received the loudest applause of the night at the end.. then spread the speech to another part of the state to spread awareness about his vision of America to more people.
Ron Paul opened my mind with his "new" yet classically conservative ideas. I'm now an avid supporter of other proponents of a similar foreign policy such as Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. Though I don't agree with them on all issues as much as I do Ron, I certainly can be counted on by them in any future political endeavors and donated some cash to Kucinich's reelection.. again not nearly the amount I've given to Ron. If we had more statesmen like Ron Paul I'd be incredibly motivated, but he is too pro-American for most people. He doesn't give a crap about the lobbyists and zionists and Christian right and all these groups.. he's just 100% American loyal to the bone and I simply LOVE IT. A side effect is how truly and deeply betrayed I feel by most politicians like Bush and most of the Democrats as well for not cutting off funding to the war. Any lapdog to Bush or his agenda just boils my blood. Party politics are worthless because they are always PANDERING to someone.
That's when I fell in love with my country, when I knew I had personally made a difference in at least some people's lives regarding their opinion of our current state of affairs. Just to feel that motivated is a wonderful thing.
Anyway if you haven't seen the movie I think it's a must see. Looking forward to your comments.
The movie does a good job displaying how we meddle. I personally have no qualms with what what we did in Afghan other than we're fighting the people we trained today. That would've been avoidable if we wouldn't have bases in countries that aren't the USA and wouldn't fund Israel. Pretty simple root cause to 9/11 and a pretty simple solution to the root of the problem, but no one wants to do it.
I was pretty much with the tax and spend Republicans up until they took over power and I oppose the 1st Gulf War. I didn't really split till GWB and Iraq though. Too many lies, deceit and just no benefit for the average American, the same ones who are truly sacrificing with their lives while the US military is used to defend private companies. It might be different if we were serving anyones best interests other than big oil, Osama's soaring recruitment, and Israeli interests.
It's a rape of our country and what's even sadder is the thought-crime laws that are around unopposed today. We're becoming just like the USSR and no one seems to care because Americans are falling for the fear-mongering. It's always an enemy, now we have an invisible one.. "terrorism". Good luck winning the war on a tactic. So I broke from the Republican party, no longer have faith in the current 2 party system and am a Libertarian who votes for the best man. I'm also a strong Methodist (that's a Christian) but completely seperate my beliefs from my politics. I use common sense and I guess my belief does effect some of my politics, my belief system is 100% opposed to everything George Bush has done. He claims to be a Methodist too but the church is absolutely opposed to him. It's a very "liberal" church, though in reality they are just good Christians who don't kill people for no reason. The Christians that give Christianity a good name because it follows the golden rule in the adult world rather than just teaching it to children then laughing about bombing innocent civilians in Iraq.
The best man for the job right now thats by far, hands down and no questions asked Ron Paul. Out of Juan McAmnesty, Hillary and Obama.. Obama is clearly the best but a bit much of a war monger when I say we had our shot at war. Time to try peace, no more invasions.. period. If you don't have Osama by now, I'm not going to personally support losing more lives. I don't trust the government anymore and its time to come home. No more of this bait and switch crap. If someone thinks more wars are a good idea, time to suit up. Get the job done. We've lost enough lives in vain, no more blood on American hands. It's a national disgrace.
I'm also worried with all this crying wolf that we've done with Vietnam and now the Crusades 2.0 that when a real threat confronts us we'll be so demoralized from LBJ/GWB's shananigans that no one will be willing to go.
Mostly the rape of our civil liberties is the biggest affront and the true downfall of the USA, not the economic inflation disaster and resultant theft of the middle class's hard earned savings, but really the fact our Constitution is being raped tag-team style by nearly every politician.
Economic prosperity comes and goes, but a once in a few thousand year chance to have a true Constitutional Republic that is actually respected doesn't.
Besides, I'm not big on materialism and fake consumer culture. I think it's ok it exists but I'm not much for celebrity worship or watching braindead television (in fact I refuse to subscribe to cable and use AppleTV). Anyway, this movie made me think a lot during it. Mostly sad but also that sometimes a statesman like Charlie Wilson can break dogmatic party politics and do something he personally feels is right and to have the courage to do so. Knowing his story makes me feel proud to be an American and that moment in the movie where he explained when he fell in love with America made me think of when that was for me. I think definitely the moment I found out there was a guy out there like Ron Paul, who even breaks rank from the libertarian stances and supports his own views on certain issues.. I respect that. So much so that I stayed up till 3am writing a speech advocating for him and delivered it in front of 500 people, was interrupted in the middle of the speech with loud applause and received the loudest applause of the night at the end.. then spread the speech to another part of the state to spread awareness about his vision of America to more people.
Ron Paul opened my mind with his "new" yet classically conservative ideas. I'm now an avid supporter of other proponents of a similar foreign policy such as Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. Though I don't agree with them on all issues as much as I do Ron, I certainly can be counted on by them in any future political endeavors and donated some cash to Kucinich's reelection.. again not nearly the amount I've given to Ron. If we had more statesmen like Ron Paul I'd be incredibly motivated, but he is too pro-American for most people. He doesn't give a crap about the lobbyists and zionists and Christian right and all these groups.. he's just 100% American loyal to the bone and I simply LOVE IT. A side effect is how truly and deeply betrayed I feel by most politicians like Bush and most of the Democrats as well for not cutting off funding to the war. Any lapdog to Bush or his agenda just boils my blood. Party politics are worthless because they are always PANDERING to someone.
That's when I fell in love with my country, when I knew I had personally made a difference in at least some people's lives regarding their opinion of our current state of affairs. Just to feel that motivated is a wonderful thing.
Anyway if you haven't seen the movie I think it's a must see. Looking forward to your comments.
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