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The truth as I see it
The final 'Truth as I see it'
Austin Rucker, Columnist, arucker@smu.edu
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: The Mix
America rules. That is a fact. Let me make that clear because I love this country more than anything. It has made my life absolutely worth living because of the basic freedoms afforded by the First through 13th Amendments.
That said, America has a problem that it needs to deal with. It's worse than a crying baby in the next room; it's worse than having someone slash your tires. The problem America faces right now is like having a railroad company buy the land next to your house the day before Christmas. On Christmas morning you wake up to your kids screaming and there's a construction worker peeing on the Christmas tree in the living room, and he's also an illegal immigrant coming to take your job with no insurance.
First there is Iraq. This pisses me off because we were told in the beginning that it was going to take a month and cost about $10 billion. Those little lying bastards have cost me more than tax dollars; they've completely obliterated my faith in the federal government.
As I see it, there are two things the U.S. government can do: make us rich and lie to everyone. Up until the war in Iraq they were not mutually exclusive, and now I'm looking at a $600 tax refund with the knowledge that it will buy approximately one third as much gas as it would before 3,000 American kids went over to get shot in the sandbox by a bunch of Halliburton stockholders.
That's ridiculous. Worst of all, most of those kids didn't even understand basic calculus because our education system sucks. Why on earth are we telling the rest of the world what to do when we've got seniors in high school who can't read?
No child left behind, my ass, Mr. Bush.
Actually, we are leaving kids behind; we're leaving lives in the desert. I don't care about Iraqi boys and girls; they mean about as much as the pets left out after Katrina. That is, they are not on my list of priorities.
Sure, the Iraq war makes sense when you consider that Saddam tried to kill the U.S. president, so we wrecked his country and had him lynched on YouTube. Unfortunately, that's the only way that you can justify the war without having someone mention a bunch of B.S. about 'peak oil,' 'Al Samood Missiles,' 'Israel' or 'al-Qaida,' which is funny because as of Sept. 10, 2001, Saddam Hussein was pretty much at war with al-Qaida himself.
That said, America has a problem that it needs to deal with. It's worse than a crying baby in the next room; it's worse than having someone slash your tires. The problem America faces right now is like having a railroad company buy the land next to your house the day before Christmas. On Christmas morning you wake up to your kids screaming and there's a construction worker peeing on the Christmas tree in the living room, and he's also an illegal immigrant coming to take your job with no insurance.
First there is Iraq. This pisses me off because we were told in the beginning that it was going to take a month and cost about $10 billion. Those little lying bastards have cost me more than tax dollars; they've completely obliterated my faith in the federal government.
As I see it, there are two things the U.S. government can do: make us rich and lie to everyone. Up until the war in Iraq they were not mutually exclusive, and now I'm looking at a $600 tax refund with the knowledge that it will buy approximately one third as much gas as it would before 3,000 American kids went over to get shot in the sandbox by a bunch of Halliburton stockholders.
That's ridiculous. Worst of all, most of those kids didn't even understand basic calculus because our education system sucks. Why on earth are we telling the rest of the world what to do when we've got seniors in high school who can't read?
No child left behind, my ass, Mr. Bush.
Actually, we are leaving kids behind; we're leaving lives in the desert. I don't care about Iraqi boys and girls; they mean about as much as the pets left out after Katrina. That is, they are not on my list of priorities.
Sure, the Iraq war makes sense when you consider that Saddam tried to kill the U.S. president, so we wrecked his country and had him lynched on YouTube. Unfortunately, that's the only way that you can justify the war without having someone mention a bunch of B.S. about 'peak oil,' 'Al Samood Missiles,' 'Israel' or 'al-Qaida,' which is funny because as of Sept. 10, 2001, Saddam Hussein was pretty much at war with al-Qaida himself.
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