too smart to be republican.

this is an e-mail i wrote to amy about my thoughts on mccain and the war in Iraq. i needed to vent, and didn't really wanna edit it all to make it more general...

so i was thinking today how ironic it is that you are a feminist and religious (hahah, sorry, i need to stop my uncontrollable laughter cuz you're a feminist) and also a republican. i mean, many republicans are pro-life. a pro-life feminist? seems a little weird, you know? also, i've often wondered how (generally speaking) republicans being more conservative are usually more religious. yet jesus preaches peace and "turning the other cheek"...not to mention one of the commandments is thou shall not kill. in fact, through out the old testament, killing is only percieved as just when God is the one ordering the killings. now, i think we can both agree that God did not go to Bush and tell him to invade Iraq and kill over a million innocent civilians, as well as kill more Americans than al quaeda did on 9/11.

i used to think people who think this war is not about oil were just ignorant and a little silly, but now i think they are fucking stupid and i am embaressed to call them my fellow americans. how can you support a party who uprooted innocent lives and societies just so we could secure oil? and in case you werent watching the news, Iraq didn't attack us, WMDs were never discovered, and Bin Laden is till on the loose in Afghanistan. not to mention, we defeated hitler and the nazi regeime and won WWII in less time than we've been in Iraq -- amazing, no?

i find it ironic also that mccain says we can "win" in iraq. i'm curious what his definition of "success" is. is it having all the iraqies love us? because that will never fucking happen, much less the whole world looking up to us like they did in the late '90s with the innovation technology boom. is it when there are no more infidels and religious fanatical attacks on the us troops? cuz that wont happen either - we dont even have peace in the US! no, i believe success in iraq comes from when we stop playing world police and go back to being a leader, not a conquerer. i wish arrogant slobs like mccain would realize that not everybody wants a democracy, and that a democracy is not always the right answer. great, we freed a people from a horrible ruler, but why the fuck are we still there? we have no right to occupy that country. we need to withdraw, and let the iraqi security forces do their job. that will be success.

then invade afghanistan and fuck bin laden up. in terms of iran, your candidate doesnt want to negoiate at all with their leaders, he just wants to go in and blow some shit up. it worked in iraq, and everyone loves us for it -- so why not try again, right?

i will concede that the recent surge in iraq has been successful in lowering deaths of american troops, however, we will never win the iraq war in mccains sense of the war. we should never have been there in the first place. we need to once again be a leader in this world in terms of innovation and technology, not a dictatorship establishing our rules and systems of belief on other countries.

you come back from Africa saying how said it is that all these children live in horrible conditions and have been oppressed their whole lives, when thats exactly what we are doing to the iraqi people. i think thats a little hypricritical on your part...

wow. and i haven't even talked yet about FUCKING RIDICULOUS it would be to allow off shore drilling yet... i mean, does mccain really think that will bring down gas prices? those drills wont be online for at least 15 years (ones in alaska perhaps 7-9 years). by 2020 our consumption of oil will increase 145% if it countinues growing at a rate now (and that will only increase). sounds like a band-aid to me. we need to invest in alternative energy. shale oil and gas, tar sands, biofuels, clean coal, solar, wind, water energy -- your candidate is a fucking idiot when he comes to that shit. we cannot drill are way out of this. period.

and his thoughts on nuclear? are u fucking kidding me? he wants 45 new plants? well, we already have 39 which are fifty years old (a very old age for a nuclear reactor) and need to be taken offline and rebuilt. so really, it'll be like adding six.

if mccain is president, i might move to canada after undergrad school.

now, please...i want you to defend yourself. because, a girl with the brains and brawns that you have is wayyy wayyy wayyy to fucking smart to be republican. what gives?