So this coming election, I will not be voting once again. I didn't vote during the Gore/Bush/chads extraordinaire because I was in boot camp at the time and missed all the hoopla. Thank you Jesus, for boot camp. This time aorund I have missed alot of the campaigning due to the fact that I've been in Fallujah since March and won't be back until October. But something tells me I didn't miss much since the candidates usually save their best low blows for October, so that it sinks in in November, right in time for the election. But no matter, I'm not gonna vote. Yes I know what most of you are saying, "shame", "what a waste" "part of the problem", blah-blah-FUCKING-blah. But you know what, the majority of the armed forces that are overseas will not be voting either, contary to what the government says about absentee ballots. I should know, I had to throw them out because they were collecting dust. Taxpayers money at work. The truth hurts, I know. But the reason I'm not voting is because I think Bush will win. And why put in the effort for a sure thing. Seriously, I think he will beat Kerry and all his celebrity endorsements, purple hearts and war promises. People just like convenience. Its what they have been used to for the last 4 years. That's why I want him to stay as prez. Why send in someone new not see results til 2006? The last 4 years wasn't really that bad were they? Yeah we haven't found any WMD, but wasn't Saddam technically a WMD himself? At least to the Kurds and to his own country, he was. And why not let Bush finish what he started? I'm sure he's determined to stay for 8 after 9/11. Good presidents were able to become great presidents because they served 8 years. I think Bush is a pretty good president. And I think that's good enough to beat Kerry. Sorry people, I know I don't have too much facts or stats to back up my claim but hey, I'm only a Marine. And I should have more reasons to hate Bush for sending me to this hellhole called I raq, but I really believe that we are doing something good here for the people of Iraq. I mean last year, after my Battallion bombed and invaded An Nasriyah as a distraction force for Special Forces to save Jessica Lynch, I saw the look on the Iraquis' faces and alot of them were glad that we went in. This was the morning after the invasion, there were hurt Iraquis hobbling around from their wounds and they were giving us the thumbs up as we drove by. I mean alot of views has changed from last year to this year but I really think we are making progress here. Its just that the Iraquis think we are miracle workers and can have clean running water and electricity to houses that never had electricity before in just a wave of a magic wand. The insurgenst hates the globalization of America and western lifestyle, but they go home after mortaring our base and sit and watch the tube just like us. They can have a beer while they're watching soccer games from their stolen satellite feed or watch a bootleg copy of the Collateral with Tom Cruise on DVD. They can do stuff now that they weren't able to do before under the Baathist party and Saddam. Cell phones, Cable TVs, alcohol, gambling. Yeah alot of vices but hey, what's wrong with free will? The more they get a taste of our culture the more they want it for themselves. Its not about our occupation of Saudi Arabia or of us helping supply arms to the Israelis...its just about jealous and envy. They want what we have but are too damn proud to ask for it. So they resort to taking it in the name of ALLAH. Yeah I said it. Its a holy war they claim but is it really? Or is it just that we have it so good in America that they want to stop all the gluttony and narcissism? Do they not know that we have ghettos and starving people too. We have crime, pollution, and not to base our country on what they see in the movies. We help more countries than we destroy but yet they are too ignorant to realize that. That's why I think it will take Iraq 10 years to get caught up to the 21st centrury. And Bush is the only man right now who can get them up to par in that time span. I mean Time is money right taxpayers? So why let someone take over and waste more time setting up his proposals and plans and fire this person and change that. We'll give Kerry a chance in 2008. Things can't really get any better with him now. Convenience people. It sells.
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