re: #202 palmerskiss

i do not shirk my blame for iraq - even though i was against it - even though i was not old enough to vote - and even though i was not in the united states,

I am american - it was done in my name - carried out by a majority in a democracy.

i own it as much as the rest of us do….

i am guilty - i do not deny it - that is the price i pay for living in a democracy - never getting to remove myself from that democracy.

I don’t “own” it. I was against the invasion of Iraq—totally. I was repelled and disgusted by some of the things representatives of this country did, by the corruption, both there and here surrounding that war, and at numerous votes in Congress that permitted those things to happen.

But I’m not going to spend the rest of my life guilt-tripping myself over spilled milk, so to speak, esp for something a president I disagreed with on a daily basis did. I voted for Barack Obama because he promised to get troops out of there. What Iraq is doing to its own people on a daily basis by those jockeying for power is not my fault, either, but I still condemn it.

I’ll continue to speak out against injustices and for the rights of everyone, but I’m not going to continually be badgered for something I never supported.