re: #358 palmerskiss

write about it. bring it up when it is pertinent, urge politicians to seek justice,

For fuck’s sake, what does ‘seek justice’ mean? If I go up to a senator and say ‘seek justice on Iraq’ he’ll say, if he’s not just blowing me off, “What do you mean?” And you have no answer, apparently.

What do you mean? What are you asking me to ask for?

say in discussions about chavez - so that they be starkly contrasted.

I’m sorry, why is contrasting it a good thing? Chavez is also dead, so I’m kind of lost on this point.

advocate restrictions for making war. advocate for legal outcomes.

I do advocate for restrictions for making war—but again, something concrete would be nice here. What legal outcomes are you talking about? Get over your allergy to actually saying something specific.

you get the point - i get this all makes you uncomfortable - and you can attack me personally for it - but this is a big deal - and a lot of people died. and no - i am not sorry for making us uncomfortable talking about it.

It doesn’t make me uncomfortable. I talk about Iraq all the time, and what a fucking disaster it was, and how it is a model of what not to do on every level. How it shows that a democracy isn’t surety against anything. What I’m not doing is saying, when Putin invades the Crimea “Well, the US has done shitty things too,” because that is A) pointless and B) encourages shit like Iraq.

I have no fucking clue where you get this idea that you’re floating above us on some sort of hard-truths cloud while we’re all trying to forget it.