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Bluffton BBQ and leapolds ice cream and clash of the titans with friends!

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Before anyone goes any further please be warned that the embedded video contains extremely violent and graphic content – that being said you NEED to watch this. I only recently came upon this via www.wikileaks.org and was stricken utterly dumb by it. Take a watch and then read on…

They always say that there are three things you should never talk about in polite conversation – politics, sex and religion. So I guess I’m all cleared then to talk about war, but then again no one has ever accused me of being polite in my conversations so the hell with it.

I watched this video and my first thought was one of horror at watching these people die. Then I started to think about the situation and how I should/would respond to it.  I mean its war right? War is hell. People die. Its horrible. So many terrible things have been done in the name of war. We should just look the other way, forgive it all because its war. We are their protecting the safety of our country by rooting out terrorists and helping to stabilize the country from the horrible evil insurgents right. All of these sound like convenient excuses…

This isn’t homework people and the dog didn’t eat it.

The truth is people die. It happens every day all over the globe. One minute your here then next … pop hello happy hunting ground. It’s not death I’m upset by here – its how they died, why they died. This is a very confusing, emotionally distressing and complicated situation to address. Most people, because it is so distressful will go the party line, will follow blindly the shepard because thinking about it, dealing with it on an emotional level is too hard.

Take just one second, and re-watch the video the part where you are watching a fellow human being being ripped apart by 30mm bullets…  Now imagine that this was your mother, brother, sister, father, wife or husband. How truly horrible. How does it make you feel? What would you want to do about it?

So whose to blame? We always have to point the finger at someone right? Someone is at the wrong here and should be punished for this act of murder right? Is it murder when its war? Should we blame the soldiers flying the heli’s or what about the radio operator who gives the go sign? or was it the photographer and reporters fault for being in a war zone? How about the president or congress for keeping us there? Or maybe it was Saddam Hussein’s fault for being a right bastard… but wait he got his punishment.

It’s hard to kill someone when you’re not carrying a weapon. Its hard to kill innocents when you’re not flying over their homes. But the argument here is well they hide in innocents homes and to avoid casualties on “our side” we take certain measures… wait who is “our side”? Wait why are we even in Iraq? Like I said complicated…

I guess this makes me sad and angry because there is no easy answer, no quick solution where we all go home safe and get chocolate bunnies instead of folded flags and broken hearts.

Were mistakes made where innocent people died? You betcha.

Did they die for the greater good and success of the Iraq war? Not likely.

Will it happen again? hello human nature…

What can we do about it?

Talk about it. Work through our problems. Avoid war at all costs because as a great sage once said – “Don’t give into hate for that path leads to the dark side.”

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The frogs have all arrived for their yearly orgy in my pond. It’s a wonderful chorus of chirping and croaking.

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