I try to stay out of these conversations, i mean.... I don't like to be the springboard for conversations that make ppl angry or anything. I just think that, first of all, this anti-american sentiment is almost entirely deserved. I am an american, and i like where i live. I suppose its better than some places, worse than some others. It's hard for me to stand behind this war, though. I just don't see the right of it. Saddam may be a dictator and a tyrant, but what business is that of ours? As Jeanette Winterson said on her website, europe didn't step in when black americans were being lynched and burned in the earlier part of the 20th century. I know that's not the strongest argument for not getting involved, but it illustrates the fact that just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should. The north korean government is pretty bad too. are we going to bomb them next? I hope not. I think of my government as a bit of a schoolyard bully. A big, potbellied, red-knuckled ten-year-old. He knocks people down that he doesn't like. His little gang of friends would be like the majority of the american public; blindly following. I can't bring myself to hate GWB. I think that he's not fit to run the country. I think he's a barely literate orator, and i think that he pronounces too many words incorrectly to be allowed to drop bombs on people. I hate that we're not supposed to call them "french fries" anymore, but we should call them "freedom fries." I think that one statement sums up the entirety of my feelings for the war. Anyway, this is a bit longer than i meant it to be. Just understand that i'm very anti-war, i'm not anti-american (but i see why so many ppl are), and i don't know a whole lot about the white stripes. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+