A rant that does not belong to the pit

The BBQ Pit
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I was deeply disturbed two days ago, when the ultimatum was over. All of the news networks started trasmiting live from Bagdag, the worst part is that all during the day they were counting the minutes till the start of hostilities. When the clock finally struck I realized that what had long been expected by the world was finally happening. The invasion was about to begin.

Suddenly it was all silence, we were two minutes into the war and I realized that all was quiet. This is strange because I live in the downtown of a rather large city , silence is something I have never heard. I realized something else it wasn’t only my city, the TV was silent too. The journalists that up to that moment have been analysing the news, suddenly stop. And finally, I made my third discovery of the night. Bagdag was also silent. So, it seemed was the world.

Of course that city and all it’s inhabitants were silent, destruction was about too pour from the sky above their heads. And in the silence I started thinking, I was thinking that the same sky that greeted them every day was about to betray them. You don’t need to tell me, I am a very poet.

The clock continue ticking and the world was still quiet, suddenly I made the final discovery of the night, the world was quiet because it was wating for the bombs to strike.

I who have denounced and have complained about this war for months, tiring my family, friends, and possibly many dopers was waiting with morbid curiosity for the first bomb to hit. At that moment I finally figured that thousands of miles away people were about to die. Up to that moment war wasn’t real. For months we had all see it coming but deep inside me I had no doubt that at the end it wouldn’t happen. But the worst part is that till that moment I have never seriously considered the Irakies. I denounced the agression, I cited the U.N. charter I had spoken of human rights and the horros of modern warfare but I have never really thought about the Irakies. After all the war wasn’t really happening.

But the war was about to happen and as I saw my family (who were watching tv with me), I started thinking that in Bagdag at the same moment someone could be looking at his family not knowing if he was going to see them again in the morning. And I was watching the tv with morbid curiosity waiting for the first bomb to strike. Those Irakies were thousands of miles away, and for months I have never really thought about them…

I started crying, and once again I demostrated that I was a worthless human being because I wasn’t cryng for them but for me.

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replace I am a very poet with I am a very ** bad **. I also made a mess with some verbal times. Sorry I should have previewed.

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Forgive my brevity-- you have said all that I think needs to be said.

I believe you’ve spoken for a lot of people, including me.

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Your post opened my eyes (even if just one). I have been against war not for moral reasons, but for judicial reasons.

I am certainly willing to sacrifice a few innocent people in order to save the masses…but the question is: are we really saving anyone?

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I am warching Frontline on PBS right now. Sadam is subhuman. He is beyond brutal. His idol was Stalin. I hope he is still alive so he can be torn apart by a mob and suffer before he dies. I hope there is a hell so he can suffer for eternity.

Wake up. There is suffering every day somewhere in the world. There is death and injustice. This is a warning to the rest of these degenerates that America has the will to act and we cannot be beaten.

I am sorry for all the innocent peole who are dying. Thank Sadam and his ilk for that.

Bush, don’t stop in IRAQ, take Syria also.

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Djf750 I think you are mistaken about this thread. My intention wasn’t discussing Bush or Saddam or the legitimacy (or not) of this war. I am sorry you didn’t understand me.

My only objective was a mild but very sad rant about myself. I describe my feelings when I realized that the war was happening, incidentally I would like to hear about what other dopers have to say. Let me be clear as the op I don’t care (in this thread) about the reasons of this war and I don’t care if they are against or for the war.I only think that this would be a great place simply to share our feelings without reverting (as usuall) in partisanism.

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Estilicon, I understand and share your feelings about this war.

When it all began, I was watching my toddler playing on the floor. Somewhere in Baghdad, there was almost certainly a mom watching her 20-month-old play, also. And that mom feels exactly the same way that I do.

It seems so distant when I see the bombing on TV, but that mom in Baghdad is worried about her son surviving this. And I’m worried about mine bumping his head when he falls. It gives me quite a sense of perspective.

Sure, I could argue politics and such, but when it comes down to it, I’m just sad for the people who are going to die, lose loved ones, and have their lives wrecked by all of this. It just isn’t worth it.:frowning: