I don't know what to call this. Is it extremely sad or just plain funny?

[jj_jonathon]

the campus paper printed an article about it too...

"I came to put my paper in the box and say I don't want America to come here and to say I hate Bush, because he wants to attack me," Ahmed Jawad, a parasitologist, said in a village outside Tikrit."

I completely understand the perspective, but that guy is completely ignorant if he thinks Saddam is there thinking about his people's best interest. America wouldn't need to go there if it wasn't for the guy he voted for and it wasn't for what their country tends to stand for: anti-freedom and hatred.

In Tikrit, one stooped Bedouin woman shrouded head to toe in black cloth pushed her way though dancing throngs of Hussein supporters. A vote-organizer stopped the woman, unfolded her ballot to make sure she had checked the "yes" box, noddedand handed the ballot back to her.

Now that is quite the election. Not only do you only get one person to vote for, you are choosing vote "yes" or be punished.

People who stand up for Iraq tend to completely brush off the fact that no one really can live their own life. Women are wrapped up, forbidden from public display; children are taught that hatred is a way of life and that anyone from the Americas should be killed; people can't have an opinion, they're given one....and the list goes on. I do agree, however, that it isn't right to go in there and destroy everyone since there are thousands of people trapped in these countires and would love to live in a land of the free, but on that same note, there are just as many or more in these countries who know nothing but hatred, and would gladly kill hundreds or thousands or people because they were told to. It's scary that human beings can act so stupid and have no real feelings towards other people or nations, but this is how they've been raised and there is no reversing them. I believe turning the country into a parking lot would be beneficial to world safety, but only for the short course, because it could start a chain reaction of "it's ok to destroy a country". Granted they're a major world threat, but the problem is that after this one would be gone, we'd need a new one.

I just don't understand why countries fight on all their citizen's behalves. It's all about power. There should be no such thing. But then we'd be in a perfect world where everyone did the right thing, etc etc. So life goes on, and hopefully we'll survive another day I guess.