Revenge Never Works

I know it sounds ridiculous coming from a vengeful bastard like me, but revenge never works. It never works because there are casualties. It never works because everyone loses.

Right now we are at war with a country that was an enemy to our current president’s father. He is trying to compensate for his father’s premature pull-out from Iraq before toppling Saddam’s regime. But looking back, George the 41st was right in not taking out Saddam. Now we are killing civilians in Iraq. Some put the number at over 100,000. The entire Middle East hates us and lives in fear of being killed by our bombs. The war in Iraq was based on lies and revenge and everyone lost and continues to lose.

If I were to examine history, the only war that seems valid was against Hitler not only because he killed millions of innocent Jews, but also innocent gays and gypsies.

Let us not forget that George W. Bush is against stem cell research. His Supreme Court essentially reversed Brown vs. the Board of Education today. The conservatives on the court were hand picked by our president. They are anti-abortion and pro-guns.

The attacks on America are completely understandable. We are so quick to talk about the Nazis’ London but what about us dropping the bomb on Nagasaki. Whoever has the power makes the laws and those that are in power now are under fire.

That is why I am running for the presidency, not that I am more honest but compared to our current one I look like Mahatma Gandhi.