Should I stay or should I go?

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I don't scare easily, but some stuff is going on that is REALLY pushing my antidepressants to the limits!

First, as 85% of Americans know, our 'president' is messing things up BAD.

Now I caught this!! (click for link)
Here's the summery:
Drumbeat For Attack on Iran Grows Louder in Washington
Talk about a U.S. attack on Iran appears to be growing louder in Washington. There are reports that Vice President Dick Cheney's office has issued instructions to conservative think tanks to start a drumbeat for attacking Iran. On Monday the American Enterprise Institute is hosting two events related to Iran. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is giving a speech on how the war on terrorism should be viewed as a "a world war that pits civilization against terrorists and their state sponsors who wish to impose a new dark age." Later in the day former CIA director Jim Woolsey and others will meet to discuss a new book by longtime Iran hawk Michael Leeden titled "The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots" Quest for Destruction." The Heritage Foundation recently hosted an interagency Bush administration war game attempting to anticipate Iranian responses to a U.S. bombing campaign. Meanwhile the Sunday Times of London has reported the Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive air strikes against twelve hundred targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three days. The main source of the article was an official at another conservative Washington think tank – the Nixon Center.

That scares me to death. I'm a good American! I served my country in the Army, and I love my country enough to ask questions and criticize it when needed. I do not agree with Bush's Oil-War in Iraq and soon Iran. To those ppl that say it's not about the oil, just think. If the main export was broccoli instead of oil, would we be there? Of course not!

I have it it with the people that have run this country for about the past 200 years or so, now more than ever.


I have entertained the idea of just leaving back when Bush was 'selected' to be president the first time. I looked into Canada. It was close, has English speaking (for the majority) citizens, better healthcare, etc..

Now I'm having those ideas again.

I know that Ana is trying to set up a commune in the Great White North. I've followed it with a casual interest for a while, but it's looking like a more viable potential option all of the time!!

Any input?

How hard Canadian citizenship to get?

Am I insane?

Sadly I find it's every bit as easy to read the paper/watch the news and get stressed about politicians doing ridiculous things that you can't control in my country as it is in yours.

Welcome to WP!

Tim

(the welcome was for SarahStilettos)

Tim

thankyou very much.

things I have read here have already made me feel a bit better and I'm only three posts in.

Sometimes I feel like I would want to leave this country eventually, but I really like what I have here, so I don't see that happening. Bush will be gone soon. I'm hoping to see Obama or Christopher Walken run for president.

You should look into moving to Canada.

MADDuck,

Yeah, I think you are insane. Do you really think the US would just attack someone with nuclear weapons? ESPECIALLY since they DO have neighboors, etc... As for it being about the OIL, if their main export was broccoli, they wouldn't have made NEARLY as much and would still be nomadic. EVERYTHING would be different. You guys talk like the US government gets all the oil and somehow benefits. NOPE! OPEC has been allowed to control prices for a LONG time.

ALSO, if the US is attacked, Canada will be one of the first to get hit by fallout, etc... So canada isn't safe.

BTW 200 years ago the government was apparently a LOT better! Social morality, guilt, being able to read the constitution, living up to things like NO private or domestic taxes! NO foreign wars! NO nuclear weapons, not even semiautomatic weapons. A LOT happened in the past 200 years. Do you realize that a contracting firm here is getting off because a fastener company supposedly had problems with its epoxy and a woman got killed? *************WHO CARES????***********! The contractors shouldn't have used epoxy to begin with! What's next, a cellophane company getting sued because it can replace car windshields and survive accidents? That makes about as much sense. I don't know why they didn't use crazy glue! THAT is advertised as being strong, and makes as much sense. I am kidding about the celophane and crazy glue, of course. I only WISH the other thing was a joke.

Sometimes I am shocked the human race is still here.

i know. personally i think its undemocratic like to force democracy on other countries. and i wouldnt worry about the republicans much too longer they already lossed the next presidency watch