[James]

The real question:

Should I even bother to click Vinnie's link? :/

Look, I don't care about the war. I don't care about soldiers dying. If I had things my way, there wouldn't even be a war. But I'm not going to protest or promote the actions taken by our country. If that makes me a bad person, than tough shit.

Think about this: In the time it took for me to write that above paragraph, how many people - out of the 6-billion in the world - died? Do you know? Do you know who they are? They're not in the news, or casualties of war, so they must not matter. If I'm going to care about people who I don't know dying, then why single out those who are newsworthy? And more to the point, if I worried about everyone and everything that dies in the world, I would have gone completely insane years ago.

You can't pick and choose. If you care about soldiers dying, why not everyone else? If it's because they're serving their country, then why do you feel the need to support those fighting in a war most of you were against? If you feel it's the patriotic thing to do, then why is it only convenient to be patriotic in times of crisis?

Like I said, I was fooled by 9/11. They're not going to make me care again.

In other words, we're all hypocrites in some way or another. But rather than trying to double-talk my way out of being one with excuses and bullshit reasons like so many people, I'd just prefer to say, "You know what? Fuck it?" (And no, that wasn't an attack on anyone to my knowledge. Just a general statement).