Flipping through my xanga post throughout the years I've found this one post from 3/2003:
So... War started.
I really have mix feeling about this war... In a sense that well... I am a U.S. citizen and I really should support my government position. But then again I'm a political sciense student at the infamous UC Berkeley, my position really should reflect the student body too... Well here it goes.
The UCB student side of me:
FUCK BUSH! FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING STUPID ROTTEN WAR! Didn't your daddy teach you to play nice? WTF? First you cut the taxes to the rich w/o giving anything back to the people. You and your fucking Enron shit FUCKED california over with the energy crisis. You fucking send my friends in harms way for what reason? Don't tell me it's for freedom and democracy because it's a load of shit! Asshole wants OIL! I know about the National Security Directive from 1991 that outlined this day, speaks the truth asshole! Your fucking speech sucks, you have failed to convince anyone to backed you on this war! Fuck off Bush! Step down and go hang yourself!
The Poli Sci in me:
A war at this moment is premature and will do us no good domestically or internationally, there will be several major fallout from this conflict and I'm honestly not sure if the Bush administration realized the full consequence.
First off, this unilateral action will definitely hurt the authority of the United Nation. Although much recent documents suggested that members of this administration and wanted to rid the UN and exercise true US Hegemony for some time now (since the end of the cold war) however, there is no assurance that the US can be the only hegemonic power and that it will result in a more stable world than under the United Nations.
Second off, the lack of moral and political backing will have serious consequences at home and abroad. Without UN consenus and the subsequent international approval, The US unilateral action have no moral backing. This may not matter in this conflict but it will discredit the US in the long run. Our trade and our credibility as the "good guys" will suffer. Traditional allies in Europe will not look at this very kindly. By going to war w/o a UN resolution, Bush is also risking alienating much of the US population, whom many of them, according to recent polls, does not support military action against Iraq without a UN resolution. With election year looming near this war, even if it goes well, will be fresh in everyones mind, and the Democrats will surely play the moral side in their campain.
Finally the economic aspect of it. Without a UN resolution, the US and Britian are the only ones that are bearing the cost of this war... The war itself is already set up to cost about 150 billion dollars - of US citizens TAX money. The subsequent aids and other reconstruction cost will be far greater. By going to war without a UN resolution and piss off our allies, we, along with GB, may have to bear ALL the cost ourselves, such large expenditure will only further cripple our economy, as well as drive the national deficit even deeper into the hole... And guess who will have to pay for those debts? Future college gradurates, who are already paying increased tuition due to state budget cuts, racking up more student loans and now... bear the cost of the war. If one need to object the war one only need to object it from this perspective: We simply cannot afford to do so, and if we found out that we really cannot afford the war and decided that it's time to pull out, it will be even worse then leaving Saddam where he was, because it will throw the entire region into chaos, oil production will be compromise and the popular feelings will boiled and manifest itself into something far uglier then what we have now, this sitution, if not handled properly will have the exact opposite effect then intended.
I guess I was right for the most part.
Reading many of my post from before also made me realize I'm pretty much the same person now as I was when I first started this blog thing. I do different things now, better dressed, and live in the East Coast, but it's still the same old me.
This wouldn't be so bad, if I'd liked how I was back then... | 
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