while i sit there next to the foreman...i tell him how the weather in arizona is about the same as here right now...that peaks his interest and he turns closer to me..."arizona?"..."yeah it's by california"..."california!?"...i can tell he's heard of cali...every one seems to have heard of that state...hollywood and baywatch...the land of the beautiful people...i tell him how even though it is really hot here it is nothing compared to afghanistan...he's really into what i'm saying now...he has many questions about afghanistan...i tell him that the weather was very extreme there and the people were very very poor...i ask him about what he thinks of all that is going on..."do you think america did the right thing"...he thinks for a few seconds..."yes and no"...he tells me that the old regime was very bad...and just about anything is better...but he is a little unpleased that we are going to be here for so long...but he understands why...he says a lot of the iraqi people are acting very crazy...stealing and killing...raping and littering..."they think freedom is doing absolutely anything that you want...they don't understand what freedom is...they are creating an anarchy not freedom"...he tells me about the gangs...they steal anything and everything..."they are cutting the copper electrical lines and pulling them up...they drive them to jordan and sell them on the black market...they will steal your car at gunpoint and sell it across the border"..."yeah we have gangs like that too in america"..."really"...he is very surprised to hear this...they must not see much american gang activity on the television pictures of california..."yeah it's called car jacking in the states"...he looks at me and cranes his neck trying to understand what i just said..."car vacking"...yeah something like that...

i think it's hilarious when people bash on the french because they didn't support this war...the whole 'you're either for us or against us' spiel is so old...i'm here in freaking baghdad and i don't even know if i'm for us or against us...changing the name of french fries to freedom fries...and french toast to freedom toast...so petty...i guess we are pretty quick to forget which country helped make our country...and even when america gained it's independence with the help of france...i'm sure they didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts...they hated england...and they had an agenda...i guess all those france haters think we should pack up the statue of liberty and send it back to the land of the eiffel tower...they did give it to us you know...

no political leadership does what is right simply because what is right is the right thing to do...that reason simply is not entirely worth it to the powers that be...people get real caught up in thinking that there are actually rules in the world scheme...i don't think that's the case...it's all about who comes out on top...at any cost...it pays to be the top dog...because you can make and break the rules...do i think that this is right??? hell no...it's so screwed up that i want to start screaming...