We were in the middle of being photographed by the media, when we heard someone from behind demanding to speak to “the leaders”, someone told him to hold on and not to get “his water in a boil”, when the photo was done being taken I went over to speak to him, hoping it was a member of the press.
It wasn’t, it was a member of the 37-41% who still tell pollsters they think Bush is doing a good job.
You have to assume around %20 is either on the Bush payroll or just has hate in their heart. This kid did not fall into that category, his name is Jason and I believe he is a nice person, a good person but sadly he is just a misinformed person.
Jason had the following points to make with me
1. Iraq had a) Mobile Biological Weapons Labs and b) strong WMD production capability at the time of US invasion.
Of course the Bush Administration’s own David Kay has conceded that Iraq had no deployable WMD of any kind as of March 2003 and had no production since 1991. The mobile weapons labs never existed, ever, they were just made up so the administration could say the UN weapons inspectors couldn’t work because Saddam had the WMD production moving all over the country faster than the UN could find them. Think about it, we never saw any real pictures of mobile labs, just illustrations, no mobile labs were found after the invasion, and finally having tons of anthrax driving around Iraq’s roads could turn a routine traffic accident into a catastrophy. Add mobile labs in with the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) that were suppose to be able to fly anthrax to NY or London in 45 minutes.
2. Jason reasoned that we had to be wrong about the Bush Administration suspending civil liberties so that even American citizens can be detained indefinitely without access to lawyers or the courts as long as the Administration identified them as so-called “enemy combatants”. Why did he think we were wrong about the PATRIOT act? Because of the Michael Jackson trial, that’s why.
I don’t even know what to say about that one.
3. Jason compared torture to abortion.
Or that one.
We were also wrong because his grand-parents had fought in WW II apparently.
Pat had a lot more patience with Jason and kept talking to him after I gave up and told him to get more informed. Which is probably the right way to go because I do think Jason is a good kid and I really hope he doesn’t join the Marines which he was talking about doing.
- Will
