this is. my broken. childhood

ROMANTICIZED!
...written on 2004-03-20, @ 6:21 p.m.

I love:

danger...
panick...
anger...
death...
betrayel...
pain...

I'm reading a book called Son of the Mob and it is amazingly good. It's about a young man named Vince whose father is a underworld kingpin mobster. He's in love with this girl named Kendra Bightly but he can't afford for her to know anything about his family because her father is an FBI agent who monitors Vince's house. (His father calls him Agent Bite Me...Bightly...Bite Me...get it?) It's great so far.

I have this twisted hilarious dream that I've had for years and years.I've always wanted to be a mobster's wife. Laugh all you want or cringe...but yep...that's my dream. My Great Uncle was a mobster. He made lots-o-moolah the dirty way. Than he got...ahem...let's just say he recieved a boo boo in his back that bled... a lot. I had to go to his funeral when I was nine and than a week later, my Great Aunt was bankrupt. Someone got into all their bank accounts and sucked them dry...She just passed away about a year ago. Twisted aren't I? Enjoying the money while others get screwed over. I thought it was a dangerous romantic idea...ROMANTICIZED! I'm one for the tall, dark and deadly kind...just as long as they don't like beating on women and just people who owe them money. Now I guess that I've told you my dream life, you figure out why I love Scarface so much.

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I think Bush has had his fair share of laughing at most of America's ignorance but isn't it time for him to quit napping in a president's bed and go home to his Texas Ranch...wait...he's there practically ever month so why am I saying he needs to go home?

People are so damn ignorant that they don't realize that the government is fixing itself so that we can't do anything about how they run the U.S? And why is it that they think that teenagers have no opinion? WE'RE THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO BE CHANGING THEY'RE DIAPERS WHEN THEY'RE EIGHTY YEARS OLD! Well, I won't be doing it. *shudder*. Here's a look on the one year anniversary of this "War on Iraq". How embarrassing...

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IRAQ: ONE YEAR LATER THE WAR CONTINUES

On the first anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Democracy Now! spends the hour looking at a war that was carried out over the objections of most of the world's nations and people. We hear from an Iraqi in Baghdad, U.S. soldiers back from Iraq, journalist Christian Parenti and from protesters across the globe.

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On March 20, 2003 at approximately 5:35 am Baghdad time, US forces began raining bombs down on Iraq, while thousands of US and British soldiers began pouring across Iraq's borders. It was a year ago today US time. It was the official beginning to what the Bush administration hailed as a campaign of "Shock and Awe." The attacks were not authorized by the United Nations and they were carried out over the loud and public objections of most of the world's nations and people.

The bombing and invasion in Iraq were met with an almost immediate response of massive world-wide protest. A year later, the war in Iraq continues. Some would say, it has only just begun. Perhaps as many as 10, 000 Iraqi civilians have died. Resistance to the occupation has increased. And US soldiers continue to come home in body bags. According to the Pentagon's official statistics, more than 570 US soldiers have been killed, more than 430 of these since George Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared the end of major combat operations. According to the Pentagon, some 29,000 US troops have either been killed, wounded, injured or become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq. That is close to the total of a whole army division.

After Bush landed on the aircraft carrier last May 1, he spoke to soldiers with a banner behind him that read "Mission Accomplished." No weapons of mass destruction have been found.

The Bush administration has barred media organizations from filming the return of caskets from Iraq and President Bush has yet to attend a single funeral of a soldier killed in action during his presidency. While he hasn't found time to attend any funerals, Bush and Vice president Dick Cheney attended some 100 campaign fundraisers in 2003, some of these on days when US soldiers were being laid to rest. And while the bodybags continue to come home, it remains Iraqis who pay the price of the occupation. There is no doubt that the situation in Iraq has grown more and more violent each day the occupation continues, even though Saddam Hussein and his top leadership have been either killed or captured. Almost no day goes by without a bombing in Iraq, a US soldier being killed, an Iraqi life being destroyed. Desertions from the US army have increased by 32% since 1999.

By the end of 2003, the cost of the Iraq war to US taxpayers was more than $100 billion. This weekend, people across the globe will mark the one year anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq.

Today on the program, we will hear from protest organizers around the world and find out what kinds of actions will be taking place. We will also be joined by soldiers from the US military, who have been deployed in Iraq, as well as journalist Christian Parenti, who was embedded with both the US military and an Iraqi resistance group. But first, we go to Baghdad where we are joined by a man familiar to Democracy Now! listeners. He was on this show a year ago, when he said that UK/USA means "United to Kill Us All." Ghazwan al-Mukhtar is a retired engineer, who lives with his family in Baghdad.

Excerpt of "We Interrupt this Empire" by San Francisco

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