Saturday night I was watching Saturday Night Live as a part of my usual routine before bed. The “Weekend Update” was especially entertaining. Tina Fey was talking about President Bush’s inability to find weapons of mass destruction.
She said it used to make her mad when they talked about them, but now she just feels sorry for them, the same way she feels when Linus waits on the Great Pumpkin.
I couldn’t help but agree whole-heartedly with her.
I know it is unpopular to disagree with our involvement in Iraq, but I get the feeling we will never find any evidence of these “weapons of mass destruction.”
Just a few days after 9/11, I was driving up Tennessee Street on my way home from school and noticed that someone had spray painted the word “bombing” on the stop sign at the end of the road. “Stop bombing” it said.
I sat at the intersection much longer than normal pondering on the newly vandalized sign.
The sign is still there and each time I drive past it, I am reminded about how scared I was in the days following the attack on our nation, yet how comforting it was to know that someone else had the same feelings I did about the whole situation.
I am not a hardcore protester of the war. I subscribe to the laissez-faire method of citizenship.
I accept the fact that the government will do whatever it wants no matter how loud I yell or who I complain to. I also appreciate our military and the sense of security they provide. I am not unappreciative of all the benefits to which I am entitled simply because I am a U.S. citizen.
I am just a little skeptical about the whole situation now.
It’s been two and a half years since this whole thing started. We have captured Saddam Hussein which I thought was the main reason we were there in the first place. Apparently, I was wrong.
It’s not that I think we should never get involved in situations like this, and I also don’t believe that we were necessarily wrong to do what we did. I, like Fey, have grown tired of the witch hunt for weapons in Iraq.
Perhaps in late October, just in time for the election, Bush will “find” what he has been looking for which will seal his re-election. My guess is it will be that, or Bin Laden, but I’ll just have to wait and see.
So go ahead and open up your Microsoft Word or pull out your pen and paper and write me a nasty letter about how I am ignorant not to believe Bush and his accusations. But the evidence does not support what Bush is saying. Here in America you can’t be convicted without evidence, and if there is reasonable doubt, there is no choice but to acquit.
I hope no one loses sight of that in this hunt to find the people who attacked us.

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