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When the war in Iraq started, I was appalled by seeing my fellow workers cheering at the bomb blasts. While they were cheering as if they were participating in a video game, I, (with my obviously defective thinking), was thinking about the poor workers on the midnight shift, or the poorly paid security guards, who were getting blown to smithereens just because they showed up to do their jobs for the money to pay their bills. Saddam's family and friends were safely in other countries or hanging out on their yachts. Now, I see the polls are showing that many of those same Americans who were cheering the bomb blasts are now thinking the war is not such a great thing after all. I wish they had been a lot more thoughtful when the war started and given consideration to who the people are who are getting bombed, who are dying, and what is the truth about the circumstances that have caused this sorry state of affairs to happen. Is the video game over? Should we start thinking about the realities of what we are doing? I know most Democrats have been thinking about these things. Isn't it well past time for the rest of America to do so also?
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