2003-03-28 
 

word on the street

Trying not to harp on it too much, but today I actually heard the following
exchange between two people at the crosswalk on the way to FedEx:

Person 1:
I do feel bad for the people living there. It's gotta be hard to have bombs
going off over your head all day.

Person 2:
Well, what do they expect? They hit us on 9/11, this is what they get!

Myself screaming silently in my head:
HELLOOOO! The people responsible for 9/11 are not why we're in Iraq right
now. Blaming the Iraqi people for that travesty is the equivalent of
blaming US Citizens for a corrupt Mexican police force. (grant you there's
a difference in the heinousity scale there, but the analogy remains valid)

Ugh.

Labels: politics, seen and heard

* posted by me at 1:28 AM

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