Saturday, February 10, 2007
Send white trash celebrities to Iraq
Anna Nicole Smith died. She was found “unresponsive” in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
This was huge news for some reason. I couldn’t believe how much the mainstream news media seemed to care about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. There were other things going on Thursday that were far more important and effected far more people then Anna Nicole Smith dying in an Indian casino hotel room.
Take Iraq for example. Almost every single day American service members are killed in Iraq. It seems to me that nobody even cares anymore. At least not the way they care about Anna Nicole Smith dying.
I think that is what bothers me the most about Bush’s war in Iraq. It’s not the flawed reasons and false justifications for invading Iraq. It’s not the colossal waste of money. Money we don’t really have. What bothers me the most is how little my fellow Americans seemingly care about the troops being sent over there.
Contrary to what you may have read on a magnetic yellow ribbon bumper sticker placed on the back of an SUV, Americans just don’t care about American solders dying in Iraq.
I realize just how little Americans care when I see the collective slobber fest over the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Frankly, I’m suprised she didn’t O.D. years ago. Like her son.
Maybe the answer to ending the war in Iraq is to draft white trash celebrities and send them to Iraq. Force them into the military and make them ride around Baghdad in an unarmored HUMVEE. Maybe then America will finally start to care what happens over there. Maybe if Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears were sent to Iraq, people might finally care what happens over there.
Maybe.
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Maybe it’s not that people don’t care about the soldiers in Iraq- it might just be the idea that we, the citizens of the US, have NO control over them being there.
We’ve voted so many Republicans out of office and the troops are STILL there. I know, it takes time for a troop drawdown, blah blah blah, and all that, but it’s frustrating.
I think people just want to get their minds off of the deaths of Americans on foreign soil. This sticking of our collective heads in the sand is certainly bad- but probably inevitable given the protracted nature of this “war.” World War II was shorter.
I don’t know. Maybe this isn’t all true. But I hope it is, for one reason: I hope the American public isn’t dumb enough to care about the bloated corpse of Anna Nicole Smith, America’s funniest drug addicted reality star.