South Chicagoland Young Democrats: The Blog

Some online fun that arrived via email today:

1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it: “George W. Bush “
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your PC will ask you:
   1. “Do you really want to get rid of George W. Bush?”
6. Firmly Click “Yes.”
7. Feel better?

PS: Tomorrow we’ll do the same with Dick Cheney…

We are changing the date for this week’s meeting ONLY from July 19 to July 18.

So, I’ll see you all tomorrow, July 18, Wednesday, at 7 p.m., instead of Thursday this week.

The South Chicagoland Young Democrats meet at Borders in Matteson.  Address is on our main home page: http://www.southchiyd.org

Your attendance is vital.  We’re planning a golf outing, remember!

Thank you!

As the Iraq war drags on we are constantly searching for reasons as to why we have yet to pull out. Every time that I get into an argument with someone on this topic, it always comes back to the idea of killing off members of Al Qaeda. To an extent I have been able to accept this as a reason to keep on fighting. As against the war as I am, there is some appeal to taking the fight to the enemy. A recent report by the CIA has shown however that we are not even accomplishing anything in that respect.

The recently published CIA report stated that Al Qaeda has risen to its pre-9/11 strength despite waging a six year war, originally in Afghanistan and now in Iraq as well. The content of this report seems to show that even with how rapidly we are killing off potential terrorists, which, if you have been keeping track of the death tolls from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is very rapidly, we are creating more at an even faster rate. Therefore, the war in Iraq officially has no purpose. What have we accomplished then, if we have not weakened the terrorists at all but rather given them strength and a place to kill our troops?

It is scary to think that Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations can regain strength while simultaneously fighting two wars against the US and waring with other governments throughout the Middle East. The only conclusion that one can come to is that we have some how managed to make the people of the Middle East hate us even more than they did six years ago. I wonder how. This is a scary thought because six years ago they hated us enough to kill thousands of people in a matter of minutes.

From the brilliant mind of Mike Kean, your friendly Sergeant at Arms

Olbermann at his best. Watch it. Now.