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So Bush is calling taking out Saddam Hussein and the war in Iraq a victory. I doubt it will ever cease to amaze me how completely oblivious this guy is to what is really happening in the world. Our economy sucks, unemployment is on the rise, millions of American citizens still without health care, and Bush acts like our world is a better place. I can't think of much that hasn't already been said a million times by people a lot smarter than me, in probably more eloquent and powerful ways, but for christ's sake, I cannot believe that this idiot still thinks that we have a chance at winning a war that was lost a long time ago. What is really scary is that I'm convinced that even he believes the same bullshit him and his corrupt administration spew to the public everyday. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's dead, thousands of American troops dead, an even more unstable middle east, and pretty much the entire world hates America and George Bush more than ever. Our country i...

I remember being a young kid, I still can't remember exactly how old I was, when my Dad sat me down and we watched 2001: A space odyssey. It instilled in me as a very young person a fascination with astronomy and physics. I was in awe of the grandeur of the universe, our own solar system, and how we are all part of something so exponentially bigger than the small world that we live in. It made me curious about delving into the deep waters of physics, why the universe functions in the way it does. It struck a chord deep within me to try to learn about why things that we see everyday work the way that they do, which led me to try to understand all things I saw in life at a much deeper level. I wish I could have met the man that made me clarify how I see things around me and also produced some of my favorite literary works. This man had vision and will be dearly missed. R.I.P.

All I can say is that it really isn't the most exciting book I have ever read, but it is by far one of the best. Anthony Swofford really does a good job of painting a picture of what war is like for an average grunt, and the humiliation, torment, and agony a lot of the soldiers go through when fighting wars. The emotional and physical stress that soldiers go through is tremendous, every single facet of their life is hardship. The soldiers constantly have to wrestle with the fact that they don't know where, when, or how they might die. They have to deal with having emotional support severed from them. This happens mostly by finding out their wife or girlfriend has either separated from them, or is cheating on them, and the humiliation and despair that comes with losing their partner. To compound their problems, they are subject to seeing death and destruction all around them. They have to see it, smell it, even taste it. Their lives are small and insignificant, stripped of all i...