I've been catching up with stuff from my Flist so I just got to this post.
You know, it's kind of scary that I learned a lot of the things mentiined there in school, when I was like 15, 16, and yet a lot of people in the states never get this information. See, I went to catholic school in Latin America, the war in Irak [even though it didn't really affect the country I lived in directly] was a subject teachers thought we should know about, you know, current news and whatnot, and yet kids in the states aren't beeing talked about this. People in general in the states don't know this and it makes me abgry because hey, I am an American [albeit a not very patriotic one] and I know more about this stupid war because I live over seas than I probably would have learned living in the states. Or maybe that's not exactly right, I've been exposed to more information over here than I would have living there.
There were a lot of facts I didn't know though, so thanks a lot for pointing me there.
Re: Iraq: 101
You know, it's kind of scary that I learned a lot of the things mentiined there in school, when I was like 15, 16, and yet a lot of people in the states never get this information. See, I went to catholic school in Latin America, the war in Irak [even though it didn't really affect the country I lived in directly] was a subject teachers thought we should know about, you know, current news and whatnot, and yet kids in the states aren't beeing talked about this. People in general in the states don't know this and it makes me abgry because hey, I am an American [albeit a not very patriotic one] and I know more about this stupid war because I live over seas than I probably would have learned living in the states. Or maybe that's not exactly right, I've been exposed to more information over here than I would have living there.
There were a lot of facts I didn't know though, so thanks a lot for pointing me there.