State of the Union

What I picked up from the president's speech is that there's going to be war, a never ending war against an ever growing enemy; the more we fight and the more weapons we pile up, the more vulnerable we become. After decades of America being the number one spender on all kinds and types of military weapons, the mainland got hit by people who's headquarter is in a cave -and are still at large.

After decades where America overspent the the next 15 countries all together buying weapons, they proved to be useless. After hearing for years that phrase that America is the number one super power in military terms, well, there you go, after 18 months of a full scale war, the results are very poor.

Imagine for a second investing two hundred billions dollars, the current cost of the Iraqi war, or the whole four hundred and fifty BILLION dollars, the budget of the Pentagon, in something other than destruction. Instead of buying bombs and missiles and guns and hand grenades, imagine paving roads, lending money in order to start your own small company, putting part of that money trying to find a cure for cancer or AIDS, imagine paying more to teachers in schools, imagine for a moment funding programs to keep a 14 year old kid from NYC out of the street and out of the reach of guns so that he could've never shot Nicole duFresne.

How about using that money in those very same countries that we're bombing in economic progress, in schools, roads, parks, businesses, newspapers, office buildings, apartment complex, power plants, TV shows, food for their hungry people. Imagine using that money to create and to build, not to destroy.

Now imagine using that money to go and wage war to find those inexistent weapons of mass destruction that were threaten us. Blood, death and misery is what that has brought.

Imagine George W. Bush telling you to trust him, that he knows what he's doing, that he knows what is going on. How about trusting him with your retirement money . . .

One thing that I picked up from his State of the Union is that even though things are fucked up, he says things are all-right. Oh, and there's more "preemptive war" looming in the horizon, if not already being planned and schedule.

What?! Don't you love this country Jean-Francois?

ANSWER: To be honest, what I really love is blonde hair girls, and there's plenty of those around here . . .