W.

Y'all I need a break. Seriously, I cannot wait until it's all said and done. I care too much, I am taking this election way to personally.

So tonight I saw W. A lot of people are like, "It's Oliver, it's fictional, don't take it seriously." I concede that I shouldn't take the portrayal of the father-son relationship seriously. And yes, I know that the government lied to me. When congress issued the intelligence report that that there was enough evidence to know prior to our first strike that there were no WMD, I posted it and was amazed that the media didn't take it and run with it. Americans were lied to and the media just sat back quietly. The reason why this movie was so disturbing to me...welll...

I liken this pictorial representation of the Bush administration to the difference between reading a Harry Potter book and seeing it on screen. In Harry Potter there are certain things that are described or words said that I completely messed up in my head. But on screen - it made more sense, where I had various creative gaps, the movie helped to fill them.

This movie did the same for me. I knew bout the lies, and sure Stone used creative license to succinctly get certain points across...but the visualization of the acceptance and promotion of lies amongst a small few...and the cost was not only the global economy, but more importantly peoples' lives....that was REALLY hard for me to watch. It disturbed me more than I thought it would.

There is one scene that brought me to tears.

Various advisers are discussing the plan to invade Iraq. Colin Powell holds his ground that he doesn't think a preemptive strike is the way to go. He wants to ensure that all acts of diplomacy are exhausted before we attack. He's uncomfortable about the intelligence lack of support for the existence of WMD. But Dick Chaney gets up and says that despite support for the existence of WMDs America must take over middle eastern countries because they hold energy and represent the gateway to the next possible super-power countries, Russia and China. Somebody asks what the exit strategy is...and he affirms that there is no plan to exit.

Think of it in terms of imperialism. One country invades another and sets up shop. They have no right to be there, except they want certain resources that are native to that country. We are in the middle east as parasites. We don't have energy resources to feed our own greed, so we are trying to control a nation that does have the required resources. And we are trying to assert ourselves against the next two prominent economies/nations: Russia and China.

Just think, had we invested the billions of dollars spent on this war in alternative energy, we could get from point A to point B in the same fashion of Scottie on Star Trek. (Beam me up Scottie).