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I was asked to sit in on a political discussion at the highschool here by a friend. He told me I had to hear some of the answers to believe it. The teens (mostly 9th graders and one or two 10th graders) were asked individually for what reason we were fighting in Iraq. There are around 31 students, all but two said, "Because Iraq bombed the world trade centers, and hijacked airplanes" or a similar statement.
Now let me know if I'm wrong but... didn't out government say that we were going into the war for our own personal safety, to disarm Iraq from Nuclear Weapons, and dispose of a dictator?
The only two kids that rejected that idea, stated a more liberal point of view, expressing the Bush oil interests at hand etc etc.
It amazed me that so many kids thought that Iraq as a people, and Saddam as a dictator had hijacked the 9.11 planes. I'm not reputing involvement, but these kids thought that the whole war was about terrorist attacks. When asked almost none of them said anything about Iraq's nuclear arms, dictator etc?!
I may be totally off the helm here, but my impression of what the media wanted us to believe was completely different than the reason these 29 or so kids said it was.
**Now let me state that I think I have a very different opinion from what the kids said and what the media is saying why we went into Iraq, I won't go into detail because you all don't really need to know my political stance.**
Now let me know if I'm wrong but... didn't out government say that we were going into the war for our own personal safety, to disarm Iraq from Nuclear Weapons, and dispose of a dictator?
The only two kids that rejected that idea, stated a more liberal point of view, expressing the Bush oil interests at hand etc etc.
It amazed me that so many kids thought that Iraq as a people, and Saddam as a dictator had hijacked the 9.11 planes. I'm not reputing involvement, but these kids thought that the whole war was about terrorist attacks. When asked almost none of them said anything about Iraq's nuclear arms, dictator etc?!
I may be totally off the helm here, but my impression of what the media wanted us to believe was completely different than the reason these 29 or so kids said it was.
**Now let me state that I think I have a very different opinion from what the kids said and what the media is saying why we went into Iraq, I won't go into detail because you all don't really need to know my political stance.**