feeling guilty for being right

i almost feel guilty now for having been right years ago. back when it was unpopular i did things such as criticizing the patriot act for selling our freedoms for security (for which the fbi was recently chastised for because they took liberties in issuing national security letters which skirt the procedural necessities of obtaining warrants for its investigations), calling karl rove a bad seed (alleged mastermind of the US states attorney firings), and disagreeing with the iraq war (which has cost taxpayers billions, benefited contracting firms like halliburton, and in a recent survey of iraqis only 41% believe that they are better off than before the fall of saddam)

now, maybe like the bush administration suggests and persists, i really don't see the bigger picture and am myopic to the bigger picture, but i do tend to think that the administration has never had the best interests of americans or iraqis at the forefront of their motives. its the pocketbooks of the beneficiaries of wartime spending thats really what motivated the administration all along.

while i was right, rather than a feeling of wanting to say "i told you so" to the public, i instead feel a great sense of pity for the american public and (gasp) congress for finally realizing this. i do think that my mother country is finally seeing its mistake and that our idealism will correct this problem as it will be written into the annals of our history, but i still lament america's shortsightedness to realize this early on in the game and i can only hope that the dirtiest players are dealt justice accordingly, although i doubt it will happen.

if you too are starting to wake up and see the injustices incurred by our country as a result of our administration's calculated ineptitude, i urge you to raise awareness by talking about it or even recommending criminal proceedings for those that misled and misguided us to those in government that have the ability to do something about it. even something as simple as newspaper op-eds can have an impact.

please help to crumble bush's house of cards, you owe it to yourself, your family, and your fellow americans to expose their crimes.