andrea gibson: the pursuit of happiness

a poem by andrea gibson

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• iraq

[changingone77]

Wow. Her poems always give me chills and leave me fucked up for days.

[FullMetalFreak4Ever]

This is why I can't wait to leave America. They tell we are doing good, when all we're doing is destroying lives. And for what? Oil? Fucking OIL?!

[ALfaDuB101]

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

[Ihopyourpancakes]

@CainAteAble

And as for this poem, yes, it is fucking wonderful: just as nearly everything else Andrea Gibson has done is. I don't understand why you choose to muck up her message with the stench of politics.

[Ihopyourpancakes]

@CainAteAble

As for Nietzsche, his rule still proves true, though altered in today's vastly different society. In this case, the power structure is indeed working to a specific end, neglecting truth, and majority opinion on the matter has nothing to do with it. In this way, opinion is here isolated from the corruptive nature of power.

[Ihopyourpancakes]

@CainAteAble

I appreciate your service. That said, I must say you are wrong.

Are we fighting terror? Tell that to the citizens, the souls who have seen more terror in single days than our nation has ever experienced since the civil war. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians. Tell them that we are fighting their war, that we are doing them right, that our hearts are pure.Tell them that we are there to help, as we rebuild the nation we tore from them in the first place.

[CainAteAble]

"All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth (Nietzche)." Someday you may grow wise and understand that, but I have my reservations. As for "wonderful," I must have missed it, or maybe your confused about the meaning of that too?

[acarnall]

Wonderful.Touching. Truthful.

[CainAteAble]

Also, we did a lot of good things there. I escorted non-infantry guys up to Tagi, Iraq to install irrigation systems for farmers crops, guarded hospitals while millions of dollars in medical supplies were given out, and brought space heaters and blankets to orphanages in the winter. I guess that reality wouldn't jive with this videos cause though, it wouldn't warrant 20,060 viewers either.God bless America, and people like you; however, I'd like the oxygen I provided you back please, oxygenthief

[CainAteAble]

A show of hands for everyone here who served on the front lines of both wars three times .....No one but me??? Tonight there is not a race to rape little girls before U.S. soldiers do, and anyone who thinks that way obviously isn't very intelligent. Muslims would never, ever sell their children to slavery ...Another mistruth, and while I spent a year fighting in Baghdad I saw PLENTY of girls in school getting educated. This "thing" talking just trys to shock you into accepting her words, insane.

[ALfaDuB101]

you wont see the real terrorists on cnn,fox,bbcand the like because it is us, for allowing our countrys to do this in the name of terrorism its a sick joke the powers that be are inflicting on all of us especially the arab countrys and its not puppet presidents or prime ministers who make the desisions and im sure the largest proportion of people with any sense in the world already know this

[IntrepidStranger]

@johnsgirl141 Um... that's kinda what I said. I'm not sure how I'm dissing the nation.