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Classes were interesting last night, particularly my Business Ethics course. The professor threw out her lesson planned for last night, and we talked about HealthSouth and Richard Scrushy the whole time. (In case you don't live in Birmingham, or live in Birmingham under a rock, HealthSouth and CEO Scrushy are under major investigation. Apparently, he's been filing fraudulent earnings statements for years.)
Just like with Enron, and WorldCom, it's the little people that will get screwed -- the employees and investors of HealthSouth.
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I wrote a whole long rambling response a couple days ago over at Leoville in response to this piece that Leo wrote, and in response to some of the other comments on his board. The gist of it is this: can you be against this war while still "supporting our troops"?? I'm struggling with this one. I want to be able to question the policies of our government, and question the need for this war. I want to be able to disagree with the policies of the Bush Administration without being labelled "unpatriotic" or a "traitor." I think it's the duty of every American to question everything, all the time. We have the freedom, and therefore a responsibility, to do so.
On the other hand, I want Bush to be right. I want this to be a short, quick, precision war, that removes Saddam Hussein from power with minimal loss of American life, as well as minimal loss of Iraqi life. And I'm not sure it's going that way.
The Washington Post has an excellent article this morning about the pace of the war. The piece quotes senior Pentagon officials as saying that the war could drag on for months, and might require significantly more troops and equipment than is currently in the Persian Gulf.
This is what I was afraid of before the war started. I didn't believe the Bush Administration line that the war would be over in weeks, not months, and Saddam would quickly be removed from power. I wanted the Administration to admit that a ground war to effect regime change is a LOT more complicated than what we did in 1991. And more people die in a protracted ground war.
Now that we're in it, for better or for worse, I want to be wrong. I want this to be a quick, painless war. Even though that will be politically good for the President, I still want it to be true. I want all of our men and women in uniform to come home.
But I already know that some of them won't be, and I refuse to stop questioning why they were sent over there to die.
Just like with Enron, and WorldCom, it's the little people that will get screwed -- the employees and investors of HealthSouth.
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I wrote a whole long rambling response a couple days ago over at Leoville in response to this piece that Leo wrote, and in response to some of the other comments on his board. The gist of it is this: can you be against this war while still "supporting our troops"?? I'm struggling with this one. I want to be able to question the policies of our government, and question the need for this war. I want to be able to disagree with the policies of the Bush Administration without being labelled "unpatriotic" or a "traitor." I think it's the duty of every American to question everything, all the time. We have the freedom, and therefore a responsibility, to do so.
On the other hand, I want Bush to be right. I want this to be a short, quick, precision war, that removes Saddam Hussein from power with minimal loss of American life, as well as minimal loss of Iraqi life. And I'm not sure it's going that way.
The Washington Post has an excellent article this morning about the pace of the war. The piece quotes senior Pentagon officials as saying that the war could drag on for months, and might require significantly more troops and equipment than is currently in the Persian Gulf.
This is what I was afraid of before the war started. I didn't believe the Bush Administration line that the war would be over in weeks, not months, and Saddam would quickly be removed from power. I wanted the Administration to admit that a ground war to effect regime change is a LOT more complicated than what we did in 1991. And more people die in a protracted ground war.
Now that we're in it, for better or for worse, I want to be wrong. I want this to be a quick, painless war. Even though that will be politically good for the President, I still want it to be true. I want all of our men and women in uniform to come home.
But I already know that some of them won't be, and I refuse to stop questioning why they were sent over there to die.
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