This is a post to say that I’m alive and overwhelmed and I can’t talk about anything but my thesis. However, Jon Stewart basically articulated one of the main points I’m using in a section of my paper and that made me happy.
I’m too youtube inept to find and link to the video of this, but he basically cut back and forth between things Bush said before we invaded Iraq and things Bush says now. One of them comes down to “So wait. We invaded a stable Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein. And now we have to stay…to solve the problems…caused by…getting rid of Saddam Hussein.”

Because we shouldn’t have invaded when there was no security threat, especially because we’ve just caused more of security threat (instability in the Middle East = bad. Insurgency attacking American troops = bad) And Schmitt would be like “dude. the purpose of the exception is to RESTORE security, not cause more of a threat.” And then he would go off with his friends and they would sneer about how stupid Bush is. I figure Schmitt did a lot of sneering since he was pretty self-righteous and misanthropic.