I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield for at least a portion of my lack of direction and current status.

I had intended on joining the military with the hopes of getting some technical training and discipline that I could use to get a good job, instead I had to watch these greedy fucking assholes manipulate the country into a completely unnecessary war that only served to destabilize the middle east and funnel taxpayer money into the hands of Cheney and Rumsfield… By the time I was out of highschool in 2004 I said fuuuuuck that noise. I’m not going to war to make those fuckers even more wealthy for some quite obvious bullshit…

Slightly related but the cartoon The Boondocks has an awesome episode that’s a metaphor of sorts for the Iraq war. I don’t know the name, but i think it’s the one where they are looking for the “Xbox killer” and the characters literally represent Rumsfield (the evidence of absence isn’t the absence of evidence lol) and Bush Jr. They even go hold up a 7-11 with a cashier that looks like Saddam and they press him about a weapon that he isn’t holding, looking at a cop gaslighting him too about the gun that the cashier doesn’t have lol