Stop Loss

James and Nick F. came over tonight after work for our weekly get-together. We went to Bread Company then to AMC Theaters to see Stop Loss. The film isn't the best thing out there in the world, but it really makes you wonder what in the fuck are we doing in Iraq? Sure the topic of stop-loss is over dramatized, but you know there are countless men and women in the armed services who sign up for a branch of the military...and end up forced into a back door draft. My only hope is for this film to do better than I think it will at the box office. It's an important film, one that needs to be seen, especially this election year. It pretty much solidified my vote for Barak Obama in the presidential election as he's the only candidate out there who wants to leave Iraq.

My belief is the Iraqis must want democracy and freedom for them to have it. If we stay there as a police force and wait for their government to get off their ass, and the violence to subside, we will be there forever.