You really are just a kid who’s read about this in Modern US History, aren’t you? Iraq was blamed as enabling the terrorists and was said to have equipment for making chemical weapons to boot. All of that turned out to be lies, but which were only exposed after the invasion.

I studied Russian and lived there for a bit, and damn this is so old school hardcore Russian it makes me smile.

I used to work with this little old Russian lady who had an interesting philosophy. To paraphrase, “Life is shit. Everything will probably go horribly wrong tomorrow. Have a good day.”

Every morning I’d ask her how she was, and she’d respond, “Feh! Life is shit. I am miserable. Everything hurts. It’s good to be alive!”