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[Justice]

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I'd like to know how Jamie will defend Liberman's drivel "Our enemies will test the new president early," Lieberman told CBS Sunday. "Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration." Isn't that fear-mongering? Low class people. Is he wishing for a repeat?

How'd you defend comments from McSame's adviser Charlie Black that McCain's campaign would benefit from another U.S. terror attack? He's the adviser to McCain so it's very reasonable to believe that both of them share the same views and they wish it will happen. War-monger McSame wants to win it at any cost.

[Jamie (K)]

[Justice]

Iranian president was elected by the same way Gorgie Bush was elected..

The case of Musharaf is different as he elected himself as the president of the country.. wonder why Bush likes Pakistan president and not Iranian. Why he wants to wage a war on Iran and not on countries like Zimbabwe? It's because Iranian president is not a "friend" of Bush and he doesn't give a rat's ^&* to Bush. :lol:

[Gunner]

sorry for digging it. i just register a username. and i have one question. do you really think your country did right in the iraq. trying to build a truly democratic Iraq? so six years has gone, what u can see in iraq.

guilty for american

[Jamie (K)]

I don't have my own complete opinion on this, but I tend to agree with the opinion of the many Iraqis I see in my daily life:

1. Saddam Hussein was a genocidal despot who had to go. He was connected to and supported Arabic terrorist organizations, and that had to be stopped. He had violated every UN resolution that was passed in regard to his country.

2. The Americans made the mistake of thinking things would be relatively peaceful after the dictator was overthrown. That has been the experience of the US in past wars, but this was different. I now agree with the Iraqis I speak to that it was a mistake not to seal the borders with Syria and Iran (to the extent possible) and not to declare martial law immediately. (One Iraqi woman told me that the US made the mistake of thinking Arabs were civilized, but that they were not. I don't like that statement, but there may be a little truth in it.)

3. The vast majority of the bloodbath and killing of civilians since the invasion has not been caused by the Americans, but by remnants of the old regime and by Muslim terrorists. For example, it is not the Americans who are bombing Christian churches in Mosul and other places now, and it is not the Americans who have been killing people who refuse to flee and give up their houses in Baghdad to Muslims. It is not the Americans who exploded bombs among children waiting to receive candy on holidays, and it's not the Americans who are kidnapping people and calling their relatives in the US for ransom money. It is not the Americans who blew up bombs in crowded marketplaces or at weddings.

These acts are all performed by Arab terrorists. To say the Americans are responsible for them is to say that Arabs cannot control their own actions and that other people are responsible for what they do. However, Arabs are not monkeys, so they are responsible for the things they do.

People who watch the news -- and who deal with non-Westernized Arabs on a daily basis -- notice that one of their major traits is that they blame others for their own destructive actions.

[Gunner]

see injun in America. May Saddam Hussein was a genocidal despot. but i don't think that is the reason why America took operation. the truth is Saddam is anti-america. and second, bush need one thing to transfer domestic attention from 911. what is the best way to attract people's attention? smart guys know that. one thing you should pay attention. at that time there is no reason show the relationship between saddam and 911~

[Jamie (K)]

[Prezbucky]

Has Che Stalin left the boards? Hail Comrade!

Bush did what he felt right to keep us safe after 9/11 (after Clinton had Usama cornered in the '90s but let him go...).

Reasons for "Bush's" headaches:
Economy: 9/11, tech bust, deadbeats not paying their mortgages
Iraq: Insane anti-democratic insurgency. What's their problem with voting?
Bush's biggest mistake was turning from Afghanistan to Iraq too early -- we should have kept our forces in Afghanistan until we decimated the Taliban. Instead we went into Iraq and the Taliban has been regaining some of their strength. That's the only thing Bush left for Obama that was actually Bush's fault.

With such a left-wing president now, I appreciate Bush standing up for our ideal of Free Enterprise/low taxes even more. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness (property) -- he tried to protect all three core ideals.

Now we have a push for more Socialism (unamerican...) with Obama.

2010 congressional elections can't come soon enough -- we need to free-up our capital and let our entrepreneurs lead our economy back... something Socialism can't do.
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Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

[Ralf]

Hi Tom!

It's been a while since we've last discussed US politics :) Did some reading on the forum and discovered a slightly dated discussion. Hope you don't mind me picking up on the thread...