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- It has been proven time and time again that there was no connection between Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler/Germany.
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...what was your point with that?
That was, at best, an 'apples and oranges' comparison. - Reply to this comment
- "Would the world be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power? Yes. But everyone else except for the Iraqis themselves."
I think that if you could ask the approx. 500,000 Iraqis who have died since the Iraq war started, or those who still do not have basic services like water and electricity, or the thousands more who have been crippled for life, or those who are unemployed due to the war, and so on and on and on, you will find that the Iraqis themselves are far worse off than when Saddam was in power.
The world is worse off. Iraq is worse off. The terror problem, according to (of all sources) Mossad, Israeli intelligence, has been multiplied by a factor of about 5 due to the Iraq war acting as a recruiting drive. Al Qaeda alone has picked up 10,000 new recruits. Over 3300 Americans are dead, and countless thousands more crippled. Our international prestige is in the toilet. We are $500 billion in the hole, and counting.
The war should never have happened in the first place, and has been handled stupidly and arrogantly since. The Bush administration deserves the full responsibility for this, as they have ignored military and political advice from the start and pursued their own bullheaded and unbelievably incompetent course, firing anyone who gainsayed them.
This administration has hurt our country more than any terrorist could ever dream of. - Reply to this comment
- It has been proven time and time again that there is no connection between 9/11/01 and Iraq.
Posted by acauble1 at 11:13 AM : May 07, 2007
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It has been proven time and time again that there was no connection between Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler/Germany.
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Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists in the USA, that were elected in 2006.
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- It has been proven time and time again that there is no connection between 9/11/01 and Iraq.
Posted by acauble1 at 11:13 AM : May 07, 2007
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It has been proven time and time again that there was no connection between Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler/Germany.
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Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists in the USA, that were elected in 2006.
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- acauble1
9/11 and the intelligence of the day is what pushed us past 10 years of appeasement and warnings to Saddam. I truly believe most, if not all the politicians at the time thought that Saddam was a threat to our country and would have provided WMD's to terrorists from his past history of using them on his own people. 9/11 was a wake up call to the US, and if and when a lib gets in as president, we will see another 9/11. - Reply to this comment
Would the world be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power? Yes. But everyone else except for the Iraqis themselves.
And why is that the case?
Because Saddam Hussein provided, through his strong-arm dictatorship, a stabilizing force in the Middle East against the tide of Shiite controlled Iran. A stability that we will never see again, unless a government (most likely a dictator) comes in with as much power as Saddam did in the late 70's.
Saddam Hussein was evil....
...but hindsight has proven that he was the lesser of the 'evils'.
Democracy, as we know it, is incompatible with the people and the religion of Iraq.- Reply to this comment
- Somebody had to say enough was enough. How much appeasement can we put up with? That's what I'm talking about.
Posted by bernieb14 at 11:04 AM : May 07, 2007
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Ah! Your argument for the war in Iraq has been the best I've seen in years!
But still, a murderous tyrant such as Saddam Hussein was not a good enough reason to go to war in Iraq. It has been proven time and time again that there is no connection between 9/11/01 and Iraq.
Would the world be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power? Yes. But everyone else except for the Iraqis themselves.
However, France had it's own special interests to protect as we do. Schluberger (pronounced shlum'ber'jay) is the French equivalent to our Haliburton. Schlumberger was a primary contractor, through Saddam Hussein, to provide oil extraction and processing services to Iraq. In other words, contracts that were worth billions of dollars. When Saddam fell, so did their contracts.
So it clearly wasn't 'appeasement' that France was interested in doing regarding the run-up to the Iraq war. It was about, as it is for the U.S., money and control. - Reply to this comment
- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists in the USA, that were elected in 2006.
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- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists in the USA, that were elected in 2006.
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- neoconRcrazy
Just because you don't know history, or languages, or ever traveled anywhere doesn't mean the rest of the US hasn't. If you think it's so great in Europe, why don't you shut up and just move there? Oh, I know, because you only know English, right? Oh, and the government won't buy you a plane ticket and passport to get you there, and you can't get your welfare check in that country since you are not a citizen. You might as well just quit whining!! - Reply to this comment
- Wow !!! Let's do a recap:
Conservatives win in France - 2007
Conservatives win in Mexico - 2006
Conservatives win in Canada - 2005
Conservatives win in Germany - 2004
What's strange here is that Americ's corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack has been doing quite a few stories lately on how the "conservative movement" is dead............
Dear liberal MSM wolfpack, your stories don't match "reality" ........ WHY NOT ???????
American elections 2008 _______________ win.
Fill in the blank...... with either Mit or Rudy - Reply to this comment
- acauble1
I can agree with you on that. I would rather attempt talks over war any day, however, the left continues to refer to the US invading Iraq for no good reason, and we tried 10 years of diplomacy with Iraq with 17 UN resolutions, and finally, after drawing 17 lines in the sand and telling Sadam not to cross them, which he did to all 17. Somebody had to say enough was enough. How much appeasement can we put up with? That's what I'm talking about. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe France has realized that they don't want an appeaser in office again when their country is threatened in the future. This time it will be the radical islamists instead of the nazis. The left is naive when it comes to international politics, which is why they think appeasing will solve everything. I don't think France wants to bank on that theory again!!
Posted by bernieb14 at 10:33 AM : May 07, 2007
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'bernieb14' with all due respect, you mis-quoted my line regarding political illiteracy. In context, I was referring to the radicals of the right side of politics, otherwise known as "Neo-Conservatism". I once considered myself a 'Goldwater' Conservative, but my views have moderated a small bit from that position. However, the term 'appeasement' is subjective.
There are those on the far-right talk show circuit who thought Britain was 'appeasing' the Iranians when they kidnapped 15 of their sailors in the Persian Gulf a few months ago. Well, Britain was actually playing the 'diplomacy' card, and it clearly worked! No blood was shed over the 15 sailors between Britain and Iran.
Granted, that is one single case. But so many from the far right feel that any form of direct negotiation/diplomacy is considered "appeasement"! And that's the most dangerous stand to take in this global society today!
Wars are started, (and never ended), when both sides are not willing to talk to each other directly. - Reply to this comment
- It's interesting that the press is calling Sarkozy a 'conservative'. While he is more conservative than his socialist party opponent, by American standards he would be considered a 'moderate'. He is urging America to lead the way against Global Warming, critizing the Bush administration on environmental policy, and he said this about the war in Iraq:
"Sarkozy re-stated his opposition to the invasion of Iraq, calling it a "historic" mistake, warning that the US should not make a similar one in Iran. US discussion of the military option is "useless posturing," Sarkozy said, and he would not support any military action against Iran." - Reply to this comment
- The europeans are educated, speak languages, have travelled, know history......do I have to go on.
Our sorry failures compared to them can only leave us with a shameful red face coloring or the hives, or some genital rash.
Posted by neoconRcrazy at 10:43 AM : May 07, 2007
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For sale: French army rifle. Only dropped twice.
Seriously, With one of the highest unemployment rates for an industrial country, 50% of the GNP comes from the government, they watched 30,000 of their civialians die in a heatwave in '03 because it happened during a holiday and no one would come to work, and stood by while a genocide happened on their own continent in Boznia.
Yup, I sure wish we could be like them.
Try again. - Reply to this comment
- neoconRcrazy
The only stupid people in our country happen to be the libs in the democratic party. Check it out if you don't believe me. They are the ones that:
1. want the government to take care of them
2. No ideas what so ever.
3. want minimum wage increased, because most over 30 dems are still making minimum wage.
4. want more taxes to tax the smart people making all the money for thier own lazy butts.
5. Etc..., Etc..., Etc... - Reply to this comment
- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists that were elected in 2006.
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- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists that were elected in 2006.
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- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists that were elected in 2006.
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- Looking forward to 2008, so we can get rid of the Socialists that were elected in 2006.
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