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12-24-2006, 12:14 PM
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Iraq War
Have at it...you probably already know my thoughts.
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12-24-2006, 12:37 PM
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First we're going to go to iraq. Then we are going to go to iran. And then we are going to go to syria and lebanon. And then we are going to take the whole middle east... Byahhhhh!
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12-24-2006, 01:01 PM
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After all those "Arab folks" are gone, are there plans to turn the region into the world's largest golf course? You might find this article of interest:http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/45707/
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12-24-2006, 03:25 PM
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Danzig,
If you don't mind, I'll answer you over here. You said: "bush isn't the only one responsible for the war being put into action. what about congress? last time i checked, we had a three-pronged approach to governing this country. bush is only one branch of the three comprising the federal govt. besides dts, you said yourself you agree with no war. so it wouldn't matter what it was about, any executive in your mind would be wrong, any reason for any war would be. bush one, reagan, fdr, equally as evil as bush? lincoln, washington, that's a hell of a list. a country that posed 'no threat'?? you feel iraq, who went to war with one neighbor, bombed a second and invaded a third, while sending money to suicide bombers was no threat?" 1) Both Legislative branches were controlled by Bush's party at the time of the invasion. Yes, many members of the other party went along with authorizing sweeping power to wage war in 2002 by the Commander-in-chief. Some have since claimed they were given "faulty intelligence". Who made the decision to invade? That's obvious. 2) The invasion was a "war of choice". UN sanctons were in place and inspectors were on the ground. Saddam was contained. Bush delivered the "ultimatum" to vacate Baghdad within 48 hours, remember? 3) As I have previously stated, war should be the last option, and only when invasions or realistic threat of same exists. The Iraq debacle wasn't a "defensive war". I could go on about the rewriting of the Constitution, lack of judicial oversight, and many other consequences of the action initiated by the present administration. The consequences will be very real, and long lasting, but I'll discuss these at a later time. Have a nice holiday. Peace. DTS
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12-24-2006, 08:22 PM
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do you feel at this point that posts like these, threads like these, are redundant?
we can't change why we're there at this point. we can't change what has happened. but i think most everyone agrees that we need to finish the job as well as we can. certainly constant rehashing about the evil bush and his evil henchmen won't change a thing! as for faulty intelligence, i think that's crap. dems voted as they did. had the war gone swimmingly, we wouldn't be writing any of this right now. because it's not easy, it was wrong? a mistake? i wish i could retroactively make all my life-altering decisions! doesn't work that way tho, does it? dems, congress, the u.n., the executive, are ALL responsible for this mess. one no more than any other. no third of the federal govt has more power than the others.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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12-25-2006, 12:04 AM
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But...I do have issue with the last sentence of your post. Do you really believe this to be true in regards to the last 6 years? Remember, after 9-11, the country rallied around Bush. Any dissension from congress was labeled as "unpatriotic" and close to being treasonous. the power that was granted to this administration has not been seen since WW2. Sorry, Danzig, but the blame rests almost entirely on the Bush administration in this case.
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12-25-2006, 10:46 AM
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