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Originally posted by Volkl42
Woah, that sounds an awful lot like the US we are talking about here, seeing as how we have done or posess EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE. Plus, Iraq's aresenal is not capable of reaching the US, only Europe. Funny as how the majority of the EU is against US action in Iraq beyond UN inspectors there. Oh wait, have the inspectors found anything? Nope. I do believe Iraq posesses chemical and possibly nuclear weapons, but they are of NO threat to the US
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So you prefer to wait and find out the HARD way, when it's too late, as Clinton did with Bin Laden, and so now we have no World Trade Center, and about 3000 less people ALIVE because of that inaction?
The UN resolution that everyone seems to treasure so much DOES NOT say that the inspectors have to find ANYTHING. It DOES say that Saddam must PROVE that he has disarmed, and he HAS NOT done so.
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Originally posted by Volkl42
Approval numbers mean jack sh!@.
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Yeah, everyone says that when the guy they voted for didn't win.
Then when one of thier favorites IS in office, they run around waving the same numbers in the air like a checkered flag. Whatever...
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Originally posted by Volkl42
Evidence: people on this board refused to accept that the US funded the Saddam regime in the '80's. That is a FACT. We openly admitted it.
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Yes, the US did that. Yes, it was a mistake. So do we make ANOTHER one by leaving him there to continue his oppression and threats to the rest of the world?
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Originally posted by Volkl42
Whoa, so you are saying Bush is an independent free thinker? HA! ...
I'd like to hear you explain how Bush respects the office....
...You call Bush a Doer, what has he done? Proposed a war that is grossly unpopular w/ not only the country, but the entire world?
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Yes, he is. Bush respects the office by telling the TRUTH, whether it is popular or not. HE doesn't run around the White House playing hide-the-cigar with his interns and then LIE to the entire world about it, all while terrorists and criminals run rampant around the country, and the world, and his own administration! Yes, the war is unpopular with college students who love to spend thier free time with thier naive 19 year-old peers at anti-war rallies, waving signs around, accomplishing nothing. College students have always done this pointess moaning, they did it during the Gulf War when I was in college, and they probably always will. The war also is unpopular with countries who are VERY good at waving the white flag of surrender, such as France, so thier opinion means a lot.
It is also unpopular with countries who love to sell weapons hardware to Saddam, such as Russia...It is also unpopular with countries like China and North Korea, whose governments are just as oppressive and aggressive as Iraq's...It is also unpopular with other Middle Eastern countries led by religious fanatics and tyrants, whose populations are deprived of enough education to know better, and the ones who do know better are often silent out of fear for thier lives! So I place very little credibility on many of the people who are "disapproving" of our defensive actions. With everyone else, who values FREEDOM and SAFETY, it is pretty damn popular.
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Originally posted by Volkl42
American Democracy is a 2 party system. One could throw away their vote and vote socialist, liberetarian, independant, or so on, or they can support the best candidate that will represent what they want at the time from the republicans or the democrats.
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That is a VERY scary statement. Our government is NOT a 2-party system...It is a multiple party system, which has unfortunately long been dominated by two power-hungry parties. Bush was not my candidate of choice either, but he is BY FAR the lesser of the two "evils", and has done a reasonalble job under VERY difficult and unforseen circumstances. I hate to even imagine what shape we'd be in had Gore been in office when the sh!+ hit the fan, and since...
Mike