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Old 05-22-2007, 05:28 PM   #1
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Do you agree or disagree with that actions Bush has taken during his 2 terms in office? Do you think Bush has proper justification on the war in Iraq or do you think the war is pointless?

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Bush is making a right choice. But think about what kind of pussys we would be leaving this war and allowing al-queda to continue bombing other countries (including us) Terrorist can't be left around killing everyone. If we back out of this war now like the Liberals want, this whole war then would probably be pointless like you had said before adam.
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Ignorance.
We have killed more then the terrorists. Grow up and learn about politics.

We bombed Iraq to hell to find and kill a man that we once funded and gave chemical weapons. Great job America. Bush lied to the entire nation, he's just another one of the racist, fake Christians.
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We bombed Iraq to hell to find and kill a man that we once funded and gave chemical weapons. Great job America.
Yeah, because Middle Eastern political climates are static.

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Old 06-16-2007, 11:00 PM   #5
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Bush is making a right choice. But think about what kind of pussys we would be leaving this war and allowing al-queda to continue bombing other countries (including us) Terrorist can't be left around killing everyone. If we back out of this war now like the Liberals want, this whole war then would probably be pointless like you had said before adam.
im not a big fan of bush but i agree with ^ completely. if we pull out like little pussys were going to get stoped on by some terrorests. if that happens were going to regret ever ending the war
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Pointless.
He wants money, power, and the oil in the middle east.
There'd probably be a more stable situation in Iraq if there wasn't all this fighting.
But I'm Canadian, so what should I care.
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what kind of question is that? too broad. there are a few things i agree with to go along with the things i disagree with. no child left behind is garbage, i'll say that. and there's a lot of environmental concerns that he should have addressed but didn't. the supreme court seems to be more about partisan bull**** than actual law now because of him, but i suppose you could say that whenever a justice is added.

as for the war, we shouldn't have done it without the un's approval. it's good that saddam isn't in power anymore, and I sympathize with the president in that for an operation like this, it's not really possible to create a timeline for bringing the troops home. and we should remain there until the countries stabilized, but i just don't know when/if that will ever happen. i never saw the connection between 9/11 and iraq and i think it's despicable that it was used as the impetus.

just to get the ball rolling, i'll go ahead and make a bad blanket statement: The war in Iraq is unwinnable, it's another Vietnam and we can't fix it.

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Old 05-22-2007, 05:47 PM   #8
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I guess the first question is pretty broad, thats why i added that Iraq war because i was hearing alot of that in the democratic and republican debates
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I'll say this first:

I'm a republican. But I dislike Bush...a lot.

I was young when the war started, so i don't know much about it. I do know this, though- We started the war, so we might as well finish it. If we don't, then everyone who died for the war will have died in vain, and they joined the army to fight what the beleive in.

That's my take on the war. I'm glad we got rid of the terrorists, but I agree with whoever said it was unwinnable. It's kinda pointless, terrorists will always be around.

I don't think bush did it for money, though.

I do think he should have done more for the envorioment. We're running low on oil; this isn't something new. People need to stop thinking about now, and worry about our kids, and our kids' kids- we're messing up, and they'll have to pay for it.

My biggest thing with Bush is how he banned gay marriage. It honestly disgusts me to say I'm a republican now that he did that- It goes against American values. What happened to being free? Isn't that what our god da*n country was founded for, freedom?

Call me crazy, but weather you like gays or not, prohibiting them from marrying and joining the army does NOT sound like freedom to me.
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:09 PM   #10
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There's no point arguing over the reasons of entering Iraq in the first place. It was clearly a major mess-up, but what the USA has to focus on now is either getting out or stabilizing the country. Unfortunately it seems like both are almost impossible.

Iraq is not some country under siege and occupation by evil Americans, and I get really pissed when that is said. The tensions existed under Saddam, but with his regime toppled, the hatreds that exist between Shiites and Sunnis and Kurds are exploding. Whether you believe an opressive dictatorship which commits genocide against its own people is better than a nightmarish chaos in which each side slaughters the other is up to you. But both suck, and right now it is in the state of the latter. The US is the only force trying to bring peace, rather than conflict, to the region.

Most of the civilians, in fact, almost all, dead in Iraq are killed by Iraqis themselves, by car-bombs, by the blowing up of funerals, by the blowing up of rescue workers at blown up funerals, by blowing up restaurants, building fences around communities of certain ethnicities..yadayadayada. And nations like Iran, which were previously hateful of countries like Iraq (100,000 dead in Iraq-Iran war) see this oppurtunity as ripe for exploitation; they send arms and men to whatever side they support regularly, and then blame others for the problems caused there.

And the worst, is that 70% of Iraqis, by the polls think it is too early for the US to leave. In another poll, 70% of Iraqis feel it is justified to attack US soldiers. Now you tell me how the hell to interpret that.

WeissPrailine, Bin Laden is the leader of Al Qaeda, his associates and the hijackers were members too.
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WeissPrailine, Bin Laden is the leader of Al Qaeda, his associates and the hijackers were members too.
Whoops. xD My mistake. I didn't know that. As I said, I'm not to hip on the war on Iraq- I don't really know what's going on. Probobly shouldn't pass judgements, should I? =/
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"al-queda" (Al Qaeda) which you speak of has never directly attacked the United States. I believe Bush's actions are continuing the stupid US policy of disturbing international affairs and becoming a world police. Surveys show that the number of Iraqis who are happy about their situations in their country has dropped significantly since the US invasion in '03. Don't say, "Mission Accomplished" in a war and then continue sending tens of thousands of your troops to battle, not to mention killing so many civilians. Most of the troops that have been sent overseas are of a lower social class and have less opportunities and education. Meanwhile, congressmen and politicians are usually richer and given a better education, and their sons and daughters are usually exempt from going to war. If Bush had children who went to war and died, perhaps he would realize how people feel about disturbing such a far away area at the expense of the lives of young people, creating a hatred against Americans, and getting nearly nothing done, seemingly, over a four-year span. Bush wants power and oil in the Middle East, as stated before. He says that this is not the main reason, and that scientists are working on developing hydrogen-powered cars. However, he won't reveal the reality that hydrogen-powered cars are actually extremely inefficient machines and would require an astronomical amount of money to slow pollution significantly. Was Saddam Hussein wrong in his ideologies? Yes. Should he have been overthrown? Yes. Should we have interfered with Iraqi politics, allegedly staged fake elections, forced people to submit to our type of political regime, and engaged in combat AFTER getting rid of the dictator? Nope.

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"al-queda" (Al Qaeda) which you speak of has never directly attacked the United States.
Idiot what do you think 9/11 was when the world trade center collapsed to the ground because of terrorists from Al-Queda.
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Idiot what do you think 9/11 was when the world trade center collapsed to the ground because of terrorists from Al-Queda.
That's nice. Call him an idiot because he doesn't agree with you.

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If I recall correctly, wasn't it BIN LADEN who staged 9/11, and isn't he in Afghanastan? That's what I remember hearing, anyways.
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Idiot what do you think 9/11 was when the world trade center collapsed to the ground because of terrorists from Al-Queda.
Don't flame someone just because you don't like what they have to say.

Terrorist organizations take credit for all manner of things that they weren't necessarily responsible for. Yes, there are more than enough links between the terrorists who were responsible for that attack and Al Qaeda, more than enough for me to say "Yes, Al Qaeda was responsible for carrying out that attack" But not necessarily enough for everybody. Try to keep your objections calm and rational.

The part I find ironic about 9/11 as a justification for any of this conflict is that the two countries that were attacked "Because of" 9/11 (Afghanistan and Iraq) had nothing to do with the actual attacks. Of the terrorists involved, the vast majority (Might even have been all of them, I'm not positive) were Egyptian and Saudi Arabian, and yet nothing was done to those governments for "supporting terrorism"
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Idiot what do you think 9/11 was when the world trade center collapsed to the ground because of terrorists from Al-Queda.
Excuse me; I meant to say that Iraq has never threatened to attack America or attacked America, which is more relevant to the subject. Iraq is what we are talking about, not Al Qaeda, so I hope you read the rest of what I wrote.
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President Bush has been an arrogant bigot from the start. For the most part, he does things his way. He leaves little room for compromise or diplomacy. He rushed us into an unnecessary war for all the wrong reasons. He is also chipping away at the civil liberties that are the foundation of America. On top of that, he seems to support criminals (Libby) and seems to have a whole lot of scandals going on around him. Bush also acts harshly whenever someone is critical of him. Notice that there aren't too many Citgo stations around anymore? They started disappearing after the Venezuelan dictator called Bush "the devil." Citgo is Venezuelan gas.

Bush has been catering to the rich and been driving his buddies' companies profits skyward. Halliburton, for example. Dick Cheney used to be the president of it. He still holds stocks. Also, the rich have been getting tax cut after tax cut. One of the Republican-controlled Congress's last passed bills was a tax cut that gave the wealthiest 1% of America 38% of the total tax cut money. The second largest amount went to the wealthiest 10%. The rest went to the majority of America.

In the aftermath of Katrina, the Greeks offered to send over two fully equipped hospital ships. Bush, on the other hand, turned down this offer so that he could rent out two cruise ships from a company that is a huge supporter of the Republican party. Sounds like corruption on some level to me.

After 9/11, Bush and the government began to order record numbers of brand new, $300 million a piece fighter jets. What better way to fight box cutter wielding terrorists? Basically, Bush is and Congress are wasting tax money. About half a trillion dollars a year is being spent on the military. The budgets for education, public works, state governments, local governments, etc. have all been cut so that the military can spend more to buy things that only end up eliminating thousands of people.

But yeah, I think Bush is a dolt.
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President Bush has been an arrogant bigot from the start. For the most part, he does things his way. He leaves little room for compromise or diplomacy. He rushed us into an unnecessary war for all the wrong reasons. He is also chipping away at the civil liberties that are the foundation of America. On top of that, he seems to support criminals (Libby) and seems to have a whole lot of scandals going on around him. Bush also acts harshly whenever someone is critical of him. Notice that there aren't too many Citgo stations around anymore? They started disappearing after the Venezuelan dictator called Bush "the devil." Citgo is Venezuelan gas.

Bush has been catering to the rich and been driving his buddies' companies profits skyward. Halliburton, for example. Dick Cheney used to be the president of it. He still holds stocks. Also, the rich have been getting tax cut after tax cut. One of the Republican-controlled Congress's last passed bills was a tax cut that gave the wealthiest 1% of America 38% of the total tax cut money. The second largest amount went to the wealthiest 10%. The rest went to the majority of America.

In the aftermath of Katrina, the Greeks offered to send over two fully equipped hospital ships. Bush, on the other hand, turned down this offer so that he could rent out two cruise ships from a company that is a huge supporter of the Republican party. Sounds like corruption on some level to me.

After 9/11, Bush and the government began to order record numbers of brand new, $300 million a piece fighter jets. What better way to fight box cutter wielding terrorists? Basically, Bush is and Congress are wasting tax money. About half a trillion dollars a year is being spent on the military. The budgets for education, public works, state governments, local governments, etc. have all been cut so that the military can spend more to buy things that only end up eliminating thousands of people.

But yeah, I think Bush is a dolt.
Sorry if it looks like I'm wasting space, but nice post.

And about the budget, the national debt is currently in the trillions. So wouldn't it be logical for bush to stop with the tax breaks and get some money in?

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You know, I could waste a bunch of time explaining why I don't like George W. Bush as a president, but really, it isn't going to change a damn thing.

...not like George W. Bush would care what I think anyway.
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You know, I could waste a bunch of time explaining why I don't like George W. Bush as a president, but really, it isn't going to change a damn thing.

...not like George W. Bush would care what I think anyway.
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