dirtydan said:
This is from somebody that when called on the carpet often resorts to backpeddling by saying you only support certain policies of the Bush administration and the Republicans. Sorry man, but I thinks you got your just desserts above. You bitch about the "blame Bush" mentality but that only makes you a raving hypocrite. How so? You use the EXACT same tactic whenever you throw out that most ignorant of attacks when you say some one is anti-American. In the end be it your "anti-American" or others' "blame Bush" tactics both have become boring broken records thay should be tossed into a the nearest dumpster bin.
An Iraqi military force that was far from the shape it was in during the Kuwaiti War. It's like the vaunted military prowess of the US and UK was used to kick the shit out of something that already had the shit kicked out of it.
Oh yah, LD, why did the US, UK, and its Orwellian named Coalition of the Willing invade Iraq?
No Iraqi connection to 9-11.
No more Iraqi WMD's.
No Iraqi connection to Al Qaida.
So why?
In your world one is required to WHINE when some one's comments are perceived to be anti-American. But let the hypocrisy overflow when it the opportunity arises to sling an Anti-France comment. Hypocrisy is very typical of Republican types.
Is their screaming really any different than your's? If some one ain't in lock step with your views you quickly become a whiner. The intolerance for other views you display is something to see. Of course this is always highlighted by your very broad brush painting of anyone you disagree with as being some kind of leftie. My money is on you really not having any kind of inkling of what a leftie is.
A sweeping generalization if there ever was one.
Who asked the US to invade Afghanistan?
Who asked the US to invade Iraq?
As powerful as the USA is, it is far from being absolutely supreme. The US likely not directly enter the conflict because it lacks the available troops and equipment to do so.
Setting aside the fact the US supported one of the most vile dictatorships during the years since 1953 in South Korea, the presence of US forces is playing a big role from North and South Korea going at each all out again. If you're aching to see maybe hundreds of thousands of people get killed, then championing the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea is one way to do it.
The first step for that is for the US to pay its membership dues. In my books a member that sits back boasting about how things should be done and doesn't pay their membership dues is one hell of a bad member to put it mildly. The UN is far from perfect, but so is the rest of the world. I agree the UN should be permitted to do its job.
1. the u.s pays 25% of the operating budget of the u.n
2.last time i had checked we didnt have to ask anyones permission to take care of business.
3. at least get your facts straifght dd no one in the present administration has ever said nor have they ever implied that there was a link between 9/11 and Iraq. the person who came closest to it was cheny when asked the question if there was a link he said he didnt know.
the facts are that iraq was going to have the sanctions lifted by the u.n within the year, thanks to their well placed bribery of 3/5 of the permanent members of the security concil(sp) the 3 being france, russia and china and to lesser degree germany, so even if they didnt have wmds at the time of invasion which i think is still debateable (see syria) in no time they would have been able to reconstitute them in a heart beat.
Bush naever said there was an imminent dangerfrom iraq but that we must strike before the danger becomes imminent because then it is to late. But that is ancient history.
what i objectect to and i think ld objects to is that everything is the u.s fault or isreal, there was a post earlier that said or implied that the middle east was a peaceful place before isreal was put there, that person is so full of it, he really needs to go back to history class. the reason fopr the crusades is because the muslim hordes invaded isreal and captured jeruselum and butchered alot aof people and those left standing were converted ro islam. so you had the crusades, isant it amazing how that little fact is always left out of the discussion.
by all accounts kerry should have wiped the floor in the 04 elections but democrats being democrats stole defeat from the jaws of victory as they will do in the mid terms all politics are local and if the only thing you have to offer is negativity you will lose. the demos have nothing to offer, they have no platform they dont even give us a reasonable alternative. IMHO
