Gunner13
1. Come'on your grasping at straws here. The letter I quoted you was a letter he wrote was the one asking Congress to authorize military action in Iraq. He is saying that states that support terrorism were responsible for 9-11. Who else would he be referring to? Iceland? This is typical misinformation tactic of this administration, say something indirectly, let all your proxies and allies suggest it in the media (Fox News) but avoid actually saying it yourself, so you can avoid having a embarrassing retraction later as the did when the WMD failed to materialize.
The implication he was trying to make was pretty darn clear, I dont think many, even in the GOP would dispute this.
2. Do you know what you just discribed? IMPERIALISM. Invade another country with your military, put some puppet in office paid off with bribes and then take its resources. Boy, that sounds like Iraq now doesnt it? Did it ever occur to you that maybe the Iraqis dont WANT to sell their oil to us? Maybe India, Europe, or China would have given them a better price. Not exactly giving them the option are we?
While we are subject, You can talk about "buying" the oil but everyone knows where the money goes: into the greedy hands of corrupt politicans that WE put in office, not into the country. Its exactly what the Chinese have done in Zimbabwe. The British did it in the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. The French and Spanish did it in the Caribbean,the Japanese did so in China and elsewhere so and on and so forth...
The fact we need oil is not an excuse, its OUR fault we are still on oil, if Reagan hadn't killed off alternative fuel research in the 1980s we might not be in the energy mess we are now in.
3. Do you what what "Coalition of the Willing" really means? The Coalition of the Coerced, Bribed, and Intimidated. The four countries that actually participated in the 2003 invasion was the USA, UK, Australia and Poland.
The rest recieved a vast amount of foreign aid for their political support (like Estonia, Latvia, etc). Buying allies is not a coalition. 98% of all armed forces was from the US and UK alone. Thats not much of coalition, its pure political SPIN.
4. A insurgent enemy that is well equipped, trained, motivated and eager to fight. A weak and corrupt Central Government thats a puppet to the USA. A population that is displaced, and at the very least sympathetic to certain insurgents. Refusing to leave until the insurgents surrender en mass (so called victory). Do you know where this was? VIETNAM. If it didnt work in Vietnam how the heck can you expect to work in Iraq? I didn't even add the religous and ethnic problems you have in Iraq that didnt exsist in Nam.
Do you know the number of successful military counter insurgencies that have been successful? Its almost nil.
Military solutions will not solve a political problem (even the DOD has acknowledged this), only the Iraqis can sort themselves out we cannot do it for them.
We caused this mess when we stupidly opened pandoras box, but only the Iraqis can close it again. Obama has recognized this, McCain still thinks we can militarily in fact, just 15 minutes ago he stated to a CNN journalist thats wants to build permanent military presence in Iraq. He does that and absolutly guerentee that the war in Iraq will go on and on and on...
5. Because the Government of Sudan won't allow non-African troops in their country thats why. And the OUA is ineffective because they are very poorly trained, pooly armed, and poorly equipped. They only have small arms for Christsake, how'd do you expect them to fight tanks and attack helicopters. You see the other members of the UN have a certain respect of each members national sovereity. And do you know why France, is espicially relucentant? Its because they have a painful memory about when they recklessly stuck their nose in other peoples business. The same lesson we learned (and then forgot) after Vietnam.
6. McCain has gotten closer I'll grant you that, but hes still losing between 2-6 pts in all polls. I think McCain has more to worry about having nothing to say, just ask him the economy (the #1 issue) his reponse: "I am not a economist". Doh! Just what John Q. Citizen wants to hear! Or when McCain isnt putting his foot in his mouth his advisors do it for him.
Economic Advisor Phil Gramm: "American problem with the economy is all in Americans heads, they are just a bunch of whiners". So Mr.Voter (who just lost his house because of the Real Estate Crisis) current problem of homelessness is all just in his head and that hes a whiner, according to the multmillionaire who supposed to be running McCain economic policy. I heard the Obama campaigned sent Gramm a big fat check after McCain fired him...for services rendered to their campaign.
At least Obama knows the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, because according to McCain "Iran (Shiite) supports Al Qaeda (Sunni)". Christ almighty, this guy wants to fight both al Qaeda and Iran and he doesnt anything about either one, espicially the fact that they HATE each other, and have been at constant war for the past 800 years. Do we want someone so ignorant about the world to be leading us? We have had enough of Bush's incompetance.
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"Yes, and you are entitled to it. However, my self-respect is just fine thank you very much. You listen to the negative voices of the intelligencecia, mainstream media and élites I think. None of them really count for much".
So what your saying is that its better to sit on our rear end be uninformed and ignorant? That's exactly the disastrous mentality that got us into the Iraq mess in the first place. Do you know why they are called "intelligentsia" it means Intelligent People, people with brains. You can bet your salary that George Bush is sitting in the Oval Office regretting every second that he didn't listen to those so called "negative voices". Perhaps his administration wouldn't be the clusterf*** it is now.
What your stating is a classic example "if the news is bad and not what you want to hear...ignore it".
Sukio
He is not a Muslim, he has said so about a zillion times and even if he was it wouldn't matter. Just because his middle name is Hussein automatically doesn't make him a Muslim, just like someone named David or Sarah doesn't make someone Jewish.
