Please give me my country back you lying fucktards...
They shouldn't even be running this country right now. For your enjoyment...
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Yah Kick em out of the country Stupid bush and the ugly lady Bush is a descriminatory bastard!!! |
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Seriously though. Bush is a moron. And since this is an "off topic" forum, I'm ranting. :) I just can't respect a president that sends people to kill other people and/or die just so he can make some money for his vice president and the rest of the stockholders of Halliburton (sp?)... Before I say anything that may get me in big trouble, I'm gonna go now. :) |
War's always been big business. The rich get richer and the working poor get sent off as pawns in some bullshite 'police action'.
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We have plenty of problems in our own country. How about we just keep our 87 BILLION dollars here instead of rebuilding a country that hates us anyway? A couple more things...the media. I love how they tried to garner sympathy when those 4 "civilians" were killed and burned. Turns out those "civilians" were all former military and were working as mercenaries. Sorry...they were being paid hazard pay and they got killed. Risks of the job bucko. And now there are three sisters in Iraq...one gets killed, so their parents are making a big effort to get the other two sent home. Nope. No. Nuh uh...sorry. You stay. You signed up...you're on my tax dollar...that's your job. You knew the risks involved. I mean if there were no risks involved that job would consist of exercising and shooting off weapons... Where do I sign up for that job??? Once you make your bed, it's time to lie in it... |
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Those were American contractors. Not mercenaries. The government doesn't set up it's own power and networks and crap, they sell a contract to the highest bidder. In fact, the company that employs those people employs some of my coworkers. So yeah, real cute. Terrorist hunting or not, it's about politics. It's about the ability look good all over the world. If we don't follow through we get the same respect from the UN that we gave to them. I'm glad to see you hoave absolutely no respect for the military, considering that my father is also former military. Does that give him the right to be dragged through streets and burned? You're just sick. |
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I'm afraid that you my friend are wrong. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...on/8324623.htm Just a little snippet in case you don't want to read the whole thing: "With the U.S. military stretched thin, they have lucrative jobs - civilian security forces can earn more than $15,000 a month - defusing roadside bombs, escorting food convoys, protecting visiting dignitaries and even guarding U.S. administrator Paul Bremer." They're contractors alright... for Blackwater USA. Blackwater USA is a contracted "security force". They're mercenaries. Do some fact checking. 15 grand a month? Yeah...my heart bleeds for them. Really... I have respect where respect is due. I don't feel bad because people died in their line of work. It happens to police officers and nobody starts a campaign to remove them from their work. Do I think it's wrong that they dragged the bodies through the streets and hung them from a bridge? I sure do. THAT shows that they have no respect for us being there. So why are we there? To make some money...hence my post. |
The bad thing US done was rename "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" WTF !? and tomorrow you will "Freedom Kiss" your GF ?!
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I never speak politic, espeacially when its about the politic of another country, so i will speak here about economy. Esso (French petrol company and now European company) was in contract with iraqi before US invasion (Yes, invasion not war ~thx~). US petrol companies wasnt implemented in Iraqi. At the start of iraqi reconstruction, Bush say "Sorry dude, you didnt fight with us, so you cant continu to make your buisness". Quote:
Take a look in past, lost of countries have try to conquer the world, Roman empire, Byzantine Empire, Napoleon, European colonisation, american esclavagism, always mixing economy/war, know what ? that never worked. /Berserk OFF This is all but a flame against USA, i have lived 3 years in NY, my GF is US (From NY, knicks>all), and if you dont take food in fact (Starbuck, LOL), i would love to live again in USA. But French ans US are like Boyfriend and Girlfriend, always catfighting and helping each other when situation is really bad because they love each other. |
Freedom fries....what a retarded idea....
I have nothing else to say. Khan wrapped it up nicely. /salute Khan |
You know, that's pretty ignorant of you to single out Bush as a corrupt politician when the last administration was guilty of much worse. Y'all lost the election, live with it. Someone had to lose, and I for one am happy that Gore's retarded ass didn't make it into the White House. Y'all seem to want to bad mouth my country, and the President. However, as this country was founded on the fact that we have certain rights given to us by our Creator, I have no problem with that; you have a right to speak your mind. However, if it's that bad here, why don't you leave? I'm obviously not talking to those who are in other countries, but to those who do live here; Do you think that the world would be a better place without the United States?
As for the war in Iraq, okay so what if it's fought over oil? Wars have been fought for economic reasons going back through the centuries. As much as I may or may not like it, without oil, nothing moves. And if you're going to accuse the Bush administration of "selling out" over oil, let's make sure that you also include the Clinton administration in that accusation. Al Gore sold the strategic oil reserves to Occidental Petroleum Company when he was vice president. So what you say? Al Gore's father was a board member of Occidental Petroleum, and Al Gore was heavily invested in it so that he directly profited from the sale. Oh wait, he's a democrat, he gets a pass. Wake up, all of the politicians are corrupt. If you think that Bush is that much worse than anyone else, you're asleep at the switch. I don't necessarily agree with what has been done in Iraq either, but I'm don't think it's right to label the president a "f*cktard" either, especially in a forum that is open to the entire world. As an American, I think we should keep our dissent at home, I think that this is the greatest nation on earth, and if you don't think so, then tell me; Where do you think the world would be if the U.S. didn't exist when Hitler, or Lenin, or Stalin, or (insert your favorite dictator here) decided that certain people didn't have a right to exist? I thought about keeping quiet on this, but I for one, am sick and tired of people not having any respect for my country, and my President. And that's it, like it or not, he is the President. If you can't respect the man, I can understand that, but we all should try to respect the office. Semper fi. |
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I wasn't in an election. I am neither Republican nor Democrat, but it's nice that you assumed I wasn't a republican. As for "losing"...tell me...how does one lose an election when one garners more of the populations votes? And it just so happens that ONE state made a big SNAFU on the process allowing for such an error. Coincidence that G's brother was governor? I don't think so. Quote:
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I won't quote any more of your post, but I'll sum it up as "Yes, Rex. I agree Bush is corrupt. I'm concerned that if people in other countries find out we don't like our president or what our country is doing, they won't think we're powerful and/or in control of everything. I don't agree with what is going on in Iraq, but I feel I need to defend my president out of a sense of patriotism." Don't bring Stalin into this if you're trying to make a point. He was our ally in WW2... I think that about sums it up. |
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After my post i decided to not answer but sorry, this one always make me laught everytime a US resident say it.
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I just want to thank you militec1 for that post... I wasn't going to post either, but it has really been bothering me. I accept that everyone is entitled to his own opinion, being able to express it is what makes this country so great.
I don't want to drag this out into a really long post. This is a very sensitive topic for me and I could discuss it all day long. I just thought I would give my opinion on the subject. Now, whether or not our country's reason for going to war (WMD's) was correct or not, after seeing what was happening to the people over there, I think that we had every right to go over there and do what we could to free them. Removing Saddam from power was the best thing that could happen to the Iraqi people. I have a lot of respect for our President. I think that if Gore had been elected, our country would be much worse off. I respect that after Sept. 11, he waited until he had enought intel before launching an attack against anyone. I honestly thought that we would start blowing things up the next day :) . Again, I believe that everyone is entitled to his own opinion, so please let me have mine.... I think that there has been way too much flaming lately, and don't believe that someone expressing his opinion warrants being flamed. Well, I just wanted to get a few things off my chest. Sorry if my thoughts are a little jumbled. Like I said, this is a sensitive subject to me and I just kind of throw things down as I think of them.... |
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Removing Saddam from power Attempting to help the Iraqi people rebuild their country and put a democratic government in place That's it. Not to flame you ltruss, but really...how much worse off would our country have been if Gore was elected president? What do you envision? As for Bush waiting on intel...yeah. He waited alright. And then took the war to the wrong country. Our troops should have been in Afghanistan looking for terrorists, but since there's no money to be made there, we didn't focus our efforts there. It's all a matter of deception and the fleecing of the American people. You were fooled, I was fooled, and the current presidency did it. If I'm so wrong, please...dispute my claims and give me some proof. Thanks. |
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First off, I don't think you're wrong.... It's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I don't think I'm wrong, it's my opinion.
I feel that if Gore had been President, he wouldn't have taken any action. I feel that he would basically have invited terrorists to attack our country. This is all based on my own feelings. Obviously there's no telling how things would have worked out had he been President. I agree that we should have kept more focus on getting the terrorists in Afganistan. But, just because the press wasn't covering it like they were covering Iraq doesn't mean that we weren't still there trying to root them out. I think that WMD's were a legitimate reason for going to Iraq. They would pose a serious and immediate threat to us. Ok, I know that we haven't found any there.... I don't necessarily think that means that they're not there though. If Saddam had destroyed them, why didn't he offer proof? We gave him more than enough chances. If he wanted to, he could bury his whole program out in the desert and we would never find it unless someone took us to them. I don't know that I'll ever be convinced that they were or weren't there.... I still believe that we had other reasons for going there anyway.... I don't have any proof to offer as these are my own opinions based on what I've seen and the experience that I have with how some things work. |
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As for President Bush.....all I can say is....rofl...what a joke, this whole thing is because of his father and money, its a personal vendetta against Saddam and he is trying to clean up the mess he made by invading Iraq. I am a military veteran, and I support our government...when they are fighting for something right...but our family's and friends are over there right now dying for nothing....the death tolls are increasing every month, the Iraqis are getting more and more violent, they don't want us there, so lets leave. I could go on and on but I will leave it there.... |
http://www.luclin.org/
It should be right on the front page, but in case it's not... http://www.luclin.org/files/moslad/f...ring_quote.jpg |
First of all to Rex Chaos, that link proposed a good point. It is true that every leader no matter what government uses that tactic to get the people to enter war. Just about every major war in 300 years had leaders using tactics like that.
Also on the previous post about us helping Russia when they didnt need it. I dont think it says even in our history books that we helped Russia. It was more like they helped us in a way since Hitler attacking them caused him to fight a two front war. It never said that either America or Britain sent troops over when Russia was invaded by Hitler. |
My point was that Russia could have deafeated Hitler without the US interfering.
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Heh all this talk about WWII and the Cold War after i got done taking history lessons about it :), first of all all three contries needed help so each joined the an alliance, The three most import contries in the alliance were Russia,The United States, and Great Brit. The war was won blah blah then that led to the Cold War when The Big Three split germany into 4 sections(Yes four, since france was an allie in the war a chunk was givin to them) and the capitol of Germany was also split into 4, but there was a problem the capitol was in the USSR's section of Germany, later on this led to problems stalin started(like when he closed all main roads to berlin and american and brit transport can get food to civilians). Soon the arms race began both countries spent lots of money to create bigger and bigger bombs, but not a single fire was shot between russia,the united states, or russia all countries were affraid that if one sent a bomb then the other would and they would repeat until the world was completely destroyed. Eventualy durring the arms race(and the space race) the ussr ran out of funds to create weapons and the USSR collapsed. And about russians saying they didn't need us, is that why they joined the alliance? Most Americans I know would probley say we didn't need them, but I think we just needed eachother.
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I'm sure they joined the Alliance for political reasons not because it was necessary. And don't forget that the history books you are reading were written by Americans.
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Due to Hitler insisting on invading Russia during winter...I think the Russians would have done fine on their front by themselves. :)
It was just way too big an area for Germany to control really. Reminds me of that line from the Princess Bride, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia...but only slightly less well known is this - Never go up against a Sicilian, when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha.... (thud)" That's a great movie :) |
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Yeah, that's what I would expect from someone from France. How many of our (U.S.) boys are buried over there? How many times did we bail your limp wristed country out? Except for the French underground in WWII, and the dedicated soldiers of the French military, it's always the same with you people and your leaders. Spineless.
You can laugh now because you were able to be born, and that, is in no small part due to the role that the U.S. has played in bailng out your sad excuse for a nation. But, now that the money is to be made somewhere else, you all seem to have found another "John" to attach your fortunes to in Iraq. Bummer that all of those French oil contracts won't be honored, eh? I'm not offended by your comments, merely saddened by them and the ignorance they demonstrate. |
Militec...do you think it's right to steal?
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I hosed the quote thing, hopefully you can follow it. I'll add them where appropriate. "Have you ever had a conversation with someone from a different country regarding this topic? For instance my wife is Russian. Their point of view on all of that completely differs from what we believe to have happened. They say they were doing fine with Hitler and didn't need our help. " Yes I have had discussions with people from other countries, including Jews who still bear the number tattoo from the concentration camps. I agree that each point of view is different and skewed towards one's bias to a point. I won't argue with your wife, she was there, I wasn't. "We are fed what the government wants us to know, not what actually is happening or took place, history is written by the victors." We agree 100%, and an example would be the lie that the "Civil War" was fought over slavery, when in fact it was a completely unconstitutional undertaking by those who wanted to eliminate the sovereignty of the states as voluntary members of the union and force them to belong to a monolithic nation. The history books say that it was fought over slavery, but the abolition of slavery was used as justification for Lincoln's illegal invasion of the South. But again, the victors write the history books, and here we are. Before you call me any names, ask yourselves this question: If the civil war was fought over slavery, then why was the war fought for more than two years before any mention of the emancipation proclamation was made? Anyway, I've steered from the point, I'm back now. "Just like all the other times the US took it upon themselves to police the rest of the world instead of fixing our own problems because we are so "righteous". We need to get our familys out of Iraq and let them deal with it on their own, if we are lucky they will all kill themselves through civil war and there won't be an Iraq anymore...problem solved. The US needs to stop sticking its nose into other countries business, I think the other countries of the world and the UN can look out for themselves, they don't need us butting in." I sort of agree, but not completely. First, I think that the U.N. is just about the most useless, inept, and corrupt institution on earth. Second, while I don't necessarily think that the U.S. should be the world's "policeman," I do think that as members of the human race, and U.S. citizens simply by the accident of birth and the grace of God, we do have some responsibility to do what's right when it's in our power to do so. I don't remember asking not to be born in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Cambodia when Pol Pot and the Kmer Rouge came to power, I don't remember asking to be a U.S. citizen when I got my chance to live here. Neither, I am sure, did those who were the victims of Saddam, Ho Chi Min, Hitler, Stalin or any of a number of murderers. Do I think that the occupation of Iraq is going as it should? I can't answer that complety, I don't have the information that the President has. From where I sit, and what I do know, or at least think I know, would I have handled it differently? I don't know. I too served my country. I am a former Marine, and proud to call myself a citizen of this great nation. I originally posted this because while I have no issue with honest and open dissent, I don't think it's right to disrespect the office of the President, no matter who the current occupant is. Holy crap, what a discussion this has turned into. I thought I was just here to play a fricking game. |
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Why is that important? Because the electoral college was a stroke of genius by the Founders of this nation. You see, without the electoral college, the states would not have equal representation in the election for a president, which is the only true form of national referendum we have in this country. Without the electoral college, a presidential candidate would only have to run for re-election in the most populated states, thereby removing equal access to the process from the less populated states. For example, there are 30 odd milllion people living in California, probably close to that number in New York and Florida as well, throw in a couple more of the most populated states and VOILA! Instant win, without having to even have your name mentioned in places like Nebraska, Idaho, Iowa, or any of the majority of states. (Which, by the way, is almost exactly what happened in the 2000 election, look at a map of who won what states, and you'll see that what I'm saying is true). So, now that we've covered the electoral college, let's look at how GWB actually did. If memory serves me right, GWB won 30 out of 50 states, and 60% does qualify as a landslide. As for your rant about going to war immediately, well let's examine the word "immediately." \Im*me"di*ate*ly\, adv. 2. Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once. George Bush took office in January of 2001. It is now 2004, and we have just, within the past week, marked the anniversary of the war in Iraq. Even if you're counting in dog years, that's a really long "immediately." |
this dosent have anything to do with what yall are talking about. I dont want to get into it some things were good somethings are bad.
that video file didnt work for me :)Also I think is it good to hear peoples opinion on this topic...... EDIT: LOL sorry i just got off work (big truck today) kinda tried... Anyway what i ment to say was any one eles having any probles with that video i click on it it loads but dosent play... at the botton (IE) there a bar that lights 4 boxes and then just sits there... lol |
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How do you know what was actually happening in Iraq when Saddam was in power? Because we read it in newspapers or heard it on TV? Because our government told us? Fow all we know the majority of the Iraqi people could have been content with their life when Saddam was in power and now we have gone in there and torn the place up. Unless you lived in Iraq when Saddam was dictator how can you speak of what was going on in that country? I have no problem with saying a president of the United States of America is a jerkoff. He is not a god to be idolized or worshipped. He is a human being and a politician (nuff said imo) and they make mistakes, they are not perfect, lets not pretend that they are. |
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As I read your post, I think we're closer in opinion than might be apparent. I too have problems with the government and its "ever moving" target of what is right and wrong based on what party occupies the White House, but nonetheless, while I can honestly say that I distrust my government, I do love my country, and I do have friends over in Iraq who I would like to see again. Quote:
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You mentioned in one of your posts the family and friends that we have over there. They're the point, aren't they? While we're discussing this from the comfort of our homes, they're living in a sand filled hell. Yeah, the truth is that I believe that they're doing something that matters, something that will count in the big picture, and I am biased towards the belief that this life is not the only one we live. Regardless, they need our prayers and support. Jez, we're not as far apart as our posts seem to indicate, I think we are just coming at this from two different directions. I respect your opinion about the president, I don't agree with it, and in fact I think it's wrong, but I respect the fact that you have one, and that you have the right to voice it. As do I. |
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What I meant by stealing before was how the U.S 'controls' Iraq's oil and is allowed to say who gets it. I don't see the label United State of America over where Iraq is on the atlas.
And if we WANT to go over the topic of 'whether or not George Bush is an idiot' i'm sure I can find a couple quotes here and there. :wink: Edit: LOL..I have to add this description of George W. Bush Jr here. "Bush is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things." |
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Florida has 25 Electoral votes available. Bush had a total of 271 Electoral votes. Gore had a total of 266 (or 267) Electoral votes. So don't sit there and tell that the Florida scamming didn't matter... |
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God - "Well, now that you're in office, I'd like you to go kill some heathens for me." Bush - "I'ma git me some them muslims! Should I say I'm tryin' ta help 'em?" God - "Well of course you should. You know as well as I do that throughout history the Christians have been blamed (rightfully so) for some of the worst atrocities. So let's keep it on the DL, GW." Bush - "Shor thing God! I'ma kill me some muslims and git me some oil! Yeehaw!" |
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Jesus > Democracy. |
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