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That doesn't make any sense. What have we gained by going to war with Iraq?Jewscout said:
Well that explains the soaring gas prices.
Jewscout, this is international politics and warfare--not third grade recess.
We didn't need to remind anyone that we were top dog. If anything, we're exhausting our military resources by going to war, not building them up. By displaying our power, we're actually losing power! How ironic...
Well apparently it gained certain people a second term in the White House. It gave a physical battlefield to the war on terror even though Iraq has nothing to do w/ said war. Also it could be that we sat our big fat butts there in Iraq to show the people in region that we were going to be hanging out on their turf to fight this war on terror whether they liked it or not...or maybe because Iraq was the easy win out of the "Axis of evil"...who knows...i'm not saying they were good reasons but there were reasons...Ceridwen018 said:
Actually American gas prices are far lower than people realize...i spend more on a cup of coffee at starbucks than i do on a gallon of gasoline...
wellll there are some historians that would argue one of the reasons we dropped the A-bomb on Japan was to scare the crap out of the Soviets...you'd be surprised how often politics can be like third grade recess...you mean to tell me Awnald got elected into office on his sound political platforms and not because of his popularity?
Well i think much of our exhausted resources come from a lack of tax revenue and Bush's poor liberal spending...but that's just me...
That's simply absurd. After the Afghan war, Bush's approval rating was the highest of any President--ever. Many people thought he would be unbeatable in the 2004 election as a result, but his popularity sank with the invasion. Iraq nearly cost him the election....fortunately, his opponent was John Kerry.jewscout said:
But how often in a time of "war" do the american people jump ship w/ a new prez? Besides there are people out there still who think that going into Iraq was a good idea...i live in Virginia and they are frigin everywhere!Mr_Spinkles said:That's simply absurd. After the Afghan war, Bush's approval rating was the highest of any President--ever. Many people thought he would be unbeatable in the 2004 election as a result, but his popularity sank with the invasion. Iraq nearly cost him the election....fortunately, his opponent was John Kerry.
Quite right, linwood. I'm sure Iraq would be far better off right now--and in years to come--if our troops had allowed Saddam loyalists to destroy her natural resources. As an additional plus, the ensuing environmental disaster might have killed off a bunch of those pesky endangered species roaming about the region.linwood said:
Thats not what I`m implying at all Spinks.Mr_Spinkles said:
Or it could pay for food, medicine, and reconstruction....but I suppose to Westerners who haven't been wounded or lost homes or fallen victim to treatable diseases, these things are trivial compared to the preservation of clay tablets. I'm sure the Iraqis would have been thrilled about allocating troops from hunting down criminals and insurgents in their neighborhoods to the task of defending clay tablets, too.linwood said:
Forget the tablets Spinks.Mr_Spinkles said:
Our service personell are NOT the ones responsible for this. Please don't denigrate the VAST majority who are merely doing a job YOU AND I sent them to do. They could give a rat's patootie that Bush signed the order. They are Americans representing Americans, and their first order of business is obedience to command. We should learn from our mistakes of BLAMING the soldier for the POLITICIAN'S sin back in the Vietnam era. They are only the messenger, and while some are "over the top", most are anxious to get back home. The politicians who sent them in are the pariahs. The people who voted those politicians in are FAR MORE GUILTY than any soldier doing their job. THEY should be over there serving on the front lines instead of these sad sacks.
That may be brief if this is indicative of what you are posting. Everyone deserves a second chance in my book.
well most of the world powers of at the time had the knowledge and materials for an atomic weapons program...they just chose to sit on it and not do anything with it unlike the US...TranceAm said:
i can't speak for other soldiers but my cousin who is in the 101st had no desire for "medals and other glory metal"...he was just in the arm service when the war started and got shipped out with the rest..."triggerhappy idiot" is about the last term i'd use to describe him...TranceAm said:
Okay, so now we finally get to it. You are starting to sound a lot like terrorists themselves. "The evil imperialist American war machine and their army who kill innocent life must be destroyed in the name of _________." That's right, go ahead and blame the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Because we are the ones in harms way putting our lives and the lives of our families on the lines for the protection of the liberties and freedoms that you sit at home and enjoy. That's right, while some young kid is getting his legs blown off from a chinese made land mine, and a wife with her two children is learning that her husband was killed and the body too mamed to have an open casket, you have the freedom to sit at home and type away on your computer about how horrible we are to provide the freedom to do so. You have that right. You have that right because there are men and women out there, more courageous than you will ever know, putting there lives on the line for you.TranceAm said:
