I've seen this thread grow into civil war threats, fleeing the country, burning courthouses, etc.
I am here to help you guys.
There are MANY places on the net where you can purchase plane tickets and look for jobs and real estate elsewhere.
May I advise, if you're fed up with your country, either try to help it the right way, or if it bugs you THAT much: LEAVE!
The majority has spoken. You knew that this was the setup before the election and Bush won. Even the minority leader (D) was ousted in place of a Republican!
We had reports from 2 other countries showing he was very close to having a full nuclear program capable of WMD.
Afghanistan was one thing, but we also had widespread support, because it was a reasonable and just thing to do, going directly after Bin Laden.
I agree going directly after Bin Laden was a smarter approach but that would only be relevant if no one else was a threat. If Hussein had nukes he definitely would be a threat to us (much less his own people which were being brutalized and killed).
Life is filled with choosing the lesser of two evils.
Lesser of 2 evils really doesn't help when you have an extremist throwing planes into your buildings killing thousands of your people and another nut that you've attacked before almost has a nuclear arsenal. Either of those 2 evils had a good potential to be catastrophic to the U.S.
Invading a sovereign nation and pissing off 90% of the Arab world, torturing people, ignoring basic rights, excluding ourselves from international treaty agreements, this whole mess is going to return to us ten-fold over the next century.
We pissed off more than the Arab world... LOL
but we weren't torturing people. The prisoners we took we humiliated but thats nothing compared to the daily life of an average Iraqi Citizen from 1980 to 2000... or a Serb even!
I do agree with you that it will return to us ten-fold... but I don't see the arguments for not going to war (other than that) and taking Hussein out of power.
Personally if I was president, I would close borders and spend all U.S. tax money bettering our own country and being neutral. But as we all know, hell is still hot and pigs lack wings.... so we deal with what we have;-)
I'm not trying to be an a-hole.. but can you show me numbers?
A total spent on the war so far... a total of the money we're getting from the war... totals on the tax cuts given only to the rich and what they were paying before...
and do tell what he should have done instead of "Ignoring the economy to waste billions on Iraq..."
Also, after 1997 many businesses shut down and caused the loss of lots of jobs. And just because some other companies had enough venture capital and net income that they survived to 2001, doesn't mean that it didn't start in 1997.
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they id'd me when i went to vote. ...and i live in the "simpleton" state of FL.
I'd like to see the source of these numbers.
I also find it interesting there are now only 9 state in the union (according to this graph).
that's exactly what i'm talking about.
the system is setup. the system did it's job.
what else do you want? if you have such a problem with it, fix it, leave, or shut up!
I've seen this thread grow into civil war threats, fleeing the country, burning courthouses, etc.
I am here to help you guys.
There are MANY places on the net where you can purchase plane tickets and look for jobs and real estate elsewhere.
May I advise, if you're fed up with your country, either try to help it the right way, or if it bugs you THAT much: LEAVE!
The majority has spoken. You knew that this was the setup before the election and Bush won. Even the minority leader (D) was ousted in place of a Republican!
Go ahead and mod me down.
Tell me, where do we get our oil from?
so you wholey believe that the donkeys aren't bought out politicians and that only the elephants are?
and later on down the line we can vote again when there is a turn in the tides
can we only voice our issues every 4 years?
why is this the most important election of our lifetime(s)?
:-(
how is it different than 2000 and how is it more important than 2008 or beyond that?
that's been one of the most irritating lines i've seen in the news since the "hubbub" began.
that and people voting democratic just because they believe in michael moore
Does this show Nintendo's third-party support dwindling even more?"
That's exactly what it shows. Nintendo hasn't had the luck with 3rd party dev's for years now. This is just another one on the list.
politics and sense.. would you like some jumbo shrimp with that? ;-)
it's a little more reliable than your sense of humor on a saturday morning ;-)
Don't forget the near half a million Kurds Saddam killed in the late 80's.
;-)
Or the millions of people he oppressed.
I love this unbiased story reporting here on the neutral Slashdot.
he had his flux capacitor installed in his bong. it would seperate the marijuana from the smoke and he'd inject!
bill clinton doesn't HAVE to inhale!
plus there's the real-time encoding in whichever format you choose and whichever bitrate you choose.
;-)
innovation has won these Russians some money i'm sure
so that was YOU watching what i was doing!
*squint*
did they bias the camera in to showing that?
;-)
if you pay attention to any text from any large media outlet, you're paying attention to bias.
but i don't think they would take their bias to a level of editing the video to be biased.
i agree it's kinda stupid and even if it was a cheat sheet, he didn't know what he was going to get asked so it would probably be worthless.
my point being:
if you expect a source of unbiased news, you're probably the same person that expects a politician to be honest.
What does the messenger matter.
If it is true, it is true. Correct?
Would it be better if it came from NBC's liberal media?
yours maybe functional... but I can hack the gibson with 3D-Desktop!
Let the inspectors finish their jobs maybe
;-)
We had reports from 2 other countries showing he was very close to having a full nuclear program capable of WMD.
Afghanistan was one thing, but we also had widespread support, because it was a reasonable and just thing to do, going directly after Bin Laden.
I agree going directly after Bin Laden was a smarter approach but that would only be relevant if no one else was a threat. If Hussein had nukes he definitely would be a threat to us (much less his own people which were being brutalized and killed).
Life is filled with choosing the lesser of two evils.
Lesser of 2 evils really doesn't help when you have an extremist throwing planes into your buildings killing thousands of your people and another nut that you've attacked before almost has a nuclear arsenal. Either of those 2 evils had a good potential to be catastrophic to the U.S.
Invading a sovereign nation and pissing off 90% of the Arab world, torturing people, ignoring basic rights, excluding ourselves from international treaty agreements, this whole mess is going to return to us ten-fold over the next century. We pissed off more than the Arab world... LOL
but we weren't torturing people. The prisoners we took we humiliated but thats nothing compared to the daily life of an average Iraqi Citizen from 1980 to 2000... or a Serb even!
I do agree with you that it will return to us ten-fold... but I don't see the arguments for not going to war (other than that) and taking Hussein out of power.
Personally if I was president, I would close borders and spend all U.S. tax money bettering our own country and being neutral. But as we all know, hell is still hot and pigs lack wings.... so we deal with what we have
I'm not trying to be an a-hole.. but can you show me numbers?
A total spent on the war so far... a total of the money we're getting from the war... totals on the tax cuts given only to the rich and what they were paying before...
and do tell what he should have done instead of "Ignoring the economy to waste billions on Iraq..."
Give me some numbers.
Also, after 1997 many businesses shut down and caused the loss of lots of jobs. And just because some other companies had enough venture capital and net income that they survived to 2001, doesn't mean that it didn't start in 1997.
I know Fox News is involved somehow...
Paula Zahn, where are you?!
it was already going the way of the titanic when he entered office.
it actually started going down as of 97... which was when everyone's favorite president was in office.
why didn't he get blamed for the dot bomb of 97?
if it's so obvious, then explain in detail how he did it.
such as stuff he has passed to make our job market suck.