cjb1776:
" 1. Bush is not stupid, anyone who graduated from or got into Yail is not stupid"
Yale*. Also, when you buy your way in by donating a gym, it doesn't take that much on the "brains" front. However, I agree with you. Go back to his debates in the primaries in 2000, he killed EVERYONE, until about halfway through... suddenly he got dumb. Now, either he got smacked over the head with a baseball bat or his political advisors told him "That whole man-of-the-people bubba-don't-speak-too-good-of-the-english routine will play GREAT in the bible belt". I never heard anything about a baseball bat. Which says a lot about Bush, but doesn't say much for conservative voters, actually...
"3. People people dont realize that WMDs or no, Iraq was still harboring terrorist and supplying them, which as Bush stated makes you just a guilty as being a terrorist"
One more time, say it with me... 9/11 commission finds no cause to conclude that Saddam Hussein's regime had any ties whatsoever with Al Qaeda. Saddam and Bin Laden hated each other. Looks like the Bush admin were off by one letter... he may not be stupid, but incompetent remains up for debate.
" 4. The media is liberal, i saw a report that in Iraq sixty people die a day (Civilian and military personnel included), compared to any war that the USA has been in that is good. During the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, people would have been happy that 60 people died. It is the liberal media that exaggerates and blows every thing out of proportion."
Hey, I know I'M happy that 60 people died! I'm ecstatic to hear such great news! Seriously, you're right. Why don't the news stations ever talk about the bombs that DON'T blow up? It's war, you fucking moron. Obviously they're going to talk figures that'll shock people into paying attention... what are you more likely to get worked up over, "Suicide bomber kills 42 children", or "New power station opened outside Baghdad"?
" 5. I think that Bush needs to take tougher stands against his opposition, but if Al Gore would have been president during 9/11 this country would have been a lot worse off."
I probably shouldn't play "Would've", but for the sake of entertainment.... You wouldn't be in debt, and you wouldn't be at war with a country that had no potential to harm you... and a lot of people would still be alive, and the world wouldn't hate the US anywhere near as much... Yeah, way better off.
Williamtell414:
" -if by 'Americans' you mean terrorist suspects, then your first statement is somewhat correct"
Yes, that makes wholly illegal DOMESTIC actions that infringe on civil liberties a-okay. As long as the government thought they were terrorists, it's totally okay to break the law, or just invent new ones! Your justification for this is mind-blowing. If they started holding "suspected terrorist" Americans without charging them or giving them the right to a trial, if it became constitutional to suspend habeus corpus, would you still say "It's okay, it only applies to terrorists"?
Oh wait. Both those things are already the case. I wonder how long 'til they invoke that revocation stipulation.
" -if you think the UN has any sort of tangible authority in the world, you are sadly mistaken"
Agreed, let's discard the court of world opinion because they ain't got no nukes... hyuck. Okay, so the UN is often inefficient and bickering. Would I take that alternative above a global hegemon which apparently seems to think a foreign policy of "Fuck all you guys, we'll do what's best for us at your expense and there ain't nothin you can do about it because I have all these guys with guns" represents a nation with "moral authority", just as long as rape victims can't get an abortion? Hmmm... let me think...
"im going to let the 911 comment slide because it is so pathetic...you forgot to assign responsibiblity to the mayor of new orleans and the governor of LA for the preparation for Katrina--maybe because they are both dems? or because one is black (and hardly litarate) and the other is a woman? new orleans was an accident waiting to happen, and everyone knew it beforehand"
Yes, damn those illiterate blacks (cough*misunderestimate*cough)! They belong int he cotton fields, and those damned incompetent women should just get back in the kitchen. We'll burn every copy of The Feminine Mystique we can find, too, just to teach 'em a lesson. Yeah, you're right, New Orleans was an accident waiting to happen, and everyone knew about it... except for the President, who I described the event after the fact by beginning with "No one could have predicted..."
Next time instead of giving Alaska $450 million in federal funding for trophy bridges, how about investing some of that money in levee improvement for a below-sea-level city, you morons? Keith Olbermann will thank you.
" you got me on the assumption - i meant that it is foolish to handicap our troops by placing restrictions on their weaponry. war isnt supposed to be fair, otherwise we wouldnt spend the cash to develop weapons."
Good call. The more painful, the better. Who wants to fight an army that has weapons that will melt their eyeballs Indiana Jones style? You know what, torture is an effective means to preventing American deaths, too. We should really bring that back, can we just get rid of those damned Geneva conve-
"I accept the conclusions of the Justice Department that I have the legal authority to suspend the Geneva Convention." -George W. Bush (signed)
Oh. Well I guess that's that then.
Seriously, how utilitarian can you be? God fearing or not, you're walking straight down the path of pure immorality. If you meet him somewhere along the road, tell Bernard Marx I say hi.