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#1. Only a childish irresponsible person will get into a debate on who started what. Here are the facts- it WAS Bush who DECLARED THE WAR ON TERROR. There have always been terrorist attacks in the US, and if the US is now safer than ever before as Bush says, then why is their martial law in Boston and New York? No other party convention has ever had as much security, yet he still claims we are safer than ever. If we are so safe, than why do we need almost all of our freedoms revoked to stay that way? 'He who would trade safety for freedom deserves neither'
#2. Liberals dont claim anything, do you even know what a liberal is? All they do, is try and not be bigots, and open up their own mind.(which is a fuckload more than i could say about some conservatives)
#3. Why the hell is that fact about WW2 in there? The united states' allies were under attack, and losing the war at that time. Participation was imminent. The US was attacked, not by a terrorist organization, but by a government, hence war was declared on that government, and all other governments that condoned that action. Allies like germany for example. Not to mention, Democrats at that time were like the Republicans of today, strong in the south(tho fdr-johnons changed that around). It was not one persons fault, when will anybody ever learn that? Even Hitler had some reasoning in why he started the third reich.(treaty of versailles anyone?)
#4. Korea was a UN mission to create peace. I dont need to say anymore.
#5. Vietnam was started because of the CIA funding socialist terrorist organizations, and plotting assassinations, as well as the Truman Doctrine. Now Truman was the least liberal president until then, and look at all the fucked up things he participated in like Mccarthyism. In 1962, it was Frances problem, the US only had arbitrators, negotiators, and spies, only a dozen troops were sent there, and for 'diplomatic reasons'.
#6. I dont know what is your definition of mass murder or slaughter, or genocide, but the freshest conflicts in my mind with the 90's were Somalia, Bosnia, and Uganda. Somalia, troops were sent to keep peace, 'do not fire unless fire upon' was the ideology. Uganda could have been prevented, but wasnt because of some idiot in the UN security council asking 'whats in it for us'. Bosnia, i dont know if you remember this, but the UN actually did go to bosnia. I'm sorry, but i think confrontation between armed militias is better than civilian slaughter. Now, what is the difference between ALL of those confrontations and iraq? WAR WAS DECLARED ON IRAQ AND NONE OF THOSE OTHER NATIONS!!!!!GOD FUCKING DAMNIT YOU MORONS. THEY WERE PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS.
7. OF course bin laden should be captured. Here are some places he mite be hiding; Saudi Arabia-US Ally, Pakistan-US Ally, and Afghanistan-US occupied. Those are the 3 most probable places for bin laden, and isnt it funny that 2/3rds of those choices are US Allies?
8. So Al Queida is crippled? back to the begginning, WHY IS NEW YORK AND BOSTON UNDER MARTIAL LAW, IF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION THAT IS BY FAR THE MOST LIKELY TO ATTACK IS CRIPPLED? Because they are not crippled, they have evolved, and now, they cannot be found, hence cannot be captured, cannot be accounted for.
9. So what you are saying is that Saddam Hussein, because he killed thousands of people, that war was justified? You didnt say that about Bosnia did ya? Clinton removed Milosevic, a 1/2 the warlords in Somalia. So hows about we forget about your hypocritic reasons for one second.
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