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Do you really approve of the way Muslims like to treat their women? Do you really think it is humane? Do you really approve of cutting someone's hand off for petty thievery?
Originally posted by magicmushroom
CON, if you would actually read what I post it would help, I did not say you said anything about Muslims I spoke to you first and then Poet replying to his statement about Muslims miss treatment of women, so again I am not a liar and you should read the post properly before calling people names. please see below.
And to be perfectly honest your becoming a little boring, name calling is what children do so why you continue to do this I dont know
. Perhaps your trying to provoke me, its obvious your just picking out the points that you want to bitch about rather than engage in rational debate that is of a very serious nature.
And far from proping up the Iraqi regime your getting their oil for peanuts, and no one asked you to invade Iraq did they so you can stop bleating about how much its costing you.
You can thank your corrupt Goverment for that. Perhaps you may have forgotton that the US and others actively helped and supplied Saddam Insane with the means to fight wars and his own people, but yet again is that just another lie to you.
It may not be your fault though as your media is totally state controlled and you do not get to hear the real truth about whats going on inside Iraq.
So your staments and views are based on bogus information so I can forgive you for that.
Originally posted by poet1b
What the fuh???
When did I say that the U.S. can "solve a problem by invading a country, murder its people, rob it of its wealth and then say we are here to westernise you."
That is a bunch of nonsense, I never said any such thing, nor do I believe in any such thing.
Originally posted by magicmushroom
Jerico, if I could use the UK as a model, After ww2 we were flat broke, and the first thing we did was to remove most of our overseas bases and reduce the armed forces dramtically but we still retained strong defensive forces and we were and are part of nato.
Originally posted by magicmushroom What America needs to do is to change from offensive to a defensive strategy. You can still have very capable forces to deal with a whole range of threats. the norm now is to have massive armed forces fighting wars that are costing trillions. And those trillions could be spent on the people of America rather than wars. So what if you become a regional power rather than a global one.
Originally posted by magicmushroom The point is that all the finacial problems the US is in right now could be solved very quickly by getting out of the ME and reducing its armed forces but still retain very strong defensive forces. To tarde with people rather than attacking them. But i think the problem goes much deeper and now the paraistes that are in charge are amking it worse and have been doing for some time. And it is they who need sorting out. I'm sure the Average American would agree with me on that point.
Originally posted by magicmushroom
Jerico, if I could use the UK as a model, After ww2 we were flat broke, and the first thing we did was to remove most of our overseas bases and reduce the armed forces dramtically but we still retained strong defensive forces and we were and are part of nato.
What America needs to do is to change from offensive to a defensive strategy. You can still have very capable forces to deal with a whole range of threats. the norm now is to have massive armed forces fighting wars that are costing trillions. And those trillions could be spent on the people of America rather than wars. So what if you become a regional power rather than a global one.
The point is that all the finacial problems the US is in right now could be solved very quickly by getting out of the ME and reducing its armed forces but still retain very strong defensive forces. To tarde with people rather than attacking them. But i think the problem goes much deeper and now the paraistes that are in charge are amking it worse and have been doing for some time. And it is they who need sorting out. I'm sure the Average American would agree with me on that point.
Originally posted by havingfun
America will survive 2008, 2009, etc. Sorry but it's just not going to happen. Also, the people of this nation will not allow a North American union, sorry to be the one to tell you that but it's just not going to happen either. As for the "confiscate your weapons and put you in camps" garbage, Have you ever been to the south my friend? Everyone down there is armed and there simply isn't any way a group could go door to door in this country and disarm everyone without getting shot up.
As for the OP, i don't think you present a valid point at all. You say the government should be stopped for what they might do. Have you ever wondered what on the other side of the coin? What if we prevented alot of bad things from happening to some decent people because of what we have done? Think about that one for me.
Last little item is the comments on winning wars. Some countries say winning a war is destroying the enemy and taking their assets. If we played by those rules Baghdad would be a pretty quiet place right now with a population of about 0. We could have carpet bombed every major city and forced the majority of the population to flee the country. But, we all know the United States doesn't do that. We don't target vital infrastructure or civilians and when we are done with their armies we spend our own money to make their country better than it was.
The Bottom line is we aren't going anywhere.
Originally posted by William Marshal
I already posted this once but what the heck,
My Youngest daughter is named Sarah Ayaan (Last Name)
I named her after one of your a politician from the netherlands.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Will