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Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
reply to post by Salt of the Earth
You cannot keep and use campaign contributions for personal use. You can't use your presidential take to run in another position in another branch of government.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Iraq was not bad off really. They were a modern country, with jobs and schools, and the people had homes and families, and water to drink, food to eat, sewers that worked, thriving cities and culture.
Now it's destruction, death and depleted uranium.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
Iraq was not bad off really. They were a modern country, with jobs and schools, and the people had homes and families, and water to drink, food to eat, sewers that worked, thriving cities and culture.
Now it's destruction, death and depleted uranium.
Actually it wasn't, and I spent two years of my life over there...where do you get your information. I also flew those ten years throughout the 90s supporting the sanctions and no fly zones, so my information is rather personal. But here below is some empirical data that doesn’t support your views.
Even when you add up all the war torn, Al-Qaeda and sectarian violence it doesn't equal what the sanctions did.
CIA World Fact book…
Life expectancy at birth
2008: 69.62
2005: 68.7
2000: 66.53
1998: 66.52
Infant mortality rate:
2008: 45.43 deaths/1,000 live births
1998: 62.41 death/1,000 live births
Death rate:
2008 5.14 deaths/1,000 population
1998: 6.57 deaths/1,000 population
[edit on 28-2-2009 by Xtrozero]
Originally posted by spacedoubt
reply to post by Salt of the Earth
I see where you are coming from now.
You're upset that Paul does not support your point of view that 9/11 was a complete inside job.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
For RP to say that America killed millions in Iraq for removing Saddam is just like saying we killed millions in Darfur for not going there to stop the genocide. Yes people died at the hands of Americans, but those deaths are about 10% of what the Iraqi people did to themselves, al-Qaida, and other groups killed. To measure what the US did in the war against the 10 years of sanctions that Clinton imposed the sanctions did far more damage and contributed to far more deaths than this war these last 8 years.
The big difference is that the Iraqi people have a chance now where under Saddam they didn’t, and to think of what that country would be like with 8 more years of sanctions AND Saddam still there, it would resemble the deaths and despair that we see in Darfur today in many ways.
If you didnt agree with it, why make excusses for it with conclsions of silly non facts to further justify the war.
This is not saying I agreed with the war for the cost was too high for America in many ways to justify it.
Originally posted by universe attracts wisdom
STOP bullpooping all over this thread Your paragraph bascially like this
"a kid saying but I only did it cus he made me do it"
"Well if he didnt say boo, I wouldn't say ahhh"
But he hit me first, so i was like... ok to hit him back"
I really didn't mean it sir"
This really gets n my nerves. Grow up and snap back in reality. Stop making excuses for war. You don't even know in the slightest idea your governmetn went to war. Your first paragraph proves how little you actually know First step, stop watching the T.V pulease, just try.
Your also VERY wrong on your comparision of Saddam Iraq to Bush holding Iraq. Saddam killed MAX 400,000 in his whole time in Iraq. He actually fought terrorists too. The weapons he had were given by your country. He was an ally even when he was killing his own people
So don't start this cry wolf nonsense. Ge yourself educaed on this topic, before you go off on mumble.
Clinton and Bush is the same thing, both puppets. Wake up.
Your post is unbelievably, biased, hypocritical, lacking in any knowledge of this subject and to be quite blunt nonsense.
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
The sanctions were wrong too. We murdered those people with sanctions, and now we murder them with shock and awe and house to house and torture dungeons and water boarding and raping kids with large objects dripping in battery acid.
I still love my Republic and its constitution, this land, and I just want the killing to stop and the foreign banksters to butt out, and for Israel to back off and get out of our government, for somebody to take their nukes away from them and give the land back to Palestine. They can have Gaza since they want to be there all the time occupying it anyway.