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At this point, my gut feeling is that "pulling out" of a war is a lot like sex, it's easier said than done. Even though I would like to be out of Iraq & Afghanistan like yesterday, I know that's not possible and I doubt very seriously that Ron Paul could speed that up in any way, unless of course he's running for "Dictator of The United States."
The idea of playing the two YouTube videos of the speech part of The Great Dictator with "Time" was something I found on 4chan, and I just edited them together to make it easier and faster to see how great the two go together. This is old vs. new. The video is of Charlie Chaplin's speech in "The Great Dictator" (1940), and the audio is the track "Time" by Hans Zimmer from the Inception OST.
The revolution has come! It's not just video put to music, listen to the lyrics and you can see the relation to the clip that is playing. Find the lyrics for the 30 Seconds to Mars song Revolve.
This time around, everyone PLEASE listen to the substance of each candidate...dont go vote because of a slogan.
Originally posted by Praetorius
reply to post by Flatfish
At this point, my gut feeling is that "pulling out" of a war is a lot like sex, it's easier said than done. Even though I would like to be out of Iraq & Afghanistan like yesterday, I know that's not possible and I doubt very seriously that Ron Paul could speed that up in any way, unless of course he's running for "Dictator of The United States."
Why is it not possible, and how would it have anything to do with being a dictator of the US? One of the president's FEW actual responsibilities and allowances is to be commander-in-chief of our armed forces. If we went into these places in error (for whatever specific reason), our goals/needs aren't actually being served by us being there, and the people there don't WANT us there - how on earth is it dictatorial for someone to actually have the gumption to recognize this and say it's time to come home, and then enact that?
Our current involvement was all based, verifiably, on lies (or 'inaccuracies') and the propoganda of fear, and has NOT benefitted these other nations - in fact, as killed civilians, ruined their infrastructures, and done a whole host of other bad things. I think the dictators of the US are the ones who got us into these situations and AREN'T ending them effective immediately. We would have retaliated to a ridiculous degree and pressed for war crimes prosecution against anyone else who did the like to us.
edit on 7/5/2011 by Praetorius because: (no reason given)