I can see from your posts that you hold strong opinions, I was interested in WHY you hold those opinions so strongly is all.
Read what I post then
It works like this, if you have opinions, something has caused you to have those opinions, that something is what I was asking for, not that I DEMAND you spend HOURS searching for anything.
If you have'nt SAVED the information that caused you to form your opinion, then so be it.
Do you save every website, newspaper and book you read in case someone asks you about them? Thought not ...
Obviously my request has pushed butons and been seen as something else, this was not my intention.
Your silliness has pushed buttons.
OK by me, anyone holding an opinion who will not explain WHY they hold that opinion will get no 'listening' from me. I will stay out of your threads.
Good. I have explained plenty if you have the gumption to read it.
Without a doubt, the sacrifice Americans are making in Iraq is noble. The USA is truly trying to give the Iraqi people a chance at freedom after decades of oppression, courtesy of Hitler lite, Saddam Hussein
It would have been nicer if America hadn't kept Saddam in power all those years wouldn't it? Doesn't America share responsibility for the decades of oppression when it was done with American weapons?
We are now finding out that many who opposed the removal of Saddam were allegedly being bribed by him. Yesterday, British anti-American guy George Galloway was accused by the U.S. Senate of accepting a huge amount of money from Saddam. Four high-ranking Frenchmen have been implicated in the oil-for-food scandal. And the evidence indicates Saddam bribed members of the Putin government in Russia.
Accusations are not FACTS. This government seems to like retribution and retaliation to anyone who doesn't go along with it.
Remember, if the United Nations would have moved against Saddam, the U.S. and Britain would have been spared this ordeal.
If American foreign policy with Iran and Iraq hadn't been meddling and selfish then all the citizens of those countries would have been spared much worse ordeals than our countries have endured.
Unfortunately, the weapons of mass destruction fiasco and poor planning after Saddam's demise has shrouded the Iraq situation. Patriots like Brent Scowcroft adamantly opposed the invasion. Understanding that the battlefield would be exceedingly difficult, something the Bush administration apparently did not understand.
Seems Bush and co. have very little understanding of anything important. They seem to put a lot of time and effort into planning corrup money making schemes though don't they. What does that tell you?
So fair-minded Americans are confronted with a very difficult decision. The intent in Iraq is noble, but the actual war is far more difficult than the Bush people led us to believe.
Why is it noble? It is to secure oil and make money. That isn't noble.
It is also very hard to gauge success in Iraq.
No it isn't. It's just that we haven't seen it yet.
The American press is largely anti-war, so it’s reporting emphasizes the negative.
ie. they report what is happening once we got rid of the embedded propagandists and obvious fairy-tales (private lynch)
The terrorists play right into that. A bombing every day makes headlines, while successes go largely unreported. Thus, many Americans and the world in general see the conflict as a loser, because that's the way the media is spinning it.
If bombs were going off in America would that be seen as the media spinning things to make it look bad?!
The solution to the Iraq situation lies with the Iraqis themselves.
Ah yes, we brake things (again) and screw things up for them and then we drop things when they get too rough.
They must take over the fight from the coalition and defeat the Islama-fascists.
No, Britain and America stay there until the country is stable no matter how much it costs or how many troops come back in body bags. The only early 'get out' is to admit it was a mistake, an illegal invasion and try those responsible (with death penalty for guilt).
President Bush would be foolish to give a public timetable, but privately he's got to make it clear to the Iraqi government that our sacrifice is not open ended. The Iraqi people must step up and soon.
Why must they? To save Bush's political ass? I think we should shove a rifle in his hands and dump him in the streets of Bahgdad and tell him to clean his mess.
The disgrace of Iraq is not that we are there. Again, our goal of trying to establish democracy and anti-terrorism in the Muslim world is noble.
What do do Bush and Blair care of democracy? They erode ours at every chance they get. What terrorism was their in Iraq before we got there?
No, the disgrace is that some Americans are actually rooting for the USA and Britain to lose the conflict. To lose it. That is treasonous and unacceptable.
Who? Where? Remember that saying "this is gonna be a catastrophe and a war we can never win" is not the same as saying "I WANT this to be a ..." I was against the war and I have been proved right on EVERY COUNT. I was right on EVERY LIE that Bush and co. told, the reasons for the war, the WoMD, what would happen etc. That does not mean that I want America "defeated". A true patriot doesn't send his fellow men on foolish battles for false reasons but makes sure that what they fight for is right and the reason is necessary. Bush is surely the biggest joke of a president in history and a shameful chapter in US history.
