Good Reason not to vote for Kerry!!!
#223
You forgot to mention whether or not my lottery ticket was going to be a winner.
Since we are into numbering things.
1. We were attacked by way of the first WTC bombing, and basically nothing was done.
2. Our ship was bombed and our soldiers were killed and basically nothing was done.
3.Thousands of people were killed in the 2nd attack on the WTC, and now, we are tired of it, and WE ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
4. After the first Iraq war, Sadam vowed to "Destroy the evil infidels" (That's us in case you were wondering.). That sounds like a threat to me and one that needed to be taken seriously considering who it came from.
5. All the Liberals, it's ok if I call you a liberal isn't it, got their panties all in a bunch because "Sadam never did anything to us YET!". In case you didn't catch that, the key word being "YET"
6. I'm not willing to use the same approach to dealing with Sadam, as we did with AlQuada, and Wait until he killed thousands more Americans while they are sitting in their homes or offices. Are you?
7. (Second Grade logic) Sadam was not a nice man and the world is be better off without him.
Hey man, I'm not trying to bust your chops. Fact is what we have here is a difference of opinion. Instead of being Retro-active, I feel we need to be Pro-active, and I think Bush is the better man for the job. I want to know that if we get hit, we are going to hit back 10 fold. I don't agree with Kerry's "Kinder, Gentler" aproach to protecting our country.
Simply put, Bush will Smack your @ss.
While Kerry wants to get everyone together for snacks and sing Coom-by-yah.
I can't support that.
Since we are into numbering things.
1. We were attacked by way of the first WTC bombing, and basically nothing was done.
2. Our ship was bombed and our soldiers were killed and basically nothing was done.
3.Thousands of people were killed in the 2nd attack on the WTC, and now, we are tired of it, and WE ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
4. After the first Iraq war, Sadam vowed to "Destroy the evil infidels" (That's us in case you were wondering.). That sounds like a threat to me and one that needed to be taken seriously considering who it came from.
5. All the Liberals, it's ok if I call you a liberal isn't it, got their panties all in a bunch because "Sadam never did anything to us YET!". In case you didn't catch that, the key word being "YET"
6. I'm not willing to use the same approach to dealing with Sadam, as we did with AlQuada, and Wait until he killed thousands more Americans while they are sitting in their homes or offices. Are you?
7. (Second Grade logic) Sadam was not a nice man and the world is be better off without him.
Hey man, I'm not trying to bust your chops. Fact is what we have here is a difference of opinion. Instead of being Retro-active, I feel we need to be Pro-active, and I think Bush is the better man for the job. I want to know that if we get hit, we are going to hit back 10 fold. I don't agree with Kerry's "Kinder, Gentler" aproach to protecting our country.
Simply put, Bush will Smack your @ss.
While Kerry wants to get everyone together for snacks and sing Coom-by-yah.
I can't support that.
#226
We supported Saudi Arabia and Kuwait militarily. Neither is a Democracy(this is what makes our democracy in the mid east talk so laughable). Do you know that a non muslim is not allowed to walk freely in SA? Do you know that they chop off heads and hands publicly as criminal punishment. Would you call that a legitimate govt. Both countries are Monarchies, you know, kind of like the British we fought a revolution against.....They don't need economic aid, they make it up by over charging the world for crude oil. Crude oil that they couldn't figure out how to pump from the ground without help from westerner engineers.
Egypt, you wanna see brutal jails with torture and such? Look at Egypt, our closest ally in the mid east. Experts on the region are in general agreement that Mubbarak's govt. would crumble without brutal secret police and American economic aid. We support this country with huge amounts of economic aid. Second in aid only to Isreal in the mid east. Look it up.
Pakistan, we support Pakistan with Military and economic aid. This has been going on since the Reagan years. Ironically, our support of the Pakistani intelligence community indirectly allowed the Taliban to come to power. The Taliban(which means Students) originated in Pakistani religious schools and was funded by the Pakistani version of the CIA, who in turn was funded by our CIA. Again, look it up.
Edit: Pakistan is not an Arabic nation, but they are a Muslim country within the mid east so I feel they are very relevant to this discussion.
Qutar, a tiny little Monarchy next to Kuwait. We have been building our base of Mid East operations in this country. Another monarchy, and don't think we aren't paying millions upon millions to have our bases there. Qutar is also the home of that wonderful media outlet known as Al Jezeera. Remember them, the ones who lie about the US all the time?
Not one of these countries has ever held free elections except Pakistan. Last time they had them, Mushariff lost, so he had his opponent killed and took over in a coup. Wonderful allies we have
Egypt, you wanna see brutal jails with torture and such? Look at Egypt, our closest ally in the mid east. Experts on the region are in general agreement that Mubbarak's govt. would crumble without brutal secret police and American economic aid. We support this country with huge amounts of economic aid. Second in aid only to Isreal in the mid east. Look it up.
Pakistan, we support Pakistan with Military and economic aid. This has been going on since the Reagan years. Ironically, our support of the Pakistani intelligence community indirectly allowed the Taliban to come to power. The Taliban(which means Students) originated in Pakistani religious schools and was funded by the Pakistani version of the CIA, who in turn was funded by our CIA. Again, look it up.
Edit: Pakistan is not an Arabic nation, but they are a Muslim country within the mid east so I feel they are very relevant to this discussion.
Qutar, a tiny little Monarchy next to Kuwait. We have been building our base of Mid East operations in this country. Another monarchy, and don't think we aren't paying millions upon millions to have our bases there. Qutar is also the home of that wonderful media outlet known as Al Jezeera. Remember them, the ones who lie about the US all the time?
Not one of these countries has ever held free elections except Pakistan. Last time they had them, Mushariff lost, so he had his opponent killed and took over in a coup. Wonderful allies we have
#228
Bsb those are good points and it illustrates that the rest of the world is not like us. We can either seal ourselves off from the rest of the world, or we can have relations with seedy countries. The sad truth is we gotta do business with a lotta scuzzballs out there, if we are to have any foreign relations at all.


