By: angryafrican

angryafrican — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:29:39 +0000

@EnergyEngineer – Fair enough. We don’t always agree on Obama and McCain. But that’s fair and the reason why we respect each other. And sometimes I do go overboard in my criticism of McCain – and I apologize for that. But I do disagree on the need for war. I don’t like war, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see the reason for it. Afghanistan? Fair reason – you could trace the attack on the US directly to the regime there. Fair to retaliate. More than fair to attack them. But Iraq? The reason why I don’t agree with that decision is because every reason given is a cop-out. WMD? Just bad intel? Then why did I sit outside the US and know that the intel was bad just by reading the newspapers? Why did almost everyone but the UK not support the US decision on Iraq? Because they saw the bad intel. They supported the US on Afghanistan – and still do. But Iraq was a stretch. And too many half truths and lies. it was too selective. Why Iraq and not someone else? WMD? Not on the info we had. And have. That should have been the warning – when even your friends tell you it is a bad decision then you need to revisit your decision. Yes, France and many European countries are weak, but they are so much closer to the US than any other state in this world. Remember, France was the first country to send their leader here on a flight after 9/11. No. Iraq was a mistake and they are now trying to tell us different reasons why they did this. But the truth is they should have known better because I knew better reading middle-of-the-road newspapers like the London Times and Mail & Guardian. They shouldn’t tell me that I have better intel than the CIA. That would be scary! But if they say that they go into war to attack eveil? Fair enough. Then why Iraq and not other places where more people are getting murdered each and every day. Burma, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan… All I would like them to do is give me clear guidelines to what triggers their decisions to go to war. What we have is selective reasoning. And the war in Afghanistan is still not won. And Osama Bin Laden is still running free. Because billions of dollars and all the attention is spent on a country that he had little connection with or interest in – Iraq.

By: EnergyEngineer

EnergyEngineer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:07:19 +0000

Arggg, Obama is just a bad a politician as McCain.

And President Bush choose diplomicy because we can’t shoot the . Remember we can’t have wars with evil dictators. We can’t afford it. We should not negotiate with them, we spend to much money and troops fighting them. So what happened to fighting evil once in a while. Nope that is Imperailism. Well I guess ignoring the situation is the only option left. Its working in Iran, and Darfur, and Venazula and Cuba and …. Yet no matter what option a Republican president chooses he is painted as an idiot, or senile or evil or a traitor, or a do nothing president. I am not just ranting, if you can come up with a solution, I talk back what I just said. Sometimes I think doing nothing is the right solution. War sucks. It’s a matter of what sucks worse.
Maybe just maybe Iraq was wrong. Maybe it did cost to much. I remember Bush after Mission Accomplished saying it is a long road. I remember the yearly 87.3 B dollars plus EMERGENCY spending. Emergency only because it is politics. I saw the spending spreadsheet on where our money goes, how much to what department since 1940. I know how much our deficit, not debt and what the difference is between the two.

But this once, for Iraq and that brutal dictatorship, For preventing WMDs, (yea that is out dated but when the war started thats what I knew, and that is what the CIA told the president), For talking a stand and not folding to terrorist who want to use Islam for political power, for killing them over and over and over again, Iraq was worth the cost in blood and treasure. Bush made the right call. We are still the worlds only deterrent against evil because no one else stands up. If its not American troops there fighting {name your evil} It not anyone. I have seen a few African Peace keeping troops here and there, maybe a couple of squads of European Forces. Turkey has some troops. Britain and Austrialia are willing to follow us. Saudia Araiba and Spain tries to pay off the terrorists. That is going to haunt them.

So we need more American Jobs and taxes. Oil can provide those, but congress is in the way. What about coal to Natural gas Glassification, montana wanted that but congress got in the way, what about Nuclear energy, Jobs galore but nope again.

And McCain and Obama are from the same congress that opposed all that. In fact the still aren’t talking about this stuff. They are still argueing about troops in Iraq, get over it we won most of the war. Mission almost Accomplished lets get some domestic oil so that next time we can afford to have a constitution. We really don’t want to be owned by the middle east or Far east. Neither of the Canidates are serious about big energy. Neither are willing to get the government out of the way so someone else can be serious. I beleive Obama is serrious about alternitive energy when he starts talking about 200 billion dollars in tax cut for the rich for alternitive energy.
Untill then both the canidates are clowns.

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