War in Iraq
AMERICA, do you ever seriously ask what sense it makes to preoccupy, or waste such a seriously significant portion of our troops and equipment in Iraq; and these armaments so vital to our national defense, homeland security, FEMA, or the capability of our forces to intervene in some actual, serious, or true threat to our world.
Do Americans ever seriously ask themselves what type of agenda would dictate this senseless waste of their most vital and precious resources? Meanwhile, America, your president continues borrowing from rouge nations like Red China and Saudi Arabia and spending it like a drunken sailor to finance this huge expenditure, or to pay his corporate cronies...or pave their way by doing his best to privatize for profit your government services and protections...
BUT THAT’S YOUR MONEY AMERICA, AS WELL AS THE LIVES OF YOUR KIDS, YOUR RISK, YOUR INSECURITY...YOUR MOST VITAL RESOURCES AMERICA BEING SENSELESSLY THROWN AWAY BY AN AGENDA THAT IS CLEARLY NOT YOUR OWN.
DO YOU EVER SERIOUSLY ASK YOURSELF WHY, OR WOULD YOU RATHER JUST WATCH DUMBFOUNDED AS IT SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS FOR THAT DICTATED AGENDA THAT IS CLEARLY NOT YOUR OWN AMERICA?
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New York City two days ago experienced its underground city blowing up because it is a hundred years old. It will require $trillions to bring up to snuff, to make it a safe city; in the meantime, W. Bush is busy making it a safe city by sending $trillions to Iraq.
Posted by Richard Grimes Deicide r22037@yahoo.com (ffrf and ask for free copy of FreeThought Today) on July 20, 2007 02:47 PMWhere is the money coming from to fund this god-awful war? Supporters of the war claim we need to make "hard choices" (and sacrifice programs) to fund this war. Thats just smoke and mirrors. True hard choices would be tackling entitlements, as well as the role of the military in the Post-Cold war era, funding wise--do we really need to maintain a military to be the police of the world?
Posted by George on July 20, 2007 09:34 PMThe really hard choice is weather to continue funding the richest 1% of families in our country via tax breaks, tax havens, tax rates etc. geared towards the inbred idiots running this police-state -for- profit called Iraq and their equally inbred friends , and coming soon to a loved one near you, IRAN!
Wake up America! It's YOUR tax money and children paying for this fiasco.
On the other hand, if I were in the 1% bracket, I would want things to continue as they are. and NEVER return to the rates pre-Pagan......Excuse me, I meant pre- Reagan.
It's a good time to be rich, indeed.
All the perks and none of the sacrifice.
"darfor" this is for you:
"The Vagaries of Religious Experience Edge, 2005 President Bush said, “God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,” most Americans were not alarmed to learn that their leader was receiving orders that no one else could hear. America is an unusually religious nation, but even in the world’s least religious nations the majority of people claim to believe in God.
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem of the Middle East . If you will help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.” Source: Ha’aretz (Israeli periodical), June 24, 2003 FT 8/03
Deicide Corner: Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. “We should get rid of it as quick as we can” Author, Arthur C. Clarke, Popular Science, Aug. ’04 FT 8/04
It's not a war anymore, that ended with Sadam's demise as dictator. This is a police action against internal Iraqi criminals who had nothing to do with 9-11 and, the United States Military forces are the police force that has taken over, from the iraqi people, the job of cleaning uo their own mess. I say we should get the hell out, wait to see who wins then eradicate what's left. Bush is a fatal dreamer. He actually thinks he can change thousands of years of belief , that is in no way like our conception of democracy or religious understanding, in a few years. He also thinks the thousands of years old religious based fighting between the various factions in Iraq can be resolved in the same amount of time. This is nothing more than childish wishful thinking and nothing less than an arrogant approach to an impossible situational positive outcome. Americans are completely naive about how the Eastern World works and, are incredible stupid to think our values will naturally be accepted by a society that has existed at least five times longer than the United States of America has been a legitimate sovereign country within a totally different social, religious an ethical structure and that wouldn't have a clue how to make a democracy work even if they did want it, which they don't. Can you imagine living within the East Indian Hindu Caste System, the Feudalism of Medieval Europe or Mao Tse-tung's Communistic System, of course not. How then can you imagine islamic iraqis living within a Western Democratic system. The comparison is accurate in both cases for the same reason, neither you or the Iraqis would have any idea how to do it.
Posted by Allen Campbell on July 21, 2007 11:53 AMLet us take a serious look at the U.S. CONTITUTION shall we. Please show me where in the constitution that the nation and taxpayers should pay for peoples healthcare/drugs (Medicare/Medicaid), give them money to live on (Welfare), give them money for food (Food Stamps), or any other host of socialized programs administered by Federal and State governments. You CAN NOT. However, you can find it in the constitution where the government is responsible for the military (for the protection of the United States and what the Government considers in its vital intrest), roads, and infrastructure. So before you go and whine about things read up on what our FOUNDING FATHERS truely believed, it sure was not social programs, but SELF RELIANCE with little Government Intrusion.
Posted by Chris on July 21, 2007 12:44 PMdmz said:
"The really hard choice is weather to continue funding the richest 1% of families in our country via tax breaks, tax havens, tax rates etc."
You get the quotidian award for today's dumbest comment. The top one percent pay over 30% of the income tax collected by the IRS. A top one percent earner pays more in taxes, at a higher tax rate, than you will make in your's and your children's children's lifetime combined.
If you honestly believe you are "funding" America's top one percent earners, you are seriously delusional.
Posted by John II on July 21, 2007 10:53 PMdmz said:
"The really hard choice is weather to continue funding the richest 1% of families in our country via tax breaks, tax havens, tax rates etc."
This comment also qualifies for the cacology award for using the word "weather" instead of "whether".
Posted by John II on July 21, 2007 11:26 PMThe bottom half of the wage earners in this country pay NO income tax. many of them actually get money back, money they never paid into to the IRS. So this argument about spending OUR tax money is a little weak.
Posted by on July 23, 2007 06:11 AM