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Is Osama right?
It's a fact that the US and Europe meddles in the ME affairs because of one thing, oil. The people in the Middle East will get rid of their own dictators, when they evolve to the point in which they feel the need to
do so. We have our troops in Saudi Arabia upholding an unpopular and brutal government. We now have troops in Afganistan, and Iraq. The US will have a large military presense in Iraq for another 10 years. And then we have the little Israel/Palestinian conflict.
He is right, it is the American public that votes for people like Kerry and Bush. And how do we come to vote for people like this? Of course the RNC and DNC nominate 2 guys, and we, like sheep, just pick one of them.
But not just one of them. What is the phrase we use, "the lessor of two evils?" Isn't this America? Don't WE get to choose who WE want as president? We do, and we give that right away. But we don't start on the presidential level, no, we start at home.
We vote for people we don't know about, everyone from School Board, to Mayors, state councilmen, etc., etc.. Somewhere down the long line of corruption, you'll find the people that help people like GWB and Kerry get nominated. Don't get me wrong, some people are good little Americans and vote well, and
sometimes we get good people in government. It is possible to do this. Unfortunely the RNC isn't run by people like John McCain, and the DNC isn't run by people like [insert cool guy who is a Democrat] (I couldn't think of one). And it will take American voters to get that to happen, not our current leaders, our government can't fix this, only we can. In Iraq and in Aghanistan we are trying to force others to vote, and we doing a horrible job of it ourselves.
About 10% of Americans took off their tin foil hats tonight, now knowing that Cheney and Bush did not plan 9/11.
Ah, security. You know that feeling when you go to bed at night, in your warm cozy bed, and silence outside your home? Now that's security. Well we like it. And so do others, but some have yet to find out that security is worth the fight for it, just as Americans did over 200 years ago. What is interesting is Iraqi's didn't resist Saddam just ENOUGH to remove him. There wasn't just quite enough support from Iraqi's to get him out of his office, er..uh.., twelve giant palaces. So why the resistence to us? Why were they brave enough to stand up to us? Well, with a little imported Islam from neighboring countries, and the appearance of our soft "rights" of prisoners, we may not have been as intimidating as Saddam. They don't care about getting shot, or hit with a bomb, that's easy death. They just don't want their balls hooked up to something plugged into a wall socket. Maybe that's why we saw the prison abuse by our troops. Got to make them talk somehow, right?
So why are we there again? WMD, oh yeah. have we found those yet?
The plan seems obvious. They say it took 2 years to plan 9/11. It took our gov't about 15 to plan for Iraq. First be friends with Saddam, he was the perfect candidate. Brutal dictator, desire for war, and he had a HUGE amount of good, clean, oil. As homer would say, "hmmmmmmm... oil." So they gave him some weapons, waited until he did something really bad, and then called him on it, setting up an exaggerated global period of hate for him. We make sure that the law says Saddam must disarm of his WMD. Inspectors are there to search, for more than a decade, just to make sure they are all gone. We can't take him out with all of those WMD. Then when the time is right (after 9/11) we take him out, help get someone elected, anyone who fits the bill, including someone willing to sell us oil.
Bush says it like it is, "we will not stop meddling in ME affairs, we can prevent their resistence with force and strong intelligence."
No we can't. You can't stop an idea with bombs and bullets. You can kill someone but you cannot take away a peoples desire to live how they choose. You can try to scare someone, but it's not guaranteed they will fear you. If we continue to allow our government to interfere with other countries, we need to start trying to live like they do in Israel. In fact, if we continue to allow our gov't to meddle in the affiars of other countries, then we are a decade away from missing one of our beautiful cities and about a million of our brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers.
I ask you to notice ONE thing in what Kerry said here. He said "a more effective," not "an effective." In that sense, he MAY be right, but other than that, I say, total BULLSHIT.
Is Osama right?
Well, yes. And no. Blowing up 110 stroy buildings, embassies, etc., and killing 10's of thousands of innocent people is wrong. Period. Where does that get you? More hatred, it adds fuel to the flames. More wars, more undeserved punishment for people all over the world. Look where 9/11 got the Taliban, look where it got Saddam. And the Iraqi people got the worst of it. The country will be unstable for years, maybe decades. Yes, Saddam is done, but they are very fearful of what is next.
OBL is giving the US gov't MORE excuses to be in the ME, just as our residing in the ME is giving OBL MORE excuses to attack us.
It's that simple.
And it's the citizens of the US and also the citizens of other countries that need to help keep the peace, our governments won't do it. We have to. If Iraqi's would have had the courage to oust Saddam, they wouldn't have 100,000 American troops in their backyard. And if Americans would get more involved in their government, those 100,000 troops, our fathers, our sons, our brothers, would be at home right now.
Good grief, I typed way too much here didn't I? Oh well, start the flames.
Is Osama right?
It's a fact that the US and Europe meddles in the ME affairs because of one thing, oil. The people in the Middle East will get rid of their own dictators, when they evolve to the point in which they feel the need to
do so. We have our troops in Saudi Arabia upholding an unpopular and brutal government. We now have troops in Afganistan, and Iraq. The US will have a large military presense in Iraq for another 10 years. And then we have the little Israel/Palestinian conflict.
He is right, it is the American public that votes for people like Kerry and Bush. And how do we come to vote for people like this? Of course the RNC and DNC nominate 2 guys, and we, like sheep, just pick one of them.
But not just one of them. What is the phrase we use, "the lessor of two evils?" Isn't this America? Don't WE get to choose who WE want as president? We do, and we give that right away. But we don't start on the presidential level, no, we start at home.
We vote for people we don't know about, everyone from School Board, to Mayors, state councilmen, etc., etc.. Somewhere down the long line of corruption, you'll find the people that help people like GWB and Kerry get nominated. Don't get me wrong, some people are good little Americans and vote well, and
sometimes we get good people in government. It is possible to do this. Unfortunely the RNC isn't run by people like John McCain, and the DNC isn't run by people like [insert cool guy who is a Democrat] (I couldn't think of one). And it will take American voters to get that to happen, not our current leaders, our government can't fix this, only we can. In Iraq and in Aghanistan we are trying to force others to vote, and we doing a horrible job of it ourselves.
About 10% of Americans took off their tin foil hats tonight, now knowing that Cheney and Bush did not plan 9/11.
Ah, security. You know that feeling when you go to bed at night, in your warm cozy bed, and silence outside your home? Now that's security. Well we like it. And so do others, but some have yet to find out that security is worth the fight for it, just as Americans did over 200 years ago. What is interesting is Iraqi's didn't resist Saddam just ENOUGH to remove him. There wasn't just quite enough support from Iraqi's to get him out of his office, er..uh.., twelve giant palaces. So why the resistence to us? Why were they brave enough to stand up to us? Well, with a little imported Islam from neighboring countries, and the appearance of our soft "rights" of prisoners, we may not have been as intimidating as Saddam. They don't care about getting shot, or hit with a bomb, that's easy death. They just don't want their balls hooked up to something plugged into a wall socket. Maybe that's why we saw the prison abuse by our troops. Got to make them talk somehow, right?
So why are we there again? WMD, oh yeah. have we found those yet?
The plan seems obvious. They say it took 2 years to plan 9/11. It took our gov't about 15 to plan for Iraq. First be friends with Saddam, he was the perfect candidate. Brutal dictator, desire for war, and he had a HUGE amount of good, clean, oil. As homer would say, "hmmmmmmm... oil." So they gave him some weapons, waited until he did something really bad, and then called him on it, setting up an exaggerated global period of hate for him. We make sure that the law says Saddam must disarm of his WMD. Inspectors are there to search, for more than a decade, just to make sure they are all gone. We can't take him out with all of those WMD. Then when the time is right (after 9/11) we take him out, help get someone elected, anyone who fits the bill, including someone willing to sell us oil.
Bush says it like it is, "we will not stop meddling in ME affairs, we can prevent their resistence with force and strong intelligence."
No we can't. You can't stop an idea with bombs and bullets. You can kill someone but you cannot take away a peoples desire to live how they choose. You can try to scare someone, but it's not guaranteed they will fear you. If we continue to allow our government to interfere with other countries, we need to start trying to live like they do in Israel. In fact, if we continue to allow our gov't to meddle in the affiars of other countries, then we are a decade away from missing one of our beautiful cities and about a million of our brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers.
I ask you to notice ONE thing in what Kerry said here. He said "a more effective," not "an effective." In that sense, he MAY be right, but other than that, I say, total BULLSHIT.
Is Osama right?
Well, yes. And no. Blowing up 110 stroy buildings, embassies, etc., and killing 10's of thousands of innocent people is wrong. Period. Where does that get you? More hatred, it adds fuel to the flames. More wars, more undeserved punishment for people all over the world. Look where 9/11 got the Taliban, look where it got Saddam. And the Iraqi people got the worst of it. The country will be unstable for years, maybe decades. Yes, Saddam is done, but they are very fearful of what is next.
OBL is giving the US gov't MORE excuses to be in the ME, just as our residing in the ME is giving OBL MORE excuses to attack us.
It's that simple.
And it's the citizens of the US and also the citizens of other countries that need to help keep the peace, our governments won't do it. We have to. If Iraqi's would have had the courage to oust Saddam, they wouldn't have 100,000 American troops in their backyard. And if Americans would get more involved in their government, those 100,000 troops, our fathers, our sons, our brothers, would be at home right now.
Good grief, I typed way too much here didn't I? Oh well, start the flames.