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Traidor Disloyal
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Posted - 2009.02.02 17:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Ducyen Phung
Last Wednesday, the House successfully passed an $819 billion version of this plan.
You all want to bring politics into this? Fine.
I'm fairly certain that if not one of the "loyal opposition" in the House voted for the bill that President Obamas honeymoon is over. If not a single House Republican was scared to vote against the bill it tells you something about that bill. If you have moderate Democrats in the Senate voicing complaints about the bill coming from the House it tells you something about that bill that was "successfully passed" in the House.
Either the President needs to reign in the Democrats in the House or we are going to have four more years of "she said he said" crap. Me, I just want em to live within their means. I kind of wish I could go to someone and say "Dude, I just spent way more money then I have so give me some". I have learned that if you throw money at someone (or something) that does not know how to control their spending all you are doing is throwing money away.
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Posted - 2009.02.02 19:53:00 -
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Originally by: 54031355
When Bush was in power no one still knows 100% for sure as to why the USA invaded IRAQ. But I will always find it funny that the CIA or whichever organization trained and equipped the Taliban. And then they kicked their master in the groin and ran away giggling.
The CIA gave weapons to the Taliban because the Soviet Union (not Russia) was in Afghanistan at the time. The U.S. did not like the USSR at that time and wanted payback for Vietnam. So the U.S. gave em weapons without thinking what will happen with those weapons after the USSR was kicked out of Afghanistan. And the U.S. did not care what would happen when the USSR pulled out and left a political vacuum. After all what could a little bitty country like Afghanistan do?
If you don't know your history you are condemned to repeat it. I think a lot of our leaders skipped History when they went to school. Consequences of ones actions can bit you in the rear later on down the road.
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Posted - 2009.02.02 21:18:00 -
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Originally by: Le Poupon
LETS GO TO WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST!
This is not aimed at you Le Poupon. I just didn't want to quote your whole post.
A lot of people don't seem to understand the Middle East. They have blood feuds going back thousands of years. If someone wants to step into that mess one needs to be prepared for the long haul and not expect for everyone to play nice within a four year period. I always smile when the U.S. President, U.S. Secretary of State, or someone from Congress goes in there and expects their winning smile to solve everyone's problems.
And the news media (right, left, center) doesn't help one bit. They seem to have skipped their history lessons also.
A lot of the mess that the Middle East is in now (and Africa for that matter) can be laid at the feet of the Colonial Powers that had control of those areas before the start of WW1. What were they thinking when they created new nations without thinking about tribal land?
The U.S. and U.S.S.R. can take some more blame due to the fact they played countries off of each other. And now that the U.S. is essentially the only world power (until China gets its act together) they (we) like to mess things up because we want everyone to be like us. A democratic country. Which is really friggen stupid.
My opinion.
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