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2005-09-17 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-09-17 07:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If on September 12, Americans could have been asked whether they were willing to make the sacrifices we have already tragically incurred to achieve the end of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein

Saddam didnt take any credit for 9-11,
that propaganda was pushed on us by the white House,remember... The Taliban took credit for 9-11, I'm surprised you've fallen so much under the sway of popular media

Posted by bk 2005-09-17 08:48|| 2005-09-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd quibble with some of the earlier parts, but the conclusion is spot on.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-17 08:48|| 2005-09-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 quite literally, many, if not most, Americans simply don't wish to have much formal ties with either Paris, Berlin, or Seoul, considering them hardly allies or even friends, but sneering neutrals at best.

505 of the country still likes Germany France and Korea, you need to get some fresh air dude.

Posted by bk 2005-09-17 08:49|| 2005-09-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 50%

Posted by bk 2005-09-17 08:50|| 2005-09-17 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 bk, I'm not sure I understand your post.

(1) I'm married to a German, I like germans, but I don't consider them allies any longer. More like spoiled teenagers.

(2) There are numerous connections between Iraq and terrorism. The media has generally avoided any linkage as have the Bush's. If Americans were told on day 1 that we were going to take out Iraq for sponsering terrorism and not responding to the ceasefire that ended Gulf War 1 the vast majority of Americans would have supported such a move.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-09-17 09:55|| 2005-09-17 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 If on September 12, Americans could have been asked whether they were willing to make the sacrifices we have already tragically incurred to achieve the end of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein , the democratic stirrings in the Middle East, and the avoidance of another September 11, most would have reluctantly done so

FAULT!! Jeeze I love VDH, but what a downer this one is. Buck up, ol' chap. Most Americans support would have WILLINGLY supported our sacrifices to end the Taliban, depose Saddam and prevent 911.

Get out of the blue...Victor. They are bringing you down. Most of this country is red.

Posted by 2b 2005-09-17 12:16|| 2005-09-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 bk, you are an ignorant and unserious person.

Plenty of Americans still like Germans and French and South Korean individuals, and even all their lovely tourist spots, without in the least trusting their societies and their governments to recognize and do what needs to be done in this new millenium of the Common Era. More than half of the American voting public voted against the Zeitgeist enunciated by the candidates of the Democratic party in the last election. Those who didn't vote chose to have no say in the matter, and so their opinions, perforce, literally do not count. At the same time, the weight of the population numbers is shifting away from the so-called Blue States, which implies that in the next elections people who think like you will matter even less to the decisions taken by the incoming Governments.

Sorry.

And I haven't even mentioned all the active duty troops who will be retiring soon. With a lifelong attraction to Duty, many of them will submit themselves to public office. No more than a quarter of them will run on the Democratic ticket, which will make the imbalance even worse. Sorry again.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-17 20:19|| 2005-09-17 20:19|| Front Page Top

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