And what of the many, many military families and members of the military who support Ron Paul and the other anti-war candidates?
They have more right than anyone to dissent. At the same time, what of those who are in the miltary and their families who both support the war and know that we're winning and that it's worth it? What? Do we enjoy the the sacrifice or something? It's fun to worry when that scheduled checkpoint doesn't happen for days on end? To know the faces and characters of the men and women that don't return? Should we openly embrace their deaths as meaningless in a battle we know we can win and think absolutely nothing of it?
But we've lost freedoms to defend freedom.
What freedoms have you lost in conjunction with the War on Terror and the Bush Administration? This is a line that's always being repeated again, and yet, I've yet to see a single person list even ONE freedom that they've lost, let alone multiple.
They are hostile toward us because we can't. keep. our. noses. out. of. the. Middle. East.
9/11 was our fault, of couse. And the USS Cole. And the embassy bombings. And the first Trade Center bombings. All the way back into the 70s in Jimmy Carter's Administration: justified retaliation. Against civilians. 9/11 was just the "chickens coming home to roost." Things are never as simple as good and evil... Jealousy, brainwashing by dictatorships, our ally in Isreal, and a violent religion have absolutely nothing to do with their Jihad against us, I'm sure.
Most of the 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia and we're best buds with Saudi Arabia because we want their friggin' oil.
Oi, we're not the party to blame for that, you know. We're not allowed to dig for our own oil due to all the environmentalist wacko red tape, and a new refinery hasn't been opened in the US since the 1970s. We have no shortage of oil; we have a shortage of refineries. Thank the liberal hippies for that; we're the ideology that's continually pushing for independence from foreign oil, and considering how dependent we are on oil in this country, it's no wonder we didn't go after them first. We have so much oil in this country, but we can't even explore it.
And the Clinton Administration was ripped for sending troops to Kosovo...
He was ripped because the United States military is not a peace corp! That's the UN's job! The reason we went into Iraq was because we perceived them as a threat because as to our knowledge and pathetic intel (agian, thank the Clinton administration for that; they cut the intelligence agencies and US military so far back that they were boardering on inept! The two intel agencies weren't even allowed to talk to each other becuase of what Clinton did!) that they were producing WMD. I STILL wonder why Saddam, if he was so innocent with nothing to hide, didn't respond when it was clear that we were serious. Why kick the UN inspectors out and obviously hide things if they weren't up to something? But that's speculaltion. Changing Iraq into a democracy was part of a comprehensive strategy in the WoT. Because free people aren't subjected to indoctrination without recourse, and freedom from that indoctrination is the only way to eliminate the generational hatred for America in that region.
It's a waste of government resources to have to police personal moral issues that aren't infringing on other people's way of life. It's unnecessary big government.
We already agree on this issue; laws can't give God people's hearts. I think one of the stupidest laws I've ever heard of was the law against sodomy. I didn't even know it had existed until I read about it being struck down, and Justice Thomas put it best in his separate opinion. ;)
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They have more right than anyone to dissent. At the same time, what of those who are in the miltary and their families who both support the war and know that we're winning and that it's worth it? What? Do we enjoy the the sacrifice or something? It's fun to worry when that scheduled checkpoint doesn't happen for days on end? To know the faces and characters of the men and women that don't return? Should we openly embrace their deaths as meaningless in a battle we know we can win and think absolutely nothing of it?
But we've lost freedoms to defend freedom.
What freedoms have you lost in conjunction with the War on Terror and the Bush Administration? This is a line that's always being repeated again, and yet, I've yet to see a single person list even ONE freedom that they've lost, let alone multiple.
They are hostile toward us because we can't. keep. our. noses. out. of. the. Middle. East.
9/11 was our fault, of couse. And the USS Cole. And the embassy bombings. And the first Trade Center bombings. All the way back into the 70s in Jimmy Carter's Administration: justified retaliation. Against civilians. 9/11 was just the "chickens coming home to roost." Things are never as simple as good and evil... Jealousy, brainwashing by dictatorships, our ally in Isreal, and a violent religion have absolutely nothing to do with their Jihad against us, I'm sure.
Most of the 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia and we're best buds with Saudi Arabia because we want their friggin' oil.
Oi, we're not the party to blame for that, you know. We're not allowed to dig for our own oil due to all the environmentalist wacko red tape, and a new refinery hasn't been opened in the US since the 1970s. We have no shortage of oil; we have a shortage of refineries. Thank the liberal hippies for that; we're the ideology that's continually pushing for independence from foreign oil, and considering how dependent we are on oil in this country, it's no wonder we didn't go after them first. We have so much oil in this country, but we can't even explore it.
And the Clinton Administration was ripped for sending troops to Kosovo...
He was ripped because the United States military is not a peace corp! That's the UN's job! The reason we went into Iraq was because we perceived them as a threat because as to our knowledge and pathetic intel (agian, thank the Clinton administration for that; they cut the intelligence agencies and US military so far back that they were boardering on inept! The two intel agencies weren't even allowed to talk to each other becuase of what Clinton did!) that they were producing WMD. I STILL wonder why Saddam, if he was so innocent with nothing to hide, didn't respond when it was clear that we were serious. Why kick the UN inspectors out and obviously hide things if they weren't up to something? But that's speculaltion. Changing Iraq into a democracy was part of a comprehensive strategy in the WoT. Because free people aren't subjected to indoctrination without recourse, and freedom from that indoctrination is the only way to eliminate the generational hatred for America in that region.
It's a waste of government resources to have to police personal moral issues that aren't infringing on other people's way of life. It's unnecessary big government.
We already agree on this issue; laws can't give God people's hearts. I think one of the stupidest laws I've ever heard of was the law against sodomy. I didn't even know it had existed until I read about it being struck down, and Justice Thomas put it best in his separate opinion. ;)