Politics - 4 June 2007

If we're "fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here," and this is, as many war supporters claim, working...

What's up with the plot to try to blow up half of New York by setting explosives around the JFK Airport fuel tanks? How was that plot happening, if our fighting in Iraq is keeping terrorists out of our country?

And, um, how'd they get into this country anyway?

(Yes, I realize that they're from Guyana - that's part of my point, but I'd like to know the answer to my question from someone who claims that what we're doing in Iraq is working in terms of keeping terrorists off our soil.)

2007-06-04 02:50:19 · 13 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6

This question is not directed at foreigners, but rather at those Americans who hate their own country. I realize that we are entrenched in a massively unpopular war in Iraq and Afghanistan which angers many, but I cannot understand the unabiding hatrid of America by so many. Everywhere I look I hear Americans denouncing America in language that would make Osama Bin Laden proud! They say outrageous things like America is the world's biggest rogue nation, or terrorist state! They compair the US with the Soviet Union, and they denounce Americans as uncaring, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. I simply cannot understand this self loathing. The USA does indeed have its share of deficiencies, but on the whole I think we are a far greater source of good, than a source of evil. Honestly, I don't know of any other country that during a war drops crates of food for the citizens of the country we are at war with, in order to avert starvation! Where did all this hate come from?

2007-06-04 02:37:09 · 22 answers · asked by Schaufel 3

Population Control, will mean less demand on our Planet
less use of Natural Resources and less Emissions !

2007-06-04 02:32:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm curious whether anyone can state it succinctly without invoking Bush's standard "bumper sticker" slogans.

2007-06-04 02:17:23 · 28 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6

2007-06-04 02:12:12 · 8 answers · asked by Mr. Vincent Van Jessup 6

Asn an Englishman, i was amazed when recently visiting the USA, to find most Americans consider themselves to be Canadian.

2007-06-04 02:08:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

... and to make this a better board?

2007-06-04 02:06:32 · 8 answers · asked by david 2

... and the employees of YA?


Or can we have fact-based give and take?

2007-06-04 02:00:29 · 10 answers · asked by david 2

i will laugh like a fool of heat when the republicans go down in defeat!

2007-06-04 01:54:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Majority of the people regardless of age, gender, education, and profession agrees that America is in deep trouble and there are lots of evidence to prove it.

With our national debt at $97.6 Trillion, our social security and medicare will be gone in the near future.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat-a.htm

With a "war-president" who believes in doing whatever it takes to get the mission done in Iraq on the "war on terror" and many of Americans are losing faith in politics. A lot of us are losing jobs overseas to cheaper laborers and China and India are expected to be the next superpowers.

The future looks dim for America in preserving it's global power or is it?

One very important factor that many Americans have forgotten is that most countries copies our ideas. Innovation is what drives our country foward despite our debt. The American music, the fashion, the food, and TV shows are influences the world.

Americans do something and the whole world follows.

2007-06-04 01:45:50 · 20 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

With supression of free thought and guns and threats and all that neat stuff that comes with it?

2007-06-04 01:34:17 · 12 answers · asked by RP McMurphy 4

2007-06-04 01:03:03 · 4 answers · asked by WRRRRR 1

... whatever it was that they were doing with each other?

2007-06-04 00:51:39 · 14 answers · asked by david 2

"pro-growth"

Competitive enterprise and the ordinary mix of disparity are not problematic at all.

And yet I witness a splendidly simple kind of worship of something that is a whole other animal altogether somehow.
Our political arena oozes with it like a hemoraging hemopheliac wandering aimlessly about in dread of the slightest bump.

This is a difficult question of course, to find the words for what I want to ask. I will probably have to reword it. But I'm giving it a first shot for right now.

Your best thoughts

Your half-thoughts,
all greatly appreciated.

2007-06-04 00:34:43 · 7 answers · asked by roostershine 4

2007-06-04 00:12:52 · 14 answers · asked by jade 1