Politics - 15 September 2007

My personal belief is that there is no draft. I come out of the 60's anti war movement. I have even seen my FBI file. Regardless, the facts of Viet Nam were more akin to WWII then to Iraq, the difference being, the baby boomers, and then many of there parents believed in "Hell no we won't go". In the Nam war, you friends, your brothers, had no choice to go to war. It was that or prison or Canada. Sure, there were those that yell baby killers at the vets coming home, but that was not the majority.
We hated the war, like most do now, but the military is a volunteer service now. Your brother went because he wanted to go into the service, as did you sister, your friend. You still want them home. You still fear for them, but you also know that your other brother, sister, son or daughter will not have to enlist. The emotions are not the same. It is sad. The death rate in Nam was also 10 times what it is in Iraq. If 200 Americans died each week in Iraq it would be over now.

2007-09-15 12:41:35 · 15 answers · asked by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7

The economy is great, there is virtually no unemployment, interest rates are low, inflation is low, taxes are low, and we haven't been attacked since 9/11/2001.

Could things get any worse?

2007-09-15 12:38:55 · 24 answers · asked by kimmyisahotbabe 5

I'm not saying there isn't a difference. Nor am I bashing one group or another. I just want you to tell me what the difference is.

2007-09-15 12:35:05 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6

Serious answers, from Republicans only please...

Bush sat for seven minutes without even knowing the type/extent of the attack or if there was any action he could be taking...apparently this is considered great leadership by Republicans, who think the only other option was to leap up screaming and scaring all the children when he could have just calmly excused himself. So my question is this: if seven minutes wasn't too long to wait, then is this the EXACT number of minutes that a President should wait or would it have been even better if he waited eight minutes? Nine? Twenty?

2007-09-15 12:23:48 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

At the time of the invasion of Iraq a great percentage of americans approved of his actions. Once american soldiers started dying and arriving back in bodybags in an increasing way the american public opinion turned their backs to the president. That shows that everything is ok if we kill others as long as the others do not kill us. That also shows the insensitivity of the american public at large and the readiness to abandon your president just to save your pride and the pride of the nation when things take a turn for the worse. Cowardice and treachery are two words that describe your attitude towards your president.

2007-09-15 12:22:34 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

social issues?

2007-09-15 12:18:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-15 12:18:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs are busy fixing up their humble abode. The 7 Dwarfs are out back working in the bottom of the water well.

That afternoon, Snow White is preparing dinner for the evening when she hears a very loud crash out back and knows immediately that the well has collapsed. She runs out the door to see if anyone is alive.

Leaning over the well, she yells down “hello” hoping that somebody will respond. She hears nothing and yells again, “say something if you can hear me!”

A faint voice from the bottom of the well comes back, “vote for Hillary.”

Snow White is quite relieved and says, “Oh thank goodness! At least Dopey survived!”

2007-09-15 12:06:40 · 11 answers · asked by KittyCatFishApe 3

In 08 if the Democrats take more seats in government and also win the presidential election(with the exception of hillary), what do you think is going to happen for the next 4 years? I personally think it would be heaven :)

2007-09-15 12:06:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If this was to happen...
Would she return everything she stole while her husband was in office?

2007-09-15 12:00:48 · 8 answers · asked by KittyCatFishApe 3

"Alan Greenspan sharply criticizes President George W. Bush's administration and Republican congressional leaders"

2007-09-15 12:00:02 · 8 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

...will they have to widen the doors to the oval office to accomadate her enormous posterior?

2007-09-15 11:49:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now that Alan Greenspan has confirmed what Democrats have said about Bush for years, will republican's claim he hates America too?




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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sharply criticizes President George W. Bush's administration and Republican congressional leaders in his memoir for putting political imperatives ahead of sound economic policies, several newspapers reported on Friday.

"Little value was placed on rigorous economic policy debate or the weighing of long-term consequences," Greenspan writes of the Bush administration.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/bs_nm/greenspan_book_rates_dc

2007-09-15 11:47:09 · 16 answers · asked by arvis3 4

And the White House staff as Trolls? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/business/15greenspan.html?bl&ex=1190001600&en=e602c49a59a4b0e2&ei=5087%0A

2007-09-15 11:46:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-15 11:37:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

All Active military deaths during the clinton administation averaged 938 deaths per year.

All Active military deaths during the Bush administration (up to 2006, as the 2007 numbers are not conclusive yet), including deaths from war, averaged 1465 deaths per year.

So, the death rate hasn't even doubled from 'peacetime' to wartime.

Does this put things in perspective for any of you, who are complaining that we need to pull our troops home because of the "high" death numbers?


http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/Death_Rates.pdf

2007-09-15 11:33:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Especially Bill?

So many in our party wanted to believe he was a man of vision like JFK who Bill liked to say was his hero.
Hasn't his involvement with advancing and signing NAFTA, which has sold out the working class in the U.S., which was created by GHW Bush made you question his involvement with this One World Government(NWO, PNAC, whatever you want to call it)????

I know I had great expectations but when he did this it was apparent to me that BOTH sides (R)&(D) are involved in this movement.

Do you really expect anything different with Hillary??

2007-09-15 11:32:42 · 11 answers · asked by Kelly B 4

2007-09-15 11:26:06 · 13 answers · asked by MAK 6

2007-09-15 11:01:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-15 11:00:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I love the Democrat majority Congress. They started investigating the White House once they won the election in 2006. It is good for the country because of the Checks and Balances. Love it !!!

2007-09-15 11:00:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is a powerful centralized government and Marxism related to democracy ?

Shouldn’t they be called the “Anti-Democratic “ party ?

2007-09-15 10:57:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do we expect them to rise above our petty likes & dislikes and nobly govern the country as our pure conscience?

2007-09-15 10:54:48 · 19 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5

Extremely SEXIST and SICK Feminist quotes
http://www.fathers.bc.ca/feminist_quotes.htm



Hillary is a man hater. She is a typical SEXIST Feminist who refuses to recognize that men can be victims.

Hillary Quote
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"Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. " [Ed: Women's grief is more tragic than men's deaths] Hillary Clinton, Feminist - First Ladies' Conference on Domestic Violence in San Salvador, El Salvador on Nov. 17, 1998


Why would any intelligent human being vote for Hillary? Only the sick men-haters would vote for her.

2007-09-15 10:47:23 · 31 answers · asked by fathema 1

Or does Communism still exist anywhere...(did it ever?)

2007-09-15 10:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by James B 2

It's Democracy in Action, and the anti-war movement speaks for the majority now.

2007-09-15 10:44:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

From reading a lot of the misspellings and lack of punctuation on this site (I just read a post that contained the word "imbarress," for God's sake), isn't it clear that not enough Americans know enough about English to actually claim it as our official national language?

2007-09-15 10:43:28 · 24 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6

2007-09-15 10:35:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every industrialized coutry in the world has free health care for its citizens.
To hear conservatives talk, you'd think the citizens of Israel, Germany, and Canada would be marching in the street demanding the right to buy a policy from Blue Cross Blue Shield for $500 per month.

2007-09-15 10:30:36 · 15 answers · asked by Honest Opinion 5

Pro-Israel lobbyists criticize Bush on Iran
Question response to nuclear program
By Dafna Linzer, Washington Post | December 26, 2005

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....WASHINGTON -- After years of unwavering support for the Bush administration, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has begun to sharply criticize the White House over its handling of Iran's nuclear program.

At issue for AIPAC is Bush's decision last month to hold off on pushing to report Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council. The president and Israel have favored reporting it for the past two years. But with little support from other key US allies, Bush reversed course and endorsed a Russian offer that would allow Iran to conduct some, but not all, the nuclear work it says it needs for an indigenous nuclear energy program...."

2007-09-15 10:27:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous