What will you do when the USA loses Iraq?

Question

Will you say you are proud?

Answer 1

Called the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the bill abandons the Geneva Convention (formed after Hitler's atrocities in WWII), legalizes the torture of U.S. citizens, suspends all civil rights for prisoners and allows the President to declare virtually anyone to be an "enemy combatant" -- artists, writers, scientists, protestors or anyone who does not agree with the pro-war stance of the current regime.

It would also retroactively grant blanket immunity to all U.S. military personnel who have committed war crimes under the Geneva Convention. Such immunity would extend to present and future war crimes as well. In other words, the United States will now officially harbor and support war criminals. In the context of international law, the United States is effectively declaring itself to be a criminal state that will respect no international law.

Just as frighteningly, the new Act would utterly nullify the courts and make it illegal for the judicial branch of government to interfere with the imprisonment and torture of anyone, thus affecting a dangerous power shift from the judicial branch of government to the executive branch.

Hitler followed the same strategy in centralizing his own power, and by nullifying the courts while taking over the media, he was able to propagandize his war, arrest all dissenters, and concentrate power in his own hands. The ultimate result was an unjust war and a humanitarian disaster that haunts the world to this day.

The United States is now firmly on the same path. These are dark times for our nation, and future historians will no doubt look upon this historic vote as the trigger that thrust the United States into a full-fledged police state, complete with secret arrests, government spying on citizens, and the mysterious "disappearance" of those who dared to speak out against the dictator.

Answer 2

Well, if there is ONE thing I hope this country learned from Vietnam, it is to not demonize the veterans. Many of them were reservists, who were proud to defend their OWN country and wound up in this mess, and even getting called back after they were supposed to be out. My earnest wish is that the legislators make sure the VA system and benefits are top notch.

I think for the rest of my life, and maybe my child's life, this mess in the MidEast will not end. Tribal wars have been going on in the region for thousands of years, and it is very narrow and ignorant to think that this one conflict is going to end that entire culture, and it would have to end the culture to end the conflict.

They don't understand democracy and freedom any more than we understand their cultural values of honor and vengence as a way of life. The only way to get this under control is to do some real intelligence and get some degree of understanding and use that instead of bullets to (perhaps) change their backward ways.

Answer 3

Lose? We already kicked their ***. Now we're just trying to help them rebuild the country. Saddam's out, no longer a threat. Winning happened long ago.

Answer 4

I have written a map. If we loose it, I will remind everyone where it is.

How will we not loose? When has an outside power ever put down and insurgency?

Answer 5

I will walk around and when some neo-hippie mouths off I will beat him so bad he never walks again.

Oh wait, me and my friends do that now. Guess nothing will change.

Answer 6

they will ignore the returning soldiers ,and rewrite any historical accounts for future generations as soon as possible .it is the American way

Answer 7

I will always be proud.

Answer 8

find out where you live and treat you as the enemy,but i dont think that you have to worry ,we already won,