25,000 people a year are murdered in this country.
Every 31.5 minutes someone is murdered.
Every 5.6 minutes someone is forcibly raped.
Every 1.3 minutes there is a robbery.
Every 36.5 seconds there is an aggrevated assualt.
etc., etc., etc.
Not to mention the homeless, the poor and the inner city school kids whose education system has failed them.
ALL ISSUES CHAMPIONED BY THE DEMOCRATS AS THEIR ISSUES. Kennedy doesn't care about education, Pelosi doesn't care about the homeless, Clinton doesn't care about violent crime.
But soemhow Iraq is the big issue. Somehow losing just over 3000 soldiers in 4 YEARS is a bad thing.
Meanwhile are society continues to degrade. No morals, no values, no respect for each other.
The crisis is here people, not in Iraq. Its all about 2008. Not doing what is right.
We continue to worship money, property, and power over all else. We should be focused on the U.S., not Iraq.
Iraq is the one thing we're doing RIGHT.
2007-03-24 06:56:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You are correct in many issues on your list, and also your statement that these are issues the Democrats care about.
Democrats have been fighting for years to correct these issues, only to be thwarted by Big Business Corporate elite Republicans time and again.
The Billions being wasted in Iraq are just another example of the Republican ideology at this point in time.
Billions for big military contractors- and in your own words "But soemhow Iraq is the big issue. Somehow losing just over 3000 soldiers in 4 YEARS is a bad thing."
Is this the way you show support for the troops!
2007-03-24 07:09:27 · answer #1 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And those are not issues that Congress is allowed to handle.
Congress can only pass federal laws. And federal laws are limited to specific enumerated powers in the Constitution.
Other than on federal lands, rape and murder are not within the legal scope of what Congress can address.
So, why not complain to the state law enforcement agencies that are not enforceing the laws that already exist. Or complain to the state legislatures, which are the ones defining the punishments for these crimes.
If you need to blame someone, try blaming the people who actually are supposed to be working on those issues, and not the ones who are legally forbidden from doing so.
2007-03-24 07:08:52 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right! We need people like your views in office. Get the word out. In the first Persian Gulf war, it was safer to be in combat for the soldiers than it was driving on the highway here in the US. Right now I don't know the stats for today.
I work with law enforcement and it seems like the US is under seige. They do make arrests. They arrest some very sick and disgusting people. Those people go to jail and they go to court then some liberal judge and some liberal lawyer concerned with these scum bags so called "human rights" lets them go or gives them very weak sentences. The emphasis here is on WEAK. The emphasis is on WEAK. The scum bags get out of jail and do even worse. The hardest to prosecute are the criminal organizations like the mafia, gangs, and border smuggling rings.
What we need to do is prosecute the way the law says to prosecute. If the law says to put them in prison for ten years then we need to send them to priso for ten years. If the law says to give the death penalty for the second conviction of rape then we must give the death penalty. Most judges give very light sentences for "first time offenders." The law needs to be known and obeyed.
About Iraq, the war should be over right now. This has dragged on longer than WWII. The reason why is WEAK policies. The soldiers were given an very restrictive rules of engagement and they cant do anything. What was needed is if the insurgents are held up in city then we should have given them 24 hours to leave then carpet bombed the entire village and put everyone into tent cities and identified everybody with fingerprints and eye scans. We need to know who is who because the Iraq war isnt being treated as a war but as a big police patrol with military hardware. The forces have terrible criminal intelligence. Now we dont know who is who and this war should have been over with 2 years ago and we are still there and WEAK.
2007-03-24 07:34:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wrong.
Pathetically DESPERATE right-wing rant, btw.
Iraq is not going right.
The far Right is a major source of "no morals no values" etc.
America voted BLUE last year to get a grip on it.
Mininmizing the Iraq war deaths is dispicable on your part.
Respect for life? Where is yours?
2007-03-24 07:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by Da Man 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You have been championing these same issues for 40 years.
Why are they still issues? In 40 years you have not fixed them! Why?
2007-03-24 07:32:51 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy G. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Strawmen argument. First you come up with an assertion that is not true and then you expect us to defend it.
For your information blue staters care just as much and more about education, crime, poverty, etc.
2007-03-24 07:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by trovalta_stinks_2 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Um...Iraq was started by the Redpublicans man. "There are problems in the US"-concerned citizen
"Iraq, +WMD/Terrorism"-Bush
2007-03-24 07:02:59 · answer #7 · answered by Jedi 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm ... maybe the libs want us to pull out of America. It's more dangerous here than Iraq.
2007-03-24 06:59:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋