[ChrisCantSkate]

Originally posted by highlander
No WMDs found yet, but then again Iraq had 6+ months to hide/export stuff while the UN sat around like construction workers staring at a hole in the ground...

you mean besides bush saying intelligence was wrong and they only had WMD programs? or could it be because his father has the recipts to these WMD that he knows saddam had them?

flat out incorrect. would you care to show me any credible source that says this?

i have it somewhere, and i will post it up. until then, i'll let this be a dead argument

true, but business is a cycle. late 90s was an up cycle, followed by the down part of the cycle. tax cuts alleviate pressure on small business owners (my parents own a business). trust me, it will help.

yes it helps the economy when we arnt spending billions upon billions of dollars. i know how economics works, and well, this isnt the way to bring around a good economic turn(at least according to previous war time overspendings)

I do agree there are bigger issues, but we can't let the moral fabric of our country deteriorate because we are too lazy/occupied to deal with additional problems (this).

yeah i think we agree here

I don't hate the french, just the french gov't policies. Same goes for most mid-easterners with anti-american sentiment. They don't hate Americans, just what America stands for, because they view capitalism/free market as a threat to their religion which placed allah above all.

Yeah, its all propoganda/rhetoric... thats a two sided coin


Thank you French from 230 years ago . Seriously, don't you hate being blamed for slavery because your ancestors practiced it? Same theme here, the past was then, this is now... things change...

first off yes i HATE being a "white male oppressor" just because of who i am. 40-50 years ago this argument could still kind of fly of we were as liberal to talk about it., but if we want equality then we need to just do away with all these programs designed to get african-americans into college because they have worse grades than another applicant. make it 100% skill based, no color or gender at all. it makes people earn what they have, instead of knowing as long as they do almost as good as someone else they can still get in because everything has to be "fair".

second, i dont know if you made the reference before or not, but ive seen alot of people saying that saddam was the next hitler or bonapart or something, using historical references to show the significance of their argument, im simply stating that this "anti-french" feel we have going around america is complete BS. so they were buying iraqi oil or whatever, but we stayed out of both WW's initially because of our own personal benifits from not being involved, but when psuh came to shove we stepped up. well, this "war" or so its being called never came near shove. we trampled into bagdad in very short time considering how lines move in traditional warfare.

so anyways... thats why i made the point, cause if people are gonna use history for their argument then so am i