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I'm very vehement, but that doesn't mean I don't respect other people. Yes, I think the public is being lied to and mislead, but that doesn't mean I have any enmity towards such people. I know my post will be offensive to many, but that's just the way it goes. I'm sure this is why this kind of topic is off limits.
Can you say Pentagon Papers? The time when most of our most powerful government officials and presidents lied to all of its citizens about what was happening in Vietnam and what the chances were of us "winning"? This did include President Truman and Kennedy.
1.) Young men got drafted and sent to a farwaway country that they don't even know much about. They wer being drafted to die basically
2.) Again, the government lied to us about the chances of us "winning". The chances were extremely low and they kept saying we were doing well in battle so they could do well in elections and campaigns. Also so that they would keep rolling in the money from sponsors so that they could be re-elected.
It was all for the publicity and the money. If my own American government, which is supposed to be for the land of the free and lied to our people, why should I believe anything that they say now? Please tell me.
Now, I noticed somebody mentioning that Suddam was hiding his weapons. Let me ask you all something. If you were dictator of a semi-powerful country wouldn't you want to keep your government secrets...secret? I know I would want to keep them away from the world. I can't blame him for wanting to hide some of his precious so called "weapons of mass-destruction". Can you?
Once again on the oil topic, this is a clear stated fact on CBS's Sunday morning about 1 month ago. Iraq produced about 3.1 (30?) million barrels of oil each day. They have about over 120
BILLION barrels in their reserves. That is a lot of freaking oil. Now, Bush has been an oil freak ever since I heard about him, and with all of this oil in reserves, he probably thinks that it "might" save our economy from dropping even more. Don't say that this is an ignorant thought because it isn't. Thinking that attacking Iraq is for terrorist purposes (in a good way) may not be true. Attacking Iraq for world peace might not be true. The reasona are numerous. Please inform me where you got that information if you do think it's for anti-terrorist purposes or some other reason. I'd be willing to look at it if you show me.
One more thing. I doubt I'll be posting on this topic anymore, because political threads just lead to more and more fighting and useless bickering that isn't nessacary. I just don't enjoy posting on threads like those. Please keep this topic going and don't insult.
It just makes more and more people angry.