Doesn't this war in Iraq seem to be a Republican War ?
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Of course its a Republican war.  Republicans just don't want to be accountable to their own disastorous policies.  \n\nIt was Bush's decision to go against the UN and "go it alone".  And while Democrats supported the resolution to go into Iraq....and had to in order to support Afghanistan which was tied into the war bill by Republicans....and find the WMDs and get Suddam, they never supported this long, drawn out occupation strategy that Bush inserted after-the-fact.
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I agree w/FreeBird, there are lots of forces working behind the scenes for wars. As has been so painfully shown in this current one, I mean if you believe what the admin is saying that we invaded Iraq to "Protect our country" and "Foster Democracy". Then;\nA) Like the elusive WMDs, there never were any terrorists in Iraq...oh yeah TILL WE INVADED!\nB) What about Iran, N. Korea, or a multitude of other countries that have said outright,"We HATE America, we ARE developing WMDs, and WE WANT TO KILL YOU!"? \nC) Why right after 9/11 after saying "Our #1 priority is capturing or killing Bin Laden.." did "Dubya" not even 4 months later say,"We don't know where Bin Laden is, & we honestly don't care, Iraq is our main focus now..."?\n\nThink about how much $$ the defense industry, Haliburton, Big Oil, etc, has made & continues to make from this war.\nThis war was orchestrated as "pay back" for Bush's backers.\nTo keep our focus away while Bush dismantled 40 years of environmental protections, gave billions in tax cuts to the ultra rich, "outted" government whistleblowers who disagreed with his devious plans, and tried to rewrite future legislation to patronize his "base".\nWell beginning today most of that will be just a bad memory.\nDon't get me wrong, with the exception of the environment I think both parties are essentially the same. But just like the Dems before 94 with their complete control of the last 6 years, the old adage rang true,"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely". The Republican party had become what they promised they would fight, we came out of the fog & sent them a message yesterday. Democracy works best when there is balance, right & left, Liberal & Conservative. That is what our founders sought to achieve. May the investigations begin!
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Well mochita, I believe that we have a war on our hands. As we have painfully come to learn is that one of the greatest weapons to use in a war against an opposing country is to attack its economy, and further to destabilize the fabric of its society.\nThese concerns for international security are the prime motives for the war in Iraq.\nIf we may only try to remember that Iraq's, or rather Saddam Hussein's intentions when he decided to invade Kuwait was for the reason of controlling the export and price of oil through its seaports.\nAlso a main reason for Saddam's decision is Kuwaits geographical location from where Saddam intended to intercept any trade that would issue through this waterway, and I believe it is the mouth of the Red Sea; however, if I am in error please advise me.\nIn my opinion the crisis that our economy is causing for our country are tactics of multiplier effects.\nWe have to conserve our trade routes and partners and this has already cost us billions.\nAdd to that the loss of human life of our loved ones cannot be ignored.\nI could go on forever laying out the reasons for the cause of this war and why my approval of such a war; I however am a much older and more experienced person than many of our citizens and who has learned to try to see and not to only look.\nDo not become angry or spiteful because we are at war. Just try to keep up with as much reliable information that you can and thusly continue to learn under a good shade.  Jose
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Its not a Democrat-Republican thing at all..its a "Money-Power-Control" thing..and as such...Republicans-In-Office are more obvious about what it is theyre chasing..and why. This current fiasco were now involved with has one inevitable outcome...that the Bush cronies will be co-owners in a large chunk of Mideast Oil reserves......it was not for nothing that after the Kuwait confluct his father instigated...Daddy Bush went to check his oil platforms [the family owns a few in the gulf there]..so..its your basic "Robber-Baron" mentality..with greed-against-human-life in the forefront..and theyre all getting VERY VERY rich on all of this too.\n\nBush is the sons of an oil man..he is also an oil man...Cheney is an oil man...Condalessa had an oil tanker names after her before she made the White House...so..what do we have here...OIL..OIL..OIL..AND your ALL  paying 3 bucks a gallon right now...so...what is it you think about your own question now??
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That's a pretty big assumption you have there erudite... It is my opinion that the USA IS NOT going to leave Iraq in shame, as long as the democrats don't get their way.  I am in no way a republican, but I recognize the folly of leaving Iraq before they have a stable government that is able to police itself, and I think most of those who make the decisions do too.  I don't like Bush at all, I think he is a babbling monkey puppet, but I applaud his steadfastness to stay there despite all the criticism and low poll ratings he has recieved.
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Yeah, well media is doing a great job with their brains.. sorry, to say so, I have been living in US for a while I used to believe that this war (Irak) was confusing, but probably was the right thing to do... I see things from another perspective now.  Unfortunately, wars are simply for selling weapons, getting more power, and nothing have to do with being or not a HERO...  I hope people could think for themselves, with all the proves they have in front of their eyes,  but they wouldn't see it.  I feel sorry for some of them.
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The war on terror has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, and I am beginning to question the war in Afghanistan. To the poster above me does 100 old men, woman and children have to die to save one American, you forget the majority of Iraqi people are just like you and me, trying to get through life with as little hassle as possible.
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Republicans are liars and thieves, or didn't you know that? The war was created to Bush and Rumsfeld could become rich. I thought the concept was simple.
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During the LA riots after the Rodney King incident, did you think the US was having a civil war?  What is happening right now in Iraq is that a small group of people is creating small problems.  It's hardly a civil war.
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I don't think the war is a religious war.  I think religion is being used to incite and motivate the masses to fight for political gain and tribal conquest.  There are leaders in Iraq, hidden in the shadows, pulling the strings on their followers.  It's not paranoia, it's the truth.  It's a huge power struggle at this point with a religious back drop.\n\nOne thing is clear, America is all but helpless in Iraq right now.  There is no military goal that can be won at this point.  It's difficult for me to see that, but it's true I fear.
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Yes. The "rich man" who initiated this illegal and unconstitutional war in Big Dick Cheney because he wants all the oil swimming underneath Iraq's sands so that he and his Halliburton buddies can get richer and richer and richer. Other than the fact that little Georgie Porgie Bush (Cheney's puppet) wanted to 'get even' with Hussein for humiliating his daddy during Desert Storm, OIL is the only reason we invaded Iraq, a sovereign nation that did not  provoke, threaten or attack the U.S.\n\nThe "poor men" fight the war so that the "rich men" don't have to get any dirt or blood on their hands. So we send U.S. soldiers, and what does it matter than 2,500 of them have already died?\nThey were "dispensable". As Donald Rumsfeld once said at a press conference, "Stuff happens". And that's okay with him as long as it doesn't "happen" to his family and friends.\n\nThe Bush administration is the most evil, corrupt, incompetent ever to occupy the White House; the sitting U.S. Congress is the most evil, corrupt and incompetent body ever to occupy the Capitol Building. Consider what Cheney/Bush have done, with the full cooperation of a cowardly Congress, since 2000:\n\n1. Massacred tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens for no justifiable reason;\n2. Condoned physical, verbal, emotional and sexual abuse, unspeakable torture, and even the murder of irresponsibly-incarcerated 'prisoners' without any regard for the rules of the Geneva Convention;\n3. Threatened every other country on Earth,  persuading them all to consider nuclear weapons as a defense against the new "evil empire" - the United States of America;\n4. Initiated failed economic policies that will create a severe depression (or, at the very least, a recession), and that has already put American taxpayers trillions of dollars in debt;\n5. Tarnished America's reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper;\n6. Dismantled environmental laws designed to protect the world's fragile eco-system and preserve a ecological balance between man and nature for the future of our world;\n7. Turned America into a police state where citizens are presumed guilty until proven innocent;\n8. Neglected the needs of America's poor, disadvantaged, sick, aged, homeless, unemployed, hungry and underprivileged;\n9. Played "Robin Hood in Reverse", stealing from the poor and giving it all to rich individuals, special interest groups, lobbyists, and big businesses who - in turn - make generous (if not illegal) campaign contributions to keep the GOP in power;\n10. Lied to the American public, and leaked information to the news media when it conveniently suits their agenda.\n\nThese "rich men" running this illegal war deserve to be tried for high treason and crimes against humanity. If convicted, they deserve to face a public firing squad. \n\nCertainly, Satan has reserved a special oil-soaked corner of Hell for these evil, wicked anit-Chirsts.        \n\nCheck out a new blog book: BUSHWACKER!\nwww.blogger.com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com\n\nThe "poor men" fighting this illegal war will NOT BE WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ UNTIL DICK CHENEY GETS A ROCK-SOLID, IRON-CLAD ARRANGEMENT TO STEAL  ALL OF IRAQ'S OIL. \n\nBush and Rumsfeld are Cheney's 'yes men' without any comprehension of the carnage they've created. As Commander-In-Chief and Secretary of Defense, you'd think these two bozos would be on the front lines fighting with the troops for what they believe in; unfortunately they're both sniveling little weasels without a backbone. \n\nMay Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and most all members of the U.S. Congress who supported all this evil spend their eternal damnation rotting in Hell and blaming each other for the mess they made of this world.                                 -RKO-
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I don't speak for the Dems about Iraq.  But, there are NO other voices in D.C. for ideas to flourish.  We are being ruled by a one party system.  Iraq has become a quagmire.  The costs in bodies and dollars are burdening the American citizens.  Why shouldn't the republicans be held to account?  At least for our soldiers that are giving there lives for a cause based on lies.  The republicans see it as an acceptable cost.
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I feel that there are very few noble causes for war. If Iraq had done some sort of action against Americans, or if they did some sort of action against one of our allies then maybe. We went over there to make rich men richer. We are an occupying force in that country. If another country invaded us to make their rich men richer I would fight until i gave out my last dying breath. I'm sure this is what the Iraqis are thinking. I am not ready to enlist for this war. "Terror" is a braod term. by deffinition there are many American terrorists in America. Its a farce and false pre-tense for war. Iraq did not bomb the world trade center. There are many countries that have prro leaders. Are we going to bomb and occupy them all? Maybe if they had lots of money to loot. A noble war is the war on hunger. enough said.
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There never really was a war in Iraq. There is only American intervention. The idea of an Iraqi war was a marketing campaign executed by Bush to stir up feelings of patriotism, really. Patriotism gets Presidents re-elected. So does xenophobia. So does war in the name of Jesus....
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I don't know, as I haven't read the book of fiction upon which your question is founded. War on terror? If you are referencing Iraq, you are stupid. But no matter. The war is good for the country in the long run. Sends stupid angry white men, the backbone of the Republican party, to early retirement from voting. Supporting the war is treasonous, knowing what we now know. Shame on the spineless and soulless misanthropes in charge of our affairs
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No. Has anyone else seen the picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? The Iraq war is just a smoke screen to take Americans mind off the real problems that we are facing - terrorism, substandard public schools, poverty, etc.
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Starting a fake war for oil fields, and pipelines to allow people to die. If you ignore them like George Bush did New Orleans then it can't be your fault. The Republican swan song is "Starve em they will work harder".