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I'd say "huge" is an understatement.
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I prefer to understate.
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We're not parting ways, I feel the same way too about them (and the Northern Alliance). Maybe I should of said they had a chance at an epiphany, to be good people.
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No, these same people in America would be Wall Street thieves. It is the mindset that is the same, the peripherals change.
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We are at where we are now, because of what you say below, more than the good or evilness of the Taliban.
We've backed (and put into power) regimes that are tyrannical, as long as they do business with us. Pinochet in Chili and the Shah of Iran to name a few. Even Saddam Hussein was our bitch, way back when.
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The very foundations of our relationship with Iran are lain in the 1950s, and our meddlesome ways, the same with the Middle East in 1918, although the UK had more to do with that.
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We told them 9 weeks before 9/11, "If you don't accept our carpet of gold (refering to the rolyalties from the pipline), we will bury you in a carpet of bombs".
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One way or another.
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Because we are no longer a democratic republic, we are a corporate oligarchy.
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At least one other person here sees the truth of it and it would be all so easy for the people to change this, if they saw the truth too. Insteadm they get their panties in a bunch about birth certificates.
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Because the alleged morals of the nation are too narcissistic to stop the immorals, by being more well informed about the issues when they vote.
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If they are informed, most choose not to be. It interfers with their prejudices.
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Or maybe their just too damn lazy and they don't have TEVO to tape American Idol.
I wonder about that, all the time.
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American what?
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That's between the Buddhists and the Taliban.
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It was about religious intolerance, and the world tolerating it.
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We can only legally attack the country that attacks us. And the Taliban did not attack us on 9/11. In fact, they warned UBL beforehand, not to do anything to the US. But don't get me wrong, the Taliban was not the legitimate government of Afghanistan anyway. They just when in their from Pakistan to take advantage of a power vacuum when the Soviets left. If the UNSC had authorized a resolution for member states to use "all necessary means" to remove them from power like we did to Iraq in Kuwaiit, I would have no problem with us going in their and doing that in concert with world opinion.
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But there's another way to look at this. If the Woodstock generation has now reached the highest levels of government, it's reasonable to assume we went into Afghanistan to control their poppy fields. Because, after all, their motto is, "There's no dope, like good dope!"
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That's a bit jaded, don't you think?
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If there was a 1770' Jesus, Oral Robert's would be running around saying, "I told you so!" and Jesus would be running around kicking our ass for forgetting his teachings.
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I meant a 1700' statue/carving of Jesus.
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That's why I have so much contempt for neocon's and the pro-war crowd. We used to be the beacon of democracy and had the respect of the entire world for our sacrifices in WWII. All that is now gone because of these two bull****, illegal and immoral wars and we are now the "beacon of hypocrisy".
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Even the supposed anti-war crowd in DC voted to give that retard from Texas illegal authorization to take the country into an illegal war.
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BTW, when Condi Rice was at a UN conference, I forget who she was accusing, but the moment she said that the country's leaders were violating the human rights of their citizens and that the UN should take action in the matter, the whole room burst out laughing.
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The highlight of her tenure as SoS.
08-14-2010, 04:19 PM
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