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I just posted a reply, but it didn't go through...so accept the lite version...

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Why would a 6 year old need to know? You need to be 18 to vote. 'Some quiz' will show people if you're intelligent enough to vote for someone because you support them for what they think, rather then just thinking one is better then the other for no reason.
Explain to me what determines "intelligent enough to vote for someone." Arbitrarily.

Or does that mean, to be intelligent, you have to support the candidate you wanted to win?


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Bush was given information about "Bin Laden hijacking planes," but either failed to understand them or to take it serious. So, in all seriousness, 9/11 could've been prevented.
Really? How come the intelligence for 9/11 was so solid, and you use it to defend your argument, but you hypocritically bash it with regards to Saddam being a threat?

Convenience?

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And what about all of the proof that Iran and North Korea have WMDS? We KNOW that they have them, especially North Korea. We were uncertain about Iraq. Why enter Iraq (which was questionable about WMD) when we have 2 other countries that we KNOW have WMDS?
So now intelligence is right? How do you know?

Convenient, isn't it.

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You mean, for HIS advantage. It was HIS intelligence.
Now let's see what you said two seconds ago...

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Bush was given information
Right...he gets the intelligence, but it's HIS...


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I'm sure Bush knew that some intelligence was accurate and some wasn't.
Maybe you should give him your secret liberal decoder ring!!!


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If Bush wouldn't have rushed into Iraq, then I don't think a lot of people would dislike the Iraq war, but he DID rush into the war, which is why more and more men keep dying each day.
If I was president, and saw intelligence that said Iraq had WMD's and was an imminent threat to the US, I wouldn't hesitate to unilaterally act either. We tried diplomacy. Like we are in N.Korea and Iran. But you want us to war with them?!?

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I'm not saying we should go to North Korea right NOW. I'm saying that they were/are more of a threat then Saddam and Iraq.
Really? You should've said that like a bajillion posts ago.

Also, how do you know Iran/N.Korea is a more of a threat? Maybe it's more Bush intelligence lies!!!

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Kim Jong has made open threats against the US and the US has NEVER EVER gave him money. We gave Saddam billions and billions. Saddam used the money we gave him to buy all of his palaces etc. It's a totally different situation. I have the impression that there's something the US government is trying to cover up.
Cover up? Such as?

Being connected to Saddam is a black eye, no doubt.

Yet you mention the billions we give him? What about the Oil For Food program, known to be corrupt, and the current expose? EVERYBODY was in on that, France, Germany, and they participated in it...yet that's just water under the bridge?

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Why were you ok with America sending troops to Iraq first? You obviously believe that Saddam had WMDS. If he had them, then why was he only a threat to the US? Why didn't the UK go in first if he was such a threat to the world?
Saddam pledges hatred to America way back before the Gulf War...again, if intelligence shows an anti-American dictator has WMD's, it's time to take him out.

Why didn't the UK go? They did go with us...?

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Is that supposed to be a joke? You're spitting in the face of people who don't have the money to escape the cities and get into a good school. It's like you don't want anybody to go on with life if they can't get a good education, yet you don't have any solutions (nor does Bush) on how we can help them now, before it's too late.
Feel free to use a voucher from the NCLB act to move, without any charge to you, to a better school.


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Because that is how America works. There are taxes. We could use that $225 billion that Bush spent on the war with no cause, but, oh wait, too late.
Oh, yeah. Haha. Forgive me for thinking people who work deserve their taxes go to something who benefit workers, as opposed to non-workers entirely.

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But it should excuse you for criticizing people on welfare. These are the people who will be on welfare. If you aren't willing to help them now, then it will really cost these tax payers (that you seem to feel sympathy for) so much in the future.
Huh? Forgive me for critizing people who depend on SSI, welfare, et al because they don't want to work and can freeload off the taxpayers.

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Ok. Then why do over half of the high school drop outs happen to be minorities? What's the problem? You tell me.
Wait...if 50% are minorites...

...than the other 50% are white.


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There are barely any big businesses in America.
:rolleyes:


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The small businesses represent over 50 % of working people. Why should the other half and the 5 % of big businesses get off easy?
I love these statistics you pull from thin air. You know why outsourcing occurs? Because America is not as business friendly as it used to be, and speaking from an economics perspective, why would a business spend money on American workers if they can pay a chinaman 2 cents to do the same thing?

The government needs to reward businesses that are domestic-workforced, and tariff outsourcing.

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It's going to skyrocket no matter what, in these next 4 years.
Since you're an economic Miss Cleo, care to look over my portfolio?

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Um. I didn't say that.
I was being facetious.

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The only people who I believe should be in jail for life with no parole are people who commit murder. Everyone else can be re-educated, rehabilitated, and brought back into society.
Quick! We'd better let out all the serial rapists, and those convicted on manslaughter, and all the other felons! Hurry! They can be reformed!!!

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I don't feel anyone with mental problems should be held accountable unless they know what they're doing and the court can prove without a reasonable doubt that they knew it. This is why people that are retarded and have the IQ of a child shouldn't be put on death row or sentenced to life in prison.
Funny...they have the mental capacity/prowess to commit murder, but they are unfit to stand trial and sentencing?

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I don't find that amusing, as you seem to. People don't realize how addicted they are. These people actually get sick if they don't do a drug they're addicted to. The government should give them one chance to clean themselves up in a rehab. If they mess up after being completely clean, then they go to prison.
Meanwhile, the government gets sued because some prick on a crack-high shoots up a family for drug money...

"but he was reformed! I swear!"

:rolleyes:

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Because we try to control them and their oil fields.
Care to take another shot in the dark? Or open a history book?


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The whole world hates us, but hey, there's a great quote: "Don't hate me because I'm American. Just hate my government. And the President."
I've got a quote for them...

"You'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us."

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Because sending troops to Iraq and sending them to Sudan are two TOTALLY different things. There is no one to defend the Sudanese people against the rebels.
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The country needs money so its' army can fight off the rebels and stop the starvation.
Wait...they don't have anybody to defend them? Then where is the money from France and Germany going?

Go ahead and get yourself out.

Why don't they (international community) SEND IN TROOPS?

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Do you think the rebels would be able to fight off artillery and armor that the US have?
Not if we pulled all our boys out and dropped a few close-containment warheads on them. Kinda hard to shout "jihad" and "death to America" from inside a microwave.

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Ok. For some reason, you think I'm talking about strictly trade when I say outsource.
OMG

WHO WOULD'VE THUNK

Outsourcing involves international commerce...

GOODNESS GRACIOUS...

TRADE = INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE

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I'm referring to American jobs that the President takes away, sends overseas
I wonder whether he prefers FedEx or UPS?


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hires a foreigner, and then pays them 25 % of what the American worker would get here.
Again, this is economically/fiscally intelligent - why pay minimum wage when you can pay 2 cents to a Chinaman?

The US needs to tariff outsourcing companies and reward domestic-workforced businesses.

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Powell Admits Bush Supports Outsourcing
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/read.asp?fn=df05212004.html
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/read.asp?fn=df03172004.html
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/read.asp?fn=df03102004.html
You don't know how long I've been waiting to do this.

SHOW ME AN UNBIASED SOURCE

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Because the US gave us 2 reasons to enter Iraq:
1.) Get rid of Saddam because he commits genocide.
2.) Get WMDS

Since there are no WMDS, we are in there right now strictly to get in a new President who 'won't commit genocide,' yet we don't want to help the Sudanese where there is genocide now.
m'kay, for the bajillionth time....

  • Logistically, strategically, and fundamentally suicide to war on three fronts with our military being as overburdened as it is. To send troops into Sudan is, in the above ways, like sending a guy to a gunfight with a pocketknife.
  • If this is mass genocide, then the international community should be sending in troops to support the army (that does/does not exist, according to you). They should not be sending money and, in traditional european fashion, hoping America makes the problem go away.


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My original post was longer and a bit more eloquent, but you get the heart of the idea.

Regards,
Double-J