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Originally Posted by gangsta540i
Well they had a reason to attack Iraq when bush's dad was involved and they should have gotten the job done. I agree with that but I don't agree with the current reason to attack Iraq. If they said he had weapons of mass destruction they should have proved it and I think in my opinion which i'm entitled to that this war wasn't worth 1000+ soldiers dying and leaving their loved ones behind for a war that posed no immediate threat considering he ( saddam ) didn't even have enough bullets for his own army.
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75000 dead Kurds in addition to uncounted Iranians proved it to nearly every intelligence agency on the planet. Also, President Bush waited to intervene until France said that even with definitive proof that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction that they would veto a call for military action.
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Listen regarding the oil all I know from my understanding and what I have been reading and watching is that he wanted to have a controlling interest in the oil and i'm not here to initiate arguments so lets leave it at that.
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Of course he did. Just as the United States had a controlling interest in Japanese and German industry after WWII. If you crush all existing organization, then you have to make a new one, but while you are doing that, it is necessary to directly administer it yourself.
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Regarding about the south being uneducated if you took it that way that was not my intention. What I meant is that the educated and noneducated people living in middle america and the south are devout republicans and will always choose them regardless of what they offer it's just what they do. And the outer areas of America chose kerry because they don't care if their republican or democratic all they want is the better person that can do the job.
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I live on a college campus. Most of these students do not vote democratic because they have educated opinions on politics. They vote democratic based on slogans and prejudice. Characterizing everyone on your side as reasoned, while everyone else is just a fanatical demogogue is disproving the "your side is reasoned" arguement. I'd have to say that there are reasoned individuals on both sides, but I
know I can make a better arguement for long term power under Republican philosophies than any reasoned Democrat I've met. Generally we end up agreeing that they don't care about national power, and because of that they vote Democratic. Since I do care about having a strong nation over the long term, at some small expenses today, I vote Republican.