Americans support war in Iraq 2-to-1, poll finds
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..lest not forget "illegal war" and "no war for oil" and (my personal favorite) something about the lies (except for the under oath variety).
No justification was needed...Congress approved it and we simply enforced what the UN (France, Germany, Russia) refused to do.
Nothing like militant states where a power hungry head of state intimidates the peoples' representatives into endorsing BS policy. Congress does not approve wars . . . Congress is responsible for declaring war. Minor detail in that Constitution-thing . . . you know that document that no one acknowledges anymore.
If the shoe fits . . . considering many Americans believe we found WMD in Iraq, Saddam was linked to 9/11 (or Al Qaeda), and the Sun orbits the Earth.
Who needs a conspiracy when the country is populated by morons?!
Two years ago a Roper poll commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) surveyed students attending the nation's top schools and found that 40 percent did not know in what half century the Civil War occurred. A recent National Assessment of Education Progress test found that more than half of high school seniors thought that Germany, Italy or Japan was our ally in World War II.
A Columbia Law School survey found that 35 percent of voting-age Americans thought that Karl Marx's dogma, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," was in the United States Constitution. Another 34 percent responded that they weren't sure.
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Isn't this the same "aspirin factory" YABAs use to attack Clinton-era intelligence? Is it your contention that al Qaeda and Iraq conspired together to produce aspirin? The bastards, no wonder we had to attack.
The United Corps of America, making the world safer for Bayer.
there you have it folks!
this is the essence of the elitist...they know more, they know better, they know whats best for you.
that's the basis of centralized, totalitarian goverments, that's the essence of communism....that's the hubris of the liberal. your just to stupid to know what's best for you..
these are the kind of people you want to run the goverment?
Read the War Powers Act of (1972, I think) and, moreover, we didn't declare war...the authorized the use of force. Though I have argued that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional (usurps power from the Congress), I believe your 'Constitution-thing' argument is moot.
Let's see . . .Madison
Cheney conflict depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Half truths and lies during the SOTU
So yes, I stand by my contention that our ill-informed and misinformed public is being manipulated by dishonorable pols and the duplicitous media FOX (aka phencyclidine) and MSNBC (aka ketamine).
Half truths and lies by Bush during 7OCT 2002
Cheney conflict depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Half truths and lies during the SOTU
So yes, I stand by my contention that our ill-informed and misinformed public is being manipulated by dishonorable pols and the duplicitous media FOX (aka phencyclidine) and MSNBC (aka ketamine).
Hmm, so a scarcely (if at all) Constitutionally-consistent law approved during a previous period of jingoist, militant fervor justifies current Bush militarism? IMHO, you are just sprinkling eau de toilette on a big steaming pile of poo.
Yea, I know...the War Powers Act is another example of a "document that no one acknowledges anymore." I would not have guessed that you viewed the Act as a "Constitutionally-consistent law." That's a very tough stance to take, if you read that "Consistution-thing" and then read the wording of the WPA...
But you are right, It was an "illegal war" and most Americans are just stupid.
Well, I started with the proposition that "2/3 of Americans are not that stupid," which you asserted above (realizing you said "doubtful"). Given that you did not mention the other 1/3 of the population, I assumed them to be the residual, or, in this case, those people who are stupid and cannot be classified with the other 2/3 of those who are not stupid. Then, using the logic of those opposed to war (and view all others as stupid), I assumed that the 1/3 (again, using the residual from your statistic) who opposed the war are, in layman's terms, stupid. This, sir, is how I arrived at the 1/3 of Americans are stupid assumption.
do you write copy for this news outlet?
here are some of the other phrases you may want to use..
fascist authorities
anti-socialist moves of the imperialists
thieves and sycophantic traitors
U.S. imperialists
imperialists' vicious moves of aggression and war
imperialist bellicose forces
international terrorist Rumsfeld
U.S. imperialist warhawks
imperialists' hegemonic and unilateral policies
nightmarish fascist policy of suppression
The bellicose Bush ruling quarters keen on hegemony and world domination..
the U.S. is, indeed, a nuclear fanatic and a rogue state threatening peace and security of humankind.
So, because I believe the war was not justified I'm a liberal stupid sheep? How many of the reasons we went to war have been proven? Where is the link to 9/11? Where are the WMD? Where was the threat to the USA?
Also, I don't have much attachment to either party. With the exception of funding, it is hard to distinguish party members just by their actions for the most part.
You never answered my questions. So who is the sheep if you can't make a justification? Yes, Saddam is a terrible man, but he is/was not the only one in power in a nation.
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