Republicans: Are You Happy About McCain? Options

[blaarg]

Just seeing what you four or five people on the board who would classify themselves as "Republican" think about McCain getting the nomination.

[The Fanatic]

Iraq did not attack America, in fact, Iraq has never attacked America. America ATTACKED Iraq when it invaded Kuwait and disrupted American imperial interests in the middle east. Originally Saddam Hussein was supported by the United States. We further supported Saddam by SUPPLYING him with weapons of mass destruction. These chemical and biological armaments were used to kill millions of Iranian soldiers and civilians in a war of aggression via Iraq. That is the problem with American foreign policy. It ends up biting us in the ass rather than help us. The more we stick our nose into the affairs of the middle east the more they are going to hate us and will probably attack us. All empires must fall. We intervened in Iran the first time when a democratically elected president, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq decided to nationalize the oil industry because Britain was making more profit from the oil reserves through BP than the Iranian people. Yet America fights to preserve liberty and freedom for all people?

An excerpt from George Washington's farewell address:

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

People did have to die to help preserve this country but they fought in wars that preserved America. Nazi Germany and Japan were nations that could have invaded America. Name one country since World War II that the United States directly engaged in combat with that could have attacked America. And no Iraq could not.

This post has been edited by The Fanatic: Feb 26 2008, 05:45 PM