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Ideal_Rock
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Phew! We can finally toss out the Bible now.
Heck, let''s just toss out the Constitution as well, since it''s history. I''m game.
But the Iraq War isn''t history, so can we talk about the real deaths that occur daily? I would like to talk about the fact that instead of providing our military with necessary protection and decent pay, or any meaningful treatment when they return with mentally and physically debilitating injuries...we care more about providing a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy multimillionaires. All this for a war based on lies and not at all about protecting our American citizens from imminent danger. No WMD? Okay, let''s make up another reason for the war. We need to spread (force) democracy on everyone as a means of preventing terrorism. Oh yeah, let''s pay the brave young men a mere $1366 a month to fight in 120 degree heat and die. Even Canada paid their men over $1000 more a month to do the same thing. Not us...not the richest country on earth. Invest in Humvees that can actually survive an IED? The army states they needed at least 2600 armored vehicles for the military police, yet the Bushleague Administration only contracted with one company, Textron in New Orleans and only for 1250. Why? Because that is all we could afford (again, because we have to give the 1.3 trillion tax break to the super rich over the next ten years).
A Pentagon study in 2006 found that some 80 percent of marines killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2005 from upper body wounds could have survived if they had extra body armor there. As of late 2005, over two and a half years into the war, less than 10 percent of the 28,000 upper armor plates on order had reached our marines in Iraq. Medical care upon return...underfunded. Well, at least by the end of August 2007, four years later, 1500 of the 14,000 MRAPS (mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles) were finally shipped to Iraq. Why? oh yeah, 1.3 trillion in tax cuts for the mega wealthy who don''t need a dime from anyone.
You can spin the history any way you want to, but these are present day facts backed by documentary evidence.
So, to circle around to the question of this thread. The mere fact that Obama voted against this Iraq war that had no evidence to support the claims to justify it in the first place, is enough to convince me that he is not insane enough to support a policy of our fighting other peoples'' wars and sacrificing thousands upon thousands of young American lives to give people freedom of other nations, who never asked for it, nor welcomed it. I suspect he knew that it wasn''t worth dying for to enter into a country who would not view us as liberators but as occupiers. And Obama gets brownie points if he predicted that it would be an endless, fruitless war that cost our taxpayers trillions of dollars.
The fact that McCain/Palin will fight until everyone is dead, at whatever the cost to the taxpayers, including the cost of suffering over the loss of human life... 4000 American soldiers to date and over 100,000 innocent civilians to date....well, it''s more than my heart and conscience can bear.
Okay, I feel much better after that rant....carry on.
Heck, let''s just toss out the Constitution as well, since it''s history. I''m game.
But the Iraq War isn''t history, so can we talk about the real deaths that occur daily? I would like to talk about the fact that instead of providing our military with necessary protection and decent pay, or any meaningful treatment when they return with mentally and physically debilitating injuries...we care more about providing a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy multimillionaires. All this for a war based on lies and not at all about protecting our American citizens from imminent danger. No WMD? Okay, let''s make up another reason for the war. We need to spread (force) democracy on everyone as a means of preventing terrorism. Oh yeah, let''s pay the brave young men a mere $1366 a month to fight in 120 degree heat and die. Even Canada paid their men over $1000 more a month to do the same thing. Not us...not the richest country on earth. Invest in Humvees that can actually survive an IED? The army states they needed at least 2600 armored vehicles for the military police, yet the Bushleague Administration only contracted with one company, Textron in New Orleans and only for 1250. Why? Because that is all we could afford (again, because we have to give the 1.3 trillion tax break to the super rich over the next ten years).
A Pentagon study in 2006 found that some 80 percent of marines killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2005 from upper body wounds could have survived if they had extra body armor there. As of late 2005, over two and a half years into the war, less than 10 percent of the 28,000 upper armor plates on order had reached our marines in Iraq. Medical care upon return...underfunded. Well, at least by the end of August 2007, four years later, 1500 of the 14,000 MRAPS (mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles) were finally shipped to Iraq. Why? oh yeah, 1.3 trillion in tax cuts for the mega wealthy who don''t need a dime from anyone.
You can spin the history any way you want to, but these are present day facts backed by documentary evidence.
So, to circle around to the question of this thread. The mere fact that Obama voted against this Iraq war that had no evidence to support the claims to justify it in the first place, is enough to convince me that he is not insane enough to support a policy of our fighting other peoples'' wars and sacrificing thousands upon thousands of young American lives to give people freedom of other nations, who never asked for it, nor welcomed it. I suspect he knew that it wasn''t worth dying for to enter into a country who would not view us as liberators but as occupiers. And Obama gets brownie points if he predicted that it would be an endless, fruitless war that cost our taxpayers trillions of dollars.
The fact that McCain/Palin will fight until everyone is dead, at whatever the cost to the taxpayers, including the cost of suffering over the loss of human life... 4000 American soldiers to date and over 100,000 innocent civilians to date....well, it''s more than my heart and conscience can bear.
Okay, I feel much better after that rant....carry on.