| Cheeseburger said: Ron Paul is running on many of the platforms of George Bush in 2000. No nation building, small government, lower taxes, lower spending. Bush just happend to be lying... or changed, like the rest of the republican party. Just because everyone around Ron Paul has changed and become liberals, doesn't make him less republican or conservative. He is against abortion, he is pro 2nd amendment and against all infringments of it. He IS a republican despite what Neo conservatives are trying to paint him as. As for using loop holes in definitions in order to go against the Geneva Convention.... well its just unfortunate that we have come to the level of which candidate can be more like the TV show 24. You realize that almost none of those we hold are ever charged with any relationship to terrorism. Most of the people are in there because warlords didnt feel like paying their debts so they accused people they owed money to get them taken. 90% of the ones we hold have done nothing. You realize there are people like a man from Canada who was taken to a secret prison over seas, tortured, only to find out he did nothing.. And half the ones that do admit to stuff only do it cause they are forced to. Give someone 10 minutes and a baseball bat and you can get someone to admit to anything they didnt do. As for your feeling that the military is overstretch so we should expand it... How do you propose we do that? Recruitment is down, no one wants to join, desertion is way up. In order to make up for it we are allowing criminals to join, people with mental instability, and the ones that are in the military are forced to do double tours to make up for it. You dont just sign a paper and the military gets bigger. The only way we could do what you propose is a draft. And how long will that draft be enacted. The war on terror is a farce like the war on drugs or poverty. It is open ended and simply is a means for continued involvement any where any time. Terror is a tactic not a people. Its been used for 1000 of years, and it will continue to be used. War on terror is never ending. You dont stop terror by fighting it, you stop it at its cause you stop people from hating which is what makes them use the terror. They dont hate use because of our freedoms. They hate us because of our continued involvement overseas, our support of ruthless dictators, and our overthrowing of others. If China stuck 150,000 soldiers in America, you better believe we would be pissed. They are horrible people, but we cant continue to give them reasons to hate us and make others hate us. We let 19 men destroy our country. The after shock of 911 was way worse than the intial attacks. We have done what they couldnt even hope to do. Destroy our country from the inside. According to Pat Buchanan and man others... US could very likely be a 3rd world country in 50 years at the rate we are going. |
What world are you living in??
They hate and kill anyone who does not subscribe to their extreme views about islam. Their goal is a worldwide Islamic dictatorship. They kill other muslims who do not agree with them. They demand the annhialation of the Jewish people. This is not my opinion, this is what their leaders say, what their documents say, and what their actions show. If you think they hate us for pure political reasons, you are simply naive about the situation and don't understand their beliefs AT ALL.
