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 Actually look at his record in the illinois state senate and you see he is more moderate than you think.  He's also not Anti-NRA, however he does believe that there needs to be regulations on gun ownership, heck its not like you just walk into a car dealership and get a car and start driving, no you need to have a liscense and that involves trining and testing

 Chemical weapons we gave him

 So you wanna stick with our current imperialism and fasttrack to stagflation->depression->collapse?

Bin Laden was never in Iraq, and al-Qaida was never in Iraq before the invasion. Bush had his eye on Saddam since he threatened his daddy back in the day. He needed a reason - a motivation to invade. So, we looked to the CIA and other sources for links to Iraq and 9/11. Nada. So, Bush said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and linked Iraq to the terrorists who did the attack, even though none of the hijackers were from Iraq.

Bush had his eye on one thing - making his buddies money. Read this sometime ... it's very, very eye opening.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle

This is the best way to sum up why we need to leave Iraq. We should leave as soon as the U.N. steps in to help. We should also provide some troops and plenty of financial support.

We need to continue the fight in Afghanistan/Pakistan to get al-Qaida. I'd support using more troops in Afghanistan with faster deployments and returns back to the U.S. 

Even though Bush and the Republicans played a part in the upcomming economic downturn, the architect of the house of cards which is now collapsing is Alan Greenspan. In my opinion, about the only thing anyone could do to prevent a similar problem in the future is to fire Ben Bernanke and put someone like Ron Paul in his place.

U really dont get it do u.  Saying "I support the troops" then voting in support of troop withdraw is unpatriotic.  You either support them fully until the job is done or dont support them at all.  I'm sick of hearing people who dont even know what an M16A4 is talk about bull like timetables and withdraw.  Uninformed voters are the biggest noobs of them all.

 Oh true Greenspan was a major factor, but the GOP had plenty of time to deal with the looming debt crisis and the so called party of fiscal conservatism wasted it all on their moronic tax cuts, this current crisis is just going to leave us dead in the water, its the looming entitlements and public debt that is going to sink us

 No offense, but that's a really stupid idea.  What would happen world wide is what does happen in samll countries where the cities are way richer then the countryside.  Everyone who is somewhat poor flocks to the cities (in this case the US) and causes even worse economic problems, both for the city that once did well AND for the places that no longer have the manpower and young workforce to do anything.

People need to stay in their own countries and build up their own economies.  Not controlling immigration would just lead to every rich nation become overburdened by a bunch of people who can't afford to live within that country. 

Big ass electrified wall on both boarders and illegal immigrants actually get no benfits whatsoever and harsher penalties on companies that hire them.

Well not electrified as that would kill wild life, but giant wall works fine. 

Make being an illegal immigrant worse then not being an illegal immigrant in otherwords.  Make the penalty for being an illegal imigrant harsher then just deportation.

The reason immigration is so screwed up is because so many people immigrate here illegally.