The thing about Iraq, is it's not our deaths that offend me.  It the deaths of 100's of thousands of Iraqis, not terrorists or Militaristic Baathists, but documented civilian, police, and military deaths.

Of course a compassionate person would care about them.

your posts don't make you sound like a libertarian at all.

If you were, then you would be far far far away from Obama.

But I'll take your word for it.

I think you are confusing libertarian with Libertarian, but I will explain anyway.

I believe that a free market, a free mind, and a free hand are essential to living out my utopian fantasy.  That is all it is though.  A fantasy.  In reality, the world is full of bad things that one person cannot overcome on their own.

Democrats want your wallet, Republicans want everything else.

For some reason, Libertarians tend to align them selves with the Republicans because of lower taxes, and talk about free markets and less government spending (which neither party acts to lower the role of government).

But there are two elements to libertarianism.  Economic freedom AND social freedom.  Libertarians tend to forego the second to get the first.

Now, I'll go over the pragmatic parts

4th and 5th amendments have been abridged because of the Patriot Act in the name of "National Security" - a largely republican baby, but Dems have been voting for it because of fear of looking weak or being called unpatriotic (which really pisses me off but they will stop that bullshit when there's a Democratic president).

1st amendment, religious right and Republicans want to eliminate many forms of expression.

2nd amendment, Republicans keep saying Dems want to take away guns, but I haven't seen any serious gun ban proposals in the U.S on the Federal level.

Even if Democrats do pass socialized medicine and increase funding for schools, which won't happen, it would be a hell of a lot better than the abominable corruption in the "free market" medical industry and schools we have now. (Schools is one place I differ from pure libertarianism)

Foreign Policy: Democrats promote a plan much closer to libertarian and Libertarian foreign policy than the Reupublicans.  Ask Ron Paul or any real Libertarian what they think of Republican foreign policy.  I also believe the power to wage war lies in Congress' hands, not the executive.

Cheers steven. Some people can't even be bothered wiki searching iraq casualities

War is obvious. How about the 50 to 60% of chinese with much shorter life expectancy simply because of pollutants in their water and air. From manufacturing all our shit, yes were responsible.

Agree with you, and interesting, I personally do think that she has been unfairly criticsed.

In regards to atheists respecting other people's opinions, I can only think of 2 atheists that respect the fact I'm a Christian, the rest do not, and continuously attack me for holding such views.

I didn't follow any of the posts after the first but I painted my impressions

Umm... we are talking about the same Jesus that told his people to kill in his name as he was being sent to the cross right?

It's up for debate as to what he really meant (kill all jews, kill the people who turned on him, etc), but he did say for all practical purposes to go start a war in his name.

No, were not. Unless we occupied them and told them how to run there country, we are not responsible for how they treat themselves.

What in the hell are you talking about??

Wow...this lady is really a psychopath!