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14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 0 replies · +3 points

On the motivation of terror
http://cpost.uchicago.edu/blog/2010/10/08/robert-...

There's an annoying 20 second commercial in the beginning, but it's really worth the watch

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 0 replies · +3 points

According to the Pulitzer prize wining book "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright, bin Laden hated Hussein intensely, and vice versa. Bin Laden despised Hussein's secular Baath party, and Hussein found religious zealots impossible to work with and trust. Bin Laden offered to use his band of Arab Afghans to wage war against Saddam in the early 90's in defense of Saudi Arabia.
And according to CIA director George Tenet "We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period."
There is a National Geographic documentary about the 143 day interrogation of Saddam by the FBI's George Piro, I highly recommend you watch that.
"Hussein stated he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq."
He lied about having weapons to make his country look stronger in the eyes of Iran. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 0 replies · +3 points

I see what you mean about Islam. I'm no Muslim scholar, but the way I understand it, you can't have Islam AND democracy. Islam is a total way of life. So I'm not sure exactly what we think we're doing over there.

I will concede you are probably right on that last paragraph. American's seem more dependent, and less willing to make the hard decisions, IMO. Not a good attitude to go to war with.

You sound like a pretty reasonable dude, I don't know how much more time I can spend on this website. With most of these people it's like trying to argue for racial equality at a Nazi Party rally. There is no effort to see any side of the story but their own.
Best of luck

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 0 replies · +4 points

Whoooooooooooooa tiger.
How are you going to say many "paulistas" don't see the Holocaust as a problem? That is ridiculous unfounded mud-slinging.
Is it possible that Hitler arose from the draconian sanctions placed on Germany after U.S. intervention in WWI? Also, Hitler displayed aggression towards Poland and the Sudetanland early on, as well as publicly stating his intentions with the Jewish population. There was plenty of reason to intervene, as we did. That's a far cry from invading a third-world country(Iraq) for its WMD's (which didn't exist) and the Al Qaeda connection(which also didn't exist). Why don't we intervene in the genocides going on in East Africa? Or the famines in North Korea? Or the 78 million people who died in China as a result of Mao's Great Leap? Or the 12 million killed by Stalin? The U.S. government doesn't intervene based on compassion. Just ask Gaddhafi. Syria is still murdering by the thousands, yet where are we?

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 2 replies · +4 points

Really?
You ask me a question, I do my best to offer you a sincere response, and you respond with a crappy reference to a 30 year old sit-com/ democratic president who was out of office before I was born? Real classy buddy. You didn't respond to a single point I made, you just baited me into a response so you could toss out your sassy little come-back you've probably been high-fiving yourself for all day. Dumb.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 0 replies · +4 points

1.)C'mon lady, really?? Name the states? How about you spend 3.5 seconds on Google like I did and look them up yourself. OR maybe it's because I got high and went on a week long marijuana fueled animal sex tour of 16 different states?? Who knows?!

2.)Thanks.

3.) Do you really think that? You literally think people have 'pot' in quotation marks parties and read your posts?
I don't think not having read Eileen's 95 Treatises on the Evils of 'Pot' disqualifies me from this conversation. This suggests to me you've been discredited by too many people before myself, and have lost the desire to continue to repeat your easily refuted arguments.
You seem to enjoy calling me crazy and insane without offering any logical or reason-based arguments to back up your point. This isn't about whether 'Pot' is right or wrong. It is about the rights of individual Americans to choose to do whatever they want to do, provided it brings no harm or infringement of rights to others.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 2 replies · +8 points

1.) It's legal in 16 states. The point is, just because something that you view to be morally reprehensible is legal, doesn't mean it will become an epidemic. Give people some credit.
2.) Just because I support liberty doesn't mean I smoke weed. If you advocate gay rights, does that make you gay? If you defend the second amendment, do you have to own a gun?
3.)"I have been through this over and over and over again with you 'pot' heads"
First off, all 'pot heads' aren't the same person. They don't all sit around and read your inane rantings in the same room together. I've never had this conversation with you before in my life. And no I will not read through your comments, life is far too short for me to dig up your exclamation mark-riddled old postings about Pot with a capital P! The fact that you lump a substantial percentage of Americans into the category of 'pot' heads tells me you have no desire to see people as individuals and really understand the issue.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 4 replies · +5 points

I'll do my best.
I guess the answer would be by planes, trains, and automobiles. "As soon as the ships could get there" he'd say. I know it sounds ugly, but all we're doing over there is saving face. It's been ten years, the longest war in American history. They just recently assassinated their ex-president, have no desire for peace or democracy, and certain elements are being sponsored by Nuclear Pakistan, our supposed ally. We killed bin Laden. We've killed countless other members of Al Qaeda, and accomplished our original objective of dismantling the terrorist training network. This is as peaceful as Afghanistan is ever going to get. They've been at it for centuries, and in an uninterupted series of wars for decades, including the one in 1979 when we were the Taliban's ally. There is no evidence that this place is going to improve and turn into France or Germany in one month, one year, or one hundred years. Only the Afghan people can determine if they want to be subject to murderous Taliban, or if they want a government that fits their needs better. The more troops we have in the middle east, the more Americans are in danger. That's why Reagan pulled the Marines out of Lebanon.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 4 replies · +14 points

I don't mean this to be rude, but your attitude towards pot..sorry, "P"ot, tells me you're either 80 years old, or oblivious to how kids actually view this stuff. Bestiality is legal in many areas, is that a GREEN LIGHT for the kids to go ahead and snuggle up with sheep? Just because something doesn't have a Federal Prison sentence attached to it, doesn't mean people are going to go wild and start doing it all the time. Maybe kids should get their morals from their parents, and not the government.

And is a multi-billion dollar drug war justified to keep little Billy or his dad from smoking a joint? Obviously drugs are harmful in many ways and should be kept away from children, but this is ridiculous.

And these are Harrison/Rasmussen national polls, not straw polls. Completely different.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Ron Paul Supporters an... · 3 replies · +6 points

I ain't stupid, yer stupid. haha lol!

But seriously though, that wasn't rhetorical. I'm asking you an actual question. Name me a single problem that has befallen the United States in the last 100 years that has happened as a result of "isolationism"?

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