Someone who preaches bringing down the Obama Administration and calls members of Obama's administration "murderers" is hardly a "Democrat". He may say he's on the left, but the only people I've heard make that kind of rhetoric are the "I hope he fails" Republicans.
Now he claims he wants "free speech" and is a communist? Yea, communist were even more supportive of free speech than Republicans.
Now, as far as health care, I once read that if we spent a third of what we spent on Iraq and Afghanistan we could have had universal health care. Another third and we could pay for college education. Remember the days when the Iraqi war might cost 200 billion dollars? That was three TRILLION ago.
Sometimes when people are frustrated and scared, they come up with thoughtless and crazy plans to get us out of the mess. I would rather follow Obama who wants to work WITHIN the structure of the US government, unlike both the far left (if you can call them that) and the right (nearly all of the Republican Party).
And the success that is Iraq. A hard right Islamic government whose women are now enslaved under Sharia law. The average people in Iraq want us dead. They built a "shoe monument" to and made a national hero out of a guy that tried to hit our president with his shoes. Their Christian population has gone from an estimated 1.4 million to 0.4 million and burned nearly every church. Worse, under Republican treaties and contracts, we are obligated to rebuild a country that wants ours destroyed. AND THIS IS A SUCCESS?????
And this whole thing about, "At least we got rid of Saddam". Except Saddam wasn't doing anything to us. So we replaced turds on the neighbor's lawn with shit on our own shoes.
Success in Iraq was demonstrated today when there was a successful election despite the threats of violence and deaths. The form of government that they form is up to them, if they prefer a sharia law- so be it.
Saddam was in violation of UN resolutions, many of them. He was adept at issuing threats to the world, and hiding whatever it was he was doing.
You do remember he used chemical weapons on his own people, right?
In some of your other posts, you insult christians. Why are you pretending to support them now?
Communists support free speech as long as it is 'free speech' in support of the communist party. Remember the USSR? Cuba? Know what happened in Albania before the USSR fell? That sure was support of free speech wasn't it?
What I was pointing out was that extremists come in all flavors, right, left, extremists are extremists. I made that portion of my post bold, so you could see it this time.
It looks like we agree on that based on your statements in this post.
The only difference is, that I didn't try to defend anyone. Hate comes from all sides, it is not the domain of the right.
So just having an election equals success, even though half the population is now "enslaved"?
I don't view right wing American Christians as "Christians". The ones that used to be in Iraq, before they were driven out or murdered while we watched and did nothing to help, were closer to the "original" Christians.
The right wing Christians here make pictures of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes. The Jesus in the Bible made 1,500 references to "helping your fellow man" and not one for gays, and yet, for many Christians in this country, gays are all they can think about.
The chemical weapons Saddam used were purchased from the west. He was under sanctions. Iraq had almost no industry and no manufacturing which means all of his weapons where "purchased". He had lost nearly a generation of young men in an 8 year war with Iran. All of this was known by our CIA. To think it wasn't is an insult to their intelligence and assumes they were inept.
You can see the facts and see them from a different perspective. I tend to think my perspective is grounded a little better in reality. Half the population are slaves so it's "better"? Does that even make sense?
Besides, if we did such a wonderful job in Iraq, why do they say they want us dead. Why do they hold demonstrations telling us to get out of their country? Why did they throw shoes at our president and make the show thrower a "national hero" building him a monument? Where is "America Appreciation Day".
And finally,
Have you ever read the Iraqi Constitution?
Check out Article 2 and 31.
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