To those of you that have been following this, and for some reason care, I attribute this to you.
I’ll spell this out for you.
We did not enter WWII officially until AFTER Pearl Harbor... and still we only declared war on the Japs.
What 3 days…?? Jap’s to Croat’s come on congress as we know it that might as well be the same day lol
We have not officially been in war since 1945. No declaration of war has been made since then.
Congress DOES authorize the declaration of war... which it has NOT. Money ( that we dont have) has been authorized for use in this operation... but no declaration of war has been made.
Yes June 1942, we declared war on hungry, Romania, Bulgaria, but that doesn’t mean we have to declarer war to go to one, or call it one like Vietnam. But congress authorizes Executive action like money or an over amount of Troops. I think the number was 15,000 troops, without congress, well we are way past that in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That doesnt mean it must continue. Our first foreign action that I can think of was in 1898... before that we were concerned with ourselves.
1801 the Barbary war, it wasn’t declared a war either, but Jefferson basically built the Navy and kicked some ass, then we had to come back and do it ageing in the second Barbary war. If anything I would call the war on terror the 2nd Barbary conflict lol
But why even bother to blame anything on congress? Or any other government branch... it wont get you anywhere. There can be no finger pointing to the other side of the isle as all 3 branches of the govt are controlled by the GOP.
Is that enough for you to see why its congress
and the administration
you should be blaming, and moreover the congress more then the administration. Congress gave him the ability to wage this war and the money to do it with. All but one senator, if I recall, voted yes to do so, just don’t go blaming the GOP.
President Bush has not vetoed a single spending bill.... period. It doesnt matter what it is. He has not vetoed a SINGLE one. He continues to spend spend spend and in the mean time is cutting taxes. One or the other.. you cant bring in less money and spend more. It doesnt work that way.
Yes he does, but we had Katrina*, along with the tsunami that doesn’t effect the US either. But also this goes back to caring, Americans care for some reason to give money like its got no limit, this year alone US charity to foreign causes jumped up 2 billion dollars, so its not just the government that is throwing these people money , its all over the US.
I asked how many “powers that conquer” are still “powers” and how did they get that way…??
All countries eventually fall in power... its impossible not to.
America is still a power to think it will fall is losing hope, and quite frankly all anyone has in this world is hope.
I never said America was NOT a power and never said they were falling. I stated that all powers fall at some point... in response to you asking me "how many “powers that conquer” are still “powers”"
That’s the point we still are but we don’t conquer like England did (whom more-or-less gave back all the countries they took over.) So in saying “it’s impossible” You dam the US to failure because we are a super power.
Ok let’s take a break and review. We are a super "power" that "cares" about other countries, and congress gave the administration to run the war we are currently in. But who is our enemy is the next step to the debate.
What? I never said we dont have an enemy... I asked you to define the enemy. That is this "world wide threat to the US" enemy that you see.
No you never have asked me that, in turn all you say is.
The enemy in Iraq is obviously the guerrilla fighters... but it is a difficult enemy and one we have never faced like this before. Like I said, its not a country or a government, it small factions of the population. Its impossible to chase the world looking for them. It would never end.
Who are we at war with? "Terrorist" is a broad term that encompasses most of the 3rd world. Thats the problem... we cant even define our enemy. Its not a country or a government. You knock down one and little has been done.
You ask me who we are at war with and then you answer…?? So did you really ask me who “this ‘world wide threat to the US’ enemy that” I see is…? NO, but to answer the question now, if you have not said it already.
Our Enemy are radical nongovernmental organizations who utilizes the systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve political, economic, religious, or ideological objectives employing this “terror” as their primary weapon, while disguised as a civilian non-combatant. (I think that is pretty clear I should send that one to the white house lol.) Further more they employ stereotypes, or group affiliations to identify the enemy and to encourage their type of terrorist acts. These actions however are never carried out by the radical heads of the organization.
Zarquwi was a leader, he needed help to fire an AK-47… every home in middle east has an AK in it(thanks to USSR and the cold war,) and he doesn’t know how to use one….?? What does that mean? Well it doesn’t mean he’s stupid, it just mean he’s not willing to get close enough to the battle to fire a gun. This also means he has a bigger plan past killing and terror; it could be political, or economic. But as when you read his letters or just watch his videos he is a very religious man (bin laden said the same thing,) So there is a goal beyond this terror isn't there not…control the oil, destroy the US, something like that right? They just don’t want to die, but they don’t care if Kazzem goes and blows himself up along with 4 other civilians, because it all helps towards
their (faction leaders) goal.
Now what is the goal….??? Destroy the US and Israel? So they entice these “cells” to kill themselves just to kill Jews and Americans (bonus point to those that kill American Jews lol.) They attack our Embassies, our Olympic games, the abduct civilians. These thing unit the world, and signify the greater good. Our Embassies can bring tourists to their countries (I.E. civilians) bring aid to environmental tragedies, can increase trade, and bring higher education to there soils. The Games, promote peaceful competition, and can bring money to their country when they hold the games. Good things that America and the rest of the civilized world enjoy…and some a little too much lol. Their target over the years has been the world trade towers because, if the name doesn’t say it, it had represented world trade. All of these attacks accrue for two reasons, 1) highly populated places that normally have media coverage 2) places that unite the world.
Ok let’s take a rest and expand the topic again
The enemy in Iraq is obviously the guerrilla fighters... but it is a difficult enemy and one we have never faced like this before. Like I said, its not a country or a government, it small factions of the population. Its impossible to chase the world looking for them. It would never end.
It is impossible to do this “which hunt” yes, couldn’t agree more on that. We learned that in Afghanistan when we didn’t find bin laden. Right?
BTW, Wheres Osama? We forgot about him.
Ok you still care where he is, just like I do, just the administration does, just like the rest of America does. How do we get the bastard??
I have more but maybe if you answer that question we will see what the heck I was talking about in this post
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