This is from the year 2000...anyone wonder why all of our Army had the top rating in combat readiness when George Bush Sr. left office, yet in 2000 no Army division had this rating? At least two divisions were rated the lowest...Clinton cut 160+ billion from the defense budget.
The reason we're struggling in Iraq is because we had no real plan for success. We don't need more troops or more money.
There are more troops needed, no doubt. Where's the UN, which doesn't stand up to its self-propagated mission? - and why don't they send peace-keeping troops into Iraq? - Simply they don't mind. It's a power game for them to go for their principles rather then for the mission of creating peace and order, which they are supposed to do, but they are not interested to save Iraq people lives, and as a proven fact not their mission either. When will the real purpose of the UN be revealed?
Where have you been in the past few years? UN was opposed to the war in Iraq as they new the mess it would become. If you followed the news at the time UN voted against the war in Iraq. This war is a pre-emptive war, without the worlds approval, dear Bush wacko simply wokeup one day and decided to create havoc, and all of us taxpayers are left with the war bill and so are your kids as the deficit has skyrocketed. On average every single american now ows about $30,000 to the national debt.
I think that the constitution in Iraq is just wrong, it was even more liberal when Saddam was in power. But we can't blame america for that, the people of Iraq wanted to have it that way. Apart from that mistake, I think there should be more soldiers there, probably twice as much. Teachers in Iraq should be going through a major education program in order to learn the youth of Iraq the right values, respect, freedom, democracy, honestly, anti-racism and so on.
Firestorm; yes the theory is new, it was invented by cprv. Yo-Yo; No, they should be there to help the army. Many of those should also be doing civilian duties, such as the education program as I mentioned.
Well, it restrics personal freedom big time. To mention a few that limit the sphere of freedom. In the second quote, I didn't mean the first part, but it's a shame that the biggest party for the sunni moslems and the biggest secular party is banned. But as I said before, we can only blame the Iraqi people for that since they wanted to have it that way.
The UN was bought out, along with a number of our "traditional" allies by saddam in the oil for food and oil vouchers scandals. Saddam bought "no" votes with oil vouchers and many UN execs were made rich in the oil-for-food program. Our allies stood to loose millions and millions of dollars in the corrupt oil-for-food program. If money and corruption had not been influencers, as they were, things would have been dramatically different.
Every time an issue comes up it seems like it's sliced up into a liberal or conservative issue. People look at political spin as being real news and It's hurting the country. Is anybody really accountable for their actions in this type of politically charged environment? All the cry wolf arguments are deafening ears. Just look at the last 14 1/2 years.