Posted on 05/18/2008 5:29:27 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
We'll have to disagree...
1) During the Bush Administration Libya gives up its nuclear weapons program.
2) During the Bush Administration the black market from Pakistan led by A.Q.Kahn for nuclear weapons technology is broken up.
3) During the Bush Administration North Korea begins dismantling their plutonium enrichment reactors.
4) During the Bush Administration Israel and the U.S.A. destroy Syria's nuclear weapons enrichment reactors.
5) During the Bush Administration, Saddam Hussein who said quite clearly while in jail awaiting his trial that he would have had the U.N. sanctions broken and be in full production of WMDs within a year. That would be the years 2004 - 2005 approximately that Saddam would have been re-armed with WMDs. It now goes without saying the obvious that Saddam will not be getting nuclear weapons anytime soon. Nor will he be directly funding and training the terror group 'Islamic Jihad' which is al-Qaeda and whom blew up two U.S. embassies. (see the recent: Iraqi Perspectives Project).
6) During the Bush Administration the U.S.A. has nuclear weapon ambitious Iran pinned in on both sides from Afghanistan and Iraq which is pure strategic genius.
Under Clinton the countries Pakistan and India successfully test nuclear weapons and North Korea begins plutonium enrichment .
answered my post didnt see yers in time....
This thread is Epic Fail.
The answer to your puzzle in one single word: Congress.
The technology is pretty much there on a lot of fronts, as you detailed. My engineering background tells me that electric is the way to go for the short to medium term future. Battery technology is very close to making a practical electric car a reality (with blistering performance, I might add)
The big nut to crack here, as I see it, isn't solving the technological issues. The big nut to crack here is getting our own gubmint out of the way!
Enviromentalism has been around for years. Most enviromentalist are nothing more then displaced Commies. As for the President, he has made some mistakes but this problem with gas prices are not the president’s fault. The American people are the problem. Americans are lazy and have a small vision. American expect the government to fix every problem in life and most never vote or they only vote for the person whose name they recognize.
The president tried on three different occasions to push an energy package when he first entered the Oval Office and many of the RINOS along when the Sociocrats fought him and laid the proposals on the back table to fade away.
As for our dependency on foreign oil, America gets most of their oil from Canada, Mexico, South America, the North Atlantic and a small percentage comes from the Middle East.
SO PLEASE!!! Stop the small mindedness with this particular issue. The Oil problems started in the 70s and the Democrats answer was higher taxes.
Why judge the president when there are many variables within this issue? Why not support the president and get involved and no matter who your congress person may be, hold them accountable?
This narrow-minded thinking that Americans have been conditioned to believe has gotten old and the time has come to stop finger pointing and get involved.
Thanks!
EXACTLY!
It seems to me about half of threads here are either posted by Dems, or ungrateful people....
GWB pros:
No terror attacks since 9/11
Good Supreme Court Appts
Sadaam and two sons are dead
OBL is in hiding, not ruling world
Gore didn’t get to ruin USA with Kyoto
Kerry didn’t get to ruin USA with cowardice
Over 3000 new border agents added
Israel is still standing at her 60th birthday no thnx to
all the other countries who want her to disappear, otherwise IRAN (Ajminjab) would have nuked her, but for GWB
UN hasn’t taken over our water yet, due to GWB/Republicans
AND the list goes on...yes mistakes have been made but no other person electable in past 8 yrs could have held up under such disgusting scrutiny and treason of the US people toward him, and including some vets.
I am ashamed of the vets who don’t get it...and the ones who do I HONOR. I am former NAVY, and I know how much we have been spared....APPRECIATE! The special forces kept this muslim/marxist (top secret terror) jhadist thing under wraps for over fifteen yrs fighting in places no one knew they were there for the protection of USA, it was inevitable to come here, and it will get worse don’t look for an end, because unless you become Muslim you die, and that is their world takover philosophy. In sheer population alone they will eventually either rule the world, or Jesus will come back first...no end to this war people, but the politicians can’t say it! It’s surrender or fight on, or nuke someone.
This is an era where very little can be done with the MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORLD POWER AGAINST US from without and within.
If we elect the man of peace then either you surrender your soul, or die...eventually. There will be a false peace, but it costs eternally.
“”what do we have the Saudis need we can gouge them on?””
Food!
Let them eat oil!
AMEN
The Saudis laughed on 9/11.
Little thing? The President of the United States of America made a special trip over to Saudi Arabia to specifically ask for more oil production.
That is NO small thing. It is about the leader of the free world going hat-in-hand to appeal for more oil from a backward barbarous intolerant monarchy that promotes, teaches, and finances the concept of Sharia Law around the world. You need to get some real-life perspective and maybe read a little more.
I am embarrassed that my CIC did this. He should be too since it was to little avail. The 300,000 barrels a day increase was before Bush arrived - May 10. After walking along while holding hands with King Abdullah, Bush was rebuffed about any further increase in production. Bush said how glad he was that the Saudis made that little increase.
300,000 that the Saudis increased before Bush's begging tour is nothing in the global market and will have no impact on crude prices nor the cost at your pump. But yet, our President went over there and did smiley face and held the King's hand as Bush was told they would not increase production further. A waste of time and a embarrassment to the West.
Yes, Bush got punked.
Give you that. How about folly?
Well I have to agree, somebody has been punked. That somebody is you, if you believe the garbage you just posted to be true.
107th House of Representatives:
51.5% = 48.5%
R's = 219-222
D's = 208-211
108th:
52% - 48%
R's = 225-229
D's = 205-207
109th:
53% - 47%
R's = 232-229
D's = 201-202
110th:
46.0% - 54.0%
R's = 198-202
D's = 231-234
107th Congress (2001-2003)
Majority Party (Jan 3-20, 2001): Democrat (50 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (50 seats)
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Majority Party (Jan 20-June 6, 2001): Republican (50 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (50 seats)
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Majority Party (June 6, 2001-November 12, 2002 ): Democrat (50 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (49 seats)
Other Parties: 1
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Majority Party (November 12, 2002 - January 3, 2003): Republican (50 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: 2
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108th Congress (2003-2005)
Majority Party: Republican (51 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
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109th Congress (2005-2007)
Majority Party: Republican (55 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (44 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
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110th Congress (2007-2009)
Majority Party: Democrat (49 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (49 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent; 1 Independent Democrat
When you consider McCain always voted with the rats, along with a few of his RMP buddies when necessary, on all things ANWR, the President didn't enjoy much of a "republican" majority of CONgress.
Again, the 109th and the 108th were the prime target sessions. The House did some good work, only to be shot down by the limp wristed sInate!
How ALL the failures are President Bush's fault remain a mystery to me.
Let the games begin
you hit the nail on the head, so if you wanna eat up the oil production. I don’t think he was begging, just bartering.
Except for Code Pink, Hugo Chavez, Nancy Pelosi, the 'Revs' Wright, Jackson & Sharpton, Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket, Ray Nagin, and the citizenry of San Francisco; no one has the insight and bravery to point this out.
How refreshing.
Well said.
You are a disgrace.
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