Posted on 07/31/2002 9:31:09 AM PDT by Puppage
Should the US Attack Iraq
I just voted and saw that it was only 18% for attacking Iraq. I'm against attack Iraq without congressional debate and authorization, but even so I don't believe 82% of the American people agree with me (they've never agreed with me on anything else). I think someone has posted messages on a liberal web site and they're all voting in the poll. Either that or the people who watch this Connecticut TV station are all rich yuppie liberals.
Not couldn't. America could have won in any given three-week period.
We draw it in front of people with their heads in the sand like you.
Let me tell you a little tale. There once was a place called Jakarta. It was a peaceful lovely little place. That is until Terrorists started training there. That was back in the mid 80's. But it didn't stop there,.. OH NO.. they trained them, but they didn't KEEP THEM THERE. THEY SHIPPED THEM OUT.. To the Middle East, to the Phillipines, even to Bosnia and other places where they could prosper.
The line has been drawn. On ignorance.
We understand that if we don't take care of people spread out around the entire world, they will fulfill their mission. Can you guess what that mission is? I didn't think so.. it is to destroy AMERICA, ISRAEL and BRITTAIN!!
But you knew that right? Oh.. no,.. thats right.. you think we should stop and take two years to get an agreement every time our intelligence thinks they have uncovered a link. Or a threat. Thats right.. let our enemies be forwarned that we are coming.
Just so ya know, there are top secret meetings every day in this Nation. The Congress does know what is going on. That we don't leak it out to the media may dissapoint YOU,.. but I'm sure there are a few thousand parents who are glad we don't. It will be a happier Christmas for many of them thanks to the RESPONSIBLE leadership of this Administration.
My major concern is finding out WHO Leaked TOP SECRET information about out military plans. Then we need to try the person for treason!!
Even people with a mindset like YOU, will probably live to enjoy another day in this great country thanks to this administration. Even people like you..... ungrateful though you may be.
This was the right decision for the wrong reason: the reason the Fla SC should have been overturned was because their decision was un-Constitutional because the Fla Sec of State had followed the law exactly. All the provisions for recounts had been met by Ms. Harris and the law followed.
Bottom line is that the Fla SC was wrong and acted un-Constitutionally, and the SCOTUS was right to overturn them. They just did it for the wrong reason.
(The reasoning is important because we now have a precedent for the SCOTUS getting involved in elections at the state level, which is dangerous. Justices Scalia and Thomas said this is in a concurrent opinion; they were the only two).
I apologize if my memory is faulty. It's been a while.
All that having been said, I'm not sure what that has to do with getting Congressional approval to go to war. Are you saying that because the SCOTUS overturned a bad state court decision that the Executive has the authority to ignore his Constitutional obligations? I don't follow...
Nuke us with what? Even Netanuahu recently said Hussein won't have a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead against the United States for "10 to 15 years." It's Israel that Iraq is a threat to, not the United States. Which raises another question, if Saddam is such a big threat, why doesn't Israel take him out the way she took out his nuclear power plant in 1981? Israel has 400 nuclear weapons, neutron bombs, ICBMs, spy satellites, submarines, cruise missiles, the best fighter pilots in the world. She could take out Hussein in a single day and, futhermore, she doesn't need our help (or permission) to do it.
You want to be clued in? Online polls are for losers.
Didn't you cast your vote?
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