Posted on 12/25/2002 12:05:09 AM PST by Stavka2
I don't write vanities, not normally not ever, but there's a first for everything. Here's a list of questions I want answered and most Americans should too.
Just a few questions that no one is seeming to ask since it's a Republican run show and not democRats.
Oops. I left this one out. How rich.
"Economic excesses?" Who decides? I presume you are referring, e.g., to SUVs. Shall we put Richard W. in charge of what kind of vehicles people get to drive?
If Bill Gates can afford the upkeep on a Gigantor SUV, including the gas bill, what business is it of yours?
One man's economic excess is another man's reasonable standard of living. Our "economic excesses" seem to be what everybody else in the world wants.
"Economic excesses" are code words for radical egalitarianism--the philosophy which seeks to make everyone equal by making everyone equally poor.
I invite you to cease your own economic excess. Give all you own to the poor, and wander as a mendicant seeking alms. Live the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, or Heinrich Sosa. Then you might have the moral authority to remark on "economic excesses" from your $1500 Gateway computer, running on electricity generated from fossil fuels, having just completed Christmas dinner running to 3500 calories.
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E.
--Boris
Instead of answering the question (or focussing on the question) they instead decide to chastize the poster! I think that is one of the few problems with FR ....the asinine habit of attacking the messenger instead of tackling the question! I personally think it is a mark of atrophied mental acumen when someone blindly uses vitriolic diatribe against a fellow Freeper instead of answering the question posed (if the question is indeed foolish then say it is foolish ...and say why ....but there are many Freepers who will simply call someone a 'name', eg 'anti-semite' etc, and leave it at that). That is foolish because no good arises out of that.
As for the questions you asked (Stavka) what i can say is that there are a couple there that more people need to be thinking about (and asking their representatives about). For example the concentration on Iraq when greater threats are posed by places like N.Korea and Pakistan (the British govt affirms that Pakistan is the greatest threat of magnitude currently) .....or why the Saudis seem to be under some aegis from US wrath when the deserve it more than virtually any other country (actually the answer for that one is simple ...and it is oil). Also the question about what happens in Iraq after the madman Saddam is deposed is crucial. Currently there is no one who can viably fill his shoes, and that is an urgent question that needs to be tackled and soon otherwise a maelstrom of usurpers and coups would ensue (especially if the 'Iraqi political exiles' or the Kurdish party is emplaced as ruler .....the Iraqi exiles would not accepted by the people due to some past issues, and the Kurds would raise potential issues with Turkish policies).
And yes, airport security is a joke (4 months ago in a flight from Orlando to Houston i had my Fortune Magazine x-rayed ....yep, x-rayed, yet they let my carry-on bag go through! Maybe my view of weapons is wrong ....but i believe it is much easier to slip a weapon in a bag than in a business magazine! Or maybe i am just wrong, but i seriously doubt it).
Anyways Stavka, some of the questions you asked were very pressing and require a deep delving into ....and all of them deserved critical thought. None should have elicited an attack (especially silly ones like: Who did Stavka2 vote for, in 2000 and 2002 US federal elections?)
Even if you had voted for Gore in 2000 and had a shrine of Nancy Pelosi in your den that you chanted nightly mantras to does not mean your questions are any less potent! (On second thought a shrine to Pelosi would be too much .....LOL)
Anyways i always believe if a post is rubbish then it should be treated as such ....and intelligent proof given as to why it is rubbish! However attacking a poster (eg calling him a DU plant, and questioning his voting record) should be left to the sand-pits of kindergarten where they belong.
And as to those who say there is no need to answer such questions because 'their elected representatives were elected to do so for them' all i have to say that is one big slippery slope. Eg the 'Patriot Act' was voted on by nigh everypolitician before they had even read a page (whether it is good/effective or not is a different question, but they should at the very least know what they are signing into law since intelligent, not purely emotional, responses should be the article of faith in any elected official)
This view is terrible. It is often used by liberals. It puts the blame for terrorism on our shoulders. It apologizes to terrorists for our national policy. It says that our actions have brought about terrorism and any continued action on our part which makes anybody mad is going to create more terror. There is no solution if you really feel this way.
My god. That is the perfect post.
Save your sadness. The question were confrontational when they should have been thought provoking; some were based on false assumptions; and any reasonable questions were lost in the clutter.
The 1st question goes downhill from the getgo since the war is being debated 24/7 across the country and across the world. And question #2 destroys the posters credibility since Congress voted to give the Commander-in-Chief the authority that he is exercizing.
Question #6 is a redux of Gulf War I where we had to fix the burning oil wells and can do so again, if necessary. We can also operate the repaired oil wells to pay for our efforts, if necessary.
I think that Stavka2 should research the answers and report back to us ASAP.
Sick isn't it? Oh, you missed one: Executive Decree....er Order, again, what's the difference?
God bless
Give 'em hell, brother. I'm with you.
largesse seems to be the word he
needed but the way he said it was
funnier give or take a jowl.
Well, that's the jist of it then, isn't it, because it is the duty of the President to go before Congress and ask for a declaration of war before fighting starts...that's the Constitution and the only legal way to abridge that is through an amendment, the War Powers Act is as illegal as anything else that changes the Constitution without a voted on Amendement. Problem is, no one sees past this moment...when your party man is in charge everyone is happy to have the abuse of power, but when the other party's man (or wombat, in case of Hellberry) is in charge everyone is lamenting, nashing and grinding teeth about how we got to this point and how unconstitutional it is. Be warned, you face a very real threat of this happening either next elections or the following.
Problem is, we aren't attacking the Islamists, that's the point. The Islamists are in Saudi Arabia, amongst other nations, on whom we spend billions for protection and ass kissing...yes our body politic's lips are firmly stitched to every unwashed Saudi Royal's arse. How does it feel to know that you are nothing but a "white N**er" (Saudi words, not mine) to an unwashed, half educated camel jocky?
The US has been in a Recession for 3 years, with market losses this year alone of 16% in Dow Jones and 30% in Nasdeq. We are running a huge deficit, projected to be over half a trillion dollars, add to this an unneeded war that does nothing to save us from terrorists, and a Marshal Plan (maybe, since no one will actually state the end game). If you wish for me to explain to you what effect a huge deficit has on the economy and all our future aspects for recovery, I will gladly do so.
Who cares? That is a problem for Iraq--not us.
I care, since it is my money in part going to this. And if you believe otherwise that some corps are going to invest, you are fooling yourself. The corps will be there, all right, to suck up US government funds for rebuilding, but it will still be the taxpayer who gets stuffed with the bill.
English? Last time I check it was in English, aber wenn wanst du in Deutsch, ist es auch gut.
Sitation, hell, most of the major news media covering the London meeting of the Iraqi opposition, sponsored by DC.
Kurdistan...hmm, well, obviously you don't understand Geopolitics do you? Kurdistan is mostly run by the very people who like Osama. Furthermore, check the map, if fighting starts there, that cuts off one of the two main supply routes to US forces, not a good thing.
If Iran invades southern Iraq, it cuts off the other major US supply route and puts pressure on Kuwait and Saudi oil fields, again, back to step one. Do you get it now?
He is deterred by the thought of Israeli retaliation.
Well, in one statement, you have just blown the reason for the whole war. If he is afraid of what the Isrealies would do to him with 200 nukes, why would he not be afraid of what the US could do to him with 10,000 nukes? Or do the lines of logic get fuzzy right around that point? As for "giving" away a nuke to terrorists, that would be quite stupid since the isotopes left from a blast can be traced back to their plants of origen, each leaves a finger print, a very distinct finger print.
In case you missed it, friend, there is no more Taliban.
In case YOU missed it friend, the none existent Taliban killed one american soldier last week, and injured 4 others. Not bad for ghosts.
Listen, bunky; nobody goes 'willingly to nuclear war' for a rotten pest-hole like Romania.
Really, space ranger? Go check what the US signed in the NATO accords, because it will do this for even smaller pest holes like Liuthiania and Estonia and Latvia. Or did you miss that whole NATO agreement, which has been around for 52 years?
Why should we help every Jose, Jorge, and Tomaso who calls himself 'pro-democracy' and arrives with his hand out?
Because those Joses hold the spicket to 16% of the US oil, and that is a very good reason to support anti-Communist rebellions, especially when they threaten to nationalize the enterprises and cut off the US.
As for your ask Klinton answers, sorry, he's been gone for 2 years and he was a lame duck for over a year before that. Time to ask Bush.
Now how did you know about that? :0)
Seriously though, I count on you as one of the voices of Reason on FR, especially since the bloodlust of the arm chair generals is at an all time high.
But I'm sure that my mistake on the nukes just throws all those questions right out the window...after all why answer when you can attack the barer. Personally, I think you are the DU, you see, you want all this power for Bush now, so that when your favorite, Hillery takes over you DUs can do what ever you want, so here's back at you DU! DU! DU!
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