the states isnt that powerfull

Ph34r wrote: Canadians are taxed much more than we are here in the U.S., so that's how they can get "free" asprin in the hospital. Like Sandman nothing is ever free.

no we dont. what are you talking about. we got free health care. we get taxed about the same.

TRAVELER wrote: I just got back from Iraq a few days ago, though this time I was there as a civilian. To myself, and those over there that I talked to, our cause is worthy enough, though everyone looks forward to coming home. When you say the the States aren't that powerful, it is obvious that you must feel some kind of deep down inferiority. The state of California is the world's 7th largest economy by itself, so that gives you an idea of the net worth of the entire US. Using a country's military as a yardstick to measure strength is not going to give you the most accurate results. The US is the engine that drives the worlds economy, and though the world could survive without us, it would enjoy a far lower standard of living.

Don't travel there by yourself, it's dangerous. We don't need another hostage losing his head.

Don't beat a dead horse.

Fallout_soldier wrote: I gave up caring about the war when i figured out every one on this fourm is to patreoticto care about american soldiers dieing for a bad cause.  I bet if you asked any of the poor guys who are actualy fighiting (the ones whos thoughts realy matter) Not the ones picked to go on CNN  tehy would tell you how much they are pissed for having to fight a pointless war.  Sure a lot of good came from iraq but in ten years its still guna be a hot bed for terroists 10 times worse then it was with sadam.

 If worse terrorists show up then we'll kill them too. And the ones after that and the ones after that. Until everyone is to scared to terrorize anyone. Saddam got what was coming to him and so will anyone else who starts genocide like what Saddam did when had been mass murdering the Kurds and arresting innocent people. We should have done nothing about it sooner. I can't believe people like that Moore fellow who have a problem when we start rescueing a culture. Whats the difference between what we did saving the Kurds and freeing the other Iraqis and what we did for the Jews.

 Its better for a good person do die killing a bad person than both of them living.

Ilikepaintball1 wrote: **edited**e wrote: Who needs an army when you have nukes This post really disturbs me.  If a nuke ever hit land anywhere, other than antartica milliions on inocent people would die.  Thats why nukes are never used

No.... they aren't used because of a possibility of another World War and many countries would shun the attacker because they used a device to kill countless people.

**edited**e wrote: Who needs an army when you have nukes

This post really disturbs me.  If a nuke ever hit land anywhere, other than antartica milliions on inocent people would die.  Thats why nukes are never used

munky! wrote: [FI wrote: ] munky! wrote: America isnt doing bodycounts because they dont want people to know the real number. Or maybe because: A. We don't really care B. It doesn't matter, they're gone C. It isn't a good way to measure the costs D. All of the above (The correct answer is D. All of the above, by the way) so your saying you dont care that americains killed 10,000 , 12,000 or 52,000 civilians. and it dosnt matter. so if its not a good way to measure the costs what is? and why would you even say that its not?

Nope, not really. Not me, not my people, not my family, not my friends...don't give a crap. When it begins happening to me/people that I love/Americans I might begin to care.

It's not simply because...you don't know the future. When it's all said and done, the historians will judge and we'll know. But until then, we can't measure progress by the amount of lives lost nor can be put a price on freedom. If that boggles your mind, it's probably because your ancestors didn't fight the British.

Bunkered wrote: America isn't doing any body counts because it would be impossible to do so. You ought to remember things brought to light about Vietnamese "body counts." Every night on TV, it would report the number of Vietnamese killed each night. By the end of the war, the total of the numbers was great enough that the entire Vietnamese population would have been killed multiple times. That's exactly what those reports look like to me, except from the other side. If you don't believe we should have gone into Afghanistan, then there is something truly wrong with you. Not only do you not want people to go into war as a pre-emptive action, but when they go in AFTER being attacked, you call it wrong. You are truly an imbecile. If someone attacked Canada, you wouldn't be willing to go and fight them? If not, you are not worthy of the scum on a soldier's boot. What will you fight for, if not the security of your fellow countrymen? "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill ^That applies to you. (PaintToxin)

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