If you're not interested in what he meant then why are you posting? He didn't effectively change his comment. He expanded on his remark to further explain and he was correct in his logic. You've got nothin here. Go scrutinize something important like how lying about war is no big deal.
No one is listening Rather than addressing an issue and a problem they rather kill the messenger this is happening more and more someone brings a problem to light rather than addressing the problem it is better to attack the person saying there is a problem Rocket River this is why our political system is sucking about now
OK: being against the war because you are an isolationist or a pacifist Not OK: being against the war because you sympathize with the insurgents/terrorists as Freedom Fighters
Did you somehow miss the "back then" part of that statement? How dis-ingenuine can you be? Are you intentionally mis-understanding what we are saying here? I said that I wasn't concerned about re-casting his prior comments as the authoritative summation of the problems that the Administration had with their response to Katrina, i.e. "Bush doesn't care about blacks." I do care about what he said most recently. When asked about those comments, he rephrased it as "Bush doesn't care ab out poor people." Somehow both you and he see those two differing remarks as being equal. If I were black I'd be offended that you and Kanye West think that black and poor are synonimous. Hell, I'm white and it irks me! The guy is just a chump pimping for some free advertising, so he says something outrageous. It is interesting though that, when given a second chance, he did change it so as not to be so inflammatory...
How do you feel about: --being against the war because you feel Saddam was no threat to the USA --being against the war because after 9/11 we should have gone full-bore after Osama instead of Saddam Personally, this is where I stand on the war in Iraq. To me, the war in Iraq has zero to do with the "war on terror" and it has everything to do with "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy". I do not sympathize with the insurgents as "freedom fighters", but I can understand why they are doing what they are doing. If a foreign army occupied Texas, I would be out trying to kill as many of those motherfoooookers as humanly possible. Giddy, what would you be doing if a foreign army was occupying your hometown? Shower them with flowers and candy?
The United Stats has a suprlus of 10,000 nuclear missles. If we use lets say, 9999 of them on the Middle East this cancer would be eradicated. The last one would be used on New Orleans...
nobody against the war from the beginning cannot sympathize with the insurgents anyway.. there was no war to begin with.. and I think people for the war are actually for the terrorists/insurgents.. do you think by staying in iraq the insurgents/terrorists can be beaten? by staying in iraq, more US soldiers will be killed and they will eventually win anyway because thats their land..
You do realize that when a lot of people talk about the tragedy of Katrina they are not talking about the hurricane but about the preparation/response to the hurricane, right? I do not present this as an argument but as an attempt to get you on the same page as those with whom you are arguing.
<b>RocketMan Tex How do you feel about: --being against the war because you feel Saddam was no threat to the USA</b> I really have no problem with that. To me, the issue is really exactly how and to what extent you oppose the war, i.e. do you demonize those who feel differently and support or actually prosecute the war. <b>--being against the war because after 9/11 we should have gone full-bore after Osama instead of Saddam</b> Again, I don't agree with that but I understand it and I think it is a reasonable position to take. <b>Personally, this is where I stand on the war in Iraq. To me, the war in Iraq has zero to do with the "war on terror" and it has everything to do with "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy".</b> This kind of thinking just blows me away... <b>I do not sympathize with the insurgents as "freedom fighters", but I can understand why they are doing what they are doing.</b> So can I but that still makes them enemies. <b>If a foreign army occupied Texas, I would be out trying to kill as many of those motherfoooookers as humanly possible.</b> Your use of the word "occupation" troubles me. Have you already forgotten the elections that were enabled by our efforts there and ours alone? <b>Giddy, what would you be doing if a foreign army was occupying your hometown? Shower them with flowers and candy?</b> How unrealistic is your characterization here?! I daresay that way many more Iraqis support and appreciate our mission there than want to kill us. My nephew came back from Iraq at the end of January; we went down to Fort Bragg to welcome him home. It was an exciting and humbling experience. Virtually all these young men and women, joined the armed forces after 9/11 and even after 03/03 when the War on Terror in Iraq was launched.
Oh yeah, I realize that but the way that he and others express it to be so fully and completely Bush's fault. I was being a <b>tad</b> sarcastic there in reply to a cheap shot. Did anybody handle the Katrina disaster properly? I don't think so. We have been humbled by Mother Nature. Everybody could have done better and probably will next time... even the denizens will probably listen to those calls to get out of Dodge...
Art. 42. Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised. Laws of War
I think if it had been me I would have tried my feet. I'm afraid that the truth is that some were going to die. You can't always beat Mother Nature...
umm. you plan on having others leave the city on feet when many of the poor were also elderly? maybe we could name it trail of tears II. have a corporate sponser. thats the american way.
The fact that New Orleans had a plan of evacuation bussing people out, and not utilizing it was the largest problem. But I'm sure that was Bush's fault, too.
