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Originally Posted by merrylander
Sure we have a huge deficit, and guess who we can thank for that. Wall Street, Phil Gramm killing Glass Stegal, Drug companies - are you aware that 65% of personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills? The cost of the wars in Iraq (WMD = Whoppers of Mass Deception) and Afghanistan.
We seem to have forgotten our own history, we foolishly think we can give people democracy; really? so who was it that 'gave' it to us?
They had a chance to get Bin Laden and blew it badly. Saddam was a real POS but he was the Iraqui's problem, not ours. Despite what Cheney would have us believe there never was a connection between Saddam and Al Queda.
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I believe there was a connection between Saddam & Al Quida, but it WAS pretty thin. Personally, I don't think that the was in Iraq had that much to do with Al Quida.
My personal assumption is that the was in Iraq was a calculated response to the last 20 yrs of attacks on the USA by Muslim extremists. Start with the Marine barracks, World Trade Center #1, the Cole, WTC #2, plus some others that are slipping my mind. The time had come to do something.
Now, if we were to attack those who attacked us, we should have hit Saudia Arabia. But that wasn't the reason for the War in Iraq, either.
IMHO, the War in Iraq was to:
A: Apply pressure to Iran. If you look at a map, you will see that by occupying Iraq, the US now has Iran surrounded by countries that are at least somewhat friendly to us.
B: Get rid of Saddam. This guy had been a turd in the punch bowel for some time.
C: A very ambitious attempt to remake the order of things in the Middle East. Machavelli warned of such things.
I've yet to pass judgment on what has happened. Time will tell, and I don't feel as though enough time has passed at the moment.
Then again, it may have been nothing more than another money making operation for the big boys. Wouldn't have been the 1st time.
But this thread was about Oboma pointing out that the country is broke.
Like my buddy say's, "He's just now figgerin' that out?"
Chas