DaWacko it's interesting that you mentioned that the US wanted to use this as a reason to test weapons.. I guess we will find out soon if they decide to use nuclear weapons (again). It also reminded me of somethign else I had read in Michael Moores 9/11 Official Reader. He had stated that the Carlyle Group would have benefitted greatly from any war that would have started (because of weapon sales and the likes). And Bush and his father are affiliated with the Carlyle Group and would have profitted as well. It seemed that the only people defending the war and actually pushing to make it happen were the ones that would have benefitted from it financially.
And you're darn right about the Middle East/USA topic too. The US doesn't belong here, I've said this before and I will repeat it as many times as it takes to stick. THE USA HAS ITS OWN PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH. Once it has brought down its crime rate THEN it can worry about the rest of the world. For now, its got enough to deal with, and to tell you the truth, the Middle East is suffering enough without democracy, either way, we wouldnt democratically elect our governments and presidents anyway, it would be a US pupetteered election, as in the case with the Palestinians. For close to 50 damn years they were subject to the violence and inhumanity of the israelis, and then when "democracy" was settled into their government and the people went to "freely" elect their governments, it was immediately kicked by Bush. So as much as they try to bring democracy to the Middle East, it'll always somehow resemble that of the USA - not quite the "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".
Colin Powel, Rice, Cheney, whoeevr you name in the Bush administration cannot possibly (this is only my theory, dont think i have sources to back it up :lol
be taking orders from someone as stupid as Bush. Think with me for a second, BUsh isn't all that intelligent. Cmon, whether you like him or not, you cannot deny that the man is a little on the idiot side, right? So he understands money (probably with alot of help from daddy Bush), but when it comes to the choices he makes, I would always suspect that those choices are his father's.
*reminder: put clarke info referring to taliban/iraq + bush sr. cia notes.
It's strange we expect so much from him, and some may argue that it was a tough moment when he learned the nation was under attack, he may have wanted to sit there and catch his breath before rushing and making a speech... blah. Truth is, he's not fit to rule a country like the USA.
I truly believe Nader would have changed the world.
Desert! You finally joined us again.. thank you for dropping by
! Trust me, I know it will be impossible to point out everything, but we'll do as much as we can anyway.
PrettyEyes one question: has Bush really protected America? Honestly...
CSIanalysse For one, never did I say that all politicians are bad - I was just defending Nader before, and I do NOT feel that all politicians are evil; I'm speaking abotu the ones that are. And Wikipedia is not a trusted source, I told you all in my first post that it's only a place for me to copy from (mainly because it had basically summarized it as simply as possible. that's the reason I used that in my opening post - NOT becuase this is the most trusted source, it sure as heck isnt). And to you it may be "oh well" either way, but if it were the same to me I wouldnt bother opening this thread to begin with. Interesting that you mentioned the whole Global Warming issue... In January I received an emailed article from the NY Times about a NASA scientist that had been trying to warn people about global warming after discovering new information, and the Bush administration ordered him to keep silent and not share ANY information with the public unless it was approved by the Administration first... see they're censoring everything. If there's something you ought to know and they will not let you know about it, its time to find out why it is such a classified subject to begin with.