Wrong, and I've proven that to you. He and his campaign have direct ties to BIG Ethanol companies and their lobbyists.

Who said I even support Bush other than just support for the President of the United States?

I vote for the individual, not the party. When it comes to local and state, as well as Congress, most times I vote for Democrat. Voted for Senator Bob Casey, now thinking it was a big mistake, real quickly, but I wanted to give the guy a chance.

Democratic Congress. Breaking the pork barrel spending record and they have a 9 percent approval rating...lol.

I'm a registered Democrat, thank you very much.

No, of course not. I was just using a random date as an example to the point I was covering.

lol, everyone always says that those dogs NEVER stop barking and have among the most annoying barks. Granted what was done is absolutely sadistic and cruel, but just saying.

Or, like you hear stated in all press time and time again. There is that worry if you state, "Hey, we are fully pulling out on August 1st (for example)", that the enemy will then just sit back and relax waiting for that date when all forces are out and go on a spree. I don't think it likely, but it of course weighs on the strategerists minds. The newsmedia is surely shoving that one down our throats, many with hope it will happen just so they can do a Vietnam-style celebrating of defeat.

Wrong, I was really hoping someone was going to state that. Here is just one of many articles on the issue, big worries, and real hits taken.

"THE CHIEF economist of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development yesterday warned that the US impeachment crisis could hit world growth, as financial markets shrugged off the raids on Iraq and focused on the position of President Bill Clinton.

Ignazio Visco at the OECD said: "The US political crisis could have a serious effect on world growth because stock markets could react."

Mr Visco said stock markets in US, Canada, Italy and Germany were all overvalued. He argued that a market fall of 20 per cent - which could be triggered by President Clinton's impeachment - would wipe 1 per cent from US growth. Concern about President Clinton's political future weighed heavily on the dollar, which had fallen another 1.3 yen to 115.08 yen by lunchtime in New York, but later rebounded to post modest gains, closing at 116.10 yen. The Clinton crisis also hit US government bonds, with the yield on 30- year Treasury bonds up 2 basis points at 5.03 per cent during afternoon Wall Street trade." - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19981219/ai_n14187821

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I suggest reading the full article as well.


Here is a BBC article about it as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_economy/239260.stm

Shoot, I doubletapped and posted the last one twice.

Just remember after WWII things were not rosey in Japan and Germany. However, unlike then you did not have an ever present media getting news and such to us in mere minutes, if not seconds, from when it happened. Most news of the reconstruction in both never got back to the states back then until days, weeks, months, years, or never at all.

As well, you said in your post a statement about signing an agreement on troop withdrawal. There are two issues with that. Iraq has stated they wanted a continued security detail, which would maintain some US presence there in some capacity, though much much more limited than the current state. Whatever that means to them I do not know.

The victory is at hand. There is just no way to turn over complete control of the approximately 8 remaining provinces not under complete Iraqi military control in 4 months unless it is dangerously rushed.

Yet, victory is never assured as well. But, to live in a mental state where you only hope and see defeat, despite evidence that suggests progress is wrong as well.

Far-fetched mistruth. Seriously, such a thing would cause turmoil and uncertainties that would send the markets into a huge downslide. Markets would tumble. Your assumption has no precedence with history. The trial of one of the President of one of the biggest trade partners throughout the world, threaten trade deals and so forth, would cause great uncertainties. Uncertainty always sends the markets in a downward spiral.

I don't disagree with you or Ron Paul on many issues. I use to be a big 'screw Europe' care only for us person for quite awhile. Granted I'm not that old, but I'm talking a few years back, which is quite awhile in my terms..haha. Anyways, the more I've been reading various amounts of material both historic and modern in nature, as well as understanding global economies in an honors course on International Political Economies I know we can not simply shut off what has already been opened.

If the 1997 East Asian Market Crisis caused by a very small economy of Thailand and Malyasia nearly took down the Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, and even a trace in the US national economies I do not even want to think what something of significant nature happening in Israel or Europe would do to us all, especially the US.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/10/1049567793257.html

Could post hundreds of these, pictures, and many more surrounding other events such as the first time Iraqis voted, around the Constitution, and when Saddam was executed by Iraqis for his crimes against his people.

I seem to remember Iraqi-Americans and Iraqis throughout Europe dancing in the streets, waving US and Iraq flags, and celebrating the liberation.

Gotta love it, don't ya? And, then they also decided to defeat the highest pork record ever this year as well. Talk about a grand accomplishment.

The Iraqis that fled to the US and throughout the world to get away from Saddam and his iron fist have been asking us and others for many years now.

How can the people in Iraq have asked us when they were ruled under an iron fist? Those who did so were quickly thrown into prisons for torture and killed slowly if not simply dragged out in the street with a bullet put to the back of their head. Or....they were gased or bombed.

We need the economic partnership for our own economy to survive. They fall, we fall. That's what happened when everyone wanted to be interconnected. Stupid I think, but can't put the blinders up now that it is the truth.

Although those missiles were offensive/attack whereas the Missile DEFENSE Shield is solely available for blowing other missiles out of the sky.

Darn Bush and the US putting up missile defense shields to protect Israel and all of Europe (as we have for decades now) from outside missile and foreign military threats.