Well I’m sure we will have more chances in the coming months to talk more about this.
Luckily for us we'll be able to go back and forth on this for quite a while, lol!
Here is what blows me away. McCain is Bush Jr. Wants to pretty much keep things the same just about with everything from what I have heard.
Things are pretty messed up with the way things have been heading here for quite a while IMO. Why do we want to keep doing the same things? I truly think we need to head in a different direction, if the one we are on is fu#ked. We need change, it really is that simple IMO.
You may be right, maybe we do need a drastic change, although I personally believe "drastic" would be a huge mistake.
The way I see it, sure, our economy is not as strong as it was say in the mid 90's...that time period would be hard to match again no matter who was in office...it could happen though, who knows. But there will always be ups and downs with this sort of thing and right now, even though we're not where we were 10years ago if you put things in perspective IMO our economy is not that bad right now. I see it as more of being in a nervous state...people are simply waiting to see what will happen...they're sitting on their money waiting it out. And when people wait around the economy feels it. IMO, we're no where near where we were in the late 70's early 80's.
Now, this doesn't mean we sit around on our ass and just hope for the best, but the American economy system as it has been for the last century has proven itself time and time again...there will always be hiccups, highs and lows, but that is not a reason to call for a complete eradication of our system.
AJ do you really think we can make a change in Iraq? Do you really think we can change those people by doing what we have? How can we control the whole place and all the people there? Do you really beleive the BS that we have made progress over there? McCain wants to escalate the war over there, more dead American boys (Mainly people who could not find jobs cause of a fucked up US economy so they end up in the military, mainly not sons and daughters of well off people) More National debt.
Yes, I honestly believe we have the ability to make a change over there. I also believe that although things are far from perfect over there, the people are far better off then they were before hand...they are no longer living under a tyrant who killed innocent people at a whim...that alone is progress. They now have a government that is truly a representative government...true, it is not completely stable, but that's going to take time, but they've made the first step in the right direction.
As for escalating the war, I've said before, if we did what needed to be done, if our military was given the green light to do what needs to be done...what they could easily do, control in that region could be obtained quite quickly...and I believe this could be done with fewer casualties then we have experienced so far. Because of protocol, i.e. concern over global image, we have done nothing but tinkered in that region since the initial incursion. Although the situation is different, take WWII for example. When our military was finally given the go ahead to actually bring about all out war to the Nazi’s that ended fairly quickly. Yes, I understand that the circumstances there are quite different then they are here...but IMO the same principles could and should apply.
Hey I wonder if the messed up economy is created cause we need a steady supply of "volunteers" to fuel the war? This keeps a certian party from having to start a very unpopular (even among thier own supporters cause it could affect them) draft? The republicans know if they had to start a draft to fight thier war it would hurt them at the polls. A bunch of cowards IMO, they are the true chicken shits who dont deserve the freedom the people of this country have sacrificed for over the years. I say send thier children to the trenches and then we will see how much longer this war lasts!
Many of the Republicans you speak of are veterans of war themselves...McCain himself as you know is a POW...hard to label guys like him a chicken shit.
Secondly, it was both sides of the aisle that approved this war in an almost unanimous decision. True, many on the left now say they regret their votes, but they still voted for war and they cannot take that back. And the sonly reason they now bash the war is because it's the popular thing to do...if that's not chicken shit I don't know what is.
To touch on what I've already said, if we went ahead and did what’s necessary, there would be no need for a draft...if that need ever does arise it won't be out of necessity but rather trying to appease a bunch of people who really shouldn’t have a say so in the first place.
The man or woman who pulls us out of that shit is the true hreo to the people. Not some jackoff who sends your brother(indirectly) while his own kid hides in some ivy leauge school.
I've said before, I have numerous close friends who have either served in Afghanistan and Iraq or who are serving there now. Every one of these individuals went there by choice...most of them joined after the fact, so they knew what they were getting into...my cousin is in Iraq now.
IMO, the true hero will be the person who stands up the political correctness of the hypocritical mass that calls themselves the enlightened left and says we're no longer going to stand by with our thumbs up our ass and wait this thing out but rather end this thing by authority of what's right and get in there and get the job done.