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Mar 6, 2013 15:45:25   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
PNagy wrote:
Saddam killed a few thousand people,.......

Saddam killed a few thousand people??? Is this a slip of the tongue?

PNagy wrote:
Before the American blows against Iraq, under Saddam it was the most prosperous Arab nation, had the most advanced right for women, and the highest percentage of people with advanced degrees in the Arab world.

Do any of these contentions, if true, justify the horrendous human rights violations of Saddam's regime? Do you have any sources for these assertions?
8-)

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Mar 6, 2013 15:54:05   #
LARRYR. Loc: Saint Martinville, La.
 
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


But was able to land it on a destroyer,HUM. WAs he the one
that smoked the stuff, but didn't inhale it. Sorry wrong president.

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Mar 6, 2013 15:57:57   #
ted45 Loc: Delaware
 
PNagy wrote:
ted45 wrote:
Hunter Lou 1947 wrote:

This is what the price of "WAR' really boils down to. It was easy for Bush to take us to war so Cheny's group (Haliburton) could capitalize on huge profits and they still are. They no doubt will reap huge rewards when we pull out because Haliburton will remaind there to clean up. This is not just a war it is corporate greed. At the end of World War ll our government pushed off of ships huge amounts of material into the seas to lighten their loads on their way back to the U.S. this is not new. So do you see how costly "WAR' can be???? We so dearly now will have to take care of all of our brave men and women with healthcare costs too. They so do deserve all the healtcare services we can provide. Again we need to think twice before we get into another conflict in the future. It just amazes me to hear Sen. McCain and Sen. Grahm advocate we should get more involved in Syria. This country can't sustain another "WAR" on foriegn soils. We need to prepare for one on our soils, one that we will need to build up our country.
br This is what the price of "WAR' really bo... (show quote)


Bush, Bush Bush: a tired and worn song. We attacked Afghanistan after 911 because the twin towers fell and 2,996 innocent people died on American soil. The people of the United States of America wanted revenge. THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WANTED REVENGE. Congress, both parties, voted 100% to attack. Bush had no choice. You were one of those people. It is remarkable how you libs can revise your memories to replay whatever supports your current cockeyed view of the world.

We the people are all responsible for Afghanistan. All of us share the blame, not just one man. Find another tune to whistle. Stop disrespecting the memory of those 2,996 people.
quote=Hunter Lou 1947 br This is what the price ... (show quote)


It is amazing how well you are able to present history in accordance with Bushistic dogma. Everyone did not want the Bush wars. As a matter of fact, they were protested more before their onset than any other previous wars.

Bush did not prove his case about who had committed the 9-11 attacks. A few facts you need to consider about them:

1. Structural steel, such as that used in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center melts at 2750 degrees F.

2. Hydrocarbon fires cannot create.heat greater than 1700 degrees F, some 1000 degrees cooler than what it would have taken to melt the steel frame in the towers.

3. The buildings fell as if they had been subjected to a planned implosion.

4. Nothing falls like a planned implosion, but a planned implosion.

5. Pyrite, unlike a burning hydrocarbon, is hot enough, and concussive enough to melt structural steel.

6. Anyone climbing into the frame of the building to set explosives would be suspected on site, unless it was the official security provider of the buildings.

7. Head of security for the 9-11 complex before the implosion was Marvin Bush, the presidents younger brother. He resigned with enough gap between 9-11 and his tenure to deflect most suspicion.

8. The South Tower imploded before the North Tower, even though the North Tower had been burning for about an hour longer, and most of the fuel in the plane that hit the South Tower burned outside the building in a huge fireball.

9. The major shareholders of the World Trade Center Complex met in Building #7 the day before the crime and sold 100% of their shares.

10. Building #7 tumbled down in an implosion 8 hours after the Twin Towers, even though it sported only a faint trail of smoke caused by debris that had fallen into it. Thus the evidence of the meeting before was destroyed.

11. Some five miles away from the scene of the crime there was a meeting of the criminal invest organization called the Carlisle Group. It included Bush's father, Caspar Weinberger, Bush I's Secretary of Defense, some Columbian drug lords, and 24 Bin Ladens.

12. On September 12, the Bin Ladens were rounded up on orders of George W. Bush and flown out of the country before the FBI and the CIA could ask them any questions.

13. In the history of steel-framed skyscrapers, not a single one ever imploded because of fire, even though several had hotter flames than the Twin Towers.

14. In 1977, when Bush was about to bankrupt Arbusto Energy, the first corporation he managed into failure, he was bailed out with a huge infusion of cash from Salem BinLaden, Osama's favorite uncle.

15. When Bush was informed of the 9-11 crimes he was in a Florida school house reading the most complex book he had ever undertaken MY PET GOAT. He did not look astonished. Nor did he decide to move out of the location. If no one knew who had committed the crimes, it would be reasonable to assume the nation was under attack, and that the major leaders were in danger. His location was known world wide. The Secret Service is trained to protect the president, even if the president does not agree with their tactics. For example, if shots are fired, they remove the president from danger, even if the president treats it casually, or resists being removed from the scene. The Secret Service did nothing, as Bush continued to read to elementary students for some 22 minutes after being informed of the problem.

"Stop disrespecting the memory of those 2,996 people." We may presume you mean the ones killed in the 9-11 attacks. This statement of yours is unadulterated propaganda. It attempts to shame people into conforming to your interpretation by invoking the sacrosanct memory of the dead. You expect all discussion to end, as did Bush, by claiming or implying that anyone who contested the official conspiracy theory was on the side of the terrorists.

Your version of respecting the 2,996 who died is to kill many more in revenge, without much concern that a vast majority of the victims of our "revenge" had nothing to do with 9-11. Perhaps you would consider maturing in your thinking. Instead of regurgitating the propaganda reasons for our wars, I suggest you google the words "pipeline" and "Afghanistan" together and use the results to educate yourself in realpolitik, 21st century style.
quote=ted45 quote=Hunter Lou 1947 br This is wh... (show quote)


Show me the reports of protest after 911 before we invaded.

I'm not revising anything. It is part of the congressional record that both parties voted overwhelmingly to invade.

My opinion is of no importance. What happened is history. Bush was not the entire cause of that war, no matter how much the libs want it to be, so he doesn't deserve to shoulder the entire blame. Bush has had nothing to do with anything for over 4 years. Obama is the one in charge now so put the blame on him where it belongs.

The details of construction of the building are also of no consequence.

Again, you are making assumptions about my loyalties that have no basis in anything I have written. You do that frequently. Your posts would be far more interesting if you did not go out of your way to demean and insult people. Try just sticking to the facts.

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Mar 6, 2013 16:01:04   #
ted45 Loc: Delaware
 
GHO wrote:
Ted45 writes
There were a lot of heavy weapons destroyed on land also instead of being moved out. It was nowhere near as bad as what is being proposed in Afghanistan but just another example of a war being run by politicians instead of the military.
Ted please try to be objective: following the Tet offensive in Nam the US was trying desperately to just get the troops out with their shorts still on. There was no conceivable way to "move out the hardware".
You are entitled to any political view you want to espouse but let's not try to rewrite history. In doing so you put yourself in the same class as the politicians you berate.
Ted45 writes br There were a lot of heavy weapons ... (show quote)


I don't have to rewrite history, I'm not a lib. I was there. I've got the scars and a Purple Heart to prove it. If the politicians had left it to the military history would have been rewritten.

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Mar 6, 2013 16:01:48   #
Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA
 
Bmac wrote:
Do any of these contentions, if true, justify the horrendous human rights violations of Saddam's regime? Do you have any sources for these assertions?
8-)


Yeah, this is why so many Americans are climbing over each other to live in Iraq or fighting the ocean currents to move to Cuba. Castro's own daughter went into great detail (residing in Virginia) decribing the deplorable conditions in which their people lived.

I find it interesting that so many people want to live in the United States and yet so many Americans have no desire to move to these "enlightened" countries where the populace is treated like slave labor.

Ask the family members of the victims from Tiananmen Square about how great their lives are.

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Mar 6, 2013 16:04:46   #
ted45 Loc: Delaware
 
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


Apparently you haven't read Obamas book when he talks about "enthusiastically" diving into the drug buffet during his college days. He admits to trying everything available. Does that make him a "coke head"?

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Mar 6, 2013 16:19:46   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
PNagy wrote:

Bush did not prove his case about who had committed the 9-11 attacks.


Wow....never met a 9/11 Truther before, and you then post this to someone:

PNagy wrote:
Perhaps you would consider maturing in your thinking.


Well, I don't think anything else needs to be stated. :roll:

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Mar 6, 2013 16:31:06   #
TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails
 
Bmac wrote:
PNagy wrote:

Bush did not prove his case about who had committed the 9-11 attacks.


Wow....never met a 9/11 Truther before, and you then post this to someone:

PNagy wrote:
Perhaps you would consider maturing in your thinking.


Well, I don't think anything else needs to be stated. :roll:


:idea: If you look for the truth you will find it , if you accept the "stuff" that your fed you will never know.

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Mar 6, 2013 17:16:08   #
dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma
 
LARRYR. wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


But was able to land it on a destroyer,HUM. WAs he the one
that smoked the stuff, but didn't inhale it. Sorry wrong president.


you got one thing correct he did land on a destroyer. but you want me to google the pilots name that flew it or do you want me to. but think i'll let you. lol what a joke.

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Mar 6, 2013 17:50:01   #
ted45 Loc: Delaware
 
dirtpusher wrote:
LARRYR. wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


But was able to land it on a destroyer,HUM. WAs he the one
that smoked the stuff, but didn't inhale it. Sorry wrong president.


you got one thing correct he did land on a destroyer. but you want me to google the pilots name that flew it or do you want me to. but think i'll let you. lol what a joke.
quote=LARRYR. quote=dirtpusher bush wasn't anyth... (show quote)


You cannot land anything on a destroyer. A destroyer is a relatively small warship bristling with guns. He landed on The Abraham Lincoln which is a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The reports never said he piloted the plane. They said he was in the co-pilots seat.

I tell people about how I landed on an LPH but that in no way indicates I was the pilot.


At least make a small effort to verify what you are arguing about

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85711,00.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2003-05-01/politics/bush.carrier.landing_1_bush-speech-observation-deck-flight-deck?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

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Mar 6, 2013 19:56:08   #
K2mbs Loc: Southern Tier of, NY
 
Twardlow wrote:
K2mbs wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
rook2c4 wrote:
We should retrieve it, then send Bush the bill. Bush is the reckless idiot that put all that stuff there in the first place. And I'm certain he has enough private funds to cover a good portion of the cost.


i'd back bush in afganastan. but iraq no. all that did was destablize middle east.


True, the middle East was "stable" before then. Are you a mental patient?
Saddam and sons were raping, gassing, and killing his own people by the thousands at will,..... or for not "voting" for him in an "open" election.
We liberated a country from a dictator and tyranny....only to groom our own here like idiots.
quote=dirtpusher quote=rook2c4 We should retriev... (show quote)



Liberated??? Do you pay any attention at all?

In 5000 years of almost constant conflict, no outsider has had ANY long term effect on the Middle East.

We killed or maimed a million Iraqis, spent trillions--wasted trillions, lost almost 5000 GIs, more maimed to no good effect. Well, we did free up Iran to do some no good.

Pretty good, huh?

Next time a president brags about being a C student, we should pay more attention. Look as the VP he chose to run the country!

Thank you Republicans!
quote=K2mbs quote=dirtpusher quote=rook2c4 We s... (show quote)


Bush was unfortunately no conservative, but he did have a higher grade point average than the current secretary of state had, and at least he HAS a grade point average. The current treasonous pathological liar occupying our White house won't share anything about his pathetic past with us.
Nice one on the trillions. Trillions aren't spent on wars...several billion maybe, learn that there is a huge difference. Only B.O. can blow trillions with nothing to show for it. Running up more debt than nearly all of the other presidents combined. He also doesn't have any intention of cutting anything government run in the future either...While he prints the American dollar out of value at a ridiculous rate never imagined before.
When the dollar is dumped by the World soon for it's lack of credibility, as the Worlds reserve currency...It will take a wheelbarrow full of dollars to get a bottle of water.
Looking forward to that?

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Mar 6, 2013 20:06:09   #
K2mbs Loc: Southern Tier of, NY
 
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his air force
reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


You might want to listen to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zvQ2gzols

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Mar 6, 2013 20:24:59   #
dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma
 
ted45 wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
LARRYR. wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


But was able to land it on a destroyer,HUM. WAs he the one
that smoked the stuff, but didn't inhale it. Sorry wrong president.


you got one thing correct he did land on a destroyer. but you want me to google the pilots name that flew it or do you want me to. but think i'll let you. lol what a joke.
quote=LARRYR. quote=dirtpusher bush wasn't anyth... (show quote)


You cannot land anything on a destroyer. A destroyer is a relatively small warship bristling with guns. He landed on The Abraham Lincoln which is a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The reports never said he piloted the plane. They said he was in the co-pilots seat.

I tell people about how I landed on an LPH but that in no way indicates I was the pilot.


At least make a small effort to verify what you are arguing about

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85711,00.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2003-05-01/politics/bush.carrier.landing_1_bush-speech-observation-deck-flight-deck?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
quote=dirtpusher quote=LARRYR. quote=dirtpusher... (show quote)


thats what my LOL was about landin a jet on a destroyer. i always thought you landed on a carrier. i was playin his WORD game then i was gonna dump on him.

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Mar 6, 2013 20:32:11   #
ted45 Loc: Delaware
 
dirtpusher wrote:
ted45 wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
LARRYR. wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
bush wasn't anything but a pawn for oil people an a cocaine addict that wasn't able to fly his airforce reserve fighter in training missions. a coke head.


But was able to land it on a destroyer,HUM. WAs he the one
that smoked the stuff, but didn't inhale it. Sorry wrong president.


you got one thing correct he did land on a destroyer. but you want me to google the pilots name that flew it or do you want me to. but think i'll let you. lol what a joke.
quote=LARRYR. quote=dirtpusher bush wasn't anyth... (show quote)


You cannot land anything on a destroyer. A destroyer is a relatively small warship bristling with guns. He landed on The Abraham Lincoln which is a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The reports never said he piloted the plane. They said he was in the co-pilots seat.

I tell people about how I landed on an LPH but that in no way indicates I was the pilot.


At least make a small effort to verify what you are arguing about

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85711,00.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2003-05-01/politics/bush.carrier.landing_1_bush-speech-observation-deck-flight-deck?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
quote=dirtpusher quote=LARRYR. quote=dirtpusher... (show quote)


thats what my LOL was about landin a jet on a destroyer. i always thought you landed on a carrier. i was playin his WORD game then i was gonna dump on him.
quote=ted45 quote=dirtpusher quote=LARRYR. quo... (show quote)


OK 8-)

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Mar 6, 2013 20:37:43   #
dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma
 
K2mbs wrote:
Twardlow wrote:
K2mbs wrote:
dirtpusher wrote:
rook2c4 wrote:
We should retrieve it, then send Bush the bill. Bush is the reckless idiot that put all that stuff there in the first place. And I'm certain he has enough private funds to cover a good portion of the cost.


i'd back bush in afganastan. but iraq no. all that did was destablize middle east.


True, the middle East was "stable" before then. Are you a mental patient?
Saddam and sons were raping, gassing, and killing his own people by the thousands at will,..... or for not "voting" for him in an "open" election.
We liberated a country from a dictator and tyranny....only to groom our own here like idiots.
quote=dirtpusher quote=rook2c4 We should retriev... (show quote)



Liberated??? Do you pay any attention at all?

In 5000 years of almost constant conflict, no outsider has had ANY long term effect on the Middle East.

We killed or maimed a million Iraqis, spent trillions--wasted trillions, lost almost 5000 GIs, more maimed to no good effect. Well, we did free up Iran to do some no good.

Pretty good, huh?

Next time a president brags about being a C student, we should pay more attention. Look as the VP he chose to run the country!

Thank you Republicans!
quote=K2mbs quote=dirtpusher quote=rook2c4 We s... (show quote)


Bush was unfortunately no conservative, but he did have a higher grade point average than the current secretary of state had, and at least he HAS a grade point average. The current treasonous pathological liar occupying our White house won't share anything about his pathetic past with us.
Nice one on the trillions. Trillions aren't spent on wars...several billion maybe, learn that there is a huge difference. Only B.O. can blow trillions with nothing to show for it. Running up more debt than nearly all of the other presidents combined. He also doesn't have any intention of cutting anything government run in the future either...While he prints the American dollar out of value at a ridiculous rate never imagined before.
When the dollar is dumped by the World soon for it's lack of credibility, as the Worlds reserve currency...It will take a wheelbarrow full of dollars to get a bottle of water.
Looking forward to that?
quote=Twardlow quote=K2mbs quote=dirtpusher qu... (show quote)


YUP SURE WAS trillions spent on iraq. they just came out last week about the total cost on iraq. it was over 3 trillion. i dont take long to rack up a trillion when buying hummers an transporters an all the other logistics for a war campagin.
not sticking up for obammer byany means but he still way higher than bush in polls buskey got all way down acording to leslie stahl on 60 min. the night she interviewed channey. she told channey they got down to 11%. oh channey said i know we had got way down but did not realize it was that bad. she asked him what he had to say about that, he said what can you say but he did not watch the polls. hell that lower than harry truman he was at 22%.

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