Hoot
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2004
- Messages
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- Location
- State of Confusion
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Slightly Liberal
I don't consider myself a liberal. When I took that political bias test
(that was posted in these forums) I came out leaning only slightly to the left. However I consider myself far left of the Bushies.
Conservatives, and especially those in these forums, love to say that the liberals have no solutions, only criticism, so I would like to suggest a couple of solutions to Iraq...
I've already outlined one solution to terrorism in these forums...
Put pressure on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to stop financing these fanatic religious schools throughout the Middle East. These are hate schools, that only serve to bring up a continual never-ending pool of young terrorists, anxious to commit murder on the West.
The U.S. needs to become more involved in establishing our own propaganda in the Middle East, to teach the young that the United States is not the Evil Satan. Why can't the U.S. finance their own schools throughout the Middle East? We could get 10 times the results with 1/10th the money we are currently spending fighting terrorism. Granted, this is a long range solution, but we have to stop the indoctrination of young terrorists in the early stages to have a hope of winning this war on terror.
Finally, on to Iraq...
The Bushies have flip-flopped so many times on the reasons for this war, and now it appears that the new popular reason is to establish a democracy in Iraq.
A recent poll by the British Defense Ministry shows that 82% of Iraqi's are "strongly opposed to foreign troops on Iraqi soil."
So, why not put it to a referendum?
Let the Iraqi's decide if they still want U.S. troops in Iraq?
If they vote yes, then we stay until the Iraqi government is firmly in place, and able to defend itself.
If they vote no, then we pull our forces out of Iraq and leave the Iraqi government to its own means. That's democracy, isn't it? Isn't that the new reason why we are in Iraq? Democracy?
Why should we allow Bush to decide when to withdraw U.S. troops? He's bungled this whole affair anyway. The decision should not be Bush's, it should be the decision of the Iraqi people...that's the true definition of democracy.
If the Iraqi people want us out, then we can withdraw troops and save face by showing the world that the United States is truely the defender of freedom and democracy...otherwise, we're all just a bunch of hypocrites.
What say you conservatives and Bush supporters? You want democracy in Iraq? Then prove it!
(that was posted in these forums) I came out leaning only slightly to the left. However I consider myself far left of the Bushies.
Conservatives, and especially those in these forums, love to say that the liberals have no solutions, only criticism, so I would like to suggest a couple of solutions to Iraq...
I've already outlined one solution to terrorism in these forums...
Put pressure on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to stop financing these fanatic religious schools throughout the Middle East. These are hate schools, that only serve to bring up a continual never-ending pool of young terrorists, anxious to commit murder on the West.
The U.S. needs to become more involved in establishing our own propaganda in the Middle East, to teach the young that the United States is not the Evil Satan. Why can't the U.S. finance their own schools throughout the Middle East? We could get 10 times the results with 1/10th the money we are currently spending fighting terrorism. Granted, this is a long range solution, but we have to stop the indoctrination of young terrorists in the early stages to have a hope of winning this war on terror.
Finally, on to Iraq...
The Bushies have flip-flopped so many times on the reasons for this war, and now it appears that the new popular reason is to establish a democracy in Iraq.
A recent poll by the British Defense Ministry shows that 82% of Iraqi's are "strongly opposed to foreign troops on Iraqi soil."
So, why not put it to a referendum?
Let the Iraqi's decide if they still want U.S. troops in Iraq?
If they vote yes, then we stay until the Iraqi government is firmly in place, and able to defend itself.
If they vote no, then we pull our forces out of Iraq and leave the Iraqi government to its own means. That's democracy, isn't it? Isn't that the new reason why we are in Iraq? Democracy?
Why should we allow Bush to decide when to withdraw U.S. troops? He's bungled this whole affair anyway. The decision should not be Bush's, it should be the decision of the Iraqi people...that's the true definition of democracy.
If the Iraqi people want us out, then we can withdraw troops and save face by showing the world that the United States is truely the defender of freedom and democracy...otherwise, we're all just a bunch of hypocrites.
What say you conservatives and Bush supporters? You want democracy in Iraq? Then prove it!