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Originally posted by SlowwHand
Why the Hell do you put in the disclaimer about Iraq?
Beyond that, what can a president really do on domestics? Not a lot.
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Is that a joke? The president, with a republican congress, has the ability to meddle with the economy up to wazoo.... foreign affairs, treaties... LOTS he could do.
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topeka, kansas,USA
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I suspect the stuff I'd agree with is hidden, stuff done relatively quietly by Bush bureaucrats to lessen the impact of regulations. He's done about as good as I can hope on the 2nd Amendment. I like reducing (and hopefully eliminating) the death tax of course.
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EXCEPT and this is a big one, you can't bring up the Iraq war. Keep that to another thread, anyone saying that is a good idea needsto be slapped outside the head. I hate to say this, but if you support that policy, your a moron,so keep it to yourself Afghanistan is fair game though. |
Such language invites trespassers... Afghanistan is fair game? You mean debatable? What was he supposed to do? Wait for the Taliban to hand over Al Qaeda? 
And Iraq... bad move... Should have waited until we finished in Afghanistan... The evidence shows Saddam didn't hold the kind of grudge that would get him killed and end his dynasty. In the recent report from guards, he judged each president by how much they attacked him and not on what their predecessor did, so he understands our system enough to know the distinction.
But we needed a battlefield for the war on terror, one right in the thick of the Muslim world. Either that or we play police detective... How many would die if there was no defined battlefield? We placed a terrorist magnet smack dab in the hornet's nest and we haven't seen much terrorism outside the region. The irony is that IF the US had acted unilaterally Spain probably would not have been hit for helping. But we all know how Bush's partisan critics have been about the horrors of unilateral action.
Anyway, we had the option of putting this magnet in the ME and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - remove Saddam and let the Iraqi people have a chance to create their own destiny. Of course I would have left the region after the first Gulf War and avoided all this nonsense. Clinton and Congress snoozed while we got attacked for almost a decade.
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Dr Strangelove
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Does anyone know if the anti-AIDS drug program for Africa ever got started and if so how extensive is it now?
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Have a beer!
Sep 2001
time: 00:36
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Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Did any of this money reach either region? |
Hmmm....
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The U.S. is a generous provider of aid to Africa, the mythology says, but Africa is corrupt and mismanaged and thus cannot absorb more aid. In addition, there is no room in the budget to do any more than what we are currently doing. This multipart fantasy is widely shared in the U.S. and recalls Napoleon's dictum that "history is a fable often told."
The facts are otherwise. Total annual U.S. aid for all of Africa is about $3 billion, equivalent to about two days of Pentagon spending. About $1 billion pays for emergency food aid, of which half is for transport. About $1.5 billion is for "technical cooperation," essentially salaries of U.S. consultants. Only about $500 million a year — less than $1 per African — finances clinics, schools, food production, roads, power, Internet connectivity, safe drinking water, sanitation, family planning and lifesaving health interventions to fight malaria, AIDS and other diseases. |
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...0,3370311.story
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24-06-2005 09:45
Afghanistan is fair game though.
I wonder....
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