23-02-2003 12:58									#1
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I think this will make for an interesting poll.

Note: I know that Iraq, North Korea, and Al Qaeda are all bigger problems than say, the Economy. However, foreign policy and domestic issues are seperate problems, so you should not compare them.

After making the poll I just realized how many problems we have.

	23-02-2003 13:12									#2
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al Qaeda and a severe over supply of bananas.

	23-02-2003 13:14									#3
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My votes (if I were able to actually vote on polls and not get that "invalid session" bullshit)
Al Qaeda
Iraq
Anti-US sentiment in other countries
Public Schools
Bad organization of INS and co

	23-02-2003 13:48									#4
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gutless liberals.

I still can't imagine where we would be if Gore was president. We would have sent a few cruise missles over after 9/11 and called it a day.

and the school system. Pumping money into schools doesn't magically make them better

	23-02-2003 13:54									#5
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WRONG!

The correct answer is 'lack of patrolling our borders'.

	23-02-2003 14:00									#6
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Too many to list, most of them have their roots in capitalism, however.

	23-02-2003 17:45									#7
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IMVHO:

1 - Failing Public School system
2 - North Korea
3 - Anti-US sentiment in other parts of the world (eg SK, Arab countries)
4 - Rift growing between US and its traditional allies
5 - Law enforcement encroaching on civil liberties
6 - Economy
7 - Iran
8 - Tension between Pakistan and India
9 - Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations not affiliated with a single country
10 - Health care
11 - Iraq
12 - As many racists as minorities in Congress
13 - Violence in Israel and Palestine
14 - Bad organization of Department of HS, FBI, INS, CIA, and Justice Department
15 - Other Civil Rights issues
16 - Lack of bananas after the year 2020.

Voted for the five first ones.

	23-02-2003 17:52									#8
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quote: Note: I know that Iraq, North Korea, and Al Qaeda are all bigger problems than say, the Economy. However, foreign policy and domestic issues are seperate problems, so you should not compare them.

Actually, I think the domestic problems earn a larger priority than the foreign ones.

	23-02-2003 19:25									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident gutless liberals. I still can't imagine where we would be if Gore was president. We would have sent a few cruise missles over after 9/11 and called it a day.

Ya beat me to it

	23-02-2003 19:35									#10
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The Bush administration is the biggest problem.

	23-02-2003 19:51									#11
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Technically the greatest long term problem for the USA is the possibility of the western half of the Canary Islands collapsing. Such an event would create a tsunami so large that the entire east coast of the USA, from Florida to Maine, would be wiped from the face of the Earth with destruction stretching dozens, if not hundreds, of kilometres inland.

	23-02-2003 20:02									#12
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I love how people claim to know what a Democrat president would have done after September 11.

If you people have invented a fortune-telling machine then you should speak up.

	23-02-2003 20:05									#13
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Why would they tell you if they invented a fortune-telling machine? What's in it for them?

	23-02-2003 20:09									#14
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1. **** Cheney and his wonder-puppet, Dubya.
2. Karl Rove
3. Donald Rumsfeld

If the three above weren't there, about half of the problems on the list wouldn't be there.

	23-02-2003 20:16									#15
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quote: Originally posted by DanS Why would they tell you if they invented a fortune-telling machine? What's in it for them?

People who can't tell the difference between the reaction to an attack on a military target outside the US that kills 17 people and the probable reaction to a civilian target(s) inside the US that kills 3000 people are unlikely to have the cognitive capacity to have done so anyway.

	23-02-2003 20:23									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Frogger People who can't tell the difference between the reaction to an attack on a military target outside the US that kills 17 people and the probable reaction to a civilian target(s) inside the US that kills 3000 people are unlikely to have the cognitive capacity to have done so anyway.

The greatest response to an attack on U.S. soil was given by a liberal Democrat. The greatest use of U.S. forces to fight evil was undertaken by a liberal Democrat. The Republicans may have done everything they can to try and erase FDR's name from public works and buildings and smear his legacy, but they aren't going to be able to change history.

	23-02-2003 20:36									#17
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The greatest response to the stability of the Union was by a Republican president

Education is a problem, but the education system is most definitely not failing. I think that it could be improved and it should be improved, but the larger problem is the lack of motivation by most students. Either teachers need a better education, we need to switch away from teching by rote, or we need to seperate those who want to learn from those who don't have more specialized schools.

WRT the rest - crappy music. It is the cause of every problem. That and a lack of bananas in everyone's diet.

	23-02-2003 21:02									#18
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The number one problem America faces today is the Bush Administration.

	23-02-2003 22:05									#19
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It's the economy

	23-02-2003 22:32									#20
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Why, the Commies are the Biggest Problem!

	23-02-2003 23:00									#21
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I'm just judging from what Clinton did after terrorist attacks. These weren't minor. Many people died in those attacks. Clinton didn't seem to care. He had his own problems. He sent a few cruise missles out to detract from his own problems. I have no reason to believe Al Gore would do anything different. They tend to listen to anti-war demonstators- not ignore them like Bush. And don't forget many people protested the war against terrorism as well. I am certain that would have never happened with Gore as pres.

	24-02-2003 00:24									#22
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quote: I'm just judging from what Clinton did after terrorist attacks. These weren't minor. Many people died in those attacks. Clinton didn't seem to care. He had his own problems. He sent a few cruise missles out to detract from his own problems. I have no reason to believe Al Gore would do anything different. They tend to listen to anti-war demonstators- not ignore them like Bush. And don't forget many people protested the war against terrorism as well. I am certain that would have never happened with Gore as pres.

Which ones?

Cole?

a) Not a terrorist attack
b) Not inside US
c) One half of one percent of WTC

First WTC?

a) Yes, a terrorist attack
b) Yes, inside US
c) Half-dozen dead. You wanted him to start a war?

Oklahoma City?

a) Terrorist attack
b) Inside US
c) Significant death toll
d) Committed by Americans. Declare war on Iowa?

	24-02-2003 00:25									#23
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You don't see the difference between 17 and 3000?

	24-02-2003 00:29									#24
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By the way, I'm one of those anti-war people...but I fully supported the war in Afghanistan, and my own country's involvement i it.

	24-02-2003 00:31									#25
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The USS Cole was a terrorist attack, it just wasn't directed against civilians.

	24-02-2003 00:32									#26
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No it wasn't; it was a guerilla atack against a legitimate military target.

	24-02-2003 00:32									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I'm just judging from what Clinton did after terrorist attacks. These weren't minor. Many people died in those attacks. Clinton didn't seem to care.

Do you think we could have gone to war in 1998 over the Embassy bombings?

quote: I have no reason to believe Al Gore would do anything different.

You have no reason to believe he was the same, however.

quote: They tend to listen to anti-war demonstators- not ignore them like Bush. And don't forget many people protested the war against terrorism as well.

I don't recall many protests against the War in Afganistan. I know there were a lot of voices on thi board, who were concerned that the US was getting itself into a quagmire. I was concerned over the welfare of Afgani civilians, who managed to luck out by the unexpected collapse of the Taliban and the unsually mild winter which allowed food to get to the refugees. But very few people were opposed to the war, per se.


Man, you pro-war people will just make up anything to get a chance to see your pretty explosions.

	24-02-2003 00:35									#28
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Oops. Forgot those.

They were the best case for a war, but it's unlikely any US government could have fought a war over that (republican or democrat) given that the vast majority of victims were African, IIRC.

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quote: Originally posted by Frogger No it wasn't; it was a guerilla atack against a legitimate military target.

Were the Cole an invading/occupying force in an unwilling country, I might give that to you. But it was nothing of the kind, as it was there with the permission of the local government.

That just makes it a terrorist attack on a foreign target. If an American group bombed a Canadian ship during fleet week in NYC, I'd call it terrorism, not guerilla warfare.

	24-02-2003 00:39									#30
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I wouldn't.

And the people tha did it are unlikely to view the government that allows the US ships there as legitimate.

If a group wants to fight a guerilla war against the US, then all US military forces anywhere in the world are legitimate targets, just like all of Iraq's military forces were legitimate targets in the 1991 war whether they were occupying Kuwait or not.