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Originally Posted by Fozzy
We are living in a new day where the US is seen as the enemy of the world, we better gather whatever we can and get this hemisphere together if we want to survive.
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Originally Posted by gordoUSA
Fozzy:
I think the problems in Mexico, Central America and South America are created by their own repressive governments. Not us.
Instead of invading and occupying Iraq, we should have sent the troops down to Mexico City to overthrow that corrupt government.
Gentlemen, the whole reason we are hated and despised around the world is because we can't mind our own business.
We're too busy "putting down tyranny", or "nation building" as President Clinton called it. We have stuck our nose into too many other nations business. We were a country formed by revolt and war. But yet how many times have we intervened in the very same modern day situation. If a country with the power and resources like the U.S. existed during the revolutionary war to assist England, the U.S. may have to never come to fruition.
The fact that we've assisted the U.N. hasn't helped either. Case in point Somalia.
The "war" in Iraq is a classic example of infuriating jidadist and accelerating the terror movement worldwide. It was a made up war with falsified intelligence and the rest of the world knows it. There was no real WMD and there was no credible threat to the U.S.. The so called "axis of evil" was on the verge of total collapse and was a barely functioning government. There was no Al Queda. At least not until AFTER we invaded Iraq.
To date our country has spent, get ready for this, $455,000,000,000 on the "war" in Iraq. We are set to spend another $180,000,000,000 in 2008.
We will have spent almost $650 BILLION. Think of the other areas we could have spent that money on. Health care, education, national parks, roads, etc.
Meanwhile, Afganistan is losing ground. The Taliban is in the middle of a resurgence and Binladen STILL is not captured. Why? Because of this stupid and expensive war in Iraq that has given fuel to the fire for those who wish us dead.
So is any any wonder why people want to kill Americans and destroy us when we wantanly invade countries because we're settling a score for our presidents father?
Yeah, so what the hell, let's invade Mexico like GordoUSA would like to. The middle east hates us, so why not include all of latin America while we're at it.