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Bush's job rating Mon May 12, 2008 14:19 pm  Bush's job rating		  
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Where does the US get its oil? Only 13% comes from the Middle East, and almost none from Iraq. About 48% comes from Canada, the rest comes from Latin America or from the US itself. That "war for oil" slogan is a canard.

Yours is a rather naive view of international business/shareholding/ownership , etc.
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Bush's job rating Mon May 12, 2008 14:35 pm  Bush's job rating		  
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A president can never run an entire country alone, he or she always needs the support of quite a lot of people.

In America, many times the president doesn't run the country. He is often run, and not the runner.

That occurs much less than conspiracy theorists like to imagine. In fact, it almost never happens. I think the last time was when Franklin Roosevelt was very sick and near death.
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Bush's job rating Mon May 12, 2008 14:58 pm  Bush's job rating		  
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Or one who regards an extreme racist as his greatest mentor?

Is racism new in USA? or ceased to exist? Rolling Eyes
I'd have this person over someone who is a liar and a racist like Hillary.
I had a friend before whose father was a rapist and my friend didn't know it for a long time. So my friend has bad judgement or morally corupt? Rolling Eyes
But anyway I don't want to continue this debate as it is pointless for me. I just hope a good president, I know who i'd be, takes the office and put things back in order. Bush's administration was a big disaster.
Take care
Bye.
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Bush's job rating Mon May 12, 2008 15:05 pm  Bush's job rating		  
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I had a friend before whose father was a rapist and my friend didn't know it for a long time. So my friend has bad judgement or morally corupt?

Children don't choose their parents, but adults choose their mentors, so that analogy isn't valid when it comes to Obama. He chose the racist, and there was no missing the fact that the guy was racist, because he yelled it out from the pulpit almost every week. Other prominent black figures were so sickened by it that they left, but Obama stayed for 20 years.
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Bush's job rating Mon May 12, 2008 15:19 pm  Bush's job rating		  
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That occurs much less than conspiracy theorists like to imagine.

You seem to have the idea that whenever anyone questions the function of your president or the capabilities of a native-speaker conspiracy theories are at work.

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Other prominent black figures were so sickened by it that they left, but Obama stayed for 20 years.

And?
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Bush's job rating Tue May 13, 2008 21:27 pm  Bush's job rating		  
Iraq was for oil... or for no reason at all?

Were you paying attention to Saddam's regime and what they did?

At least now he's gone and we're trying to build a truly democratic Iraq, instead of allowing a one-ballot-choice dictator to keep free reign.

When dealing with a psychopath, appeasement doesn't work.

He isn't a military planner -- tough to say how much blame he should take for the endgame tactics.
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Bush's job rating Tue May 13, 2008 21:55 pm  Bush's job rating		  
At least now he's gone and we're trying to build a truly democratic Iraq, instead of allowing a one-ballot-choice dictator to keep free reign.

That should be "trying to help build", shouldn't it?

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When dealing with a psychopath, appeasement doesn't work.

Musharraf?
Somoza?
Rios Mont?
Suazo Cordova?
Noriega?
The Shah of Iran?

And on...
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Bush's job rating Tue May 13, 2008 22:01 pm  Bush's job rating		  
That's another option. In my sentence, "we" signifies non-militant Iraqis and the forces who are trying to help them -- the good guys.

(or the better guys, at least. hehe)
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Bush's job rating Tue May 13, 2008 22:07 pm  Bush's job rating		  
Are you a non-miltant Iraqi?
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Bush's job rating Tue May 13, 2008 22:58 pm  Bush's job rating		  
nope

Someone who works in my office was there, and he said that the media's (general) view is an overly negative one. They hardly ever show footage of the (entire) villages that are happy with what we've done there... the people shaking troops' hands... etc.

algebraic:

we = non-militant iraqis + allied personnel + others who are behind the effort

(it's a big tent, and we welcome newcomers. hehe)
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Bush's job rating Wed May 14, 2008 0:03 am  Bush's job rating		  
<(it's a big tent, and we welcome newcomers. hehe)>

I'll pass, thanks. I remember being asked to come into the tent of the people who helped put and keep Saddam in place. I declined the offer. Pretty tent though, it had big stars and stripes all over it
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Bush's job rating Wed May 14, 2008 3:31 am  Bush's job rating		  
I think that red-white-and-blue flag you were looking at was the French one.
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Bush's job rating Wed May 14, 2008 13:45 pm  Bush's job rating		  
Yeah, how did that oil-for-food thing work?

(Answers why France and Russia weren't on board to take down Saddam)
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Bush's job rating Wed May 14, 2008 13:48 pm  Bush's job rating		  
Molly

We basically stopped admiring Saddam after we found out he'd gassed his own countrymen... if not before.

In 1986 (right?) it was a choice between Iraq and Iran... not Iraq and Sweden, Iraq and Germany, etc.

I may have my dates mixed up a bit, but it isn't as if we were huge fans of Saddam, ever.
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Bush's job rating Wed May 14, 2008 16:46 pm  Bush's job rating		  
Jamie (K) wrote:
I think that red-white-and-blue flag you were looking at was the French one.

It had stars on it.
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