QUOTE(Puni)
I have bold texted, The most important parts.
Adding the or a source for it would increase it's value. Just a thought, though.

QUOTE(Star-Chris)
Russian intellegence told US government that Iraq had WMDs. British Intelligence told the Us government Iraq had WMDs. Our own Intelligence told our government Iraq had WMDs. So OBVIOUSLY Bush would think Iraq had WMDs. That is NOT lieing when 3 different sources tell you information. If Joe, Clay, and Johny told you the sky was green (your color blind), and you told your entire class the sky was green, and then later we find out the sky is actually blue, are YOU a liar? Or is Joe, Clay, and Johny liars?
But the intel's weren't the ones who decided to march over Iraq without the U.N. approval (or even without the U.N. inspectors finished). If the U.N. inspections had turned out somethin' into the WMD's field of proof, I'd be more than glad to admit that most likely the U.N. would support an eventual tactical action in there. Think about it next time, when you even try to justify similar crap with that arguement.

QUOTE(Star-Chris)
Plus we will never know for SURE if Iraq had WMDs. Western Iraq is a GIANT DESERT. You could build an underground facility in the middle of that desert and it would be extremely hard to find.

Pretty big desert.
That's what the U.N. inspections were for (
Hans Blix n' related personel). And those were cutted short due to coallition forces barging in, I might add. If you let'em do their job, it prob'ly wouldn't turn Bush into a liar afterall. Oh, wait... unless he had
other interests in there.

Just not to mention no WMD's proof or even the mischevious intel the U.S. tried to feed upon U.N. inspectors.
QUOTE(Star-Chris)
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Also, no modern country will turn on the USA. Why? Cause we buy A LOT of goods from almost every country. Our own Business are all over the world! You take out America, you take out the world econmony. Also no modern country would nuke the USA, beucase we would nuke them right back 10x.
Only thing the USA has to worry about is a

ing dumb ass country selling their nukes to terrorists who would actually nuke us. Thats the only thing Americans have to be afriad of. Also, you guys should be greatful for the Republicans becuase we are the majority in the army. We protect you in war and peace time.
And if you guys are so worked up about this whole deal and you want to move to another country. GO AHEAD!!!! What are ya waiting for? If you don't like our government/country then get the fock out!

Nuclear detterence is the term you're really searching for. And it works both ways... as we saw in the "Cold War" period.
With the U.S.S.R. dismantling and the new arising countries in the area, be through corruption or simply dying for a fast buck will sell those for dimes (read nuke arsenal). Therefore anyone irresponsable enough can buy those and try to build up their nuke research program and eventually nuke the Western world without givin' it another (reasonable) thought.
*Cough*Iran*Cough**Mumbles & rants* Bah! Not that crap again that only Republicans defend the U.S. overseas by "keeping the peace" abroad.
1st of all, I do want some evidences of the Reps' number majority in the armed forces. And don't worry, I'll wait.
2nd, I do recall a couple of fray issues where the U.S. entered armed conflicts with the U.N.'s sanction in Clinton's time (aka ex-Yugoslavia n' East Timor).
As if the U.S. hadn't any other options to set the so called 'freedom' you're kinda preaching of to us now. Iran, most African countries (with non-democratic systems), the Israel-Palestine roadtrip to peace, Lebannon occupied with Syrian forces for about 15 years... yeah, right.

Iraq was undoubtedly the main threat to freedom n' "keeping the peace" at the time.
Next time please fetch other better excuse off that 'Rep book' before saying Iraq was undoubtedbly the major threat to the States at the time (March 2003)...

And tolerance comes into play... ever known the meaning of the ol' sarcasm tool?

If you don't know what it is, don't come hammering fellas to move away from ya.
QUOTE(Star-Chris)
Having troops in Iraq diverts terrorists to that area. Hence terrorists don't go to american soil to bomb us. THATS PROTECTING YOU! Omg, I getting tired of this, I am saying MORE people who are in the army are Republicans. Meaning the majority of the army is Republic, so I am saying you should be greatful for all those republicans who are in the military and you shouldn't go bashing republicans as some of you had in earlier posts. UGGG, the army belongs to the people, YES, but the majority of people IN the army is republic. WTF! Who cares if Bush is pres. and he is republic, that doesn't mean the republican party controls the military.
Terrorists are the biggest threat to America. Ohhhh nooo the UN doesn't agree with America! All they will do is send us an angry letter. Which is ALL they have done. No country will nuke America. You really think that a nuke sent to america via a rocket won't be shot down by our missle defense system? We have long range radar to detect anything coming at us. The only thing America sucks at is defending against things smuggled into America. THATS where the threat of a nuke being set off IN the city already. 100 nukes will not get past the american border my friend, aint going to happen. 1-10 nukes I can see getting past, but not 100.
Other countries DO NOT know where ALL of our nucleur missle sites are. They know where most are though. So if America gets nuked by another modern country, oh boy they are dead.
Regular Rep cutting corners excuse b**ls**t. Anyone here recalls that one of the vetoeing seats in the U.N. is occupied (or should be) by the U.S., hmm? Does that rings any bells? Attitudes like the one Bush had in the Iraq invasion are in fact contradicting with it's principles (read the U.N.). Just not to mention the 'terrorists' kept in captivity without formal charging or even trials. "Keeping the peace" and 'freedom' in that area... Boo-hoo, hoorrah! And what about setting the example of justice and freedom? Just not to mention the stepping over International conventions, such as the Genebra one in this case.
Lack of factual evidences in that case also joggs some memories around I hope (read WMD's in Iraq)...
*Rolls eyes* altough I don't know of what document you're talking about it's far better than pressing a U.N. resolution (aka
1441) and not waiting for it's results to be fullfilled.

Again, they could have other 'hidden agendas' for that area as mentioned above.
And if a nuke war occurs, chalk the U.S. destruction along with it too. Large scale retaliation, that's what nuclear detterence is mainly all about.
*Shrugs*I'd suggest you to punch it up in a Encyclopedia or even a Dic' (perhaps over the
Net).
QUOTE(Felagund)
*Edit* Since when the Hell did North Korea have a few thousand nuclear weapons? Last I checked, they were claiming to have made one, which nearly bankrupted their already unstable economy.
*Meh* Kinda what was thinkin' right about now.
QUOTE(Zealot)
hellz no. Its not Iraq we gota worry about, its Korea (i think its South korea the crazy one), They'll try and bust out some take over the world ww2 hitler crap on us if were not careful
Just my opinion.
*Ahem* In fact it's the N.Korea with their unique communist dinastic sytem.
*Winks*If such a thing (politically speakin') is even possible...
Diclaimer: Meh, some smillies were 'sadistically' sacrificed due to board posting limits.
*Humph*