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American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq[W:1007]

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Are Barrack Obama and Joe Biden among those fewer and fewer Americans? If so they haven't mentioned it. But if fewer people believe it, or more, what has that to do with the truth? Does believing make it so?

When Obama declared the War on Terror to be over, did you believe that?

Do they believe that the world would have been better with Saddam Hussein? These Americans are frightened of the unknown and wish they were safe from the Islamists out to get them. But the fact is that these terrorists have always been out to get innocent people throughout the world. These Americans you speak of (and others) don't understand that going to war is one thing and winning the war quite another. Terrorists will do their best to attack nations around the world, not just Americans, in an attempt to spread their version of Islam. Your policy of running and hiding may make you feel more secure temporarily but they'll still pull you out from under that bed and treat you as they did Danny Pearl or Mike Foley.

I am betting that Monte never seriously studied history and the failures of appeasement by the likes of Neville Chamberlain.
 
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You are still failing. Name one policy by the USA that justifies terrorism against innocent civiliians. And be specific.

Nobody said our bad policies justified it. What has been demonstrated is that our bad policies have facilitated these animals in carrying out their acts. It sucks that so many of you fail to see that. Although, don't you fault Obama's ME policies?
 
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I am betting that Monte never seriously studied history and the failures of appeasement by the likes of Neville Chamberlain.

And I'll wager that OF never has sued for peace but has always been aggressive, a fighter. Advancing peace is superior to war and appeasement.
 
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We have a lot of low information voters in this country who buy rhetoric and have basically no logic and common sense...

Yup. And about half of them will continue voting for republicans.

And we also have a lot of dis-informed voters. Mostly those who watch no news source other than Fox News. The majority of those folks will also vote for republicans.

Highly informed voters are pretty much out numbered, and always will be. I think that's the reason why our founding fathers created a representative democracy and why they didn't have direct election of the president.
 
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I took you as a guy that never apologies when wrong and sees it as a sign of weakness. Those of us that oppose the menacing US policies in the ME are pro-democracy as well. But then we haven't a single democracy in the ME, for all our money and blood that we've shed, and blood that the citizens of the ME have shed as a direct result of US aggression/regime changes there.

Iraq was a newly functioning democracy until Obama decided to pull the troops. Now it's back to chaos.
 
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Yup. And about half of them will continue voting for republicans.

And we also have a lot of dis-informed voters. Mostly those who watch no news source other than Fox News. The majority of those folks will also vote for republicans.

Highly informed voters are pretty much out numbered, and always will be. I think that's the reason why our founding fathers created a representative democracy and why they didn't have direct election of the president.

So tell me since Fox News isn't credible including Sheppard Smith and Brett Bayer and the other hard news journalists who is credible in your world? What I find interesting in your post is the lack of logic and common sense as a very poor student of history. This country was built on personal responsibility not govt. responsibility and neighbor helping neighbor with that neighbor not being the Federal Govt.

Seems today that many Democrats don't understand a Representative Democracy thus no understanding as to the role of the states as they look for a Federal Bureaucrat in D.C. to help them with their own local problems. Far too many have no concept of where the govt. gets their money and who is paying for the services that they seem to want but not necessarily need.

I totally disagree with you that the low information voter votes Republican with most just sick and tired of the massive growth on entitlements and the Federal bureaucracy. You seem to not be able to grasp the concept of limited central govt. and look to the Federal bureaucracy to do what you cannot get done in your own local community. That is the easy way out and a basic problem with liberals.
 
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You are not a credible authority either on what the American people believe or on what Bush accomplished. Any war in your mind is ill advised...more so if the president who ordered it had an "R" in front of his name on the ballot. Using your logic the Nazis would not have been pushed back in WW2. And they would now dominate at least Europe. Iraqi citizens now get to vote and elect their own leaders. As a result of the 2003 invasion, they enjoyed freedoms that they had not had in generations...and will again when ISIS is destroyed. You will just have to accept that Saddam Hussein is dead. If you cannot work out that as a result of the 2003 invasion and without ISIS, the average Iraqi's lot in life is much improved, then it is just a case of your own wish for failure in Iraq. I cannot help you.

I feel, which means I could be wrong, that what was lost after the military left could be regained much more easily with another 'surge'. It seems that many lessons have been learned since the withdrawal and the leaders of the other ME countries, and the Democracies, may have learned a great deal of how fragile all these things can be.
 
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So tell me since Fox News isn't credible including Sheppard Smith and Brett Bayer and the other hard news journalists who is credible in your world? What I find interesting in your post is the lack of logic and common sense as a very poor student of history. This country was built on personal responsibility not govt. responsibility and neighbor helping neighbor with that neighbor not being the Federal Govt.

Seems today that many Democrats don't understand a Representative Democracy thus no understanding as to the role of the states as they look for a Federal Bureaucrat in D.C. to help them with their own local problems. Far too many have no concept of where the govt. gets their money and who is paying for the services that they seem to want but not necessarily need.

I totally disagree with you that the low information voter votes Republican with most just sick and tired of the massive growth on entitlements and the Federal bureaucracy. You seem to not be able to grasp the concept of limited central govt. and look to the Federal bureaucracy to do what you cannot get done in your own local community. That is the easy way out and a basic problem with liberals.

Many voters have become more interested in food stamps, Obamaphones, and the war on women than on foreign policy.
 
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So tell me since Fox News isn't credible including Sheppard Smith and Brett Bayer and the other hard news journalists who is credible in your world?

I was refering more to their late pm programming.

I totally disagree with you that the low information voter votes Republican.

About half of them do. but even more disinformed voters votes republican these days.

Like people who have been disinformed by numerous Fox News contributors who have claimed that 40% of our governments spending is borrowed. Or that the labor force participation rate is lower than at any point since the great depression.

many are also disinformed by tea party posts on facebook. Like people who believe that muslums are exempt from Obamacare, or that Obama has issued more executive orders than every other president combined.
 
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Many voters have become more interested in food stamps, Obamaphones, and the war on women than on foreign policy.

Yup, liberals and conservatives alike.
 
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You have any numbers on that?

Nope, I thought that was obvious. You are either for or against those issues. So I would say that nearly 100% of the voters who aren't apathetic have a position one way or another.

Most voters are either for or against Bushphones. Most are either for or against foodstamps. Most are either for or against the republican war on women. trends on those issues may be partisan in nature, but I don't think that foreign policy is nearly as partisan, and feelings towards these types of issues are far stonger than most peoples opinions about foreign affairs.

Most people don't really care about foreign affairs as much as the things that affect them more directly, like taxes and welfare. Neither are they as knowledgable.
 
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Absolutely. Obama lost the peace in Iraq.

While there may have been a lull in actually fighting, the reports in the international media indicated there had never been clam or a lack of unrest from the time the US invaded.

I have always said that Obama's pull out was arbitrary, the date set more to do with having most of those troops out and home before the election. A report I read in Canada's Globe and Mail at the time compared it to the 1973 pull out of Vietnam, one where the forces which had been supported by the US were being thrown to the wolves.

I have long maintained that Obama's foreign policy is completely governed by domestic ratings. There does not seem to be a plan, like a badly run anything they seem to lurch from one crisis to another without any resolution and now have to return to the place they left just three years ago
 
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there was never any peace in iraq, there will still suicide bombings going on in 2009 and 2010

There were, and they were greatly reduced-thanks to the surge that Obama opposed.
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Nope, I thought that was obvious. You are either for or against those issues. So I would say that nearly 100% of the voters who aren't apathetic have a position one way or another.

Most voters are either for or against Bushphones. Most are either for or against foodstamps. Most are either for or against the republican war on women. trends on those issues may be partisan in nature, but I don't think that foreign policy is nearly as partisan, and feelings towards these types of issues are far stonger than most peoples opinions about foreign affairs.

Most people don't really care about foreign affairs as much as the things that affect them more directly, like taxes and welfare. Neither are they as knowledgable.

Just because you think something is obvious, does that relieve us of the burden of proof?
 
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Nobody said our bad policies justified it. What has been demonstrated is that our bad policies have facilitated these animals in carrying out their acts. It sucks that so many of you fail to see that. Although, don't you fault Obama's ME policies?

I think your problem is that you missed out on the 1960s.
 
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there was never any peace in iraq, there will still suicide bombings going on in 2009 and 2010

There has not been peace in the city of Chicago in your lifetime.
 
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While there may have been a lull in actually fighting, the reports in the international media indicated there had never been clam or a lack of unrest from the time the US invaded.

I have always said that Obama's pull out was arbitrary, the date set more to do with having most of those troops out and home before the election. A report I read in Canada's Globe and Mail at the time compared it to the 1973 pull out of Vietnam, one where the forces which had been supported by the US were being thrown to the wolves.

I have long maintained that Obama's foreign policy is completely governed by domestic ratings. There does not seem to be a plan, like a badly run anything they seem to lurch from one crisis to another without any resolution and now have to return to the place they left just three years ago

What is the Obama doctrine? I dont know anyone who can explain his foreign policy beyond it being a random clumping of seemingly unrelated issues and incoherent statements to the world.

He may not be focused on foreign policy, but it will really come home and bite him hard.
 
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Just because you think something is obvious, does that relieve us of the burden of proof?

So you honestly don't believe that it is obvious?

You don't have strong opinions about welfare? You think that the best foreign affairs policy is more obvious that the best welfare policy?
 
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And I'll wager that OF never has sued for peace but has always been aggressive, a fighter. Advancing peace is superior to war and appeasement.

There is a big difference between peace and appeasement. Your mindset looks more like appeasement. I believe in peace through strength.
 
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