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Reply to Fahrenheit 911 aims to indoctrinate in Politics JoeUser Forums

Michael Moore does not have a subtle bone in his body. In addition, he's no great intellect. He's sort of a bumbling left wing slob, an associative thinker. He's not all that different in style from Rush Limbaugh. Where Limbaugh gives the right exactly what they want without really having to prove any of his points, Moore aims at the left. The first two-thirds of the movie are pretty incoherent. Who cares if Bin Ladens' cousins left the coun

Reply to Is WMD really the deciding issue in the Iraq war? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bush went to war on the claim that Iraq was an imminent threat because they possessed and would use WMDs against us. Bush still claims Saddam was a threat because he had the capability of creating WMDs. These are specious claims. Every industrialized country in the world has the capability of creating WMDs. The fact is, the inspections were working. Saddam had destroyed his WMDs. He was no threat to the US. Of course the war would have been j

A Struggle, Not a War in Welcome JoeUser Forums

9/11 did not change everything. Most things are the same. Although 9/11 was a horrific event, the time has come to reassess our reaction to it. Friends, we overreacted. The fact is, there is no pressing need for a war against terror. Calling the conflict we have with terrorists a war is problematic for a number of reasons. First, it allowed President Bush to get financial and milit