YES! - After 10 years of multiple wars, Americans are weary of yet another one.
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NO! - Iran must be prohibited of developing a nuclear weapon at all costs.
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If I attacked my neighbor to keep him from buying a gun, perhaps that would be a clear enough example of stupidity to get through to people.
Americans are weary?
Liberals are always getting "weary of the wars" they keep corporate party (D) voting for.
Oh yes, the corporate party's impatient Republicans eagerly want the bombing to begin now, before the election.
However, the corporate party's patient Democrats cleverly want their weaponized economic sanctions to first lay siege upon the targeted state of Iran, to collectively punish its people and degrade its defenses, before bombing it after the election.
The production of "non-state terrorists" has been so war industry profitable for America, Inc. that the corporate (R) & (D) party has now MovedOn to even more war profitably produce "terrorist" states... to stimulate the growth of private profits from perpetual wars waged at public expense.
Creating terrorists to have terrorists to kill is America's "economic growth" industry.
Terrorist Production for Bomb Destruction:
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David I hope its not just libs who care about more wars and our over worked troops . Bush admin attacked Iraq based on lies - for massive war profiteering. Bush waged Longest 2 wars in US history.. Obama did not .he is trying to calm the GOP drum beat to bomb Iran . Cheneys Halliburton & the Carlisle group are largest beneficairies of war profits. War is big big business. Billions are being made while our troops are exhausted - doing 3-4 tours - a hidden draft. Its inhumane .Time for the wealthy & Congress' to send their kids to war. ! .
War is friend only to the 1%, THAT'S why I'm voting Socialist! IMHO, there's NO DIFFERENCE between Democrats and Republicans anymore...they're ALL the 1% (If not, just give them a term in Washington...that's why I'm also for term limits) I was a "card carrying " Democrat until the past year or so. Now, Gitmo is still up and running, with H.R. 377 & NDAA signed, I'll bet you the Occupy protesters will be the next ones going there, there's only 8% umemployment because HALF the unemployed GAVE UP looking for work, we'll have drones watching us by this summer (I wonder how much I can get for a "slightly used" one on eBay??) I wouldn't be A BIT SUPRISED if our phone calls and e-mails are still being monitored....
Things haven't "changed" THAT much in 4 years...and it's NOT "change I can believe in"....
When liberals get war weary they vote for Democrats to redeploy to another war.
Who was it that manically voted for Obama to redeploy from Iraq to Afghanistan?
The corporate party's (D) dedicated liberals voted for that.
Now, being so weary with their war's failure in Afghanistan, the (D) dedicated are readying themselves to sheeple flock to the polls to "smart voter" vote for Democrats to redeploy the targeting of remote control weaponry from Afghanistan to Iran.
Who was it that voted for the people of Iraq to be collectively punished throughout the 8 years of Clinton's siege (between the Bushs') that softened up Iraq for its invasion and occupation, during which Clinton's Field Marshall (Madeleine Albright) so transparently and publicly stated that it would be "worth it" for Clinton's economic sanctions (and his carpet bombing of Iraq's infrastructure) to cause the deaths of a half million Iraqi children, if that would be what it took to take down one insubordinate sand thug (Saddam Hussein), for his having suggested that oil could be traded for a currency other than the U.S. Dollar?
The corporate party's (D) dedicated liberals voted for that.
Who was it that voted for the Goldman Sachs' controlled POTUS, Bill Clinton, whose economic advisors were malevolently engineering the removal of the firewall between banking and finance over here, while Clinton's "State Department" team was malevolently manufacturing a war, over there in the Balkans, to provide a new function for NATO forces that (after the fall of the Soviet Union) no longer had a function — with Clinton's new function for NATO being its redeployment from being a purely defensive force to becoming a bankster dominated coalition's expeditionary force in serial resource wars of aggression?
The corporate party's (D) dedicated liberals voted for that.
The "progressives" are the liberals who keep voting for the corporate party's Democrats so they can keep protesting against what they keep voting for.
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Do not attack Iran. The Bush Doctrine is to attack a nation before that nation attacks us so the battlefield is over there instead of over here does not work. If George W. Bush had not attacked Iraq they never would have attacked us. We were attacked by citizens of Saudi Arabia on September 11, 2001. This was not a war of one nation against another. This was a criminal action by rouges. George W. Bush thought it was the beginning of a new Crusades. George W. Bush is an idiot. There are dipolmatic solutions to our problems with Iran, there is no need for a "pre-emptive" war with Iran. GWB said this war was to prevent a war. Does that make any more sense today? The United States has the most powerful army, navy, and air force in the world. We are going bankrupt by spending countless billions of dollars into things that explode and kill people while destroying homes, businesses, and infrastructure. It gets to be that if all you have is a hammer than everything looks like a nail. Who are our great diplomats? Where are Americans such as Ralph Bunche? We can do much better than to engage in warfare with our neighbors on the planet.
No more war! No more military sanctions. It is time (loooong over due) that the U.S. stops policing the world, spending $$$ trillions $$$ on uneccesary AND illegal wars. Even if more than 1/10th of the one percent proffited from war...For the past two decades the U.S. government has maintained a belligerent foreign policy; this certainly underminds what our best abilities are. As well, these expensive and illegal wars have diminish our expectations for true peace, equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Don't get me wrong I am very aware that a few scondrels with ill intentions exist (some are our own elected officals), However we MUST NOT abbandon our own people, domestic issues, and social challenges. Don't forget Osama Bin laden vowed to destroy the U.S. through economic distruction and social breakdown. He rallied support through a shared grevence against the U.S. for occupying, policing and meddleing in the political affairs of the Middle East. It is up to us (We the People) to reel our Gov. back in and spend those trillions restoring and improving our own rich tapistry. Lets become a truely great leader(finally) by setting an example of how we resolve our economic, foreign, domestic, and social issues through peaceful and practical measures.
I'm afraid the available knowledge on any of the issues, we as common citizens are focusing on, goes into levels deeper than we may ever be allowed to know about. I'm not a huge fan of the movie director/producer Oliver Stone, but the notions behind some of his movies do open up other perspectives worth considering. The tough part, these days, with all the technology around to stimulate and entertain us, we eventually just wind up "lemmingly" watching and listening, while failing to apply sufficient thought into the acquisition of that "new knowledge", as to its original source, the meduim presenting it, and the current and relavent circumstances.
Did anyone catch comments, in the last couple years, regarding theories that Osama Bin Laden as having been "commissioned" by our then-government to assemble a team to carry out attacks against our then-socalled "enemies" in the Persian Gulf area, and that no one ever considered that Osama, or his henchmen would turn on us, instead? Or that coorporations and those working through Grover Norquist, one of which Dick Cheney was affiliated (talk about a conflict of interest!), who have been heavily influencing two brances of our government (the Legislative & Judicial), could have (perish the thought) wanted to create ANY reason for going to war, to justify requesting more ($revenue$) from "the people" (never mind how many are killed in the process), so companies including Dick's Halliburton, in essence would "profit from war"; reminescent of one of the warnings we received from President Dwight D. Eisenhower (a Republican, no less!), over half-century ago?
This "system" of government our country currently possesses, desperately needs more whistleblowers! WikiLeaks should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Army Private Manning should be awarded the Medal of Honor!