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08 Nov 2006 Wed 02:09 pm |
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Quoting Joey: Joey _I am not really interested in internal American politics but I seem to recall things were indeed much worse when the democrats were in power in the sixties and their disastrous policy in Vietnam. |
Haha! Well if you want to discuss party politics, then I would say Richard Nixon and Hoover were hardly a glowing example of Republican presidents!
And what about JFK? Surely a great example of a wonderful Democratic President? 
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 02:21 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Joey: Joey _I am not really interested in internal American politics but I seem to recall things were indeed much worse when the democrats were in power in the sixties and their disastrous policy in Vietnam. |
Haha! Well if you want to discuss party politics, then I would say Richard Nixon and Hoover were hardly a glowing example of Republican presidents!
And what about JFK? Surely a great example of a wonderful Democratic President?
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JFK actually sent thousands of "advisors" to Vietnam and LBJ accelerated it.Nixons for all his faults took America out.
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 02:36 pm |
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Quoting Joey: JFK actually sent thousands of "advisors" to Vietnam and LBJ accelerated it.Nixons for all his faults took America out. |
True! Lets discuss this further over a whisky  !
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 02:51 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Joey: JFK actually sent thousands of "advisors" to Vietnam and LBJ accelerated it.Nixons for all his faults took America out. |
True! Lets discuss this further over a whisky ! |
Okay aenigma Like I said I don't worry Democrat or Republican but some people seem to have short memories or are too young to remember
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 04:46 pm |
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Quoting Joey: Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Joey: JFK actually sent thousands of "advisors" to Vietnam and LBJ accelerated it.Nixons for all his faults took America out. |
True! Lets discuss this further over a whisky ! |
Okay aenigma Like I said I don't worry Democrat or Republican but some people seem to have short memories or are too young to remember |
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 05:32 pm |
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Quoting Capoeira: Maybe you don't worry 'cause you're siting in some bar across the ocean. But, when you watch military spending going up and financial support to universitiy and public education going down or the increase in building prisons and not schools then you worry! |
I think you misunderstand Capoeira - we certainly do worry, but we dont have the vote! We can only sit and watch who will be the next person to drag us into a war we dont agree with, for fabricated reasons! We have the opposite problem by the way - zero capacity in prisons and not enough money given to the military.... 
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 05:37 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Capoeira: Maybe you don't worry 'cause you're siting in some bar across the ocean. But, when you watch military spending going up and financial support to universitiy and public education going down or the increase in building prisons and not schools then you worry! |
I think you misunderstand Capoeira - we certainly do worry, but we dont have the vote! We can only sit and watch who will be the next person to drag us into a war we dont agree with, for fabricated reasons! We have the opposite problem by the way - zero capacity in prisons and not enough money given to the military.... |
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 05:38 pm |
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ı thınk ıts same on all the world...even though we vote we also sıt and whaıt who wıll benefıt from the status they have next? who wıll rob the banks? who wıll lie and cheat us?
hehehe ıts same all over the world...at least they dont draw us ınto a war ...thx god
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 08:37 pm |
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As many of us have been guilty of “Bush Bashing†lately on this site, I wanted to congratulate the USA on their historic action today. You have restored my faith in democracy
American people, even in such staunch republican states such as Pennsylvania, have taken action today – the majority doing so because they disagree with the Iraq "War". US press are already saying that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is due to resign.
I hope any anti-American members of this site remember Bush does not necessarily represent the views of the US people. My only negative comment about today is…. I wish they had been so committed during the Presidential election of 2004 and pushed the percentage to over 49% against him THEN.
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08 Nov 2006 Wed 10:15 pm |
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Short and sweet - whoever is in power has a bloody hell of lot of sorting out to do and I will join you over a wiskey too!!  In my life and the part of it that can remember or rather was remotely interested in American Presidents, I just remember there has always been plenty of scandal 
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