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Old 10-13-2008, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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be realistic when attempting to focus blame. you mean, like the OP did when he blamed all peoples problems on one person. was that realistic? I personally know someone who got a $340,000 loan while making $36,000 per year. you would be shocked at some of the loans.
I would expect the same from the OP. But I wasn't speaking to the OP.

 
Old 10-13-2008, 07:13 PM
 
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In 1993, Ramzi Yousef used a truck bomb to attack the World Trade CenterNew York City.

On November 13, 1995, a van containing a hundred pounds of Semtex explosive blew up near the communications center for the Saudi National Guard in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where some American military contractors and Army officers had been training the Saudi National Guard.

The U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, resulting in upward of 300 deaths, mostly locals. A barrage of cruise missiles launched by the U.S. military in response devastated an al-Qaeda base in Khost, Afghanistan, but the network's capacity was unharmed.

Bin Laden then turned his sights towards the United States Navy. In October 2000, al-Qaeda militants in Yemen bombed the missile destroyerU.S.S. Cole in a suicide attack, killing 17 U.S. servicemen and damaging the vessel while it lay offshore.

The September 11 attacks were conducted by al-Qaeda, acting in accord with the 1998 fatwa issued against the United States and its allies by military forces under the command of bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and others.
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Old 10-13-2008, 07:23 PM
 
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Was it the 'lack' of leadership, or the gross incompetency of his leadership? Which of course includes appointing cabinet positions based on friendship or political debt than capabilities and competency, i.e. Rumsfled, Brown, ********, Abrams, and more.
Yes, exactly, when I say one person is to blame, I include the people he picked - total incompetents like himself, he put in key positions of power, in America, in Iraq, courts, FEMA, everywhere is his personal stamp of stupidity. He is the single most powerful man in the world, so yeah, he is to blame.
 
Old 10-13-2008, 08:26 PM
 
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Well we got into the mess this time from many people including normal americans. In actually goes back way before bush was in office, Star wirth the democrats that want pewole that could never afford a convention loan to buy a house to have one. The republicans that turned their heads to thsi because wall street was making money. The have mnany epole buyign houses and sellign them for huge profits in just a few years and have peole that know they can't afford a home but then because of teh same gress ;make the decision that the sorse that can happenj is that they sell the house at a profit and the loan gets payed offf.In fact many peole actually used the it to get new laons for other thigns as they apyed and its value grew. When they heard or read that trhe houiosng bubble would burst some day they ignored it because they conned themselves into believign it couldn't happen.But it did and now evrybody is lookig for a scape goat including the politicans. But when you realise that congress had oversite and in fact setou Fannie Mae and Frediie Mac before Bush then you realise that many area behind the pipe drem that went bad from greed everywhere and parties involved.
 
Old 10-13-2008, 10:07 PM
 
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How could one man, Bush, get the entire country into such a mess?
It wasn't just one man (Bush). Millions of Republicans voted Bush into office and encouraged his misdeeds. The Republican Party rallied, cheered and encouraged Bush's cruel and erratic behavior. The Republicans who voted for Bush and waved their patriotic flags, while Bush did all of his evils was the "fuel" that kept his raging machine running. Hitler's supporters did the exact same.
 
Old 10-13-2008, 10:33 PM
 
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It wasn't just one man (Bush). Millions of Republicans voted Bush into office and encouraged his misdeeds. The Republican Party rallied, cheered and encouraged Bush's cruel and erratic behavior. The Republicans who voted for Bush and waved their patriotic flags, while Bush did all of his evils was the "fuel" that kept his raging machine running. Hitler's supporters did the exact same.
And when I blame one man, and the people he surrounded himself with, I cant forget the idiots who voted for him, especially the 2nd time.
 
Old 10-13-2008, 10:56 PM
 
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And when I blame one man, and the people he surrounded himself with, I cant forget the idiots who voted for him, especially the 2nd time.
Why blame the voters? How about the idiots that managed to nominate Al Gore and Mr. Heinz to represent their party? Now that's what you call idiots.
 
Old 10-13-2008, 11:33 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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Why blame the voters? How about the idiots that managed to nominate Al Gore and Mr. Heinz to represent their party? Now that's what you call idiots.
And add Palin to the mix and you're absolutely right!
 
Old 10-13-2008, 11:38 PM
 
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Old 10-13-2008, 11:39 PM
 
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It wasn't just one man (Bush). Millions of Republicans voted Bush into office and encouraged his misdeeds. The Republican Party rallied, cheered and encouraged Bush's cruel and erratic behavior. The Republicans who voted for Bush and waved their patriotic flags, while Bush did all of his evils was the "fuel" that kept his raging machine running. Hitler's supporters did the exact same.

Yes, all the while Bush told them God appointed him and told him what to do. I can't believe people fall for such bunk.

Don't listen to their words, watch their actions!
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