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- jdh24, on 10/10/2007, -94/+318The US government is now actively perpetuating this war. We need to get out of this war, we're helping the terrorists two ways - supplying them and giving them excuses to recruit. Attacking Iran would be a massive mistake that we can't afford to make. We need to turn this country around, away from conflict and war, and towards peace and liberty. Vote Ron Paul 2008.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -74/+187Why did you have to stick "Vote Ron Paul 2008" at the end of that? It started off so well. :(
- Kewlduderules, on 10/10/2007, -18/+93I think people need to understand that Cheney and company are behind all this. If you look at all the facts, they could not be this stupid to make the amount of mistakes they made when they invaded Iraq. I believe this is what they wanted.
Let me explain further about my theory. This is about oil. Our government is strong arming the Iraqi Congress and Prime Minister into signing deals that would be give our multinational corporations complete control over the oil fields. Iraqi has a history of it oils fields being a public interest not in private hands. Now given the instability of the region, the government is weak so they have to agree to lobsided agreements, laws, and treaties that favor the corporate interests.
The Iraqis have not completed the process of signing off their oil fields and are reluctant to do so. What the US wants to do is make these agreements air tight so if the Iraqis attempted to challenge them they would have a harm time in the world courts, wto, and other UN bodies. Hence, the Iraq war continues and is mainly perpetuated by the USA to keep the area destabilized until those agreements are completed and the laws are finalized. - laTda, on 10/10/2007, -18/+83I'm starting to think that the Bush Regime Dictatorship has joined forces with Osama bin Laden to bring down America.
Why else would the White House be stripping our constitution to shreds all the while ignoring the plight of its citizens.
200 billion on a war could have done a lot of good at home for a lot of needed social programs.
By the way, why doesn’t Bush ever speak about Osama bin Laden anymore. He certainly isn't in Iraq.
I hate the little dick with the pathetic little wave he gives while in front of the cameras. What a total *****.
Sorry about being so long winded.
Whew! - yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -41/+99Buried as inaccurate. The government is not sending weapons to the insurgents, it is sending them to the Iraqi security forces and then losing them. Big difference. This is the same news that was reported a week ago, but with an inaccurate title slapped on top.
- consonance, on 10/10/2007, -8/+55Look people, this is just an honest mistake by the U.S. government. You misplace your keys here, 190,000 guns there - It could happen to anyone!
- SuperMoses, on 10/10/2007, -9/+53What are you talking about. Mike Gravel has talking about this many times and so has Kucinich to a certain extent.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -27/+66CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!!
- cujothekitten, on 10/10/2007, -15/+52Holy ***** o.0
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+42Lets not fight between the voices of reason. If you are a leftist oriented person please support Gravel or Kucinich, if you are a traditional conservative please support Ron Paul. Give them money, go to their rallies, talk to everyone that you know. Lets get this country talking about alternatives. Lets teach the sheep to look up!
Above all let us all respect all the alternative candidates! Go Ron! Go Dennis! Go Mike!
May Hillary and Rudy be run over by a bus - keyboardduder, on 10/10/2007, -8/+37September 15th! Go to DC and we can stop this abomination! We need turnouts like from when Nixon was in office! This is even worse! Ill be there.
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Look at all the executive orders bush wrote to instate martial law, then tell me the constitution isnt shredded.
- SuperMoses, on 10/10/2007, -4/+30The military industrial complex != military. Saying he wants to shut down the MIC is not the same as saying he wants to shut down the military.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Well, they are cheap, reliable, and use the most common bullet in existence.
- 1159, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32That's not what he said, he said he'd send troops INTO Pakistan to get OBL ***IF** there was actionable intelligence AND Musharef refused to do anything about it. Please stop repeating Fox half-truths.
- youareretarded, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Hey look! Its one of those 25% people that still approve of bush!
- kahakauai, on 10/10/2007, -10/+33***** the government. Bunch of rich power tripping *****...
- SuperMoses, on 10/10/2007, -15/+36This doesn't surprise me. When they supposedly lost190,000 weapons that somehow can't be traced (how convenient) I wonder who they really went. Perhaps the US-backed Jundallah or MEK?
- Gella321, on 10/10/2007, -4/+25Cue the Benny Hill theme song
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -13/+31If you actually go read the article, you realize something. This title is *****.
From the article:
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The Defense Department has no clue about what happened to at least 190,000 guns - 110,000 AK47s and 80,000 pistols - that it gave Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a GAO report released Monday. And U.S. officials now concede that at least some of the missing weapons are now being used to kill American troops.
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In other words, we shipped these to the police/army and the insurgents stole them. That's a MAJOR difference from shipping weapons TO the insurgents. - GeneralFault, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20IslanDog, if you still think that the Bush admin does anything but pay lip service to the constitution... you are helpless. I'll give you one more shot though. Constitutional shredding would include but not be limited to:
signing statements,
suspension of Habeas Corpus
Abusing emergency appointment powers to get creeps like Josh Bolton into the U.N.
Lying to congress about almost everything...
And many many more that frankly I don't have the time or energy to educate you on (again) right now.
I am reminded of the interviews done in the 80's of old folks in Russia still claiming that Stalin was the greatest leader that the "motherland" has ever had. I guess it's true, there will always be 30% that will blindly follow any leader regardless of how blatantly wrong they are. - Smokersroom, on 10/10/2007, -19/+36I don't know what is the worse conspiracy - The one which is unfolding in front of our eyes, or the one which encourages you to think that ron paul can fix any of it.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20We need a General Strike on 09/11/07. Digg my #1 and support the cause to keep it in the minds of people, and increase the turnout for this community event.
- jockser, on 10/10/2007, -49/+65SCANDAL: STUPID DIGG USER WRITES WITH CAPITOL LETTERS ONLY.... OPPSS...
AND LETS NOT FORGET EXCLAMATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!11111111ONE111 - thecoolestguy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Are you on crack cocaine? Owned by oil companies? He doesn't accept corporate donations. He was against the Iraq war which was done for the oil companies. You're a dumbass. He's against unconstitutional bills that overstep the powers that the federal government is supposed to have.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21So, just because the fact that so many Americans are desperate about their situation and are trying so hard to fix things, and some come off as too pompous, you're not going to vote for a candidate?
Way to think about the issues, genius. The powerless, outspoken Americans are SURELY the problem. It's not our government, golly gee no. - hipnerd, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21Rob Paul's foriegn policy ideas are actually quite brilliant and ballsy. "Leaving other countries alone so they won't hate us" seems like such a simple idea, yet few candidates from either party embrace it.
His domestic policies on the other hand are suicidal, but at least he's an honest conservative that truly believes in smaller government. Haven't seen one of those since Barry Goldwater. But I believe the government does have a role in society. He wants to eliminate the Department of Education for Christ's sake. That's prepping our country to compete in the information age... - inajeep, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Did you even read the article? The article is about the missing weapons and now the pentagon 'concedes' that they could be used against our troops already.
- n8glenn, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20Ok, I'll tell them. Can you point me to one? Do you know any? Do you know a single muslim, or do you know anything about islam at all, besides what they tell you on television between the ads for joining the army and the ads for drugs to help old men have sex? Why don't we go tell it to the islamo-fascists, and the werewolves, and the man-bear-pigs as well?
- 1159, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Really? The "dramatic liberals at play"? Surely your great conservative intellect can do better than that!
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18"# Voted NO on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy. (Jun 2004)
# Voted NO on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)"
These two were largely seen as gifts to the oil companies. How is voting "NO" on these two things being owned by the oil companies?
Geez, I think you're an idiot, and I don't even really like Ron Paul. - SparkyMaGee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14"The US government is now actively perpetuating this war."
I thought they actively started with PNAC, before 2003. - dylanmat, on 10/10/2007, -10/+22Why would we have so many AK47s? Isn't that a soviet weapon?
- Son0fJorel, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15If you read the article this is just a new, slightly more sensational spin on the missing weapons in Iraq story that has been kicking around for a while now. That said, the amount of incompetence being displayed by this administration is absolutely amazing. It seems that the "deciders" in charge of this war are absolutely incapable of weighing the long-term consequences of their actions (or they just don't give a *****). Right now it seems all that we are doing is throwing money and guns at the problem, and the end result is a lot of money and guns ending up in the wrong people's hands, while slowly but surely the American and Iraqi casualties continue to mount.
- rizla420, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Thats something I hope a lot of the Ron Paul supports come to terms with. Ron Paul is a great candidate, but he will not magically be able to change things and make everything better asap. A doubt a lot of his ideas will be able to gain much traction, but the best case scenario is that he stops this negative slide into facism that this country is falling into. I support Ron Paul, but i'm not deluding myself into thinking that he will change everything once he gets sworn in.
- Stormflux, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14For Christ's sake, China, India, and Europe are practically right next door to the Middle East, and they're not worried. But listening to American talk radio, you'd think Osama Bin Laden had a Carrier Battle Group parked in the Gulf of Mexico poised to invade Littleton, Kansas (pop. 68) using his elite army of unwed teenage mothers.
- invisiblelemur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13= yeah the title of this article is ridiculous and misleading from the actual content. burried.
- goghgoner, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Secretary of State Dick Cheney made comments after Desert Storm in 1991 that it would be foolish to try and install a government in Iraq. After being CEO of an oil company, Dick Cheney realized that the world oil production was declining. Google "Cheney 1999 Haliburton comments". Iraq is thought to be the only country (by some experts, see Peak Oil theory) to have large oil reserves. If you educate yourself on oil supply, then it all becomes so clear.
- Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9They fell off the back of the truck! Honest!
- n8glenn, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12of course ron paul can't "fix the country", he's only one man. but I like the idea of electing someone who actually lives in reality and tells the truth. I think that is a step in the right direction.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11We're working on it.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12It doesn't matter if they want to or not, because they don't have a chance in hell at succeeding at it. Do you kill a crazy guy on the street because he says he wants to blow up the world with a nuke he has in his hat?
- jayguy01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You are correct in some aspects.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/view/
This show explains where a lot of the weapons went to, its pretty long though so I'll summarize a bit. This PBS report claims that the reason so many weapons went missing is because during the training of the Iraqi police force, they were poorly trained and managed. PBS claims that many of these police signed up to get training and a weapon. After this they would go fight other factions for their mullah. Since that time many of these people have been called on to repel the Americans and therefore have turned into insurgents and are using American weapons given to them by Americans. America however did not directly give weapons directly to insurgents. Watch the documentary, it explains this much more in detail than I. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15So let me get this straight, we have the resources to wiretap citizens, maintain hundreds or possibly thousands of inmates in Guantanamo bay, build missile defense sites in eastern Europe, and create secret prisons all over the world, but we can't keep track of our freaking guns?
Hey, here's an idea,don't give them machine guns. There have been reports circulating for the past two years about Iraqi police performing insurgent activities at night, and yet we keep arming them?
Maybe they should bring this up at the next Youtube "debate". And by debate I mean ego-stroking and joke hour. - MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9No, it truly can't.
- inajeep, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15'Sends' in the title is inaccurate. How about misplaced or inept handling of caused them to fall into the wrong hands.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8buried because it's actually
CAPS LOCK CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL - ncc74656m, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14Guys, you don't really remember the 80's, do you? We supplied Osama bin Laden when he was fighting the Russians, and we supplied Hussein when he was fighting Iran.
We've never had a problem not thinking about the future... at least while a Republican was in office. - Smokersroom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Well, that destroys the Military Industrial Complex theory doesn't it?
Why not manufacture the new weapons at massive cost, which feeds back to the arms manufacturers. -
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