When the people who eventually made up the original thirteen colonies came to this land they came for many reasons. Some were running away from something some were running to something. One of the common desires was the desire for freedom.
Eventually demands by the government of England infringed on that freedom and became intolerable, the result being our Declaration of Independence and eventually the Constitution of the United States.
No country gave us their Declaration of Independence from which they could copy to develop our own. No country gave them their Constitution, from which they could copy to develop our own. The people of the colonies selected representatives to speak for them and to work with other representatives to make decisions and to develop a course of action.
What would our founders think? Descendants of those founding fathers have invaded a sovereign country, deposed the legally elected President and removed his government from power as well as its disbanded its army. We have turned that President over to his political enemies for trial with a predetermined verdict and punishment. Maybe the Iraqi president should have been removed and tried it was not up to us. With the world being against us I expect our leaders to eventually be accused of crimes against humanity as well as other war crimes and demands for them to be subject to a World Court will be heard. If that happens I expect our leaders to be found guilty and punished. I expect our President and Vice President as well as selected members of the military and selected members of congress to be so charged. Do not dismiss the notion it is a real possibility.
For reasons beyond comprehension, our leaders do not recognize what is happening in Iraq. Following the first George Bush’s war in Iraq we left our military in Saudi Arabia as we have a habit of doing giving a target to which our enemies could focus. The second George Bush led the United States into a quagmire from which there is no honorable way out. We have successfully defeated a country that had no chance of defeating us. We have successful bullied a smaller country. We are a bully. We are proud.
During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan the United States fought a proxy war with Russia and maintained plausible deniability. Today Iran and Syria are fighting a proxy war with the United States and maintaining plausible deniability. The Executive Branch and Legislative Branch fail to see what is really happening and continues in quagmire.
If the Iraqi people wanted freedom they should have fought for it. One cannot be given democracy when will the United States understand that? We are not the World’s Police. We do not have a right to decide how other countries govern nor how the people live. We need to get over our self-righteousness.
Eventually demands by the government of England infringed on that freedom and became intolerable, the result being our Declaration of Independence and eventually the Constitution of the United States.
No country gave us their Declaration of Independence from which they could copy to develop our own. No country gave them their Constitution, from which they could copy to develop our own. The people of the colonies selected representatives to speak for them and to work with other representatives to make decisions and to develop a course of action.
What would our founders think? Descendants of those founding fathers have invaded a sovereign country, deposed the legally elected President and removed his government from power as well as its disbanded its army. We have turned that President over to his political enemies for trial with a predetermined verdict and punishment. Maybe the Iraqi president should have been removed and tried it was not up to us. With the world being against us I expect our leaders to eventually be accused of crimes against humanity as well as other war crimes and demands for them to be subject to a World Court will be heard. If that happens I expect our leaders to be found guilty and punished. I expect our President and Vice President as well as selected members of the military and selected members of congress to be so charged. Do not dismiss the notion it is a real possibility.
For reasons beyond comprehension, our leaders do not recognize what is happening in Iraq. Following the first George Bush’s war in Iraq we left our military in Saudi Arabia as we have a habit of doing giving a target to which our enemies could focus. The second George Bush led the United States into a quagmire from which there is no honorable way out. We have successfully defeated a country that had no chance of defeating us. We have successful bullied a smaller country. We are a bully. We are proud.
During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan the United States fought a proxy war with Russia and maintained plausible deniability. Today Iran and Syria are fighting a proxy war with the United States and maintaining plausible deniability. The Executive Branch and Legislative Branch fail to see what is really happening and continues in quagmire.
If the Iraqi people wanted freedom they should have fought for it. One cannot be given democracy when will the United States understand that? We are not the World’s Police. We do not have a right to decide how other countries govern nor how the people live. We need to get over our self-righteousness.
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