The History of the Tiger-Obama T-Shirt Meme

uh-huh – I’m sure YOU were ready to jump out there and do that job for free….right ?

to try to rape the world for all its worth – but don’t call it an empire. Don’t deny we were one of the first however.

After all, the gas guzzling USA would tremble if they paid 10 dollars a gallon at the pumps like us Brits do. You don’t know how good you have it.

lol – is the beer that heavy ?

You don’t know me well enough to know how really unimpressed I am with myself.

Of course if you don’t want to don’t want to answer me you don’t have to, but there have been other wars in your lifetime, not just the current one. Why didn’t you volunteer to serve the country you profess to love so much after high school or after college?

The only effective chemical and biological weapons Iraq ever possessed were provided by the Reagan administration in the 80s so they could use them against Iran. The problem Iraq had is that those weapons have a limited shelf life. Under the best of circumstances they’re good at most seven years. After that they deteriorate rapidly. Following the Iran-Iraq war, which ended in 1988, Iraq made an attempt to develop their own CB weapons — without the actual expertise to do so correctly. In 1998, UN weapons inspectors identified a couple of factories attempting to make these concoctions. President Clinton ordered cruise missle attacks on those facilities in 1998. That was the end of Iraq’s WMD program.

Unfortunately, the Bush and Cheney decided to attack Iraq, probably so they could get access to the oil (that’s what oilmen do, ya know?). So they cooked the intellegence, see the Downing Street Memos. They used the manufactured data to browbeat congress to approve a resolution and provide funding for an invasion. They also convinced England and a few other countries to join in a “coalition.”

Here’s the problem: Iraq had nothing to do with highjacking airplanes in 2001. Neither did Afghanistan. In my opinion the correct course of action would have been a swift, untelegraphed surgical strike on the well-known al Qaeda camps inside Afghanistan to get those who planned 9/11. Almost everyone in the Middle East would have acknowledged the righteousness of such a plan. Instead, Bush-Cheney decided on massive invasions that have resulted in some really negative consequences, including:

1) Muslims in Asia, Africa and Europe are convinced the US has declared war on their religion. They worship the same God you do, just differently.

2) The populations of the invaded countries don’t like having foreign troops any more than we would. They’re fighting against foreign invaders, with the intent of killing as many as possible.

3) Countries with whom the US has had conflict (Iran and North Korea) have decided they’re better off having nuclear weapons than not, because the US will invade on trumped up evidence regardless.

I understand that it’s easy to get wrapped up in the “patriotism” of us against them and let’s go kill ‘em there before they get us here. I was floating aimlessly in college in 1966. The media was all abuzz with domino theories and threats from the “red menace.” I got caught up in the hyperbole, quit college and joined the Army. During my tour in Vietnam I witnessed the Tet Offensive and the human cost of war. You say, "it’s never good," but I don’t think you do so with any conviction.

President Obama is not a socialist, he’s not a communist, he’s not a Muslim, he WAS born in the United States. He loves and has every intention of serving this country to the best of his ability, as you, I or any other citizen would wish him to do. It’s OK to disagree with him. Unfortunately the current political climate is nothing short of ugly. Real conservatives like Barry Goldwater, Bill Miller and William Buckley would disavow the garbage perpetrated by the right-wing media and the tea baggers. Republicans have no ideas and have forgotten how to govern because they don’t like government, in any form.

EM, I know you have a sense of humor, I’ve seen it in your posts. Even though we’ve disagreed about a number of things, I think you’re honest, intelligent and well-intentioned. But I also think you’re outside your area of expertise and you’re reacting based solely on emotion.

Saddam was no threat to US//UK – except American pride. Oooh – military dictators – we’ve both had those lately.

so he could do your dirty work against Iran. We are all the same…we pull the high moral ground to justify war…sometimes it is of course…but other times we behave no better than the Mafia. Regan…yes, your hero… knew he was scum…but armed him up anyway, so he could oust the Ayatolla Kamani…because you couldn’t. Funny how we want it both ways, eh ?

from under English rule".

So if you can trace your lineage back that far, are you positive you weren’t a redcoat? I need to know ;o)

I find it sad and scary just how divisive politics are in the US right now. I haven’t said anything in support of Obama as far as I know.
It was obvious BEFORE the election just much the right-wing loathed Obama, and that he could not live up to the impossible expectations of the left. You’re all in this together.

You must surely know by now that Easing and I have a great love of the USA. Criticising political leaders (yours & ours) & some of their idiotic & dangerous decisions is not an attack on you, Court, or the American people. Your attacks on UK are far more personal, however. What’s with this bringing up WWII/War of Independence every time we disagree with you?