Comments on: The Barack Obama School Children Address

By: burro

burro — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:35:00 +0000

Last time I checked, most Iraqis practice Islam. You are correct that their country is not an Islamist theocracy, but this doesn’t mean that much of its government policy is not informed by Islam nor that the majority of its citizens sympathize with Islam, the religion.

Israel is not happy with a destabilized Middle East. However, ultimately Israel’s interests are not the interests of the U.S. At times these interests coincide, but from a broad geopolitical perspective a destabilized middle east is in the best interests of the U.S. This does mean more wars. I don’t know what evidence you have that war has ever stopped being a condition of humanity, nor do I know what evidence you have that war will ever cease to be a condition of humanity. In the Middle East you have populations who are inherently violent and war-prone that for millennia have tended to suck in other populations who are also inherently violent and war-prone to fight. Europeans and Americans are two populations who fall into the latter category.

I can be more clear about the military. The U.S. has a larger Navy than the navies of all other countries combined. It doesn’t matter how many tanks or foot soldiers your country has, if you can’t project this power abroad. The U.S. Doesn’t have to worry about N. Korea shuttling its 4.5 million soldiers across the pacific in its three frigates. However, countries like Iraq, Iran, N. Korea, and even the Netherlands have little recourse to stop the U.S. from harboring a naval flotilla off their coast and launching an invasion if the U.S. decides that doing so is in its best interest.

During the last half of the 20th century the size of a country’s military by a count of troops became largely irrelevant (especially when cited in wikipedia) compared to the ability of a country to project power through sophisticated weapons technology and naval force.

I have been watching Japan, and the atmospherics there have changed, but unless they start to militarize and expand their navy to be able to control Pacific sea lanes, there is little leverage they have over the U.S.
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By: Burro

Burro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:26:05 +0000

The goal of the war from a broad geo-political perspective was to destabilize the region and prevent a pan-islamic regional power from forming in the Middle East. When you are a global superpower, whose military is larger than all the other militaries on the planet combined you get the luxury of getting to make things your business regardless of what European expats think of it all.

Are your statistics supposed to surprise me? This was a war after all. These numbers look pretty small when you stack them against any major European wars. I am more proud of the soldiers in Iraq than I am of the ones that have been babysitting Europeans for the last 60 years.

Be careful not to confuse ignorance for sarcasm.
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By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:41:25 +0000

At least the War in Iraq actually created some jobs for soldiers and private contractors, and that wasn’t even the purpose of the War.
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Are you insane or do you want to show off your ignorance Burro?
What was the purpose of the war, the goals? Are they reached.
Obama have maybe 2 solutions, you have one solution: blame it on Obama – probably he started the war in Iraq as well..))
Here some plain facts about Iraq:
-1,000,000 widowed women according to a statistic published by the
Iraqi woman’s ministry in 2008
-4,000,000 orphan child (estimated by the ministry of planning if the average of the Iraqi family is 4-6 children)
-2,500,000 killed (according to the statistics of the Iraqi ministry of health and the forensic medicine (morgues) till December 2008)
-800,000 missing (according to the ministry of anterior till December 2008)
-320,000 prisoners inside the USA and government jails (the USA announced the presence of 120,000 prisoners inside their jails)
-4,500,000 refugees outside Iraq (according to the statistics of people who requested the new passport G)
-2,500,000 displaced inside Iraq (according to the Iraqi ministry of immigration and refugees)
-76,000 cases of HIV (according to the Iraqi ministry of health) (it was 114 cases before the war)
-40% of the Iraqi people are under the line of poverty (according to the statistics of the Iraqi human rights’ ministry)
-126 foreign security companies (registered at the Iraqi ministry of anterior)
-43 armed militias (registered at the Iraqi ministry of anterior and ministry of defense)
Well, it’s really frightening. Just look well at the numbers of orphans, widowed, killed and missing and you would certainly know why I said where are going to have a social crisis.
Are you still proud about the USA soldiers there, doing their jobs?
Shame on you.
If Sji’ets and Soenniets wants to kill each other, thats their problem. Its none of your business. But the USA invasion made everything 100x worse.
Again, what was the goal of the war? you see the results.
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By: burro

burro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:28:46 +0000

2 trillion is a drop in the bucket for Obama. At least the War in Iraq actually created some jobs for soldiers and private contractors, and that wasn’t even the purpose of the War. Obama spends about a trillion dollars to create some jobs and the unemployment rate seems to just hold steady.

The deficits that Bush ran to pay for the War in Irag were still low by historical standards as a percentage of GDP, and at least that money went into the pockets of good, honest, hardworking, defense contractors, oil companies, Halliburton, and the soldiers. I’d rather see govt. money go to Halliburton than GM and the UAW.

Hans: Barack Obama has 2 solutions for any problem 1. blame Bush. 2. give a speech. Both solutions are getting pretty old already.
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By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:48:15 +0000

Burro: the Bush administration caused the enormous debth!
Iraq, ca 2 trillion and counting…
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