226: Keep it to Yourself

[Ren]

>>Originally Posted by mcd He side-stepped the UN, and went ahead with this war despite worldwide opposition and insufficient intelligence.

Spooky > now thats sort of a lie....france and germany are hardly worldwide opposition. we had the entire world, with the exception of a small minority of countries that were PROVEN to be in the pocket of Saddam

I think that this is correct only in a sense. The US move was supported or at least not blocked by the representatives of many countries. However if I remember correctly polls of popular opinion at the time, certainly in Europe, put the majority of the population (taking the EU as a whole) as being against the US move.

In short, at the time the majority of States in Europe supported the US the majority if the people opposed them.

Here is a sample news story from the BBC from the time with some poll data:
Polls find Europeans oppose Iraq war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2747175.stm

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by spooky

im not a right wing nut job or anything, but yeah, i dont believe you can spend your way to prosperity, and i believe local government should be empowered, and federal government limited.

I truly wish this administration thought this way. But they just aren't fiscal conservatives, not in any stretch of the term.