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We did go to Afghanistan in response to 9/11, before we ever even went to Iraq. Now you aren't making since, first you say he's "doubled down in Afghanistan" in a negative manner like he shouldn't and now you are saying "If there's something stil left to be done in Afghanistan, do it and leave." Which one do you want him to do? Finish up the job which requires "doubling down" on the effort or walk off and leave it? Make up your mind.
Afghanistan should not take 8+ years to wrap up. If he had said "give me two months," then maybe I could give him a pass. Instead, he seems to be content with perpetual occupation, and with a higher level of troops than before.
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It was well worth going to Iraq to get Saddam out of power, he was an unstable dictator with a cache of weapons and money that could be used to inflict damage on the US through supporting terrorists and giving them training, money and weapons. I think Iraq was well worth it
Fine, whatever. I have learned that people who believe it is our job to invade foreign nations because "we're the good guys" cannot be convinved otherwise. But, we're going to gave to return to the draft and tax our citizens at 80%+ to have a military large enough to occupy every square inch of "bad guy" occupied land in the world.
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The great depression was caused by 1) the stock market crashing on black tuesday due to the government allowing capitalism to run free, thank God the Feds came up with the Securities and Exchange commision to govern this now, we have't had a break down since and 2) Bank failures caused once again by capitalism running unchecked by the feds, thank god for FDIC now so if it happens again these deposits will be reimbursed to their holders and 3) Severe drought 4) People afraid to spend money. Not one place can you find in history that the great depression was caused by the government manipulating interest rates and markets because they didn't do that much back in those days and unfortunely the Feds have to now because the past system didn't work.
Completely and totally wrong.
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How did Obama change it for the worse? Any change at all was better than what we had going.
No. The government now has way too much control over healthcare which will make create an inferior product in the long run.
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You can't always hit the bulls eye on the first throw but you don't hit anything if you don't throw at all.
What a silly platitude. As I said earlier, we give children "an 'A' for effort," not presidents. Stealing trillions from taxpayers and then saying "well, I tried" is not acceptable.