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Nearly a trillion dollars have been spent on the war on terrorism.
After 9-11, in an attempt to end terrorism and bring peace to the middle east, the President of the United States started a war. What if he had instead, poured out over the course of 7 years a TRILLION DOLLARS into Iraq and Afghanistan? In programs and in trade agreements and even direct wealth gains to the ruling class and citizens, essentially buying the country, as the 51st state. If that were the case, do you think the problems of the middle east, terrorism and American & world-wide safety would be better or worse then they are today?
What the American people have done is agreed to pay for a war, when they could have bought peace.
This country is very wealthy. Not everyone is, but those who are like to live in nice surroundings and they have created comfortable cities around us all. But the ruling class, which we elect to serve as our representatives are supposed to have peace as their ultimate agenda. That statement is truism. I do not think anyone would argue that we, as Americans, expect the powers which run our country to be promoters of peace. And we should understand, by powers of logic alone, that you cannot use war as a means to promote peace. It’s not conscientiously allowed. A peaceful person wouldn’t war with another. They would find another way to solve the problem.
Now if the president had asked congress and the American citizens to pay, a trillion dollars in taxes, for the purchase of a country they wished to have good relations with, would you accept it? Literally hundreds of billions of dollars could be paid out, in wealth appropriations, to all the right people and the good relations would spawn an economic boom in the region, which Iraqi & American industry would benefit from. And this would be following soon after the attack of 9-11; so world sympathy would be high and then world opinion of the U.S. would soar. That’s what you can do if you are a country of great wealth. You can buy favor and possibly peace with an opponent.
Instead, the president sold us a war. And now, 6 years later, peace is not established in the region. Safety of America from terrorism is not guaranteed by his solution. And the only people benefiting from the war are those who are waging and promoting it.
The truth is, neither paying for war nor trying to buy peace is a good solution to ending terrorism. And I don’t think the American citizens would approve the ‘buying off’ of a nation as a good solution. But then, why was a war approved and not a peace effort; remembering that war cannot be used as a method of peace? The answer is; war was not approved. Congress, our voice in the checked and balanced system we believed we had was circumvented. This is a rouge President.
In our government, he is the man who must answer to what mistakes are made during his presidency. Why? Because we believe that we are appointing him to make these decisions for himself! So, nearly everyone aggress that the war was a mistake. We were sold this war by incorrect data on Hussein’s involvement. Which means we must assume either we have completely incompetent intelligence agencies or the President lied about the data. Assuming either, the mistakes of this President; waging war based on bad data, and then not acting to end the war based on bad data and punish those responcible for the bad data, rest on his shoulders alone.
The good faith the country of Iraq (and the World, for that matter) had in America after 9/11 was squandered and now taken advantage of. And in my opinion, it is the President who will answer to his mistakes but American citizens will share the fault of not ending this war. We have a voice and we have impeachment powers for not only the President but for our representatives, as well.
If a Senator or Representative does not vote and actively pursue an IMMEDIATE end to this war, we must vote them out of office, and replace them with someone who will. It is that simple. Nationwide, I believe mass impeachment proceedings are necessary against anyone in a position of oversight, who is still advocating this war. We must scare the ruling party into hearing our voice, the way they are trying to frighten us into silence.
This is the only way to reach the powers that be, the ones who are making these war decisions for the President. They must hear the voice of Americans who desire peace and not war. They must understand that we know and can use the powers given to us in the Constitution or, that ‘old piece of paper’ as the current President calls it. They must learn that we are a people governed by morality and truth and stop their plans of world subjugation.
They must see and feel the strength of Americans in action.
After 9-11, in an attempt to end terrorism and bring peace to the middle east, the President of the United States started a war. What if he had instead, poured out over the course of 7 years a TRILLION DOLLARS into Iraq and Afghanistan? In programs and in trade agreements and even direct wealth gains to the ruling class and citizens, essentially buying the country, as the 51st state. If that were the case, do you think the problems of the middle east, terrorism and American & world-wide safety would be better or worse then they are today?
What the American people have done is agreed to pay for a war, when they could have bought peace.
This country is very wealthy. Not everyone is, but those who are like to live in nice surroundings and they have created comfortable cities around us all. But the ruling class, which we elect to serve as our representatives are supposed to have peace as their ultimate agenda. That statement is truism. I do not think anyone would argue that we, as Americans, expect the powers which run our country to be promoters of peace. And we should understand, by powers of logic alone, that you cannot use war as a means to promote peace. It’s not conscientiously allowed. A peaceful person wouldn’t war with another. They would find another way to solve the problem.
Now if the president had asked congress and the American citizens to pay, a trillion dollars in taxes, for the purchase of a country they wished to have good relations with, would you accept it? Literally hundreds of billions of dollars could be paid out, in wealth appropriations, to all the right people and the good relations would spawn an economic boom in the region, which Iraqi & American industry would benefit from. And this would be following soon after the attack of 9-11; so world sympathy would be high and then world opinion of the U.S. would soar. That’s what you can do if you are a country of great wealth. You can buy favor and possibly peace with an opponent.
Instead, the president sold us a war. And now, 6 years later, peace is not established in the region. Safety of America from terrorism is not guaranteed by his solution. And the only people benefiting from the war are those who are waging and promoting it.
The truth is, neither paying for war nor trying to buy peace is a good solution to ending terrorism. And I don’t think the American citizens would approve the ‘buying off’ of a nation as a good solution. But then, why was a war approved and not a peace effort; remembering that war cannot be used as a method of peace? The answer is; war was not approved. Congress, our voice in the checked and balanced system we believed we had was circumvented. This is a rouge President.
In our government, he is the man who must answer to what mistakes are made during his presidency. Why? Because we believe that we are appointing him to make these decisions for himself! So, nearly everyone aggress that the war was a mistake. We were sold this war by incorrect data on Hussein’s involvement. Which means we must assume either we have completely incompetent intelligence agencies or the President lied about the data. Assuming either, the mistakes of this President; waging war based on bad data, and then not acting to end the war based on bad data and punish those responcible for the bad data, rest on his shoulders alone.
The good faith the country of Iraq (and the World, for that matter) had in America after 9/11 was squandered and now taken advantage of. And in my opinion, it is the President who will answer to his mistakes but American citizens will share the fault of not ending this war. We have a voice and we have impeachment powers for not only the President but for our representatives, as well.
If a Senator or Representative does not vote and actively pursue an IMMEDIATE end to this war, we must vote them out of office, and replace them with someone who will. It is that simple. Nationwide, I believe mass impeachment proceedings are necessary against anyone in a position of oversight, who is still advocating this war. We must scare the ruling party into hearing our voice, the way they are trying to frighten us into silence.
This is the only way to reach the powers that be, the ones who are making these war decisions for the President. They must hear the voice of Americans who desire peace and not war. They must understand that we know and can use the powers given to us in the Constitution or, that ‘old piece of paper’ as the current President calls it. They must learn that we are a people governed by morality and truth and stop their plans of world subjugation.
They must see and feel the strength of Americans in action.
