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ORIGINAL: sub4hire
You do realize if they kept records someone somewhere is probably burning the American flag every moment of every day?

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ORIGINAL: smilezz

Ohhhh I don't know. I think NOTHING may be better.

While I realize I am a small person in the whole scape of things.........who here has read the Bill of Rights lately? the US Constitution lately? welllllll, I have, as a matter of fact, I have been reading them every single day so that I can hopefully one day have it ALL in memory.

This right here...brings tears to my eyes.

~We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTITUTE A NEW GOVERNMENT, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.~

I am not a very Political person, and I certainly can not argue/debate Politics......but sometimes it's worth taking a step back and be amazed at our Country.....regardless of how each and every one of use believe or vote.

Gaaddzzz....I was not going to get into this......

Happy Thursday!!

-smilezz-

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Afghanistan had the al qaeda terrorist training camps and gave Bin Laden sanctuary. Maybe technically Afghanistan didn't attack the US or its embassies but it enabled the attack to take place. Saddam never attacked the US which is why every country under the sun realizes it needs nukes to protect itself from the US.

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Uhhh smilezz,  check the top of the page again of that document you quoted.
I believe you will find it is niether the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights, but rather that it is the Declaration of Independance.

The Constitution begins We the People of the United states of America In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice and promote domestic traquility, provide for the common defense, support the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution of the united States of America.

The Bill of Rights is the First 10 Ammendments.

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Saddam never attacked the US which is why every country under the sun realizes it needs nukes to protect itself from the US.

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ORIGINAL: Archer

As to why Desert Storm ended before ousting Saddam, The Desert Storm coallition was formed under the UN for the purpose of removing raqi troops from Kuwait. That goal had been achieved. The lawyers thought hey now all we had "permission" to do was remove them to actually take over Iraq would be overreaching the authorized scope of the UN Resolution. It was a legal/ lawyers council that Bush Sr figured was right.

So when the cease fire was signed Saddam was allowed to stay in power. That cease fire agreement specified that Saddam had 30 days to comply with the WMD provisions. To destroy and give a complete accounting of the destruction. so Saddam Violated the cease fire agreement on day 31 every day after that was grace granted to him.
The Offcial Policy Making the goal of the US was to remove and replace Saddam was written by none other than Bill (Slick Willie) Clinton.

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Although I agree that a lot of lives were lost between both wars if I remember corectly the reason why our troops were stopped durring desert storm was because the country of Iraq the UN and the US had reached an agreement that Iraq had 10 years to comply to.  If memory serves they did not fullfill the treaty obligations within the time frame and refused to do so therby breaking the agreement with the U.S and the U.N. If I remember they had a lot of political babbel going on at the time that was crap but the underlining issue was wether or not a nation could be allowed to "break treaty" and have no backlash from it.  The U.N. said yes and the U.S. said no it wasnt exceptable and under the treaty agreement the U.S. was automatically at war with Iraq. All the stuff about U.N. inspections was crap because they were still in violation of the treaty even with nothing being found. I believe Clinton also ordered several strikes against Iraq durring his presidency.  But, that is just memory... didnt look anything up.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

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Saddam never attacked the US which is why every country under the sun realizes it needs nukes to protect itself from the US.

I guess you don't consider attempting to assassinate a former U.S. President to be an attack on the U.S., but it is.  I also consider 10+ years of firing at U.S. aircraft legally enforcing a treaty to also be an attack.  The world is better off without Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic sons in it.