<p>why does barack being a muslim scare you???</p>
<p>my parents don’t let me watch that much TV, but i don’t have that much of a problem w/ barack as a muslim. that’s why separated church & state. it might even be an advantage when negotiating w/ the middle east</p>
<p>MlS, are you kidding? Obama isn’t a Muslim, he’s a Christian.</p>
<p>We’re at war with Muslim terrorists. While I seriously doubt that Barack is a terrorist, I don’t know if he’d best represent the US, or how the Middle East would respond to him.</p>
<p>I’ve heard conflicting sources on it. I’ve heard he was raised Muslim and is a convert, but that he took his oath of office on the Quran.</p>
<p>i know that, ::snickers:: im pretty sure he’s in the same church as oprah. i just wanna know why cira would be fearful if that were true.</p>
<p>we are at war for idiocy and oil. religion just makes it interesting. it is not as if he would sell us down the river and bomb his own country. the middle east might lighten up.</p>
<p>So, Cira, you’re pro-war on terrorism? I thought everyone said they were against.</p>
<p>cira dont drink the administration’s kool-aid. we were attacked by extremist and we are supposedly fighting them. barack being muslim and becoming president just to mess us up is a far-fetched idea. and like elmo said seperation of church and state. barack is just out of the box.</p>
<p>why didn’t we just bomb the livinng $hit out of Iraq and assasinate Sadam, and call it good? no more “threat”</p>
<p>btw. looks like i’m elmo now instead of lmoe (last man on earth). mebbe it should’ve been legend:) (from I am Legend)</p>
<p>cuz thousands of innocent people would die and lose their home. and america would be labeled as the cold blooded bastards we are. and no oil. the consequences would be unreal.</p>
<p>“no more threat”? What threat was Sadam in the first place? He wasn’t involved in September Eleventh; he was an enemy of Osama Bin Laden even. i hope you were being sarcastic, elmo. And yes, you’re elmo, learn to love it.</p>
<p>elmo at least uses the same letters. lol. and the i am legend selflessly killed himself. a bit extreme.</p>
<p>edit : bomb the living $hit out of Iraq’s military bases. all i’m suggesting is that we don’t go on a massive land invasion. if i were president i wouldn’t have invaded anyways.</p>
<p>looks like i’m stuck being red and furry. at least i’m cute tho :)</p>
<p>if we had used cool heads in the first place we wouldnt be in this war. and pulling a hiroshima wont fix this.</p>
<p>But, elmo, you still believe that we were justified by going to war with Iraq? </p>
<p>I smell a debate…</p>
<p>No, I’m definitely not. I have a cousin who’s a fighter pilot in Afghanistan now and it sucks. I honestly don’t know what to do about the war- we shouldn’t have started it, but I think we can’t just leave the mess there. I’d hate to say “stay the course,” but there’s no easy or painless way to end it without totally causing chaos there.</p>
<p>Is it just me, or has this topic become 50 pages of pretentious conversation?</p>
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<p>sorry hudson, i will not spark the beast again:). i do NOT believe we should have gone to war with Iraq. i was merely suggesting an alternative if the president went to war anyway. i think we should pull out NOW. leave a few troops to protect the embassy and Peace Corps, but everyone else LEAVE. heck, it’s their country.</p>
<p>cira, better a fighter pilot than infantry. it’s kinda hard to plant a road bomb that’ll blow a mile in the sky. good luck to him and your family tho’</p>
<p>illuminar, it’s just you</p>
<p>What makes it pretentious, illuminar?</p>
<p>Nor I, MLS, I wasn’t trying to argue illuminar, i’m really curious.</p>
<p>ive never been called pretentious. hmm.
and yeah but its their country that we totally f-ed up. we cant just throw down and skip out. what does that say about the U.S., our image.</p>
<p>Uh, like 17 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. Guess which country is the one selling us oil?</p>
<p>The Middle East is so screwed up. People there are ridiculously sensitive to the most ridiculous things. Like the British school teacher they wanted to kill because she named the classroom teddy bear Muhammad, the most common name there? That’s just insane.</p>
<p>Panic, our world image is crap already. There’s not much difference between crap and fermented crap, which is what it would be if we pulled out. However, you know that if we do pull out, someone’s going to pull a military coup and they’d be no better off than when we started.</p>