BeaverFever

What exactly are “the many socialist and communist programs” you’re referring to and what evidence do you have that these programs are being used primarily by “third world immigrants” or that these programs cost “hundreds of billions of dollars”? These claims sound suspicious.

Hi all! Long-time lurker, First-time poster. At least one fiddle-playing canine here will recognize me and my handle from another forum. Not really sure about dividing my time between two sites but finally lost the urge to bite my tongue. With all due respect to the quoted poster above, I’ve never heard anything more ridiculous than the above quoted comments. I have to echo to the question by another forum member of how old are you. Obama did not “inherit a relatively normal Middle East”. That’s like saying Churchill inherited a ‘relatively normal Europe.’ Or that Nixon inherited a “relatively normal Vietnam”. Obama took office in 2009 and inherited a war in Iraq started by Bush that was in its sixth (6th) year. A war that Bush and the Republicans started in 2003 and sold to the American people with a promise that US troops would be greeted as liberators, home in a matter of months if not weeks, and would involve minimal casualties. A war where Republicans fabricated evidence of Iraq possessing WMDs and cooperating with AlQaeda. A war where Republicans screamed that Democrats and anyone else who dared to question their lies and challenge their invasion were traitors. That Republican war in Iraq was started by Bush/Cheney under false pretences and justified with intentionally fabricated/manipulated evidence. And it lead to the death and disability of thousands of US troops and over a million Iraqi citizens. It also lead to the creation of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the precursor to ISIS, whose founder and spiritual leader was released from custody under Bush/Cheney Plus Obama inherited another war in Afghanistan (justified IMO) which Bush started in 2001 but failed to conclude decisively It is also absolutely ridiculous to claim that US was peaceful or not racially divided prior to Obama. Anyone old enough to remember the years before Obama would instinctively understand everything I just described. These days, the portion of society most actively “devoted to genocide and the enslavement of religious minorities” seem to be the right wing extremists and white supremacists locking up kids in cages, shooting up mosques, mailing bombs, plotting to kidnap governors and the like. And when Trump loses I’m fairly certain there will be more So the question to the quoted poster of ‘How old are you” seems especially relevant