President Obama's trip......did it accomplish any thing? ( Archived) (122)

the terrorists were Saudis Very narrow minded thinking on the former president's part-to concentrate efforts into 2 countries, when terrorism is global That type of thinking has given the terrorists about a 6 year head start in other countries. Luckily President Obama pointed this out earlier in his presidency-how asinine (not his words) and backwards the thinking was. By concentrating efforts on 2 useless wars that did not do anything but line pockets and kill people, we've let them thrive elsewhere.

gwb had other alternatives than to start wars right off the bat-IF he hadn't been thinking about the golden opportunities that awaited his "friends".

Yes but why wasn't Saudi Arabia attacked then???? That's where the terrorists were from who carried out 911...Nobody to date has ever answered this question??????

i'll answer it...cos they have to keep in good there to be able to build their freaking pipeline

scuse me tom.......that wasnt a war...that was a strike......you didnt see any afghani airforce planes (now thats a kinda weird mental image) flying in after it and raiding america now did we????????

you didnt see australia going and raiding bali after the bali bombing did we????

There clearly was an agenda there, and in some circles Iraq was unfinished business.

After 9/11 they used this opportunity to blame Saddam's regime and looked for any concealed excuse to justify military action.

The UN weapons inspectors said no WMD's Colin Powell in my opinion disgraced his former uniform by lying, and i'll say this plainly...he lied about evidence that he said the intelligence services had given him.

MI5 and MI6 briefed out Government that there was no reliable evidence, and what their was unquote "unreliable and unstubstantiated".

These words are damning in Intelligence circles, and then Intelligence personnel then prefaced any comments they made after that to ensure they couldn't be blamed as scapegoats as the poor CIA were blamed, when they were hung out to dry.

There were no targets to Bomb in Afghanistan, and it's hard to blame someone with no evidence to get public opinion, and if the so called war on terror were that serious a political conviction to GWB why was i after 9/11 were American Special Forces deployed to the Pakistani/Iraqi border for over a month.

Funny as i know exactly how quick this could have been done in, and it sure as crap doesn't take a month or longer!

Yesssssssss...but then that gets Tom out of answering it...and this question always gets evaded every time I ask it...If this war was indeed about 911....Should Saudi Arabia not have been the country that the U.S. invaded???????



The lack of answer is obvious...because it was never about 911 that's why...How could it have been when the attacking terrorists didn't even come from either country that was invaded?????

It seems obvious to me that both Russia and China want to weaken the authority and credibility of the new USA President as soon as possible - for their own reasons.

The exploration of space for peaceful means is a right for countries, but the UN decided to take away that right from North Korea as North Korea has several times reneged on nuclear agreements it has made in the past.

What are the motivations of Russia and China to immediately pull the rug from under Obama's feet when he had just called for unity in condemning North Korea's missile space launch?

It's not Obama's fault that Russia and China wish to weaken Obama's leading role in relatively free and democratic countries.

Obama's ability to understand where both Russia and China are coming from and succeed in coming to some of 'business relationship' with these two fairly silent super powers will be his real test over time.

Unfortunately, the USA is NOT the only super power.......... although this was the common misconception over the last few years since the collapse of the 'Iron Curtain'.

We ignore the REAL threat of an expansionist Russia and a China resentful of the west for taking away their meteoric growth rates and newly found prosperity for millions of ordinary people(many Chinese rightly or wrongly blme us for their present problems).

Russia is a proud country that demands respect.

The Chinese are an industrious people with very long-term plans for the future.

I repeat that we ignore these two very powerful nations with their own ambitions at our peril - they pose a far greater threat than a bunch of terrorists blowing up a few buildings and even killing a few thousand people ever could....... millions could die if a good working relationship based on respect and mutual distrust is not quickly worked out with these two super powers!

rusty you just scared the pants off tom.....

i know sorry doll!! bloody me havin to shoot my mouth off when i get on a roll