Just what are the laws that would activate the ICC to prosecute Gadaffi? Doesn't someone have to bring the charges to the ICC? Who is justified in doing that? Not sure how it works, who is charged and who does the charging. But, Godsgift is right: we seem to focus on specific enemies when it comes to leveling accusations, while there are a lot of dictators who are allies (economic ones anyway) who we leave alone.
Well, I wouldn't put it into such extreme terms. I don't blame anyone actually for not wanting to go to Vietnam. We should not have been there and most of the men who died were the poor and uneducated. Men who avoided it in one legal way or another, even those who fled to Canada, I don't have any quarrel with them per se. I believe that those who joined the National Guard were avoiding the draft, yes. I am not saying they were cowards. Not at all. My only point in pointing out that Bush appeared to avoid the draft and avoid Vietnam is that Clinton is accused of the same. If we are going to hold Clinton to this standard, then we must also hold other presidents to it.
I see your point. What comes to mind, however, is that just the act of joining the National Guard rather than enlisting outright shows a desire to avoid going to Vietnam. It is a ploy in itself, joining the National Guard, that a lot of people used to avoid being drafted.
Can you give an example? Because when you ask a question like this, and I read the answers, I see a lot of people many people who do just what you are taking issue with, who, imo,push an agenda and back it up with misleading quotes, links and videos, these people answering this thread and saying people shouldn't do that.
I think people don't see themselves as asking loaded questions or pushing an agenda.
I am not being agressie about anything. All I did was express an opinion about Reagan. I am not the one threatening people. Please, is it really necessary now for a mob attack by the regulars here to drive me off a thread because you don't like my expressing an opiniion. I am not the one being agressive toward anyone. I expressed an opinion about Reagan. Period.
Actually, no. The majority of Americans voted for Al Gore. Bush did not win the popular vote. It is historical fact which I thought everyone was aware of. Bush was not the president by popular vote.
OMG you have issues, but they have nothing to do with me. NOTHING....I don't know you from Adam. I am just expressing my point of view and you are the one who is being very nasty about it. Just leave me alone. Really, threatening people, how nasty is that.
[quote=galrads.... the best president yet has to be number 16, Abe Lincoln, followed close by number 35, John Kennedy. Both had balls but unfortunately pissed off too many people they stood up to believing in what was right and best for the country.
Not bait. I don't do that. Just stating an opinion and what I believe to be fact. Find it rather insulting that you lable an honest and straightforward post as 'bait.'
According to surveys and polls since 1948, most rate Abe Lincoln as 1st or 2nd and FDR as 2nd or 3rd. I would agree with that. They are probably the two best presidents ever.
A 2010 Siena poll of 238 Presidential scholars found that former president George W. Bush was ranked 39th out of 43, with poor ratings in handling of the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. Meanwhile, the current president, Barack Obama was ranked 15th out of 43, with high ratings for imagination, communication ability and intelligence and a low rating for background (family, education and experience).
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