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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
host, with all due respect, as I have said many times...one reason I stay out of the politics forum is that some people will not just let a person have a belief without backing it up with pages of quotes from somebody else.....I personally dont find it necessary....if you told me you still believed in the easter bunny I would, as my personality is, accept that without scads of what you call "proof for why you feel that way"
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But if you still believe in the Easter bunny and you're a legal adult, then there are issues here.
Politics, like other grown up subjects, is not something where you can just decide that whatever you would like to believe is, in fact, what really is. If you don't have at least some sort of fact to back up your opinion then, yes, politics is not the forum for you, because no one's going to be impressed with groundless supposition.
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I have never said Bush or his administration was perfect....but I see the reason for being in Iraq, and more importantly as was stated in his address to the nation last nite....so do Americans as 1.4 (I think he said 1.4 maybe it was 1.3) million americans have voluntarily joined since 9/11/01.
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See, here it's better because you're taking an actual fact (this is what Bush said) and interpreting it.
But you're wrong
1.4 million Americans have joined up voluntarilly. The population of the USA is around 273 million. So a statistically insignificant half-a-percent of the country has decided the war is a good thing. Now here's my counter-fact. The latest poll shows that 56% of Americans think the war in iraq was a mistake.
http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm