Political opinions are opinions. Asking others to evaluate them is silly. Keep your own opinions.

But how else will he fit in if people don't like his opinions! He could have a mental breakdown.

He said numerous times there were evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which they didn't.

12% still isn't very much... Nationalism is much more likely to rise up in Russia because of people's want for former "glory" (if you can call it that) and stability.

I almost forgot to mention that a few members of some U.S. Consulate in Mexico were murdered along with a few of the family members that were traveling with them. It irks me on how we're fighting a bunch of terrorists on the other side of the hemisphere and yet we have Drug Cartels with the same capabilities that are stationed right below us.

just encrypt your Utorrent/bittorrent client traffic, simple, and stops them knowing how many linux distros you download.

They had chemical weapons.

Though he severely exaggerated and overestimated the potency of them.

Putin is Ex-KGB, that's why some aren't keen on him, and this isn't Fallout. Nukes to completely destroy areas is impossible unless we all have relplivas of the Tsar Bomba.

(Imformation correct at time of press (04 Jul 09))

president bush...
he took iraq like this

and turned it to this

And it was said that in 1945, we had enough to destroy the earth more than 4 times.

Aye caramba.

I don't understand.

You say Bush wasn't "bad." Then you list some wholly awful things about him.

Neither is 37 percent. Regardless I don't have much faith in russia's pretender of a duma and I wouldn't be surprised if it was manipulated (the oligarchs run everything else, anyway).

Russian nationalism will only last as long as the west bullies Russia and capitalism doesn't take a big shit all over the russian working class. As soon as capitalism has a crisis, people won't be looking towards the russian nationalists who presided over it and helped cause it. Russian communists are the only real, non-opportunist alternative to plutocratic, careerist parties such as united russia.

First of all, I personally believe that your view on Obama vs. McCain is more or less completely wrong. McCain had his problems, however he had some serous shit to make up for that Ex. http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/...n-account.html he refused to leave until the other P.O.W.s were freed. He also had significant amounts of experience in gov't. Obama on the other hand had only 140 something days in office as a senator, thus having basically no experience. Another this to address all the posts above this one regarding the amount of nukes it would take to destroy humankind, we have sufficient nuclear material to fuck up the planet bad enough to kill most of us and ruin life for the rest of us.

The thing about nukes though isn't that you have to kill everyone with the blast, the effect on the area from the nukes are far more deadly than the blast.

A nuke in the city-core would render the city inhospitable, the water supply would become radiated, and the fallout that would be swept away with the wind would cover even larger distances.

Nukes won't kill humanity, it will kill nature.

Well I agree with the oligarchy thing, Russia is one corrupt shithole...

I'm sorry the "west bullies russia?"?!?

Capitalism has had numerous crises, and look how they turned out, just more economic growth and quality of life growth... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_depression

If I remember correctly Gustav Stressemann brought Germany back from the ridiculous reparation costs and fixed the economy through capitalism.

People will turn to nationalism, they turned to communism, its nationalism's turn now and it will be horrible.

also, maybe you should've read about the liberal party of Russia, just because people know and understand that communist economic theory doesn't work and that communism is bullshit doesn't mean they're greedy bastards

The west tries to repress russia's resurgence by expanding NATO into its sphere of influence and pushing it into a corner.

American living standards only rose after it became the leading capitalist superpower, the great depression has nothing to do with it. If anything, it just shows that capitalism needs war to survive.

yea by piggybacking the US's economic explosion (though that's not really fixing german economy, that's putting it into a position neo-colonies were in). germany fell back into economic crisis once more with the great depression. also it was still paying huge amounts of reparations after his administration.

you're repeating yourself and you're flying in the face of reality. there are no 'turns' for ideologies, there are only reasons for its power. and i already explained the reason for russian nationalism's prevalence.

strawman. i never said anything about communist economic theory or how you're a greedy bastard for not believing in it.

also dude...russia's liberal democratic party is farther to the right then united russia. FYI that's a big accomplishment

Like in Dubai.

The only thing I liked about Bush was that he was a hardcore, take no shit from nobody guy.

Bush had more boxforts then Facepunch combined.

oh yea, exploiting construction contracts for laborers. fuck yea

"Osama Bin Laden determined to attack within US" was the title of a memo he received prior to the attack. And that's just the title, imagine all the crazy intel he'd get had someone actually read it.

Well it ain't war.

not much better i guess, but you're right.

though i guess we could say the richer people there benefit from war indirectly

Russia basically is being a dick right now.
Using their own company Gazprom they're nationalizing fucking everything in terms of Oil. Yet BP and Shell still want some after getting fucked in the ass. It's been compared to a rape victim thanking his rapist for not being so rough, and then going into buisness with him. The Georgia ordeal is just Russia testing the bars on its cage.

They oughta be. World War Two is what put us on the map and the results basically dictated American foreign policy until the collapse of the Soviet Union...

American living standards rose because of economic development, the more money is pumped into circulation (not inflation), the more jobs there are, thus there is more money for everyone. That is a very simple explanation but whatever. The only reason NATO is doing that is to protect Europe from Russia's resurgence in neo-imperialism. Yeah thats biased as hell, but seriously they're just testing the boundaries, especially when the overreacted to Georgia's invasion of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. I'd rather we have NATO in europe than Russia getting too much power. Russia has never and will never understand democracy, how to treat people and "freedom". Just look at Russia's history... Autocracy of the Tsars, Autocracy of the Soviet Union, Oligarchy of the Russian Federation. It will never change, and that is my greatest worry concerning Russia.

It still brought the economy back right? You're forgetting that he managed to get the Locarno Treaties signed and the Kellog-Brandt pact signed. Two major treaties that helped bring back Germany's economy. While Stressemann may have piggybacked the economic explosion, it certainly helped Germany, giving a higher quality of life and so on. That is why it wasn't a neo-colony.

There are turns for ideology, what i'm saying is that Both world wars have been started largely by nationalism and many young men with nothing to do. Just look at Europe, there is intense nationalism everywhere (or at least growing). Look at Front Nationale in France they have 20% of the vote, A neo-nazi presidential candidate in Austria, young Russians turning to nationalist ideas, the list goes on.

Sorry i didn't check about the liberal party i just assumed, anyway fair-russia is more what i was talking about.

You said that communism is non-careerist and so on. That may be true, but its not true to human nature, people are never going to be all about non-profit and for the good of everyone. Every person wants personal gain above all whether they care to admit it or not. Collectivization didn't work because of just that. People want different things and people do things differently. Some are lazy, some are hard working... some want money, some want other things.