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08-30-09 03:40 PM |
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Originally Posted by Aramike
(Post 1162122)
Every single national leader in the world is going to make policy decisions that affect the lives (and deaths) of others.
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Politics is unimportant when discussing either person; the simple fact of the matter is that lives were lost (in both cases) because of reckless stupidity and flawed decision-making. The focus issue, however, is which person's bad decision cost more?
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Originally Posted by Aramike
but people with this particularly pointless thought process would handicap every leader's decision making process if they have their way.
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Hardly, when it's substantiated by factual reason. But what was the reason for the Iraq War? Afghanistan I can understand, because we knew for a good two decades that terrorist militant groups operated there.
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Originally Posted by Aramike
What Kennedy did was not a policy decision - it was personal misbehavior.
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Well... the effect seems to be the same... for Kennedy and Bush. Again, the politics are irrelevant in the end. Quite simply, both men's bad decisions got people killed. That's what matters to me.
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And the fact that you have to stretch all the way to Bush and Iraq shows an odd desperations to justify a man simply because you share a political ideology.
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I never said what Kennedy did was right nor did I attempt to justify it as you claim; I already said I agreed that it was a horrid decision on his part and I did not condone it. I just find it odd that people like August can call a person like Kennedy a "sociopath" so freely for his one s*** decision which ended up in getting one person killed, yet he/they completely blow over the one s*** decision a person like Bush made that ended up in getting thousands of people killed.
Furthermore, I'm a Social Democrat, but that doesn't make me a member of the Democratic Party. I do agree with you that they and Obama are using Kennedy's death to push their agenda for health care reform. HOWEVER, do not be so quick to forget that Bush and the Republican Party used 9/11 to push their agenda for going to war with Iraq. My point being, both sides are filled with s*** and both sides will use whatever they can to try and gain victory. They both disgust me.
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Wrong. I'm not a Republican.
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Then what are you?
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Furthermore, I have a problem with ANYONE who'd do such a thing, and I for damned sure would say the same thing.
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Well at least we agree on something then.
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My morality isn't guided by my political views, unlike you I suppose.
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Not quite, but this also makes us similar in another manner.
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