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Originally Posted by Mastiff
Oh yes, finally we have oil, but the US isn't short on natural resources either. It's just that your wise, free enterprise loving leadership have decided to spend billions of dollars on wars to stop imaginary weapons of mass destructions (I actually think that Afghanistan was necessary - Norway is there with a contingent of special forces, including Norwegian version of Navy SEALS that actually are considered one of the best special forces in the world, but Iraq was a joke where your previous monkey brained president was lead by big business and a war mongering vice president) and lots of idiotic counter terrorism measures that doesn't really work but erodes privacy (even though MacDonald's kill a thousand times more people in the US then al-Quaida will ever manage to) and propping up a failing state in the Middle East (Israel would probably make peace with the palestinians within two months if the US could break free of the christian right and other lobby groups and just stop paying them money) and so on, and so on.
And if you from this tirade are deducing that I am a left extremist, you're wrong. I'm very much in the conservative camp here in Norway, but conservative in Norway means a bit to the left of the liberal Democrats camp in the US. I would elect John Stewart for president if I could! Don't get me wrong, I've been to the US several times, I drive a Chevy Suburban (converted to LPG because that's 1/3 of the gasoline price since it pollutes a lot less) and have an Oldsmobile Starfire '78 (which I'm working on getting a Buick V6 Turbo engine into - bought on eBay from Michigan). But I do think that big business is running too much in the US, and you have seen what that leads to.
OK, I'm going to put my flameproof PJ's on now, I'm sure I will need it. I hope I will not be chased from the forum with a stick, though...  |
LOL ...you nailed it! I love your description of Bush; and I'm a big fan of Jon Stewart.
