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NuclearAntelope
United States1369 Posts
On June 06 2004 12:55 naventus wrote: What's your point? Anyone could do what they "thought" was right. Whether it's right or not is a different story. isn't it also your opinion whether its right or not? | ||
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JaeIsGod
Netherlands199 Posts
On June 06 2004 12:18 XG3 wrote: When any 93 year old dies, everyone should give a shit regardless of who it is. How many 93 year olds were useful for the last xx years? His legacy is there and because he was one of the most charismatic and loved presidents of the USA ever. When a nation's favorite leader dies, it's sad and that's why there is reason for mourning. Nobody expects someone dutch to mourn his death, of course...it's a national thing. When someone lived to be 93, I see no reason to be sad cause that person lived a very long life and it's about bloody time he/she died :D Also, I find it strange how people mourn for somebody they probably never even met and who didnt have the slighest influence in their lifes at the moment they died. With Reagan dead, the lifes of 99.99999999% of the americans will be exactly the same, so I still don't get why people care =] | ||
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naventus
United States1339 Posts
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Arbiter[frolix]
United Kingdom2674 Posts
Reagan waged war not only on communism, but on terrorism, most visibly in 1986 when he sent jets to bomb Libya in retaliation for the death of Americans in a Berlin dance club. Libya was not behind the Berlin bomb attack. | ||
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Tien
Russian Federation4447 Posts
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StoneR
Spain1252 Posts
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XG3
United States544 Posts
On June 06 2004 13:17 JaeIsGod wrote: When someone lived to be 93, I see no reason to be sad cause that person lived a very long life and it's about bloody time he/she died :D Also, I find it strange how people mourn for somebody they probably never even met and who didnt have the slighest influence in their lifes at the moment they died. With Reagan dead, the lifes of 99.99999999% of the americans will be exactly the same, so I still don't get why people care =] Because when somebody dies, it's sad regardless of who it is. The people mourning this are the people who admired him during his presidency, not the youth. I was born during his presidency and don't remember him at all, so I'm not exactly "mourning" as in crying about it..but I still respect him as a great president and thus am sad that he died. In conclusion it's sad when anyone dies, especially someone you've seen and admired for decades. Fucking Europeans i swear...have to make everything more complicated than it is. | ||
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StoneR
Spain1252 Posts
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STIMEY d okgm fish
Canada6140 Posts
On June 06 2004 09:54 Countdown wrote: I wasn't commenting to your post. I was letting you know that I couldn't read what you wrote. Durr... saying u cant read it is a comment u conservative. its a part of your constant propaganda campaign to say that i cant write anything intelligble. dont act like u dont know the context you fucking troll. ddrop dead | ||
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Clutch3
United States1344 Posts
On June 05 2004 19:40 Capt. Moroni wrote: SDI: Reagan's much derided "Star Wars program" not only helped convince the Soviets that they couldn't compete with America, but the missile defense system we're going to have working (at least in a rudimentary form) possibly as early as 2004, is an outgrowth of the program Reagan promoted. Oh dear. The missile defense shield is a $130 billion (and counting) boondoggle. It's ridiculously expensive, doesn't work, is de-stabilizing, and doesn't address any of the major security threats to anyone. You'd have thought that after 9/11 showed us how the new war on terrorism is going to be fought (at least from their side), that Republicans would consider taking some of this money and using it to beef up homeland security, but no, the missile-shield-that-doesn't-work continues apace. Why aren't people outraged about this?! You don't think a "rogue nation" with the capability of launching an ICBM at us can also smuggle a nuke (or Ebola??) into the country in a suitcase? Am I missing something here? And the thing doesn't even work! They had to put a GPS transponder in their "mock warhead" as recently as two years ago to make it work even for a single test!! What a load of crap! You can argue the politics, but the thing doesn't work. And it's cost us about $450 per American citizen already. Isn't there a better way to spend that money if you want to fight terrorism? http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/missile_defense/page.cfm?pageID=600 | ||
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