Originally Posted by
Beefy
I know Ron Paul will not win. I know this, but I think his message is worth hearing, and worth being addressed. And thus far, of all the viable candidates in both parties, I would hope for Mike Huckabee, but I will likely be voting third party again this time around.
Huckabee seems to me to be a decent and honest man, and wouldn't THAT be a refeshing change. And the fact that he's a Republican would prevent the rubber stamping of bills through congress and certainly be cause for less spending (unless, by some miracle, the (R) should win back the congress in '08. In such an event, I would hope for Obama for the same reason.)
And Larry, I'm very familiar with history, and one, giant, glaring difference between the American Revolution, the the War in Iraq, is that the American Revolution was grown organically, and was won because there was a clear organic cause inspired by the people actually fighting and instigating the war. It's not as if some other country invaded us, overthrew any British power, occupied us, then "let" us self govern while they watched over us with machine guns.
Not only that but the swearing in of George Washington was not the initial self governance of this country, and the country wasn't being occupied by a foreign power in the meantime. There were the Articles of Confederation, which proved to be ineffective, and the government then adopted the Constitution at a later date, under which Washington was sworn in as the 1st president.
The American Revolution, and the Iraq War are so far apart, they're not even not in the same ball park, they're not even the same sport.
A more appropriate analogy would be to compare it to Viet Nam, which has far more similarities to this conflict than any other American War.
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