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• • 15 Jun 06
  • 12:19 pm

  We should absolutely pull out and the quicker, the better. One must understand that there has been an exchange of hostilities between one faction or another raging in that region of the world virtually unabated for over 5,000 years now...to say that the United States pulling out now would cause the Iraqi's to spiral into a civil war is nonsense. The Persian/Arab culture of warfare will not be disentangled by any outside coercian---be it overt or otherwise. We are in a no-win situation...that region of the world actually needs the brutality of a Saddam Hussien to keep a lid on things. …

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• • 18 Jun 06
  • 11:10 am

  I am more concerned about the inept leadership in control of this countries future. There is only one real solution to this problem---rather than spending $9,000,000,000 (Billion!) [i]per month[/i] on an illegial war in Iraq--a war that enriches Bush and his cronies while at the same time destoying the very fabric of this nation--we, as a nation, should focus our resources on bringing Mexico's economy up to a level comparable with Canada's and our own. Until Mexico's economy is on a par with our own, no amount of barrier fence or number of border guards will stop the influx of non-American …

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• • 01 Jul 06
  • 3:35 pm

  Round up 11,000,000 people? Dream on. And how many prisons shall we build? Let's get real, for starters.

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• • 10 Jul 06
  • 1:09 am

  Who knows? Certainly not you--the number is nowhere near 30 million! There are around 11 million undocumented, or illegial, aliens in this country at the present time. That is a fact. The Bush/Cheney gov't does know, as did the Clinton Administration before them, the Bush Administration before that, the Reagan Adminstration prior to that...and so on and so forth.And they have been crossing the border into this country long before Vincente Fox was elected, so your allegation that Fox sent them here is also wrong. I can tell by your posts you've not given the situation any real thought--you are merely …

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