Death Penalty

[Benton]

(09-05-2015, 11:58 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You would be correct.  However, I was 32 with a family on 911.  I thought seriously of enlisting, that very day.

Just because I didn't go over and serve, does not mean that I don't have the utmost respect for those who have.  What I have a problem with, is the way the government sent all of our forces over there, but never let them finish the task, particularly our current regime.  What has Obama's withdrawl of US forces led to?  The rise of ISIS, who executes anyone and everyone that does not conform to their ideals.  So, when someone here in the USA, wants to cry about death penalty here in this Nation, I really think that they don't know how good they actually have it.

Huh? The previous "regime" started a boots on the ground war, declared victory and then spent several years.... I don't know what. Supposedly there was already a victory, so I don't know why there were any troops still there when this "regime" took over.

As far as the rest of it, the withdrawal had nothing to do with ISIS. Go back a few decades to when we were arming most of the region under Reagan and agreeing to trade protection for oil to the Saudis. That's got nothing to do with Obama, it just happened to come to a head a decade before he took office. 

You don't like democrats. That's ok. Or you don't like Obama. That's ok, too. But blaming him for Middle East issues that started before the 70s and were mishandled for profit by the previous administration (because let's face it, Haliburton and a lot of Bush's buds made a shit ton of money off the current war) on Obama is silly.

And it's got zero to do with the death penalty.