*Sigh* The inalienable rights in the Constitution apply to all humans, not just US citizens.
EEEEENNNNNTTTTT!!! Wrong again! The Constitution is for US citizens on US soil. If they aren't on US soil and aren't US citizens then the Constitution doesn't apply to them. The Geneva Conventions apply to them. And those only give basic rules for civilians and soldiers. Of course, they aren't either, their unlawful combatants.
Elaborate.
I will. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, Saddam Hussein was dropping WMD's on the inhabitants on northern Iraq. Well, the UN doesn't like it when people do that, so they sanctioned an invasion of Iraq by the US lead coalition. Now, America can not just go off invading people like people seem to think we did. Well, Saddam wasn't letting UN weapon finder peeps look for the WMD's that he was dropping on the people in northern Iraq. Now there was another reason to invade. The UN kept pressureing Saddam to let the weapon finders look for the WMD's that he was using. But he refuesed even at the threat of invasion. So, the UN decided to sanction the invasion in March of 2003. Even then he refuesed. So we kept our promise and invaded. Well, we didn't find the weapons because he used his son (Who was the head of weapons development) to bury all of the WMD's so that we couldn't find them. We didn't naturally because they were 10 feet under the earth. And when everyone who may have known were all of the weapons were were dead, we never found most of the weapons. Over time the occasional barrel appeared here and there. And that's why we invaded Iraq.
We are just haveing a rough time, thats all. We are still the most powerful country, so anything bad about us is likely to be worse in alot of other places.
They had abosolutely no constitional rights. Liberals gave them that and liberals want to set all those terrorists free. They are not americans and should not be on american soil.
Everyone should have rights we are all humans. If we torture we are no better then them. If we torture we are breaking the constitution.
BTW, no it's not. It is in cuba and is part of Cuba, and we are just leasing the land for about 4,000 dollars/yr (or month, can't remember which). If they wanted to evict us they would, but, as it stands, they don't care.
America is declining alright. We've got people writing 32 paragraph essays and they can't even punctuate a thread title correctly.
[quote]Genocide caused the war in Iraq.
That was the last reason we went to war. But keep telling yourself lies.[/quote] Genocide didn't cause the war, but would you argue that the US should not have stopped this genocide once discovered?
EEEEENNNNNTTTTT!!! Wrong again! The Constitution is for US citizens on US soil. If they aren't on US soil and aren't US citizens then the Constitution doesn't apply to them. The Geneva Conventions apply to them. And those only give basic rules for civilians and soldiers. Of course, they aren't either, their unlawful combatants.
It is a codified document that the government has to act on, even when not on US soil. So, therefore, GitMo is unconstitutional, because it involves the US government not conforming to it's own rules. --------
unlawful combatants.
EEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTT! Wrong! There was never a trial, so they have therefore, by US law, not technically been deemed as unlawful combatants. Innocent until proven guilty. So, they are civilians until conviction.
Genocide didn't cause the war, but would you argue that the US should not have stopped this genocide once discovered?
It had already been known that he was using chemical weapons on a small scale, and that's against several treaties. The actual genocide was discovered shortly after the invasion.
I would argue we are in "relative decline." This means that we are advancing, but not as fast as other countries. I believe that our economic imperialism has set us back. Imperialism, as every European nation learned, is profitable only for a set amount of time. Once the people start resisting, it becomes a hassle, and leads to the end of empire. US economic imperialism faced its first set back in Vietnam. The rest of the world has resisted US imperialism since then. So we are in decline relative to other nations. But not in an overall decline.
Will the US fall anytime soon? Not a chance. This isn't the Soviet Union where every last dollar was spent on failed campaigns and military. But I do think that US power will begin to wane soon.
Hussein himself where the WMDs. Also to claim that there were any type of Weapons of that power there, the UN would have to get involved which they should be now. We should be having a Global Peace conference to end this war. I mean yea, you know it won't give us peace for long but it's better then nothing and gives us time to reconstruct this government and economy in america.
BTW, no it's not. It is in cuba and is part of Cuba, and we are just leasing the land for about 4,000 dollars/yr (or month, can't remember which). If they wanted to evict us they would, but, as it stands, they don't care.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- First off, we pay 1$ a year/month I forget which for our bases on Cuba. It was a contract drawn up way long ago between us & Cuba, we pay 1$
America is on a decline, mainly because we have a generation of people growing up without having to deal with the hardships that some of our fathers and grandfathers had to deal with. I even see it in myself even though I understand why older generations were the better generations in America. We haven't had to live through a depression, we haven't had to live through world wars, we haven't had to sacrifice much of our lives for anything in particular, so it is easy for us to sit back and have ideas that stretch away from what America was built on. Whenever you might die any given day or get sent to war in either Germany or Japan it is probably much easier to believe in god, or hope for one than it is if you sit here and play flash video games all day. Pretty much what I am saying is that we as a generation don't have to deal with what our past generations have dealt with, and it makes us weaker as a whole.
