As anyone that knows me can tell I have not been posting political threads lately and am trying (hard…its not easy)not to respond to them. They accomplish nothing but turning allot of really nice people against each other and take away from the objective here of helping each other in the security field.

I do have to make an exception in this case while still refraining from arguing the pros/cons of a war with iraq.

There was a thread knocking germany by rollin5150. I don’t want to see germany knocked particularly but the fact that the thread was deleted upsets me. Why is this thread ok and that one not. I guess its possible rollin5150 deleted it him/herself but I doubt it. So because this thread deals with the use-full/less-ness of the UN and NATO im going to post the reply I had written to that thread here:

let me get this straight, its fine to bash a country as long as its the US? is that what this is all about. i dont hear anyone protesting when someone knocks america. some may defend it but no one says its out of line to knock our country

so unless your anti-war w/iraq and bash president bush often… your a redneck. what a bunch of bullshit.

personally im not anti-german, Belgium or anti anybody. but i agree with rollin5150 on the fact that we shouldn't be wasting our resources on those that dont want or need our help.

looks like our government might be having a change of heart on this as well:

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...sa_troops_dc_2

Rumsfeld said South Korea possesses an economy probably 25 to 35 times greater than North Korea's, adding that the South Koreans have "all the capability in the world of providing the kind of up-front deterrent that's needed."

"And I suspect that what we'll do is we'll end up making some adjustments there," Rumsfeld said. "Whether the forces would come home or whether they'd move farther south on the peninsula or whether they'd move to some neighboring area are the kinds of things that are being sorted out. The same thing's true with our forces in Western Europe."

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so maybe now they can spend THEIR hard earned money defending themselves or not defending themselves as the case may be against enemies both real or imaginary and we wont have to listen to their bitching anymore. Take care of ourselves and our real friends and screw the rest.

If anyone else feels this way please contact your representative and let them know your behind them on this….down with the UN! down with NATO!

That goes for those living in other nations as well. If your offended by Rumsfeld’s THREAT of pulling military aid write your leaders and let them know you don’t want it to begin with…please