You sure do have a lot of straw men there, Anonny. Do you work as a supplier to old-timey farmers?

Not wanting to bomb the hell out of innocnet civilians is hardly the same as wanting anyone to get "the bomb". As far as the Palestinians dancing in the streets, how is that any different from you jacking off nightly to the video of Saddam being hanged? See? I can play the straw man game too!

I have no problem guessing why 53 million people voted for Bush. They were either scared, constantly lied to by Fox & the Administration, profiting from the Bush Administration, or stupid. There are likely a few other reasons, but these should do for now. I'm guessing you fit 1, 2 and 4.

Do you agree with Ward Churchill that Americans had 9/11 coming?

No, dumbass. Hell, I don't even know who Ward Churchill is except through references on this post. I don't know that he said this either. Whether he did or not, of course we didn't have the World Trade Center disaster coming.

Here's a straightforward question for you.

Do you believe in killing innocents to further American political goals like your neo-con buddies?

Of course Anonymous won't get a screen name. He's a conservative and they live in fear. Even a nickname might expose him to too much accountability or scrutiny. He's probably from some conservative site, annoying us here so he won't have to annoy us over there.

If you're an average guy I'd wager a fair sum that you won't build a rocket and fly to Mars

I'm not average and I still won't be doing that any time soon. I'd have to have the resources of Bill Gates and a small army of technicians and scientists at my disposal to do such a thing.

I know because of the UN inspectors. I know because other than what the Bush administration made up, every bit of evidence pointed to Iraq having no chance to build a bomb. And why would I be wondering this in 1981? Back in 1981, heck right up through the Gulf War, the USA was supplying Saddam with just about anything he asked for.

Israel can defend itself and wouldn't have been in appreciably greater danger on the off chance Saddam got a bomb. After the Gulf war, I can say with certainty the odds of him getting a bomb were low enough that the second war was pointless.

Iraq's ability to get a single nuke is probably as likely now as then and Israel is in much greater danger now that one would be used. Saddam may have been a vile despot, but he wasn't stupid. He'd never have used it as more than a bargaining tool.

But he's drinking again, if he ever really quit in the first place. There were photos recently of him having a beer in Germany and I'm pretty sure photos of him having scotch or something similar before that.

Non-alcoholic? I doubt it. And even if it is, would an actually recovered alcoholic be tempting himself like that?

Way to read your own mindset into something. It doesn't say what you think it says. It doesn't say a thing about liklihood or prevasiveness. You might want to think about why you're so defensive.

Mikes Pace is right, 'cause what says America more than empty symbolism? Run up that flag and then screw your neighbors. Stay home on the 4th and use that time to figure out how to better cheat on your taxes. Take an oath to defend the constitution and spend 8 years undermining and shitting on it.

Most of the team you mentioned, King, aren't national teams at all, they're local sports teams. Maybe the ones in DC could run with red, white and blue, but do you really want everyone wearing those colors? The Bills are still Red, White and Blue or are you saying Buffalo isn't American enough for you? The Titans and Patriots are technically Red, White and Blue, though I'm sorry if your delicate artistic sensibilites are offended by their choice of shade. The New York Giants are also Red, White and Blue.

Why would we want more teams wearing this combination? Shouldn't teams be allowed to find their own identity and display it as team colors? What fun would it be to show up at a game and have everyone wearing exactly the same combination, or should we all be looking and thinking "ok, he has blue stripes and I have red stripes"?

Heck, I'll stick with the Packer's green and gold.

USA’s aid, in terms of percentage of their GNP has almost always been lower than any other industrialized nation in the world, though paradoxically since 2000, their dollar amount has been the highest. (Only since 2004 have they move up from last place, by just one or two places.)

Since 1992, Japan had been the largest donor of aid, in terms of raw dollars. That was until 2001 when the United States reclaimed that position, a year that also saw Japan’s amount of aid drop by nearly 4 billion dollars

All depends on how you look at it, doesn't it? We're not really a leader, so much as a trailer. And while we do dole out large amounts of cash, we still maintain protective tarrifs that prevent the "free trade" we claim we want, much to the detriment of the same countries we throw some cash at.

And how exactly are we leaders in Civil Rights when we are trying to roll back a woman's right to choose, deny homosexuals the right to marry, abolished slavery a century after Europe, didn't give women the right to vote until 1920 and kept segregation alive until the 1960s?