STORM2K

azsnowman wrote:This is true except for ONE missing statement......"Under what president have we seen the HIGHEST price for fuel?"

Dennis

OtherHD wrote:Most historians agree that Harding was the worst president in US history.

Brings things into perspective.
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of
January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 Murders in the month of January.
That's one American city folks, about as Deadly as the entire war torn
country of Iraq![/unquote]

Funny how all civilians dead are never mentioned, maybe they do not count.

one in Korea, North Korea Never attacked us. From
1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an Average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never
attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops
and Kennedy was honoring that commitment.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.[/unquote]

ehr... cannot remember when Iraq attacked US, anyway the world's consequences of Korea and Vietnam are countless referred to ones of this war.

Now let me ask you a little question:
what would have happened if Nicaragua would have declared war on terror because of this, would you have accepted a nicaraguan invasion? Or there are two kind of terrorism: a good one and an evil one?

A key role in the development of the Contra alliance was played by the United States following Ronald Reagan's assumption of the presidency in January 1981. Accusing the Sandinistas of importing Cuban-style communism and aiding leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, Reagan on November 23 that year signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support the Contras with $19 million in military aid. The effort to support the contras was one component of the so-called Reagan Doctrine, championed by American conservatives, which called for providing U.S. military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist regimes.

In 1984 Nicaragua filed a suit in the World Court against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States, which in 1986 resulted in a guilty verdict against the US, calling on it to "cease and to refrain" from the unlawful use of force against Nicaragua through direct attack by US forces and through training, funding and support of the terrorist forces. The US was "in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another state" and was ordered to pay reparations (see note 1). The US response to this ruling was to dismiss the juristiction of the court and escalate the war.

After direct military aid was interrupted by the Boland Amendment (passed by the U.S. Congress in December 1982 and extended in October 1984 to forbid action by not only the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency but all U.S. government agencies), Administration officials sought to procure third-party funding of military supplies, culminating in the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986-1987.

rainstorm wrote:carter was clearly the worst in recent history. his own idiotic misery index went through the roof. not to mention he was brought to his knees by iran.

sunnyday wrote:I beg to differ. Carter was one of the few honest, decent men who has ever been president. He was a genuinely good human being who lived his Christianity. The hostage affair certainly ended at an opportune time. What a coincidence.