Why should only Americans vote in the US Elections?

MountainPro

Okay, i know, its democracy, but i am from the UK and i am praying the G. Dubyah Bush does not get back into office. The current elections in the US and the subsequent 'winner' has an effect over the entire world. Because Bush won last time, my country (UK) went to war. Some of my friends went to fight in a war that had nothing to do with them, my govt spent millions on the war effort and our boys are dying all the time in a foriegn land in a foreign war that has nothing to do with us.

If Bush gets in will our boys be forced into Korea or Iran.

I would like a say in order to keep this baffoon out of politics, never mind the Presidents chair.

I love the american people...but for the love of God, think what your actions are leading to.

On a serious note, when people such as the US president (or anyone who weilds such power) are up for election. The world should be able to vote if the person insists upon such an aggressive international policy. Its plain dictatorship Jim, but not as we know it.

It would be fine if the man kept his affairs inside the US but that is rarely the case. He thinks and acts as if he is president of the world.

Bikerman2004

Only if we Americans can vote in your elections.

MountainPro

okay, its a deal!

MountainPro

nah, sod that...i want to vote in your elections....anyway i've tried voting in my elections, it doesnt work.

Bikerman2004

I guess you're comfortable with 250 million Americans putting 'our' person in office to run your country.

Weisse Luft

If you want to vote, BECOME A CITIZEN.

Life is hard. Life is harder when you are dumb. With these sage words of Marion Morrison (John Wayne), you should be able to find a way out of fighting for some country you know nothing about.

Weisse Luft

Can you understand faulty cause and effect? "because Bush was elected, my country went to war" is an example.

No, it was "because the UN could not enforce sanctions and because the corruption of the UN with regard to said sanctions funded terrorists that killed 3000 innocents on September 11, 2001, my country was asked to go to war and my PM agreed".

MountainPro

faulty cause and effect? would that be the same cause and effect that resulted in the US and her allies going to war with Iraq because of the events on 9/11?

Weisse Luft

Osama bin Laden was without wealth after being banished from the Kingdom od Saudi Arabia in 1995. His funds were depleted after the African Bombings of 1998 and he could only continue with funds provided by external sources. Its IMPOSSIBLE for bin Laden to have financed the 9-11 terror campaign without assistance.

Documents now show fund transfers associated with corruption of the UN "Oil for Food" program to Afghanistan after 1997. These funds were directly from Hussein.

Of course the UN has sealed these documents and investigation is very difficult.

lokstah

In case anyone's forgotten that not only liberals engage in the conspiracy theory runaround.

Weisse Luft

Which brings us to back to terrorist ties, and Perelman's story of June 20, 2003, for which the reporting checks out. In brief (hang on for the ride): One link ran from a U.N.-approved buyer of Saddam's oil, Galp International Trading Corp., involved near the very start of the program, to a shell company called ASAT Trust in Liechtenstein, linked to a bank in the Bahamas, Bank Al Taqwa. Both ASAT Trust and Bank Al Taqwa were designated on the U.N.'s own terror-watch list, shortly after 9/11, as entities "belonging to or affiliated with Al Qaeda." This Liechtenstein trust and Bahamian bank were linked to two closely connected terrorist financiers, Youssef Nada and Idris Ahmed Nasreddin — both of whom were described in 2002 by Treasury as "part of an extensive financial network providing support to Al Qaeda and other terrorist related organizations," and both of whom appear on the U.N.'s list of individuals belonging to or affiliated with al Qaeda.

The other tie between Oil-for-Food and al Qaeda, noted by Perelman, ran through another of Saddam's handpicked, Oil-for-Food oil buyers, Swiss-based Delta Services — which bought oil from Saddam in 2000 and 2001, at the height of Saddam's scam for grafting money out of Oil-for-Food by way of under-priced oil contracts. Now shut down, Delta Services was a subsidiary of a Saudi Arabian firm, Delta Oil, which had close ties to the Taliban during Osama bin Laden's heyday in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. In discussions of graft via Oil-for-Food, it has been assumed that the windfall profits were largely kicked back to Saddam, or perhaps used to sway prominent politicians and buy commercial lobbying clout. But that begs further inquiry. There was every opportunity here for Saddam not solely to pocket the plunder, but to send it along to whomever he chose — once he had tapped into the appropriate networks.

Are there other terrorist links? Did Saddam actually send money for terrorist uses through those named by the Forward? Given the more than $100 billion that coursed through Oil-for-Food, it would seem a very good idea to at least try to find out. And while there has been great interest so far in the stunning sums of money involved in this fraud, there has been rather less focus on the potential terrorist connections. While Treasury has been ransacking the planet for Saddam's plunder, there is, as far as I have been able to discover, no investigation so far in motion, or even in the making, focused specifically on terrorist ties in those U.N. lists of Saddam's favored partners.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comme...00404182336.asp

MattLarson

How does it feel to want things?

You wanna vote in the U.S. elections, move here and become a citizen. Otherwise, forget it.

Matt