U.S. Empire Will Soon Fall

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
The most unfortunate part of this speech is we have people that live here in America that nod their head in agreement with dictator...but then again we had people living the the US that agreed with Hitler in 1938 as well...so it's not surprising. Probably an effect of the "Me" generation.

So... the "Me Generation" has something in common with the "Greatest Generation"?

[cav58d]

Originally posted by straffo
Inch'Allah

Look I'm a terrorist !

By no means have I ever said that speaking arabic correllates someone into being a terrorist Frenchy...I am learning Arabic this semester at school...Am I a terrorist?  No...

But when a madman who's greatest ally is arguably the # 1 state sponsor of terrorism, and he tell's the world that the US Empire will fall in his native language, and then concludes with "God willing", in Arabic sure raises some questions...I think his rhetoric was a direct threat, and he is showing us where his allegiance is, and quit possibly how "america will fall"....

[Hawco]

Ya know, one of the funny things about Chavez was he offered Bush $50 barrels of oil and gauranteed to him that he would never raise it.
This was refused as he wanted to keep the petrodollars instead of sending them back, As that's what Saudi Arabia does now, it's sending billions in petrodollars back, thus funding all the things that are going on right now.
I'll be waiting to see what happens when OPEC formally recognizes that Chavez has more oil than the Saudis, ( According to the US Dept of Energy- he has) if this occurs, then the Saudis will collapse as oil prices will plummet, much the same scenario if the Iraqi oil ever gets to the market in large numbers, it will drive down prices, OPEC and the Saudis will collapse and end up in the creek without the old paddle.
goodbye to the petrodollars,goodbye to the tax cuts and so forth.
I think the official postion will be that "We need to enhance Iraq's relationship with OPEC"
Interesting times ahead fo all of us.

[Grayeagle]

'America' is an idea. Pretty simple one at that.

Freedom.

US system of government involves so many checks and balances that to actually screw it up permanently is very hard to do.

In fact, it's tough for the government to actually *do* anything long term.

That's a *good* thing.

Lotta rabid dogs out there in other countries that don't like the whole idea of 'America' .. I've read 'America will fall' or words to that effect by bigger an better for *CENTURIES* ..

..'America' is still here.

Nobody on this planet has the drive, organization, resources, and tech to do more than piss us off.

That would be a 'bad' thing .. as has been illustrated time and again.

'America' is not perfect .. it involves *people* .. any system with people in it is gonna make mistakes.. but .. it's better than anywhere else that I know of.

-GE (and God Forbid there is ever a 'Skynet' that becomes 'aware'