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The pres. has about as much power as a peanut. In this latest instance we have seen an abuse of peanut power which has been pretty powerful but we were attacked and have been for decades.

While its easy to say the "war" is about economics, but its screwed our economy. Granted many puppet masters have benefited, but they have been from many countries including the middle east. There is and has been a world wide desire to stop sneak attacks on civilian populations and a time came when many had had enough, thats where we were a few years back. Now people are mostly sick of the effects. Frankly if the madness would just stop the States would be glad to get back to our own affairs. All wars we have stepped in on over history prior to this one has been to stop one country who was attacking another country.

I have never felt Christian pressure from the government, but the press is making much about it these days. There is not the Christian population of this country so many think there is. If our morals seem close, so be it, that is a good thing regardless of its scetchy history, that has long been behind western culture. Christians are pushing harder lately and that is due to the continued decline of our state. Not all Christian sects are anti abortion. Primarily a Catholic or other hard core religious groups thing. Catholic ideals are also strong throughout Europe and South America. Many people that are believers are actually very liberal, open minded and keep it to themselves.

I see the first testament as the Jewish book of folklore and the "new" testament as somewhat more reasonable. However as with all tales of folklore amounst various cultures the point in many cases has been "the moral of the story" and they have been full of learned knowledge and intended as guidelines, something to think about. Even the Native Americans had story tellers whos stories were riddled with truths about consquences and they had no knowledge of "christianity"

No, I dont think people of other countries have a accurate account of the States, they only hear about or see the extremes. We try hard not to only see the extremes of other countries, but the press works that pretty hard as well. There is no story to sell in the average Americans daily life.

Yes, our government is a joke as I feel most countries are. People and power ($)... you know. But ultimately we all dance to the tune of stock traders, manipulators, big banking interests and corporate bliss, this applies to most countries.