Would you vote?

[IHL]

If you knew there was a significant risk to your safety, would you still go out to vote?

[Patriot2005]

What good is it being alive if you don't have any say in your future....

[DoubleU]

I think I would have to evaluate the situation and what was going on at the time. Living in a very liberal area and having a 'Bush' bumper sticker on my car was a little bit difficult to deal with at times. I was worried about people keying the car, I saw somebody kick the sticker, I was shouted at, and people gave me the middle finger as the passed me. These are very minor compared to what the Iraqis are going through.

Would I risk my life to vote after years of oppression? There are some questions that can not be answered unless we are in that situation.

Americans have no idea how lucky they are.

[Patriot2005]

Living in Tokyo during WWII wasn’t the best childhood my mother had. She remembers the roundup of Catholics in Tokyo(something most people haven’t read in history books). All suspected people practicing Catholicism were required to ‘prove’ their innocence by stomping on the cross. Those who refused, were taken away, never to be seen again. People weren’t told anything about the war, her family didn’t know about it until the bombings of came. You never questioned the authority of the Emperor that was punishable by death. My great grandmother survived the Nazi occupation of Norway. She could have told you about the senseless slaughter of women and children because they were family members of a enemy of the Third Reich. She hid a Jewish family during the occupation. Of course, the consequences of her actions would be a hanging.


Americans have no idea how lucky they are. - Amen to that..

[Guns R Cool]

How the hell can some of you not be sure. I don't believe in a gray area in politics. It's either 'Yes' or 'No'.

[Diggler]

Living in a very liberal area and having a 'Bush' bumper sticker on my car was a little bit difficult to deal with at times. I was worried about people keying the car, I saw somebody kick the sticker, I was shouted at, and people gave me the middle finger as the passed me.

Thats funny, I tried to be the one giving the finger to the liberlas with kerry or anti-Bush stickers. Its funny, every car that had a kerry or anti-Bush sticker on it was either followed up by a RAINBOW sticker or a pedophile behind the wheel.


As for the Poll Question: I agree with the fact that if you can not exercise your right to be free than life would be useless. I can not imagine the joy those people over there feel as they registered their votes. To have a half-century of oppression lifted from you is something I could not imagine, and hope to never have to.

[DoubleU]

Hindsight always works well, but you can never say what you would do unless you were in that situation. I don't think anyone here can say they have been through Saddam, watched a war take place, saw car bombs explode, perhaps had family members taken away, so what you would do in a situation depends on the situation. I am just saying I can not answer that question because I have not been through what those people have been through.

[Patriot2005]

Disabled child in suicide attack
31 January 2005
Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.

[beezlebug]

Disabled child in suicide attack
31 January 2005
Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16278831

[chi1088]

Patriot put me on ignore ...but I will say this to him anyway. All the terrorists want is us out of their homeland. Until we do, they will continue to sink to new lows each and every day.

Can't stomach this Democrat, huh Patriot? Dissent is democracy. Get used to it.

[DoubleU]

The terrorist want us out of their homeland so we should leave? What about the people that want us there?

[Patriot2005]

DoubleU...
Our goal is to help the Iraqis.. keep in that in mind.. lots of the terrorists aren't Iraqis. That´s the most galling part... They don't even represent the will of the people and the Iraqis being controlled and murdered by them.....

[NewKindOfSoldier]

yes i would, but only if the vote mattered. (e.g not in iraq)

"The terrorist want us out of their homeland so we should leave? What about the people that want us there?"

stop listening to fox, the entire people wants us out. Fighting has been going on for two years now, if it were a handful of terrorists without popular support, they wouldnt have lasted that long (especially not with the intensity we see everyday) now would they?

[thatonedude61]

stop listening to fox, the entire people wants us out. Fighting has been going on for two years now, if it were a handful of terrorists without popular support, they wouldnt have lasted that long (especially not with the intensity we see everyday) now would they?

you know what, perhaps you are right...why don't you pay them a visit and tell us how it turns out

[NewKindOfSoldier]

"you know what, perhaps you are right...why don't you pay them a visit and tell us how it turns out"

nah i'd rather pay you a visit and blow up the ====ing white house

lets see how that turns out :)

[Patriot2005]

"you know what, perhaps you are right...why don't you pay them a visit and tell us how it turns out"

nah i'd rather pay you a visit and blow up the ====ing white house

lets see how that turns out :)

You got to love the Europeans especially the Dutch.....the badmouthing ....backstabbing of these people...

[NewKindOfSoldier]

"backstabbing"

nope i dont use CIA tactics

[Patriot2005]

"backstabbing"

nope i dont use CIA tactics

How noble of you LOL...

[thatonedude61]

nah i'd rather pay you a visit and blow up the ====ing white house

well, if you wish to visit me, i will not be found in the white house...

[boris]

post your adress so we can bomb you.liberals for peace

[NewKindOfSoldier]

"well, if you wish to visit me, i will not be found in the white house..."

meh then i'll blow up some republican party convention thingy too
and a KKK meeting just cuz im on a roll
oh yea and while im at it, "pro-life" is gonna be "no-life" :twisted:

[SgtATON]

Every member of the armed services already puts their lives in danger to allow not only themselves to vote, they also do it so that YOU can vote.

So how can you not be sure? If others can do it for a person that they will never meet, why can't you do it for yourself?

[emptythemag]

Threat of possible crowd shootings, RPG attacks, and roadside bombs. . .just to vote? To not vote would be cowardice. I don't care if I have never been in the situation. When it comes to the possibility of death, I live by a simple code, "When it's my time to go, I'll go". God is the one who has marked the expiration date of my life, not some terrorist.

Hell, I would risk all that danger for a combo meal at Taco Bell.

Oh my, it looks like we have a new Internet Thug on this page. Welcome NewKindofSoldier. From your ability to type in those nasty threats, it is obvious that your maturity is only surpassed by your masculinity and sheer supremacy.

[aaron22]

Americans have no idea how lucky they are. - Amen to that..

I agree with you patriot. No one entirely knows how lucky we are, but to be honest I do believe that republicans have a far better idea of how lucky we are than liberals do.