So I heard Obama is now "One of the boys" :awesome:

Julius Caesar was a dictator. Abraham Lincoln was a dictator (effective, during the Civil War).

There is a difference between a dictator and a tyrant.

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Julius Caesar was a dictator. Abraham Lincoln was a dictator (effective, during the Civil War).

There is a difference between a dictator and a tyrant.

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Originally Posted by Masterz1337

Last I checked the Taliban controlled the government Pre-Invasion.

Actually, wikipedia states.

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We were talking about Iraq...?

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Julius Caesar was a dictator. Abraham Lincoln was a dictator (effective, during the Civil War).

There is a difference between a dictator and a tyrant.

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Seriously? Link pl0x

Martial law was declared during the Civil War...seeing as the President is also Commander and Chief, that makes him a de facto dictator, if not by name of office (most dictators don't have "Dictator" as their office anyways).

Under "Homefront":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Under "Examples":
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_mlaw.html

Finally:
http://www.heritage.org/research/nat...rity/hl834.cfm

Need I say more?

So dane told us something we already knew?
kewl tred

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Masters I have no idea where you get your information from, but the Afghans and Iraqis definitely did not welcome Americans with arms open.

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Dude, did you even watch the news? I'm not going to go digging up pictures of people cheering in Kabul when the American came in shortly after 9-11

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Dude, did you even watch the news? I'm not going to go digging up pictures of people cheering in Kabul when the American came in shortly after 9-11

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We weren't greeted as liberators in Iraq, but we were sort of in Afghanistan. It could depend on the region of Afghanistan, though.

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We weren't greeted as liberators in Iraq, but we were sort of in Afghanistan. It could depend on the region of Afghanistan, though.

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Well, Afghanistan was in the middle of a civil war when we invaded, so

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Well, Afghanistan was in the middle of a civil war when we invaded, so

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Both sides probably looked at us and went "thank god, reinforcements!"