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Actually, I was thinking Dee Snider, but, Dio is a good choice. If only one of them would run... Actually Dee wouldn't be a bad choice...
*fantasizes*
"And President Snider has just signed a bill outlawing the making of or listening to Rap and Pop music. The metalheads are singing on the streets, singing Metal!"

Please don't flame me for this, keep it intellectual please, but does anyone else like President Bush?

You know, I thought George Bush Jr. was only taking a crap on us, the "others", but as I now realize he likes to take big loads of crap on his own country, I could never say he represents a good, let alone standard leader...

To my knowledge, he has been a disgrace for the world and for the people he should be focusing on comanding...

Is anyone aware of "outside" politics? Talking about global here, just asuming most of you are from the US.

Does anyone know about what's happening in Venezuela or something like that?

Do you mean to ask that I should elaborate on my Bush opinion or on my international politics knowledge? Because if it's the lattest, I am focusing on South American issues the most... but I don't think it's the lattest >_>

Also, I deem your vision over the Iraq war to be a bit over simplistic.
Think about it for just a second, there are two kind of muslims in Iraq, Chiites (in spanish it's called "Chiitas", but I don't really know how you guys name them), and Sunites.

Sunites were supporters of the Saddam Hussein regime, because he was from a Sunite background himself.

Chiites were massacred by Hussein, and that's the crime for which he paid and was hanged for. The Chiite massacre back in the 80's (I believe it was in the 80's but feel free to correct me). Since Saddam's regime was not imposed by force on the Iraqi people but rather chosen by popular vote (leaving out the chances of fraud, of course), he couldn't be found guilty on a "dictatorship", simply because he was "democraticaly" elected, so he was hanged by the massacre, the sentence was of course a big excuse because it was settled from the beginning that he was to be executed, even if they had to charge him for drinking a guard's kool-aid.

Believe you me when I say that "Irani insurgents that want Iraq to fail" sounds like an unbelievably blatant excuse for turning the eye to Iran and keep this "Crusade" going on. And, a very convenient excuse, that is; because the "Irani insurgents" just "insurged" when the bilateral relationships between the U.S. and Iran broke completely thanks to Iran's nuclear development (pass a note to your president that it's spelled "nuclear" rather than "nuculear", and that's coming from a guy who doesn't speak english as his first language).

I, as a humble citizen of the world, recognize that every country has hidden agendas, even the U.S., and that countries like yours aren't formed by citizenship, people, and democracy no longer. A "country" is, today, just a small list of corporations that are big enough to select the president they want to govern you, despite your constituted right to freely vote.

Don't take me for a conspiracionist though, if that's what I sound like, because a conspiracy would be a mock-mirror of this whole bussiness. Let's not distort things and try to keep it real.

The statements you make as "They want every American dead", "we are safer by figting the terrorists in their own home than by letting them bring the war to us", "it is all a power game to THEM", "people over there love having us there" sound incredibly propagandistic.

I would advice for you to do your research on both sides of the story, and, my friend, it's ALL a power game. Don't let anyone make you believe otherwise.

US supported Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan while they conveniently signed their oil treaties back in the 70's, they just couldn't let commies to raise as a powerful influence at the end of the 80's, thus the little war you had over there with Bush Sr.; the Russians were AGAINST the middle easterns, you think it was them who gave them the Kalashnikovs? The US armed the middle east with the deployed AK-47's, the very same guns your soldiers are getting shot at with nowadays.

Bush Sr. couldn't afford to kill Hussein back then, you think it was profitable to kill one of biggest suppliers of oil in the Middle East? Or do you honestly believe that the 90's war with Iraq wasn't easily capable of taking Hussein down?

It was, but they wouldn't do it, not with their "non existant" agenda. Same reason why today's "non existant" agenda determined that Hussein had to fall.

We are all human beings first, mate, I don't want every American dead, as much as I don't want every Iraqi dead, and as much as any Iraqi and Irani don't want every American dead. If you believe that, then open wide... because here comes the spoon and it smells like crap.

I assure you there are many innocent civilians who die everyday in that land your country's soldiers are fighting in..

better them than us, right?

I don't believe there's a single person in the world who prefers to wage war at their homeland rather than in some poor country

This is a matter that affects every country... I live in one which is in it's eternal way to develop as a first world country, but still we have lots of troubles that only third world countries have... and illegal immigration affects us too.

We take it on Peruvians and Bolivians; they come here illegaly, sometimes commit crimes, sometimes earn their bucks by some under-the-table payment and sometimes they try and be honest... people complain as always, we "want them out", but the question still rises...

illegal immigrants are here to supply their services performing jobs you and me think to be soffisticated enough to avoid (which is stupid, if I need to be clear on the subject).

So, illegal aliens don't take your job, they just supply to the demand, as we all do.

We adopted a policy to legalize illegal aliens for free too, and I'm keen to that... If we have the possibility, I believe we can spare something to help them out and have a good way of living as we all do.

And I'm talking from a "third world" country... I can't imagine bastards in rich countries, like the U.S., or the U.K. where poverty reaches 3.1 % of the total populi, while in my country we now have a decent 13 %, cutted back from the 51 % we had a couple of years ago saying they can't afford to spare some dimes to help the unfortunate.

And then they are the same people that scratch their heads asking themselves "Why is the world the way it is now?".

Have you ever seen the movie "Brazil"? The part where they are strolling down the highway with the semi-truck, and the highway has a continuous display of commercial ads all stuck together so you can't see what's on the other side of the highway....

Then the camera rises and outside that beautiful highway with the nice ads, you see desolation, ruins and miles and miles of destruction.....

... this situation makes me think of just that

About the illegals,

Who would take the jobs? How about our unemployed population? We have a very high unemployment rate, I don't know the exact number, but there are enough to fill the jobs. I would gladly flip burgers at Mcdonald's for minimum wage, and so would a lot of teens. It is very hard for teens to find jobs because all of the illegals have them. Also, somebody did a study, and calculated that if we were to get rid of illegals and raise the pay about 30%, a house would only cost $1,500 more per $300,000, apples would go up $.03. There were a lot of interesting statistics there. It wouldn't be hard to move along. And what about the fact that they are stealing from every taxpayer in your countries. They do these jobs, but don't pay taxes. 1/3 of all incarcerated males in America are illegals. We are providing them with health care, they are taking our education. The Government money that this takes is in the Billions of dollars a year. It's outrageous.

Technical, I love your political knowledge. 3nodding I never take the time to study lots of uncorrupted forms of media, but I know a tad. :3

I get my information from, and don't mock me, The Daily Show with John Stewart, and the Colbert Report. Although these are of course joke shows, if you've ever paid attention to a few episodes, they always tell the actual issue before the joke, plus they always have writers who come on and talk about politics. I don't think they're corrupted or [if you can see through Colbert's thick sarcasm] that either one of them have a certain political agenda, unlike basically any other news shows. This is because they make fun of [or at least the daily show does] all political parties. But anyway...

Bill Oreily, does have an agenda. He's on Fox news is he not? Fox news is infamous forbeing blatantly conservative. Feel free to correct me, but that is what I have gathered.

Personally, I still think that the war in Iraq is completely pointless. The only reason Bush has offered is "because we want to free the people" and isn't it so nice to have such a caring leader that he'd spend Trilions of dollars to help them out. No, Bush has a blatant agenda. He either wants to finish what his father started, or he wants oil, or both. Either way, what is going on there is completely unjust. He makes Americans look even more stupid to the rest of the world. e.e; Trying to force democracy on Iraq is defeating the purpose of a revolution. In order for a revolution to work the people have to be willing to work toward that change in order for it to work. We cant just do the work for them. We bled for our freedom, we didn't have a third party to come in and show us how to do it, and tell us why we should.