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Wrong!
?I don?t think the president knows very much about the crusades,? Thomas Madden, a historian at the University of St. Louis, told ABC News.
?He seems to be casting them as an example of a distortion of Christianity and trying to compare that to what he sees as a distortion of Islam in the actions of ISIS,? Madden said. ?The initial goal of the Crusades was to give back lands to Christians that been conquered, due to Muslim conquests.?
Historians Weigh in on Obama's Comparison of ISIS Militants to Medieval Christian Crusaders - ABC News |
No, I wasn't wrong at all. The EXACT definition of the Crusades is:
The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Latin Roman Catholic Church during the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages.
It's the first sentence of the Wikipedia entry.
Christianity killed in the name of their god. Christianity was directly involved in warfare.
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I said "Iran has never attacked anyone" and instead of bringing relevant facts, you just posted a list of wars Iran has been involved in - Not a list of countries Iran has invaded. In the past sixty years, how many countries has the US invaded and or attack, and how many countries has Iran invaded?
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Right now the corporate tax rate at 40 %, that's damn high, other countries that have lowered it have had good success with their economies. Did you know that Southern California Edison is laying off 500 IT people and replacing them with IT people in India? Why, because of cost, what happens when it gets more expensive to do business?
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Yes, but businesses get to write off hundreds of thousands of dollars because they built a fountain.
What we are taxing businesses at and what they are paying is two vastly different things. I own multiple businesses and I write off everything. I work from home so I can write off a part of my mortgage, my power bill, my internet, my cell phone bill... I have a twenty-five year old truck that I write off because it's considered a "company car" - perfectly legal because my wife's business MUST haul around gear on a weekly if not daily basis (I guess we could just lease a brand new truck for the business, but then we would just be writing off MORE).
This is a billionaire like Warren Buffet with $73 BILLION in his pocket pays less taxes than his secretary. It's ridiculous.
And our economy is booming, thank you.