Any one of those should be grounds for regime change. He was on probation and we should have zero tolerance for ‘convicted criminals’. Argue the miniscule nuainces of semantics but he was the leader of a country who invaded a neighbour country and ultimately lost the war. He was on probation and failed several tests.
So, it is the cops duty to decide what is right or wrong, and not the jurys?
Since when does the world need the judge, cop and executioner in one person/nation? How does that fit into the values that are claimed to be defended by that nation?
How would the US react if …
say another permament member of the security council masses troops next to Israel, givign them an ultimatum to (a) get rid of all their WMDs and (b) leave all palestine territory? There are standing resolutions against Israel (and about a zillion blocked by the US veto)…
How would think of that? Would that be “legal”? Where is the judicial difference between these two? (i only ask for the judicial difference, nothing else, this is not about who is “better” or religiously more “fundamentalist” etc etc)
And it failed to do that job. Try harder next time….
If I were the President, next time I’d tell ya to kiss my a-s-s.
So, it is the cops duty to decide what is right or wrong, and not the jurys?
The UN isn’t a jury. Sorry to disappoint you :(
Since when does the world need the judge, cop and executioner in one person/nation? How does that fit into the values that are claimed to be defended by that nation?
Since when does the world need an organization who’s aim is to become the single world government?
@Deviant:Scripter:
And it failed to do that job. Try harder next time….
If I were the President, next time I’d tell ya to kiss my a-s-s.?
well, he pretty much says that on a globel level anyway . . . .
So, it is the cops duty to decide what is right or wrong, and not the jurys?
The UN isn’t a jury. Sorry to disappoint you :( ?
i think the point is that the U.S. is acting both as cop and jury and is not a jury either . . . .
Since when does the world need the judge, cop and executioner in one person/nation? How does that fit into the values that are claimed to be defended by that nation?
Since when does the world need an organization who’s aim is to become the single world government?
well, the U.S. is more a nation than an organization, but i agree with you . . . .
Every system needs checks and balances. Who keeps tabs on the United States?
The US Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)
writes the checks (har de har har!)
Balance? Nobody! (Republican or Democrat.)
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:lol: Sorry :lol: , I coildn’t resist. :roll:
@various:
Remember the flags on the pulled-down statue of SH?
Yea, I do! Ain’t it GREAT?
Putting up the US flag? Well, if you like it, then it must be something everybody likes, right?
I saw the live broadcast of the event. The Iraqi people cheered and gestured when the US flag was placed over SH’s statue face. Please, note how quickly the US soldier took the US flag down and placed an IRAQ FLAG of the former government of Iraq on the statue. The people continued cheering in a friendly fashion. The Iraqi standing on the pedestal reached for (and most likely asked for) the US flag and waved it to the crowd, which continued to cheer (as the Iraq flag was being placed over SH’s face.
What’s your problem? The 200 (low estimate) Iraqi people were elated. Go back and find a valid complaint.
RE: British berets … The US has purchased a large # of berets for the US Army … the problem is … they were made in China (PRC.) Nyuk, nyuk! :P
Name a country which is trying diplomacy, i.e. shipping food to Iraq (along with food distribution professionals [who I bet will make business contacts for future [i]diplomatic ,better read as economic, benefits]), and saying “Paris is America’s strongest ally in the war against terrorism.”
Did anyone say France? You guessed correctly.
Euro peoples … What’s the difference between the EU and EU region? does the second (EU region) include neighboring nations that are not in the EU?
@Xi:
Euro peoples … What’s the difference between the EU and EU region? does the second (EU region) include neighboring nations that are not in the EU?
No to the second. To the first, let me ask a counter-question:
What is the difference between the Nation “United States of America” and all (the sum of) its member-states?
“region” per se is only land(scape), it doesn’t necessarily include peoples, ideas, ideals, history etc., and sometimes the Union is more than the sum of its members (IMHO).
Perhaps the difference between a Texan and somebody who lives in San Francisco is not the same as the difference between somebody who lives in Ankara versus somebody who lives in Amsterdam. However, the average Texan and the average Californian have great differences in opinions. I have been to Texas and have been to California and have been to Amsterdam (not yet to Ankara however) so I know a bit first hand. There is probably more differences in average attitudes between those two ‘states’ and say France and Germany.
Most US southerners still don’t like the northerners that much, I’m not saying dislike but, the north east and west coasts are very liberal and the south is very conservative.
BB
That’s true, it seems like the rural areas seem to lay claim to more conseratives than do the more populated ones. (Of course there’s exceptions to this), but look at all the states that #43 won in his election against Gore.
Yeap! Most celebrities and many politicians seem to think of Middle America as ‘fly-over country.’ It is filled with ‘the poor, uneducated masses’, which need to be humored, but cared for by ‘those who know best.’ ‘Those who know best’ live, work and spend most of their time on the west coast (from LA to Seattle) and the east coast (from DC to MASS [though Vermont, NH and ME think that they are part of those who know best.'])
I’ve traveled (SE Asia, Japan and the Philippines, Mexico and Puerto Rico) and spent enough time listening to people from all over the US. I’d rather move to and hang with folks from Presque Isle, ME, Appalachia, VA(Yes, there is such a mined-out, side track town!), Montgomery or Mobile,AL, Palestine, TX(I was there decades before they got their own Wallymart), Salt Lake City, UT(nice people, different faith), Ravendale, CA(My dad was born there.), Clarkston, WA(on the Snake River, near the big city of Lewiston, ID), Billings, MO(which I like to call “The biggest little city in the biggest little state.”), Kansas City, KS or St. Louis, MO. This is not to say that the east and west coasts don’t have some positive, intelligent and friendly residents, but I find that more small town, non-west/east coasters are able to disagree agreeably.
DS, that’s right.
If you look closely at the same map you’ll see that Al Gore lost in his home state of Tennessee. No candidate has yet won the presidency without carrying his home state.
Of course, the argument over whether Tennessee or Washington, DC was his home state is another discussion altogther :P .
“George W. Bush is my president.” - Al Gore, 2001.
INDEPTH: Iraq: Issues and Analysis
Bush said Thursday he’s certain Saddam Hussein’s regime had such weapons at one time, even though U.S. forces in Iraq have so far turned up nothing.
At a speech at an Ohio factory that makes parts for battle tanks, Bush for the first time hinted that Saddam’s weapons cache might never be found.
“It’s going to take time to find them, but we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them or hid them, we’re going to find out the truth,” said Bush.
“One thing is for certain: Saddam Hussein no longer threatens America with weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
But much of the world is asking whether Saddam was ever a threat to the U.S., since no trace of the weapons that were the original justification for the war in Iraq has been found.
At an earlier stop in Ohio, Bush portrayed the war in Iraq as one of liberation, designed to remove a despot.
There’s no question about it, if we don’t find WMD, Bush will lose credibility in the world view. However, it would be a mistake to prejudge him a “liar,” only to turn up the WMD in Syria a year from now.
However, that outcome alone doesn’t neccessarily make the case for war against Iraq any less justifiable. WMD was only one precursor reason for invading Iraq. Add it to your list of: freeing the Iraqi people AND upholding UN resolutions.
DS, watch out! BB is trying to pass you in posts.
But really … who cares! I just noticed I had passed a big milestone recently. Those of us who do(or, as for me, did previously)care … what does it matter as many posts are one word, one phrase or poppycock.
After losing the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the government of Saddam Hussein admitted that Iraq had WMDs.
The UN has acknowledged that Iraq had WMDs.
Hans Blix has acknowledged that Iraq had WMDs.
Iraq’s documentation in response to UN Resolution 1441 did not address the existence nor destruction of the WMDs which Iraq had previously acknowledged.
@Tariq:
“We were born in Iraq and we will die in Iraq, either as martyrs, which is a great honor, or naturally, if God’s will. Do you expect me, after all my history as a militant and as an Iraqi - one of the Iraqi leaders, to go to an American prison, to go to Guantanamo? Hmm? I would prefer to die.”
No Aziz, you wouldn’t, and no Aziz, you didn’t. He did not become a martyr, he did not commit suicide, and let there be no confusion - he had plenty of chances. The bottom line is he would gladly go to Guantanamo if that’s what it meant to stay alive. He’s just like all these other terrorist leaders. They’re all for martyrdom, until it’s their turn.
LOL. :P
They don’t mind dying…they just don’t want to be there when it happens. :wink:
@Xi:
After losing the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the government of Saddam Hussein admitted that Iraq had WMDs.
The UN has acknowledged that Iraq had WMDs.
Hans Blix has acknowledged that Iraq had WMDs.Iraq’s documentation in response to UN Resolution 1441 did not address the existence nor destruction of the WMDs which Iraq had previously acknowledged.
Iraq is acknowledged by many national gov’ts. as being more fanatical about documentation than the Third Reich.
After losing the 1991 war and the 2003 war there are these 12 years…
Xi, could you please state when these acknwledgements happened?
Saddam Husseins probably was directly after the 1991 war, as was the UNs (probably). Blix acknowledged the existance? When?
The documentation in response to 1441 did cover which time?
If you take that together, you will see that the “gap” for rebuilding WMDs was rather short (and that in the time before (that is after 1991 and before 1998) lots of WMDs were destroyed) and at least 2 of the 3 statements are out-of-time. These were the ones that SH admitted to have, the ones which existance was acknowledged.
For your last claim, is that some of the humor i don’t understand? I severly hope so.
@F_k:
- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes -
- Principiis obsta -
- Qui tacet, consentiere videtur. -
- Vincere scis, victoria uti nescis - [?quote]
I had some trouble with your post. My universal translator must be malfunctioning. My Vietnamese is rusty and very limited …
@Xi:
I had some trouble with your post. My universal translator must be malfunctioning. My Vietnamese is rusty and very limited …
grin
Well, i kind of hoped to bring this line one day…
(snip)
Well, let me tell you it’s not Vietnamese but Latin, the language that western civilization was once built upon.
(is that nicer?)
@F_alk:
@Xi:
I had some trouble with your post. My universal translator must be malfunctioning. My Vietnamese is rusty and very limited …
grin
Well, i kind of hoped to bring this line one day:
“Of course an US-american would not understand Latin, as Latin is the language of culture” …. :D ;) ;) :)
Hey! Be nice!
But curiously - this German girl i dated also knew latin (she was learning Greek, Portuguese and was fluent in English too). Is this de rigur (excuse my spelling) for Germans to know Latin as well?
Sorry, i didn’t meant to be rude. I edited that comment.
I guess learning German, English/French/Russian (depending where and when you grew up in Germany) plus one other language (most often French, Latin or Spanish) is quite common in Germany. I would say about 1/3 of all people in school learn as many.
Of course, Latin was the language, before French and then English became dominant. And Latin teaches you a lot all romanic languages, the syntax of languages etc. Being dead it’s good to study the grammar, logic, rules and so forth.
