Seattle high school seeks military recruiter ban

davidmc

Enough about the christian right, already. What about the islamic extremist's

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Good one [If I understood it correctly]

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davidmc

Striking at the "heart" of a countries economic power is not a military objective I contend the opposite. Upsetting a nations economy (Wall St./communications/infrastructure) ranks in the "top 5", of primary debilitating military objectives as far as I'm concerned & I have had some instruction in this arena. As far as beheading goes, where would you place "water-boarding" on the list of unacceptable practices Amnesty Int'l just released their yearly study of country's practicing torture & guess who was on it The U.S. The condoning of such practices came all the way from the top-Gonzales/Bush/et al. I await the supbeona's w/ glee The only thing is, if bush were removed, which right wing sychophant would take his place

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davidmc

Please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true, please be true,...

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davidmc

Here's the avatar I'd like to use but its bigger than 80X80

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davidmc

Here's an "oldy but goody"

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Darjevon

hey man! thats an easy fix. just open it with windows "paint" then go to "image" on the menu bar, then go to "stretch/skew"

Cut it down using small increments until it's the rite size.

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Darjevon

HEY MC!!! I "doctored" the avatar u wanted so that it fits & its attached to this post.





You're welcome.

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davidmc

You are the "clever" one. Graphics are relatively new to me. Although, as you know, I have no trouble uploading them. I will save it for later use. I wanted to put it up on mtb'r .com. Here's a good two .

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Darjevon

Animated GIF avatars are cool, but sadly they cannot be resized. I must act! Time to break out the old programming books, looks like.

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limerickman

How do I know that the US are not wanted in Iraq.

I tell you.
I have a work collegue from Iraq - Haidar is his name.
Haidar's family suffered under SH and Haidar managed to get out of Iraq 8 years.

What Haidar told me about living under the SH regime would make your skin crawl.
Haidar is a Shi'ite Muslim. The Shi'ite population suffered under SH. Haidar's afther was imprisoned and died under the SH regime. Haidar also told me of the rape parties that took place - where Sunni/SH regime people would go through Shi'ite areas and grab Shi'ite women and drag them away to be raped. This happened to two of Haidar's sisters.
So I think Haidars opinion when he says that his family tell him that life under SH was better than it now is in Iraq is insightful. Haidar's family live in Southern Iraq. Southern Iraq is not, thankfully, under the same lawlessness
as Baghdad, Fallujah, Mosul. I am prepared to accept what Haidar says is true. He is a good employee, trustworthy and hardworking and I believe him to be an honest bloke.




First of all, the UN Security council voted to go in to Bosnia.
There was a consensus to go in to Bosnia. Britain/France/Russia/Chine all agreed to going in to Bosnia.

By the way Somalia isn't close to Ireland - Florida is closer.
Bosnia is proximate to my country - but it's ver 5 hours flight time away -
approximately the same disatnce as New York is from here.
Work on your geography.



No European country wants to get it's hands dirty ?
Italian/French/Spanish/Portugese/british/Irish/Dutch/Belgian/Polish/Czech's
all have troops serving with the UN at various locations throughout the world.
I suppose they don't want to get their hands dirty eh ?



The US were not called in to Iraq !

The US acted unilaterally and invaded another sovereign country which posed no threat to the USA/it's people.
That is the fact of the matter.

So, yeah gives us all a break why dont you and stop trying to justify what cannot be justified.

limerickman

Maybe that should read "only a fool would believe that SH had WMD in his toybox".

Have you or your goverment got proof that SH had WMD ?
As I recall even your own Sec of State Colin Powell accets that no WMD was ever there.



Petitioning countries to drop sanctions is not a crime.

Again you speculate as to SH's intentions, like your country did in the run up to March 20th 2003.
That's why the rest of the world now distrusts US foreign policy because it bases it's policy on speculation, and not on corroborated, verifiable information.





They were as despicable as their father.
But that doesn't give the USA the right to invade another country that posed NO threat to it or it's people.

If the USA were consistent in it's foreign policy about removing despicable dictators, it would have to invade well over 50 countries.
But then those 50 countries don't all have massive oil reserves.

coolworx

No... those other 50 countries didn't sign a surrender agreement with the US 14 years ago that they flouted for 10 years.

Legally speaking, this was just an extension of the Gulf War.

darkboong

Quantify what you mean by Flouted. AFAICT his government co-operated to an extraordinary degree, as evidenced by the fact that there were zero WMDs left. The oil deals amounted to pilfering by comparison to the money made by folks like Bayoil and those oil-deals were conducted with the full fore-knowledge, complicity and approval by the US authorities.



Twaddle.

The people who wanted to invade Iraq say it was Legal, aka Bush + Blair, whereas the experts and authorities of International Law, such as Kofi Annan say it is Illegal. I go with the latter stance because it is closer in spirit to the Nuremburg principles, and they carry considerable moral weight because they were drafted on the back of a huge and unnecessary war that claimed *millions* of lives.

To be blunt about it, I don't see much material difference between the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and the current setup. The government has no control over the major military forces within it's borders and it's very existance is predicated on the occupation. Even worse the occupation forces are completely unaccountable to the people of the occupied country and appear to be behaving accordingly.

The same applies to Iraq.