I need to buy some new mirrors for my street bike. It's a 1998 Suzuki Marauder. Does anyone know any good, reliable online places to pick some up for a good deal?
2007-07-17 02:04:47 · 5 answers · asked by bluedevil1642 7 in Motorcycles
2007-07-17 02:04:20 · 11 answers · asked by __ 3 in Other - Music
I'm sorting out my holidays with my other half. After recently visiting Rome I would love to start visiting places with similar historical interest and enjoyment factor. This could be either other places in Italy or any other country.
Rather than wondering round or surfing aimlessly, can you help suggest something based on your own experiences? There's only so many places I can go in my lifetime. Thanks.
2007-07-17 02:04:16 · 17 answers · asked by liquid_ice_71 2 in Other - Destinations
we planned our weddding last minute just a quick back yard wedding and a little reception out side question is is the bride supposed to pick out her wedding gown with her mother? or the maid of honnor?
2007-07-17 02:04:00 · 22 answers · asked by lovealwaysamanda1 1 in Weddings
We have a year old springer and she is a nightmare on her lead. We've done classes and she started walking well, but now she just won't. We have invested in a choke chain, which helps a little. Once she is tired out from her walk she's fine, but I'd like to be able to let others walk her, without her pulling their arms off!
2007-07-17 02:03:59 · 25 answers · asked by Teresa M 1 in Dogs
cant decide which one is better in october??and i wpuld like to havea cheap holiday???
2007-07-17 02:03:20 · 3 answers · asked by mals2008 3 in Other - Destinations
2007-07-17 02:03:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
...or do you expect nothing except to share in the Special Day of people you love?
2007-07-17 02:03:03 · 25 answers · asked by danashelchan 5 in Weddings
My cat gets car sick. I am moving 2 1/2 hrs away and was wondering if there is something I can give her to relax so she doesn't throw up in the car. If I wasn't leaving, I wouldn't do this to her, but since she's going with me, I want to make her as comfortable as possible. How can I do that? Thanks.
2007-07-17 02:03:03 · 7 answers · asked by Koozie 5 in Cats
we just got it from the humaine socitey yesterday. its a kittten and now it likes exploring all over the house. it meows then walks away i dont know what to do with my new kitten that meows ALOT
oh ps. it has a little cold it breaths hevialy and sneezes, were taking it to the vet soon.
2007-07-17 02:02:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cats
(not including fundamentalists or mentalists or very-old, who I guess will all believe till the day they die, but among the general, normal, population).
2007-07-17 02:02:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-17 02:02:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys
Whats a good website to start shopping for a new car?
2007-07-17 02:02:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cars & Transportation
Just wondering if i really have a right to be upset at how little i'm getting sex from the wife. maybe it's not too bad. Anyways, i'll post how much i get it when i give the best answer. Be honest, say either how much you get it and/or how much you think is adequate.
2007-07-17 02:02:03 · 22 answers · asked by Agnostic Front 6 in Marriage & Divorce
2 years ago i had holyday with my girlfriend. it was a very stressfull holyday and i decided "this never again", i didnt tell this my friend. Next 2 years went with ups and downs 'as usual'.
this year i wanted to go alone on holyday, i told this my friend, she seems to accept it. i promised her my car so she could do her things as well. 2 1/2 weeks ago my father died. i didnt want to go on holyday alone anymore. i wanted to stay home. My friend's first reaction was that she had made promises and needed the car for that. I said i didnt want to go on holyday and that i needed the car as well but not all the time. Last weekend there was an escalation. I told her i didnt want to go on holyday with her, never because of the extreme stress it gave me. Now she is very upset. I understand that it is a strange strange situation. I told her i am sorry about the nasty remark of me that i should have think better before saying this. Now there is cold silence, we know each other for 10 years
2007-07-17 02:01:56 · 1 answers · asked by gjmb1960 7 in Singles & Dating
During the 1950s a song popular on the radio was the admonishment:
"Don't go courtin' in a hot-rod
But in a buggy, like your mom and dad"
Which was right?
2007-07-17 02:01:53 · 3 answers · asked by Jack P 7 in Philosophy
Watch The Learning Channel tonight at 8 PM EDT and then tell me this bad boy isn't one of the most awesome bikes to ever hit the highway.
It's OCC's Intel Chopper. One MEAN looking bike!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpZ7LBUSOwA&mode=related&search=
2007-07-17 02:01:48 · 12 answers · asked by V-Starion 5 in Motorcycles
2007-07-17 02:01:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Beauty & Style
He is having an affair. He said he still have some feelings for me. He asked me to leave him alone. He is not asking for divorce. What should I do? I love him.
2007-07-17 02:01:28 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601680_2.html?referrer=email
Exit Strategies
The bottom line, one participant said, was "pretty much what we are seeing" since the Bush administration began intermittent talks with Damascus and Tehran: not much progress or tangible results.
Amid political arguments in Washington over troop departures, U.S. military commanders on the ground stress the importance of developing a careful and thorough withdrawal plan. Whatever the politicians decide, "it needs to be well-thought-out and it cannot be a strategy that is based on 'Well, we need to leave,' " Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, a top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Friday from his base near Tikrit.
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History is replete with bad withdrawal outcomes. Among the most horrific was the British departure from Afghanistan in 1842, when 16,500 active troops and civilians left Kabul thinking they had safe passage to India. Two weeks later, only one European arrived alive in Jalalabad, near the Afghan-Indian border.
The Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, which began in May 1988 after a decade of occupation, reveals other mistakes to avoid. Like the U.S. troops who arrived in Iraq in 2003, the Soviet force in Afghanistan was overwhelmingly conventional, heavy with tanks and other armored vehicles. Once Moscow made public its plans to leave, the political and security situations unraveled much faster than anticipated. "The Soviet Army actually had to fight out of certain areas," said Army Maj. Daniel Morgan, a two-tour veteran of the Iraq war who has been studying the Soviet pullout at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., with an eye toward gleaning lessons for Iraq. "As a matter of fact, they had to airlift out of Kandahar, the fighting was so bad."
War supporters and opponents in Washington disagree on the lessons of the departure most deeply imprinted on the American psyche: the U.S. exit from Vietnam. "I saw it once before, a long time ago," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam veteran and presidential candidate, said last week of an early Iraq withdrawal. "I saw a defeated military, and I saw how long it took a military that was defeated to recover."
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), also a White House hopeful, finds a different message in the Vietnam retreat. Saying that Baghdad would become "Saigon revisited," he warned that "we will be lifting American personnel off the roofs of buildings in the Green Zone if we do not change policy, and pretty drastically."
The Al-Qaeda Threat
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What is perhaps most striking about the military's simulations is that its post-drawdown scenarios focus on civil war and regional intervention and upheaval rather than the establishment of an al-Qaeda sanctuary in Iraq.
For Bush, however, that is the primary risk of withdrawal. "It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda," he said in a news conference last week. "It would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we'd allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan." If U.S. troops leave too soon, Bush said, they would probably "have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous."
Withdrawal would also "confuse and frighten friends and allies in the region and embolden Syria and especially Iran, which would then exert its influence throughout the Middle East," the president said.
Bush is not alone in his description of the al-Qaeda threat should the United States leave Iraq too soon. "There's not a doubt in my mind that Osama bin Laden's one goal is to take over the Kingdom of the Two Mosques [Saudi Arabia] and reestablish the caliphate" that ended with the Ottoman Empire, said a former senior military official now at a Washington think tank. "It would be very easy for them to set up camps and run them in Anbar and Najaf" provinces in Iraq.
U.S. intelligence analysts, however, have a somewhat different view of al-Qaeda's presence in Iraq, noting that the local branch takes its inspiration but not its orders from bin Laden. Its enemies -- the overwhelming majority of whom are Iraqis -- reside in Baghdad and Shiite-majority areas of Iraq, not in Saudi Arabia or the United States. While intelligence officials have described the Sunni insurgent group calling itself al-Qaeda in Iraq as an "accelerant" for violence, they have cited domestic sectarian divisions as the main impediment to peace.
In a report released yesterday, Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned that al-Qaeda is "only one part" of a spectrum of Sunni extremist groups and is far from the largest or most active. Military officials have said in background briefings that al-Qaeda is responsible for about 15 percent of the attacks, Cordesman said, although the group is "highly effective" and probably does "the most damage in pushing Iraq towards civil war." But its activities "must be kept in careful perspective, and it does not dominate the Sunni insurgency," he said.
'Serious Consequences'
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Moderate lawmakers such as Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) have concluded that a unified Iraqi government is not on the near horizon and have called for redeployment, change of mission and a phased drawdown of U.S. forces. Far from protecting U.S. interests, Lugar said in a recent speech, the continuation of Bush's policy poses "extreme risks for U.S. national security."
Critics of complete withdrawal often charge that "those advocating [it] just don't understand the serious consequences of doing so," said Wayne White, a former deputy director of Near East division of the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau. "Unfortunately, most of us old Middle East hands understand all too well some of the consequences."
White is among many Middle East experts who think that the United States should leave Iraq sooner rather than later, but differ on when, how and what would happen next. Most agree that either an al-Qaeda or Iranian takeover would be unlikely, and say that Washington should step up its regional diplomacy, putting more pressure on regional actors such as Saudi Arabia to take responsibility for what is happening in their back yards.
Many regional experts within and outside the administration note that while there is a range of truly awful possibilities, it is impossible to predict what will happen in Iraq -- with or without U.S. troops.
"Say the Shiites drive the Sunnis into Anbar," one expert said of Anderson's war-game scenario. "Well, what does that really mean? How many tens of thousands of people are going to get killed before all the surviving Sunnis are in Anbar?" He questioned whether that result would prove acceptable to a pro-withdrawal U.S. public.
White, speaking at a recent symposium on Iraq, addressed the possibility of unpalatable withdrawal consequences by paraphrasing Winston Churchill's famous statement about democracy. "I posit that withdrawal from Iraq is the worst possible option, except for all the others."
2007-07-17 02:00:39 · 5 answers · asked by trevathantim 2 in Military
Can we somehow vary the frequency of an Alternating current?
2007-07-17 02:00:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Engineering
2007-07-17 02:00:30 · 34 answers · asked by Radiator 4 in Religion & Spirituality
In about two years we plan on heading out there. Neither of us are married or have any children and just want to be able to up and leave. Not really sure of a location though... any ideas? Or is there not a good place to open a bar...
2007-07-17 02:00:29 · 5 answers · asked by ceadmilefailte1982 4 in Virgin Islands
My ex and I are trying to divorce and I've been told that we can use the same lawyer in NY state as long as the divorce is uncontested...Is this true? Neither one of us is going to object to the divorce and we have no children or assets..it's a clean break so I need to know if we'll each need our own lawyer to represent us?
2007-07-17 02:00:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce
I am having to sell my house because of Divorce, someone told me if the price of the sale is greater than that value of the day that the partner left the matrimonial home, and that they have not contributed to the mortgage payments ect, that they are only entitled to half of the equity from the previous day. I this true?
2007-07-17 02:00:26 · 2 answers · asked by John m 1 in Renting & Real Estate
My 70 year old grandfather is in the hospital, and the doctors are having trouble diagnosing him they keep ruiling out the really bad thinkgs but we still want to know whats wrong. He is very dizzy and was dry heaving alot after he actually vomited alot, he is complaining of a headache and can hardly stay awake.
2007-07-17 02:00:24 · 2 answers · asked by Ash 1 in Other - Health
I mean, based on the media coverage he's getting...
Who are some people currently in the news that you are sick of hearing about?
David Beckham, his Posh wife, and the TB patient (Andrew Speaker) all need to vanish.
Currently, I'm rooting for the TB.
2007-07-17 02:00:15 · 10 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-07-17 02:00:15 · 21 answers · asked by abcd 5 in Polls & Surveys
The pro-abortion crowd claims that “ the government has no right to tell me what I can and can not do with my body” This is the premise for the abortion mills. My question then is, why does NOW, and Planed Parenthood, not get out and demand a women’s right to be a prostate, or to use drugs. Both actions affect basically only their bodies, so why is it ok to deny a women the right to get high, screw around and earn a living, but its not ok to restrict the butchering of 1,400,000 children a year, to only rape, incest, or medical emergencies. Is that not a double standard in a women’s rights? And yes pro-choice, = pro-abortion, for goodness sakes have guts to stand up and call it what it is, dont hide behind words like a coward.
2007-07-17 01:59:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics
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