Politics & Government - 5 July 2006

2006-07-05 07:43:23 · 11 answers · asked by christine2550@sbcglobal.net 2 in Politics

Keep in mind im talking about not a total disbandment but just 95% of the military. Keeping mabey our aircraft carriers and some subs for the navy, some simple air def for the Air force, and Special forces for the military.

Unless you believe Mexico or Canada would wage a ground war who would be a threat to us? China has a huge ground army but how would they get it here without the UN stoping there illegal war. Russia has Nukes they could use on us but they can now too with about the same effect for them. And the middle east is a world away from us.

At the start of WWII we didnt have that much of a military. After pearl harbor we went into overdrive to build one. That system worked fine. To wait for danger befor shooting at it.

IN SHORT WHY HAVE A MILLITARY TODAY UNLESS YOU WANT TO ATTACK OTHERS FOR AGRESSIVE PURPOSES?

2006-07-05 07:42:51 · 12 answers · asked by gokufurseth 1 in Military

2006-07-05 07:40:56 · 14 answers · asked by anya_mystica 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-05 07:40:39 · 2 answers · asked by logan m 1 in Other - Politics & Government

this is a serious question.....
i keep hearing people say that the war is to protect our freedom... and yet it seems to have nothing whatsoever to protect the freedoms in the united states....
If the purpose is to liberate Iraqis from a tyrant, why is that not given as the duty of troops.... and yet everyone says "protect our freedom"
WHY?
If you can not explain your answer... do not answer, Please....

2006-07-05 07:40:13 · 12 answers · asked by mallard guy 3 in Politics

Is it what you do...or who you know?

2006-07-05 07:40:11 · 7 answers · asked by yogazen 4 in Other - Politics & Government

One of them was a long range ICBM, but exploded after 40 seconds into flight. How should the United State's respond? More sanctions? At what point should we respond with a military pre-emptive strike?

2006-07-05 07:35:09 · 8 answers · asked by kicker 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-05 07:32:26 · 27 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics

Australians are fined for not voting. People have the option of spoiling their paper in the UK which equals "none of the above", therefore should people be fined for not taking their part in democracy? Would it make elections more credible?

2006-07-05 07:31:37 · 34 answers · asked by Answer Me! 3 in Civic Participation

All this AlQueda **** would never have started if Russia had never invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s...
What was thier real reason and what was their excuse for doing it?

2006-07-05 07:31:30 · 11 answers · asked by dude 4 in Military

I know I asked this before but I still don't understnad why people are blindly against it.

1) Its been proven this war wasn't about oil
2) They did find WMDs in Iraq
3) As a superpower it is USA's job to liberate the iraqi people from an insane dictator.
and for people who saying that we shouldn't get involved in other country's business, that is a little selfish. You have to remember if it wasn't for another country getting involved in our business we may not exist as a nation today.

2006-07-05 07:31:08 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-05 07:30:40 · 16 answers · asked by anonymous 3 in Politics

In The world, there are many country which has many ressources. It prefers to conserve its richess instead to share with the pors country. It'snt no good. I have a dream in this world. I prefer to closer my mounth now and look at the future.

2006-07-05 07:30:02 · 13 answers · asked by Michou 1 in Civic Participation

This is in Austin. He said that we could get out of the lease without penalty due to the fact that he has not done the prediscussed fixings of the apartment. I asked for the last months rent back and we'd move out within days and he said he didn't have it anymore.

So now I got a note on the door saying to pay the rent by the 8th or we will be kicked out (not verbatim, but pretty much what it said). Can he do this?

The ceiling has caved in on me while I slept, no knobs to use the stove til 22 days into the lease, filth and grime under the fridge, the tiolet flooded upstairs and ran down the wall into our electric stove and soooo much more. The ceiling is still buckling in places. We have pictures of EVERYTHING.

As I have heard a verbal agreement between parties is the same as a written agreement.

What can/ should I do? We don't have anywhere else to go and he's trying to get away with being a slumlord.

Please help!

2006-07-05 07:27:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

ann wright, former deputy ambassador to mongolia, afghanistan and sierra leone, peace activist cindy sheehan, iraq war veteran and former army sgt geoffre millar and franciscan friar louid vitale, and more than woo anti war activiess from across the usa broke bread in front of the white house on monday before starting an open ended hunger strike to protest american occupation in iraq.

2006-07-05 07:26:29 · 21 answers · asked by stent 2 in Politics

2006-07-05 07:26:28 · 7 answers · asked by jojoh73 2 in Immigration

2006-07-05 07:25:49 · 12 answers · asked by Humdy 1 in Politics

I live in the state of Tennessee. And no papers are filed and he no longer lives in the house. We are still leagally married. Thanks

2006-07-05 07:25:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I get so tired of people (dumb U.S. citizens especially) that try and heap everything as “George Bush’s fault.” O.K., if you’re talking about Iraq I’m willing to somewhat agree with you on that, but other issues ranging from North Korea to Venezuela are more about anti-Americanism moreso than Anti-Bushism. Americans need to realize there’s a global wave of Anti-Americanism and that some of these clowns are riding the coattails of Anti-Americanism to further their agenda, like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

1.) North Korea – They’ve been a troublemaker since the end of the Korean War.
2.) Iran – State sponsor of terror and has provided safe haven and support to Hamas and Islamic Jihad for decades. Their current president has been identified as one of the ringleaders of the 1979 embassy siege. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
* The Iranian president has often said the Holocaust is a myth and that Israel should be “wiped off the map.”

2006-07-05 07:24:51 · 8 answers · asked by baq2calli 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I keep seeing this word and have no clue as to what it means or from where it was derived. Thanks.

2006-07-05 07:19:36 · 16 answers · asked by Made in America 7 in Politics

and a 30 hour work week, and 30 days of paid vacation year and yes these greety corporate pigs can afford it thats why the CEO's make almost as 200 times as an hourly employee.

2006-07-05 07:19:30 · 21 answers · asked by Republican Hater 1 in Politics

2006-07-05 07:18:48 · 26 answers · asked by yolanda l 1 in Law & Ethics

And will it be necessary to amend the Constitution to implement those long-awaited procedures?

2006-07-05 07:18:12 · 11 answers · asked by Carlos M. Fabara 1 in Politics

2006-07-05 07:14:57 · 9 answers · asked by mpnobles@sbcglobal.net 1 in Government

I don't understand why the word Liberal is viewed so negatively by the U.S. and Europe. My definition of a Liberal is someone who believes in individual freedom and choice.

A Liberal is also someone who believes people are intrinsically good and that everyone should lead their lives without judging or being judged, independent of sex, religion, race, sexual orientation.

A Liberal believes in helping his fellow man/woman either through charity or through government and doesn't believe that they have to be mutually exclusive of each other.

A Liberal believes that economic prosperity and government are just tools for the betterment of society and not ends in themselves.

A Liberal doesn't like the status quo and tries to change things for the better.

A Liberal is not afraid of change and believes that humanity needs to take more chances in order to better itself.

I could go on and on, but in the end, aren't the things I just described good?

2006-07-05 07:14:54 · 10 answers · asked by Epicarus 3 in Politics

2006-07-05 07:13:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Will you slither back under the rock from where you came?

2006-07-05 07:10:54 · 20 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5 in Politics

I am on H1B and I pay 2300 in taxes every month :(

I need ways that I can minimize this ( other than a Home mortgage )

2006-07-05 07:10:21 · 2 answers · asked by MK116 2 in Immigration

ROME Jul 5, 2006 (AP)— Prosecutors said Wednesday they had arrested two Italian intelligence officers and were seeking four more Americans as part of an investigation into the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.

The arrest of the two SISMI intelligence officials was the first official acknowledgment that Italian agents were involved in a case that the government has complained was a violation of its sovereignty.

In a statement released in Milan, prosecutors said three Americans being sought were CIA agents, while the fourth worked at the joint U.S.-Italian air base of Aviano, where the Egyptian was allegedly taken after his abduction.

2006-07-05 07:07:35 · 3 answers · asked by cantcu 7 in Other - Politics & Government

does allowing each race to practice their culture and believe will help?

2006-07-05 07:07:12 · 26 answers · asked by Eyzees 1 in Government