Politics & Government - 17 August 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060815/pl_afp/usiraqprisoners_060815212229

2006-08-17 20:05:23 · 10 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

were have i heard this?

2006-08-17 20:01:37 · 9 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

2006-08-17 19:59:51 · 13 answers · asked by de rak 4 in Immigration

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US soldier Joseph Darby, who revealed to investigators the abuse committed by US troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, said he was denounced by relatives as a "traitor" but that he did not regret his decision to expose the scandal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060815/pl_afp/usiraqprisoners_060815212229

2006-08-17 19:59:48 · 14 answers · asked by salma 1 in Politics

I plan on joining the Air Force as an officer once I graduate from college in about 3 years. My boyfriend wants to enlist in the Air Force within the next year. If we get married after he joins but before I do, is there a way that we can get stationed together?

2006-08-17 19:59:17 · 8 answers · asked by youdontknowme 3 in Military

2006-08-17 19:58:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-17 19:57:12 · 4 answers · asked by jenmorrissett 1 in Law & Ethics

Thu Aug 17, 10:04 PM ET

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Former Sen. John Edwards said Thursday he made a mistake in 2002 when he voted to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq.

Who is he? Are saner people coming around??? Or is psychophancy still rampant?????

2006-08-17 19:56:12 · 6 answers · asked by salma 1 in Politics

Or is that too politically incorrect?

2006-08-17 19:55:56 · 13 answers · asked by Big E 3 in Immigration

I have always called myself a Democrat, but I don't agree with abortion....However, I don't neccessarily disagree with homosexuality. I am not a fan of Republicans tax cuts & things like that. It hurts me more than helps me.... And Liberals, well, I'm not sure what they even are.... I think I'm a mix of the three! Is there a name for that!? :)

2006-08-17 19:54:56 · 31 answers · asked by Brooke~* 3 in Politics

in an futile attempt to discredit him?

Do you REALLY have to resort to such tactics?
Maybe you were one of those immature embiciles that stole all of the "W's" off the White House keyboards???
Grow up.

2006-08-17 19:52:06 · 4 answers · asked by LastNerveLost 3 in Politics

past few decades. What is reason behind it?

2006-08-17 19:52:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-08-17 19:51:39 · 4 answers · asked by shunya 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it true that Jews in Israel use water to grow flowers, while Palastine have no water to wash themselves and drink? Is it true that Jews use other roads than Palastines? Is it true that each Palastine have identified card which he cannot loose or he will be arrested? Is it true they live in fear and under police terrorization? Is it true that one million Palastine live like animals in a small territory while Jews build large houses?
I want to know from Jews and Palastine: Isn't the Palastine right to be a terrorist, to defend themselves and rebel against power who control the whole country? Isn it their right to defend themselves and revange to Jews for acting like Nazi, or they will end as Native American (Indian) or Amborgini?

I watched a very good documentary movie about Jews and Palastines in Israel and even some Jews in that movie admited that Palastines live like **** (they live like Jews lived in WW2 in Germany, or black people under the rule of the white people)

2006-08-17 19:49:56 · 5 answers · asked by nelli 4 in Other - Politics & Government

is this guy a complete idiot or what?...does he think before he talks..or does he just open his mouth and a bunch of words tumble out?..have you read some of the things he has said...

2006-08-17 19:48:49 · 6 answers · asked by Uncle Salty 3 in Other - Politics & Government

I am willing to bet the US has killed more tortured more arrested more and used more bio chemical weapons in the past 5 yrs that Iran has in the past 10 -

Think of every last war in the past 5 yrs that the US was in and or started how many dead ....

Now list the wars Iran was directly in?

Okay go ahead and count Hez in Lebenon if you want One against Iran and how many against the US?

Who is really the crazy war mongering facist Bush or Iran?

2006-08-17 19:48:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Don't tell me to join the army or anything like that please. I'm talking realistically. I am a college student, so I don't think it would be hard to raise some money. I just don't know where to start or who to raise it for. I'm not a big fan of Pres. Bush & the government as a whole, so I would like to give to a charity or something like that..... Or if you have any other ideas about what I could do to help out; any suggestions would be helpful!

2006-08-17 19:46:28 · 17 answers · asked by Brooke~* 3 in Civic Participation

"Crime is contagious.
If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;
it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
To declare that, in the administration of the criminal law,
the end justifies the means...would bring terrible retribution.
Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face."

United States Supreme Court Justice Loius Brandeis
Olmstead v. United States
(1928)

2006-08-17 19:45:36 · 5 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

Shouldn't moral and ethical issues be placed in the hands of the people? I understand that certain areas were delegated to government to handle. Overall the general idea was that we fostered freedom in the U.S. What we did not want was a controlling government telling us what to do at every turn. The U.S. was set up in such a way as to allow freedom of expression, religion, press etc. At no point in time do I see reason for the government to be a moral compass for individual citizens. If the citizens of a state or nation decided that a moral view or ethical stance should be acceptable, shouldn't that be considered the will of the people? The framers certainly believed in our natural rights as people...why should our rights stop at morality? Shouldn't there be an avenue for the majority of the populace to set their own moral code, as long as it did not take away those specific rights given in the Constitution...Doesn't that make more sense then legislatived morality?

2006-08-17 19:45:34 · 5 answers · asked by James H 3 in Law & Ethics

Here's one man's opinion. It's a bit long but well worth the read.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/17/135837/353

rePubby whining and slander will be duely noted for what it is...nothing.

2006-08-17 19:44:09 · 7 answers · asked by GJ 5 in Politics

should lebanon build a big wall along its syrian border and cut off all ties with syria and in the process stop supplies from getting into lebanon and start trading with israel instead? this would be more politically and economically beneficial to lebanon

2006-08-17 19:43:21 · 8 answers · asked by antelias 2 in Other - Politics & Government

"Must a citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree,
resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man
a conscience then? I think that we should be men first,
and subjects afterward. It is not desireable to
cultivate a respect for the law, so much as
for the right. The only obligation
which I have a right to assume
is to do at any time
what I think is right.

Henry David Thoreau

2006-08-17 19:43:21 · 4 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

If you ask a question on YAHOO are you only wanting a sugar coated response?

I had know Idea my answers were so anti American and hate filled.

2006-08-17 19:43:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

"a government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meetings or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic-negative property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. It results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy." U.S. Army Training Manual

2006-08-17 19:42:17 · 2 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

Please feel free to say horrible things...

2006-08-17 19:41:24 · 14 answers · asked by French_hector 2 in Other - Politics & Government

When I was much too young to do anything about it,
I was locked in a room with 30 other kids
and told I would stay there until I learned what is now
commonly dismissed as "that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams crap,"
which now I'm told I must forget
or face being locked in a much smaller room,
by myself,
until I do . . .

2006-08-17 19:40:26 · 9 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

2006-08-17 19:39:50 · 14 answers · asked by Dr MK Khaishagi 2 in Politics

The politic of the left
wants to HELP men
live moral lives.

The politic of the right
wants to MAKE men
live moral lives.

Where is the politic that
wants to LET men
live moral lives?

2006-08-17 19:38:54 · 4 answers · asked by notdon 1 in Politics

2006-08-17 19:37:22 · 20 answers · asked by Dr MK Khaishagi 2 in Politics

do any other christian lebanese think that its about time that we retake our country and our government and convert lebanon back to the beautiful jewel it used to be before we got outnumbered by hezbollah shiites ( i have no problems with sunnis but shiites are a bad version of islam) and syrian "workers" and syrian influence do u think that we should retake our country and transform it back to what it used to be and have good friendly relationships with israel

2006-08-17 19:35:30 · 3 answers · asked by antelias 2 in Other - Politics & Government