Politics & Government - 20 September 2006

nelson mondela, gandi, lenin, che do you think

2006-09-20 22:40:52 · 7 answers · asked by saladin 2 in Politics

Or that the world be united into a one world government?

2006-09-20 22:37:40 · 27 answers · asked by Madness_75 2 in Government

You saw the build-up, you had the anger then TV gave you live images like a video game but this was for real.

Iraq getting a big chunk of bombs on its head and revenge was delivered.

I would like to know if this was 'good' TV. It is almost a sick bloodlust but I must admit to liking what I saw and it was compelling viewing.

2006-09-20 22:33:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Look at what great men these officers of the law are. And these are just the tip of the iceberg that slipped through the blue shield.

Here's some more typical police behavior that will shock your senses of decency.

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/002880....

More police rape cases

http://www.peterellis.org.nz/people/clin...

Police getting away with rape
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/index....

Police rapes more....
http://cbs4boston.com/iteam/local_story_...

http://www.peterellis.org.nz/people/clin...

http://www.sexandmycitywilmingtonnorthca...

http://www.gaiaguys.net/victoria.htm...

http://www.rape-victim-support.com/showt...

http://www.goodbadcorrupt.com/

Your hard earned taxdollars are hard at work by the police.

Just look at the links above to see where your moneys going.

2006-09-20 22:31:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I am shocked at the islamophobia on Y! Answers, and I slightly get the impression Americans may be worse than Brits - I may be wrong about this however. What does anyone think?

2006-09-20 22:28:35 · 28 answers · asked by DS 4 in Other - Politics & Government

I was terminated in June from a contractual position with the state. There were reports given that I violated several rules of the job. At first it was just my husband who was fired but when I started asking questions, I also was terminated. I have asked by phone and certified letters to receive a copy of the alleged incident but my boss stated"she did not want to fuel the fire any more and the person asked to remain confidential. There was supposely a through police investigation done on the matter as well. No police ever came to me and asked me questions. The info that the person got about my job was very easy to find out. We live in a small community and everyone knows everything that happens here.So anyone can find anything out they want.

2006-09-20 22:27:02 · 4 answers · asked by emttaz 1 in Law & Ethics

i read it in a persian website!!thts funny..he was member of iran navey seals and he himself killed 31 iraqi soldiers and attacked the shelter of saddam hussain with hes men!also he served and educated in russia military for 2 years..how can a little man like him do all these shits!!?

2006-09-20 22:22:07 · 12 answers · asked by last spiritual man 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Independent Media TV
Under Reported
May 01, 2001

Friendly Fire (Operation Northwoods)
By: David Ruppe
ABC news

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N E W Y O R K, May 1 — In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency, he notes.

The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years.

"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing," Bamford told ABCNEWS.com.

"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."

Gunning for War

The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," writes Bamford.

The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show.

Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists et all Cuba [sic]."

The plans were motivated by an intense desire among senior military leaders to depose Castro, who seized power in 1959 to become the first communist leader in the Western Hemisphere — only 90 miles from U.S. shores.

The earlier CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles had been a disastrous failure, in which the military was not allowed to provide firepower.The military leaders now wanted a shot at it.

"The whole thing was so bizarre," says Bamford, noting public and international support would be needed for an invasion, but apparently neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro.

Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion.

"That's what we're supposed to be freeing them from," Bamford says. "The only way we would have succeeded is by doing exactly what the Russians were doing all over the world, by imposing a government by tyranny, basically what we were accusing Castro himself of doing."

'Over the Edge'

The Joint Chiefs at the time were headed by Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who, with the signed plans in hand made a pitch to McNamara on March 13, 1962, recommending Operation Northwoods be run by the military.

Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were rejected by McNamara in the meeting is not clear. But three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba, Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as chairman and transferred to another job.

The secret plans came at a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds.

There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election.

And at least two popular books were published focusing on a right- wing military leadership pushing the limits against government policy of the day. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report on right-wing extremism in the military, warning a "considerable danger" in the "education and propaganda activities of military personnel" had been uncovered. The committee even called for an examination of any ties between Lemnitzer and right-wing groups. But Congress didn't get wind of Northwoods, says Bamford.

"Although no one in Congress could have known at the time," he writes, "Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge."

Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he writes, the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963.

One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.

"There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy and they did, but they never succeeded, but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.

After 40 Years

Ironically, the documents came to light, says Bamford, in part because of the 1992 Oliver Stone film JFK, which examined the possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

As public interest in the assassination swelled after JFK's release, Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's access to government records related to the assassination.

The author says a friend on the board tipped him off to the documents.

Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.

"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford.





Original Link: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html



© Copyright 2001 ABC

2006-09-20 22:19:32 · 7 answers · asked by Mo 1 in Government

strange gods before me .after all they have elevated mohammad to god like status.

2006-09-20 22:18:51 · 23 answers · asked by joseph m 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-20 22:15:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

to remain in this country.

2006-09-20 22:13:06 · 31 answers · asked by zoomraker 1 in Immigration

2006-09-20 22:10:25 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

John Reid has said that any parent who knows their child has anti establishment or radical ideas or thoughts must report it to the police my 10 year old is passionatly into animal rights should i dob her in ?

2006-09-20 22:08:22 · 16 answers · asked by keny 6 in Other - Politics & Government

Just a suggestion but if the west wants to really hit the source of annoyance to peace, should 'we' just go in full force and nuke Iran, Syria and then bang north Korea?

Iran have been taking the p*ss for quite a while and Syria was where all the WMD's were shipped to in the Iraq war.

Forget tolerance because these people do not show any mercy. Just nuke the aforementioned targets and maximise collateral damage. Save the money for smart bombs and cruise missiles, just carpet bomb the lot and use up some spare nuclear weapons to destroy all the bunker ragheads.

2006-09-20 22:08:11 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

This just in from washington one hour ago-- here is my question
Is This All About November ??? And who needs the votes???
I really hope that the american people show up to vote --

2006-09-20 22:07:35 · 16 answers · asked by ibelieve 4 in Immigration

I called the cops 2 times on my neighbors downstairs for verbal fighting, loud music, and just plain being loud at 1:30AM and again at 2:30AM. Do you think I should still notify the manager / owner about the neighbors downstairs or would have the cops already done that? THanks!!

2006-09-20 22:01:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

It seems that America will not take responsibility for it actions, mainly (in my opinion) becuase it sees climate change as a threat to its economics. Does policy on climate change mirror that of the communist threat during the cold war. The same emotions of paranoia and sheer anger seem to be evoked when this issue is raised.

2006-09-20 21:59:48 · 5 answers · asked by andham2000 3 in Politics

2006-09-20 21:57:41 · 10 answers · asked by Roxy87 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-20 21:49:15 · 15 answers · asked by last spiritual man 1 in Politics

middle east war problems

2006-09-20 21:46:42 · 6 answers · asked by shirish p 1 in Politics

a rendezvous with the hangman? After all the atrocities he has committed against fellow ugandans, the brute finds the audacity to challenge the international warranty on his head. What do you make of it? Is Museveni right to grant him amnesty?

2006-09-20 21:43:49 · 2 answers · asked by manyamus 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Bush must understand that he was DEFEATED
in Lebanon he said that his (New middle east) will be borne from 1100 civilians killed and Hizbullah survived and acyually defeated Israel.
in Iraq since 3and a half years his soldiers are being hunted and he failed there.
in Afghanistan Taliban is stiil able to take regions and leaders of Taliban and Al Qaeda are still fighting.
Iran is rising as a new power with nuclear technology
so USA stratege is no more than nothing.
Iraq and Cuba ,Syria and Venzuella and Hizbullah and Hamas and most of Iraqi groups are the new players with Eouropian Union and China.
America and Israel are not there....not any more
who caused that?
Mr. W.Bush
congraduate him for putting his country in all these (hells)
for this Vietnam is a peice of cake
well done Bushy

2006-09-20 21:43:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Muslims who hate England - they really hate the west, they love 9/11 and 7/7 and are proud to have their extremist views.

I think the west is taking a political right-shift and you can see this trend occuring all over Europe. Not a nice situation but it is a trend caused by immigration and extreme muslim fundamentalists who are home-grown.

My question is should muslims be sent back to the countries of their forefathers i.e. repatriation?

Give them all a one-way ticket, no nonsense, send them all back whether they like it or not.

An extreme view but it is getting to the point where extreme action is the only resolve.

2006-09-20 21:41:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-09-20 21:41:49 · 4 answers · asked by stu82_howarth 1 in Law & Ethics

Last week i read an article of one American economist where it was written that if Bush starts the war american economy'll crash.

2006-09-20 21:40:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

The Brown Recluse Spider has become an epidemic. They are very dangerous. Folks in the South are afraid to go to bed at night or put on their close they're so thick. No bug spray will kill them. Do you know of any research the government is doing to rid these intruders?

2006-09-20 21:40:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

i think its the best time to solve problems with iran..even if theres no hope for peace,few mins converstation btween 2 leaders will help the crisis..i think if iran and usa become friends,more thn 80%problems in the world will solve(middle east crisis,nuclear weapons project,problems btween christians and muslims and even jews,problems btween russia/china /usa//problems btween latin american countries and usa,oil price,al quaedah etc)

2006-09-20 21:38:36 · 6 answers · asked by last spiritual man 1 in Other - Politics & Government

A brief, but interesting history lesson.


Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and

hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more

than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America

for food and war materials.



At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most

Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.



Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress

unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which

had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies.



France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned

itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not an ally, as

Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was

not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of

Asia. Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada

and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our

northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia

and Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland,

Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it. All of Europe, from

Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.



America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically

downgraded most of its military forces after WWI and throughout the

depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training with

broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on

the doors because they didn't have real tanks. And a huge chunk of our navy

had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.



Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600

million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the

property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when

Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually, Belgium

surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion,

and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they

could. Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of

staggering shipping loses and the near-decimation of its air force in the

Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because

Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat

that could be dealt with later, and first turning his attention to Russia,

at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of

1940.



Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for

two years, until the U.S. got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.



Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and

Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but

also more than a MILLION soldiers.



Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war

effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly have

won the war.



All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey

things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in

history.



There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants and

may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical

weapons, almost anywhere in the world.



The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs -- they

believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should

own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. And that

all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or

subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge

the world of Jews. This is their mantra.



There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part not

a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its

Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win -- the Inquisitors, or

the Reformationists.



If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the

Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies. The

techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an OPEC

dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated

by the Jihadis.



You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want the

dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim

Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.



If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe

that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with

the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then

the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate

and prosperous Middle East will emerge.



We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the

Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic

terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we can't do it

everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time

and place of our choosing........in Iraq.



Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we

are doing two important things.



(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly

involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively

supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.



Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the

deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.



(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic

terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people,

and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good

shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for

democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a

stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it

is needed.



World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with

a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the

Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America

joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed

by another decade of U.S. occupation in Germany and Japan to get those

countries reconstructed and running on their own again ... a 27 year war.



World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full

year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars.

WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000

still missing in action.



The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is roughly

what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 2,200 American lives, which

is roughly 2/3 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed on

9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been

unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.



Americans have a short attention span, conditioned by 30 second sound bites,

60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything comes out okay.



The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes

bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.



The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we

defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it.



If the U.S. can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have

an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help

modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the

clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the

barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in

this ancient and never-ending war. And now, for the first time ever, the

barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless somebody prevents them.



We have four options:



1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.



2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may

be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran

claims it is).



3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle

East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in

America.



4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is

more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated

France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will, of

course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.



If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or

grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the

Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.



The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural

clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and

civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.



Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists

always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.



Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too little

history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.



The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down

in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century

fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.



World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and

the U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in

the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million

people, depending on which estimates you accept.



The U.S. has taken more than 2,000 KIA in Iraq. The U.S. took more than

4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the

Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism. In WWII the US

averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most of the individual battles

of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.



But the stakes are at least as high ... A world dominated by representative

governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms ... or a

world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under

the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).



It's difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this. They

favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for

Iraqis.



"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America, where it's

safe.



Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan,

North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the most?



The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,

democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins,

wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights,

democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the

liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California. Please consider

passing along copies of this article to students in high school, college and

university as it contains information about the American past that is very

meaningful today -- history about America that very likely is completely

unknown by them (and their instructors, too). By being denied the facts of

our history, they are at a decided disadvantage when it comes to reasoning

and thinking through the issues of today. They are prime targets for

misinformation campaigns beamed at enlisting them in causes and beliefs that

are special interest agenda driven

2006-09-20 21:38:20 · 10 answers · asked by Madness_75 2 in Politics

the polluting industries cause global warming. global warming causes ice melting (on the north and south pole) which causes floods (at the very least). polluting creates toxic gas that everyone breathes, including aforementioned politicians. even more, if the global warming process goes on as it does now, the entire world will go through a catastrophy within our lifetime! why is it that while the eu is struggling to get ecological, the americans are destroying all eu's efforts by releasing more and more toxic gas in the atmosphere? an atmosphere that we will all breathe. why don't they understand that we are talking about our lives? and by our i mean the entire humanity.

check out http://www.climatecrisis.net/ for more details

2006-09-20 21:33:01 · 10 answers · asked by ilya 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-20 21:22:28 · 8 answers · asked by bujji 1 in Civic Participation