Politics & Government - 28 March 2007

The international community EXPECTED this people. Iran was losing generals and blamed the UK for kidnapping them.. and it was believed based on the past that they would retaliate with kidnappings of their own.. I read an article on this a week before the kidnappings happened.. it's all just more politics and attention grabbing.

2007-03-28 09:41:48 · 10 answers · asked by pip 7 in Politics

Why do conspiracy theroists come up with there BS? Do they just look for atention or do they realy belive the things they say?

2007-03-28 09:41:45 · 16 answers · asked by rkjr1999 2 in Politics

2007-03-28 09:41:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

That is not bad if we only have a 27% anti American faction. Surly we can unite to rid ourselves from that.

2007-03-28 09:41:31 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics

Inarguably, Shrub is the worst president ever - the illegal war, burying us in debt for generations to come, breaking laws left and right, on and on and on. His place in history is secure as a complete failure.
2nd place is another matter - was it Bush #1 for raising taxes & not capping Saddam when he had the chance, or Ike for getting us into VietNam, or Nixon for losing VietNam, or Ford for just being a complete idiot?

2007-03-28 09:41:07 · 20 answers · asked by gw_bushisamoron 4 in Politics

Where there any impact on the Brown Case?

2007-03-28 09:40:46 · 4 answers · asked by angeleyez 1 in Law & Ethics

Yesterday night I got pulled over. He said he clocked me between 45-50 in a 35. I told him that i was going 40 and my rims might off-set the speedometer calibration. He reduced the ticket right there to a Failure to Obey Traffic Device (running a red light). Let me add, 2 months ago i got a ticket for failure to yield and no seatbelt and just mailed them in paying the fine. Think i should just pay the ticket or fight it?

2007-03-28 09:40:36 · 11 answers · asked by dmjr228 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Who is the best president before World War 2. Who was the worst?

2007-03-28 09:40:13 · 7 answers · asked by rkjr1999 2 in Politics

Boomers have been paying excess Social Security witholding above what is needed for paying current benefits for many years.

Congress changed the laws to put that surplus aside for the future - but then put that surplus into government debt bonds - so when Social Security is taking in less and benefits grow, not only will Social Security withholding need increased - taxes will have to be increased to pay back the bonds...

So Bush is spending MY Social Security NOW with his deficit spending and supplemental spending bills that don't show up in the budget. Should we demand a clear accounting ?

2007-03-28 09:40:11 · 4 answers · asked by oohhbother 7 in Other - Politics & Government

President Bush called the Democrats' bills "political theater" and has vowed to veto the legislation -- even if it means delaying funding for our troops.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
Please read this news Article for further Information:

2007-03-28 09:39:51 · 10 answers · asked by courage 6 in Politics

the revocation of the Bill of Rights when in San Fransisco the simple choice of paper or plastic is now not a citizen's to make?
And how can the Right accuse the Left of the same, when the Military Commissions Act passed?
Is it "possible" that BOTH parties are pursuing special interests and slowly destroying the Constitution?
Or is your side justified in protecting the country? Or the environment?

2007-03-28 09:39:09 · 12 answers · asked by spewing_originality 3 in Politics

My recruiter told me I could get 14K for being an 11 bravo but my buddy went through MEPS. and they told him that him that he couldn't go infantry when he wanted because it was FULL.


I'm kind of concerned, why is army infantry so understaffed and Marines so full, I'm excited for Army infantry OSIT but I don't understand why one is so full and one is so empty.

2007-03-28 09:35:34 · 10 answers · asked by Oorah 1 in Military

1980s
• 1980 March 15 Armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
• 1980 June 3: Bombing of the Statue of Liberty. At 7:30 PM, a time delayed explosive device detonated in the Statue of Liberty's Story Room. Detonated after business hours, the bomb did not injure anyone, but cause $18,000 in damage, destroying many of the exhibits. The room was sealed off and left unrepaired until the Statue of Liberty restoration project that began years later. FBI investigators believed the perpetrators were Croatian terrorists seeking independence for Croatia from Yugoslavia, though no arrests were made.
• 1980 July 22: Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian exile and critic of Ayatollah Khomeni, was shot in his Bethesda, Maryland home. Dawud Salahuddin, an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by Iranians to kill Tabatabai.[14]
• 1981: Michael Donald was randomly selected to be lynched by two Ku Klux Klan members. He was beaten, had his throat slit, and was hung.
• 1982 January 28: Kemal Arikan, the Turkish Consul-General in Los Angeles, is killed by members of the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide.
• 1982 May 4: Turkish Honorary Consul Orhan Gunduz was assassinated in his car in Somerville, Massachusetts by the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide.
• 1983 November 7: U.S. Senate bombing. The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombs the U.S. Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
• 1984 In what is believed to be the first incident of bioterrorism in the United States the Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at 10 restaurants in The Dalles, Ore., to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.[15]
• 1985 October 11: Alex Odeh, a prominent Arab-American, was killed by a bomb in his office in Santa Ana, California. The case is unsolved, but it is thought the Jewish Defense League was responsible.
[edit] 1990s
• 1990 November 5 Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan,New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Qaeda.
• 1993 February 26: First World Trade Center bombing killed six and injured 1,000.
• 1993 March 10: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida, was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of the year before. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Dr. Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
• 1993 August: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas in August of 1993. Rachelle Shannon was charged with the crime and received an 11-year prison sentence.
• 1994 The Earth Liberation Front since its founding that year has committed more than 1,200 acts of vandalism and arson in the U.S., causing more than $200 million in damage to property that they believe is being used to injure animals, people, or the environment. The FBI has classified the group as the top domestic terror threat. Because they do not target people they have objected to being categorized as terrorists.
• 1994 March 1: Rashid Baz, a Lebanese national opens fire on a van carrying members of the Lubavitch Hasidic sect of Jews, killing one and wounding several others. The attack took place on the entrance ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 1994 June 29: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot outside of an abortion facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings, received a death sentence, and was executed September 3, 2003.
• 1994 December 30: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed when two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts and Norfolk, Virginia were both attacked on December 30, 1994. John Salvi was later convicted. He committed suicide in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head.
• 1995 April 19: Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people-including children playing in the building's day care center. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols launched the attack in protest of the US government.
• 1996 July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics. One person was killed and 111 injured.
• 1996-2001 The Animal Liberation Front engages in arson attacks against meat-processing plants, lumber companies, a high-tension power line, and a ski center, in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, California, and Colorado.
• 1997 February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel [16]
• 1998 January 29: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, died when his workplace was bombed on January 29, 1998. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
• 1998 July 24: A gunman storms the United States Capitol and fatally wounds two United States Capitol Police officers.
• 1998 October 23: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot dead at his home in Amherst, New York on October 23, 1998. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against abortion providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Dr. Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001.
• 1999 April 20: Columbine High School Massacre: Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before committing suicide.
[edit] 2000-present
• 2001 September 11: September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 2001 September 18: November - 2001 anthrax attacks. Letters tainted with anthrax kill five across the United States. The case remains unsolved.
• 2002 July 4: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, kills 2 Israelis and wounds 4 others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI concluded this was terrorism, although they found no evidence linking Hadayet to any terrorist group.[17]
• May 2002 Mailbox Pipe Bomber: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa.
• October 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks: During three weeks in October 2002 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured 3 others in Washington D.C, Baltimore, and Virginia. An earlier spree by the pair had resulted in 3 deaths in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, California, Arizona, and Texas to bring the total to 16 deaths.

2007-03-28 09:34:48 · 18 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

2007-03-28 09:34:23 · 19 answers · asked by LindaAnn 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-03-28 09:34:06 · 2 answers · asked by Feamarket Steve 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-28 09:33:57 · 7 answers · asked by LindaAnn 4 in Elections

more like what the Devil would tell Bush than God since Bush is a false Christian to begin with?

2007-03-28 09:31:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

American soldiers are happy and proud to loose life and limb for the people of Iraq.

But what is so special about Iraq?

If the president says that there is oil in Antarctica, would they give life and limb for say the proud Pinguin nation of Antarctica??

Doesn't the US military get a sense of when they have been "played to the hilt"

The truth is that the military people have made a tremendous amount of sacrifice to look at the situation in any objective way.



"Saddam used his chemicals against the Kurds ect."

Ok, but I never knew the American troop wanted to give his life for a citizen of another country instead of his/her own (the USA)...sounds kind of silly and made up.

Amazing that they believe the propoganda that "dying for an Iraqi means also dying for the US's good"

Given the level of sacrifice it seems that in every US troop there is an Iraqi dying to get out.

Maybe they should drape the coffins with an IRAQI flaq??

Sounds silly to you to huhh

2007-03-28 09:30:28 · 15 answers · asked by Indian Princess 1 in Military

This is just another clear example of the anti-Americanism of lieberals, isn't it?

2007-03-28 09:30:21 · 12 answers · asked by victoryiniraq10 1 in Politics

Okay so today i was driving on the freeway and i looked on the side of the road and a baby deer's leg was caught barely in the little hole of the fence. So i pull on the side of the road thinking im going to do the right thing and help it out right. So i get out and head towards the fence but i didn't have a razorblade or anything to stretch it out or cut it out. So i decide to call 911 BIG MISTAKE! 2 @sshole cops show up. I tell them the situation but they never listen like always. They start arguing with me and threaten me saying that if i don't leave that they will shoot me with there tazer gun and send me to jail. So i start heading to my car obviously going to leave and i hear them shoot it for no reason. The sad thing is that it wasn't even in any pain it was just stuck and its mom was on the other side watching this. I am so pist off right now none of this was supposed to happen but thats all cops result in is violence.

2007-03-28 09:29:32 · 18 answers · asked by Bellroc 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-03-28 09:29:27 · 8 answers · asked by mamidulce26 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

can anyone tell me what power a police officer has is he is off duty, but wearing his uniform. I was picked up for a driving affence. This police officer off duty arrested me, called at all my neighbours houses asking about my conduct (i had lived there for more than twenty years) upset my wife by saying i had been trying to kill myself and gained entry to my house on this pretense, to look at the drugs i take on a daily basis. Did he have the authority to do this, where do i go to get advise.

2007-03-28 09:28:53 · 5 answers · asked by BARBARA K 1 in Law & Ethics

to Enoch Powell. For laughing and ridiculing him. If only he was around today!

2007-03-28 09:28:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Bush and McCain both claim that if we leave Iraq before the "job is done, terrorists like bin Laden will follow us home."

How will they do this?

2007-03-28 09:27:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-03-28 09:27:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I've only seen it once. We're pretty lucky to only have one disabled person.

2007-03-28 09:25:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Would you say his pattern of psychological functioning includes the following?

The Introverted Feeling Type
Introverted feeling strives for an inner intensity that is unrelated to any external object. It devalues objective reality and is rarely displayed openly. When it does appear on the surface, it generally seems negative or indifferent. The focus of such feeling is upon inner processes and latent, primordial images. At its extreme, it may develop into mystical ecstasy.

The introverted feeling type is brooding and inaccessible, although may also hide behind a childish mask. Such a person aims to be inconspicuous, makes little attempt to impress and generally fails to respond to the feelings of others. The outer, surface appearance is often neutral, cold and dismissive. Inwardly, however, feelings are deep, passionately intense, and may accompany secret religious or poetic tendencies. The effect of all this on other people can be stifling and oppressive. When extreme or neurotic, this type may become domineering and vain. Negative repressed thinking may also be projected so that these persons may imagine they can know what others are thinking. This may develop into paranoia and into secret scheming rivalries.

2007-03-28 09:25:18 · 4 answers · asked by orderly logic 6 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-03-28 09:25:13 · 8 answers · asked by neoconfire 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Just watched an ammendment (Coburn - R-OK) defeated in the senate which would have REMOVED $100 million of US taxpayer's dollars for the 2008 democrat and republican conventions from the Iraq/Afghanistan spending bill. 51 to 45. To give credit, Obama was for said ammendment, Schumer against. How do you feel on this, and why? My personal opinion is NEITHER party deserves ONE CENT of taxpayer money to put on their conventions. All they need is their party members to get out and vote, and there are 51 senators who need to be voted out of office. As if anyone pays attention or remembers by then.

2007-03-28 09:24:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I told

2007-03-28 09:23:57 · 1 answers · asked by samirgeorgy_ebrahim 1 in Embassies & Consulates