Politics & Government - 17 July 2007

2007-07-17 02:33:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This is a true story.I am against illegal immigration and I had this co- worker who openly told us his business.As soon as I found out he was here illegally I reported him and it actually worked!My friends crack up because the ironic thing is Im Mexican-American.

2007-07-17 02:32:34 · 13 answers · asked by ill vato! 1 in Immigration

'Well, "communications consulting" is how presidential candidate Mitt Romney recorded $300 in payments to a California company that describes itself as "a mobile beauty team for hair, makeup and men's grooming and spa services."

Romney spokesman Kevin Madden confirmed that the payments -- actually two separate $150 charges -- were for makeup, though he said the former Massachusetts governor had only one session with Hidden Beauty of West Hills, Calif. That was before the May 3 Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., co-sponsored by MSNBC and The Politico.'


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4982.html

2007-07-17 02:31:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The City of Waukegan is trying to add a law that allows any person convicted of a drug or violent crime to be reported to the immigration department for possible deportation. Yesterday, 5,000 immigrants stormed the council chambers to protest the action. Does this make it clear what the illegal immigrants really want? What do you people think of this?

2007-07-17 02:28:47 · 12 answers · asked by Steve C 7 in Immigration

paying taxes is against the US constitution and it is illegal.
if paying tax was legal, it would be against the constitution and illegal.

so my question: why are you illegal. paying taxes is a crime. there is no law, and it is against the constitution.

if you have paid taxes in your US life, you are guilty and you are a criminal...

if you are a responsible US citizen, you must obey to the US constitution and ST0P paying taxes.

2007-07-17 02:25:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I heard this and wanted to check the validity.
Were those quasi-elections GW's idear of freedom?

2007-07-17 02:24:59 · 4 answers · asked by topink 6 in Elections

Which member of the 'Ten Marshals' (the founders of China's PLA) now has a new exhibit in the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing, and is considered a "hero" of the Chinese military??

2007-07-17 02:24:30 · 3 answers · asked by WMD 7 in Military

...for his involvement in the illegal DC prosititution ring? He doesn't want to resign but he did demand that Clinton resign for consensual sex.

Why so many illegal sex scandals with Republicans??

Just this week Republican State rep Robert Allen was arrested for soliciting prostitution. NC Rep (R) David Almond resigned after exposing and chasing an employee yelling "Suck it!" (R) Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls. Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor. Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

2007-07-17 02:23:06 · 7 answers · asked by ToYou,Too! 5 in Elections

I'm single, no kids, and 38 years old. The cut off age is 40. I have a debt (school loans and credit cards) totalling to about $20,000. I'm currently making less than 25 grand a year and it's not cutting it. These agents start at $35 g's a year. Just curious about what the good folks of America thought.

2007-07-17 02:22:51 · 3 answers · asked by Yea Yea 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Shitties have their little religous war if they want? We'd still be there in case something really needed our attention. And maybe we'd be surprised that the Iraqi government would get its act together.

2007-07-17 02:21:28 · 5 answers · asked by topink 6 in Military

I'm literally not sure where many conservatives come down on this question.

2007-07-17 02:18:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Why is war a political issue, and not a humane one? Any question about the war should be posted in military or humanities then?

I cannot get through all the LIEberal lies...

2007-07-17 02:18:22 · 21 answers · asked by nom de paix 4 in Politics

My boyfriend got an Underage DUI (He had been 18 for about three months at the time off arrest) and this happened about a year ago. He got a DUI lawyer and his lawyer told him about a month ago that he needed to do forty hours of community service, take an alcohol evaluation, and go to 24 hours of DUI school. He wants to go into the Army National Guard. His lawyer has told him since he has done all this prior to his court date and wanting to go into the Guard will drop his DUI to reckless driving and that there will be no probation or any further punishment at all? Is this true? What are any possible outcomes? It's in the state of Georgia and harsh answers are better, I want to know the full reality of what might happen

2007-07-17 02:18:13 · 6 answers · asked by SSV06 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Bush declared war on terrorism. Presidents and politicians (and others in high offices) are blamed for negligence.

Billions of dollars spent on Homeland Security.

We went into Iraq to take care of the "threat"

At the airport, shoes have to be removed, shampoo bottles and deodorant are confiscated, yet....

Al Qaeda is larger and stronger than ever.

2007-07-17 02:15:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-17 02:15:51 · 5 answers · asked by jaeleeamari2904 1 in Military

the warrant is for a speeding ticket i failed to show up to court for in Santa Cruz, CA last year. the ticket i want to show up to court for is in Alhambra, CA for driving without a license and registration and insurance.

2007-07-17 02:15:39 · 8 answers · asked by crayondirt 1 in Law & Ethics

A power hungry she-beast? An evil dike-ish socialist?

2007-07-17 02:14:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This is a question for those with open minds...would you vote for a Clinton-Obama ticket? Why and if not why not?

2007-07-17 02:14:22 · 13 answers · asked by Mandy 2 in Elections

I had not even given it a second thought. The Navy was my choice. I always wanted to fly jets. But I can't now. I'm a mother of 3 plus 3 on the way. This is open to military personal only!

2007-07-17 02:12:33 · 22 answers · asked by SNAKEDOG 3 in Military

2007-07-17 02:11:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I know this will not dissuade you and it is not scientific, but watch this hilarious South Park episode.

http://allabout-sp.net/?p=season10/1009

2007-07-17 02:11:13 · 6 answers · asked by damilitia 2 in Other - Politics & Government

You know like the facts that seem to be kind of weird (Cheney in a bunker a day before it happens. Bin Laudin not even saying anything.) .

2007-07-17 02:08:35 · 10 answers · asked by Richard E Barsom 1 in Military

2007-07-17 02:08:31 · 7 answers · asked by liberal 1 in Politics

2007-07-17 02:08:08 · 4 answers · asked by Kho J 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-17 02:03:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

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

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

We are all in this together, we are all Americans who want the best for our country, so why do we, the citizens, fight and argue between us? Why do republicans defend Bush as if he their father and why do liberal/democrats insist on blaming all the countries woes on Bush?

If we want to make a difference the in-fighting has to stop and we need to find common ground.

Why is common ground so hard to find if we all want the best protection and services our country can offer?

2007-07-17 01:56:23 · 4 answers · asked by hanginleft17 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Exit Strategies
Would Iran Take Over Iraq? Would Al-Qaeda? The Debate About How and When to Leave Centers on What Might Happen After the U.S. Goes.

If U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq in the near future, three developments would be likely to unfold. Majority Shiites would drive Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas west to Anbar province..... Southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shiite groups...... And the Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite a U.S. troop presence there. In short, Iraq would effectively become three separate nations......

That was the conclusion reached in recent "war games" exercises conducted for the U.S. military by retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson. "I honestly don't think it will be apocalyptic," said Anderson, who has served in Iraq and now works for a major defense contractor. But "it will be ugly." The way Bush is running the war will lead to the down fall of Iraq. It's just a matter of time before Bush will fail.

2007-07-17 01:54:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

More Republicans have defected to the withdraw-from-Iraq Democrats. They have read the polls that show falling support among the American people for the war in Iraq, and have concluded that continuing to support the war will cost them their Senate or House seat.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2007/07/17/history_will_judge_harshly_those_for_withdrawal_from_iraq

2007-07-17 01:51:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics