Politics & Government - 20 August 2007

I always wondered, why of all 60 troublesome Dictatorships around the world, Bush went into Iraq. I know, the motivation to start a war was, to justify the out of cotnrol spending for the military, but why Iraq? Now, could it be, that Pakistan, Philipines, N-Korea are to close to China? IS the USA just a big wuss, ready to start a fight, but not with a real threat?

2007-08-20 02:28:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Am I unpatriotic?

Am I the reason the terrorists are winning - because they are reading my question and does it embolden them?

They read yahoo answers now apparently

2007-08-20 02:26:32 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

to not go without food, and water, to not be abused/exploited?

2007-08-20 02:25:09 · 10 answers · asked by . 5 in Politics

Quick, take a guess! How he got through Yale without cheating is beyond me!
Average IQ is 100 btw.

2007-08-20 02:23:07 · 18 answers · asked by Lisa M 4 in Politics

If you dont work at all, and have one child liveing in the home and all you get for money is child support from the child father. Can you claim the child and get back money fileing your taxs. This person i no dose this but i didnt no if this is right or is it ok.

2007-08-20 02:22:13 · 3 answers · asked by debbie d 1 in Law & Ethics

A friend of mine was thinking of joining the military. She has some medical problems that the recruiter told her to lie about or she wouldnt be able to get in. Its suprising to me that he would want her to do that. If she did lie and these problems were found later (which most likely they would because of the issues ) what penalties might she face for lying?

2007-08-20 02:13:48 · 11 answers · asked by champsdope 2 in Military

1.what does truancy mean to you?
2.do many people in your class play truant?
3.do you feel peer pressure is the cause for truancy?
4.if you commit truancy,what do you think will be its consequences?
5.in what ways is/are your school, parents and community trying to cope with and prevent truancy?

2007-08-20 02:11:14 · 3 answers · asked by belinda f 1 in Law & Ethics

anything that can go wrong, will, at the most inopportune moment.

2007-08-20 02:07:09 · 9 answers · asked by Sheik 1 in Law & Ethics

Why do people keep asking the stupidest question ever...Will my girlfriend/ fiance receive benefits, housing, will she be taken care of while I deploy or can i live with my boyfriend and have the military pay for everything...Dont they understand that girlfriends and fiances dont exsist in the eyes of the military, not until you are married

2007-08-20 02:02:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

That we have both a private and public healthcare system in the UK?

I keep reading arguments against socialised healthcare in America that cite "well in the UK, under their National Health Service *everyone* has crappy healthcare and waiting lists and no choice of healthcare providers".

Thats crap. Yes, there are waiting lists and sometimes a less luxurious standard of care om the NHS than you'd get privately, but we have a private system also! The rich don't 'have' to use the NHS they can "go private" anytime they want! Those who can afford it can also take out health insurance to pay for private treatment and never go near the NHS if they don't want to.

But for those who would otherwise have no access to healthcare ie the poorest - the NHS is a lifesaver.

And FWIW the care I have always received on the NHS has always been exemplary. I had my first baby last year and was given an excellent standard of care.

Having socialised medicine does not restrict choice!!!

2007-08-20 02:01:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

The Kurds and the Shiites are working on an alliance...so if the others were to drop arms and join, then demand the US leave..do we really think the Washington crowd would....personally I see it now as more of a staging ground for any potential Ian conflict and not as much for the Iraqi peoples.
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=WH-S-20-08-2007&article=20811

2007-08-20 01:52:46 · 11 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Military

2007-08-20 01:47:24 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

£300 million is spent by the NHS on removing tatoos. More is spent on boob jobs and sex changes, etc. Why do new Labour waste money on the undeserving and deny help to the needy?

2007-08-20 01:44:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2007-08-20 01:37:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

we keep blaming things on the govt and about how they mess things up (or at least i do!) ... but now, can you name something they've actually done right?

oh and throw in which country's govt you're referring to, if possible.

2007-08-20 01:35:09 · 10 answers · asked by yin yang 4 in Government

2007-08-20 01:35:08 · 18 answers · asked by cal 1 in Military

At work I have been told if I am off sick again (i've been off one day with illness) I can be put on a discplinery and after that a written warning then I can be dissmissed. Is this legal? I work for a supermarket in one of their fresh food depts and I have the flu, sore throat, temp, headache and dizzyness, but I've been told I can't gop off sick without getting out on disciplinery. Surely this isnt right?

2007-08-20 01:29:51 · 20 answers · asked by Stitch 4 in Law & Ethics

Jose Padilla, unfit for trial, was indicted for charges unrelated to his arrest. After 5 years of torture and extreme isolation, his psyche has been broken. His arrest, the torture, occurred in violation of US Law and the Geneva Agreements. Whose life was saved?

2007-08-20 01:29:10 · 6 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-20 01:28:13 · 28 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics

"I think one way for us to end up being viewed as the ugly American is for us to go around the world saying, "We do it this way. So should you."
"I think the United States must be humble and must be proud and confident of our values, but humble in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course."
George W. Bush - 2nd presidential debate Oct 11th 2000

2007-08-20 01:28:05 · 8 answers · asked by . 5 in Politics

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for
people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-Noam Chomsky

Holocaust denires are going to prison for thoughtcrme in Europe and Canada. Do you agree with imprisoning people for unpopluar viewpoints?

2007-08-20 01:26:25 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Where I live, it's motorbikes in the park. Where you could and should expect to find children playing and people exercising their dogs, you find motorbikes doing wheelies, racing around and 'buzzing' anyone around.

2007-08-20 01:20:17 · 21 answers · asked by Frog Five 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-08-20 01:19:55 · 3 answers · asked by robbie 1 in Immigration

I really don't understand what is so bad about being a National Socialist. I have found that most people automatically start judgeing me without even knowing what NS is as a political standpoint please see nazi.org before answering

2007-08-20 01:17:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2007-08-20 01:13:04 · 2 answers · asked by Emma Michele 2 in Government

He is about to have his third meeting with the leaders of these two countries, so do you think this is something t be pursued? Should the borders between these countries, and the medical and all social services be shared between all of these countries? What do you think about it?

2007-08-20 01:07:46 · 8 answers · asked by Too Curious 3 in Government

My bfs brother was arrested and kept in jail overnight on saturday for drink driving. he had been at his mates house drinking when he heard a smash outside. he ran out and saw a car drive off. that car had just driven into the driveway and smahed his car. so my blokes bro got into his car and chased them down the road (over the limit). the police pulled him over and found he was drunk. they wouldnt listen to him when he told them someone had commited criminal damage on his car. they just arrested him and now he has to face court and its guna cost him £2k to fix the car. he went bak to the police today to report the criminal damage act but they said he has no proof and since he was drink driving he oculd hav easily caused the damage himself by crashing or something. will the ppl who commited the damage get away with it?

2007-08-20 01:07:04 · 14 answers · asked by *T*I*N*K*E*R*B*E*L*L* 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

will their be a sleeper contender

2007-08-20 01:06:56 · 7 answers · asked by lowerplanedweller 2 in Elections

"All men are created equal," and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." What does this really mean? Are we truly created equal? Do we all share the same rights?

What the thinkers behind the Declaration of Independence understood is what equality means--and what it doesn't mean. John Adams, a premiere conservative thinker and signer of the Declaration of Independence, understood the meaning of equality. In a letter from John Adams to John Taylor, he wrote the following:

That all men are born to equal rights is clear. Every being has a right to his own, as clear, as moral, as sacred, as any other being has. This is as indubitable as a moral government in the universe. But to teach that all men are born with equal powers and faculties, to equal influence in society, to equal property and advantages through life, is as gross a fraud, as glaring an imposition on the credulity of the people, as ever was practiced by monks, by Druids, by Brahmins, by priests of the immortal Lama, or by the self-styled philosophers of the French revolution. For honor's sake ... for truth and virtue's sake, let American philosophers and politicians despise it.


More from John Adams:

Adams firmly believed that we are born equal, meaning that as individuals, we are independent. As strongly as Adams believed in that equality, he believed in the inequality of man.
But what are we to understand here by equality? Are the citizens to be all of the same age, sex, size, strength, stature, activity, courage, hardiness, industry, patience, ingenuity, wealth, knowledge, fame, wit, temperance, constancy, and wisdom? Was there, or will there ever be, a nation, whose individuals were all equal, in natural and acquired qualities, in virtues, talents, and riches? The answer of all mankind must be in the negative. It must then be acknowledged, that in every state...there are inequalities which God and nature have planted there, and which no human legislator ever can eradicate.

What did John Adams, one of the signers of our Declaration of Independence see?
Did he realize that although all born independent and free, that there are always going to be queen bees and there will always be drones to maintain the hive? Are many people misinterpeting the meaning of "All Men Are Created Equal" and trying to push us towards socialism as a result? What are the alternatives?

2007-08-20 01:06:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It makes no sense

2007-08-20 00:54:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military