Politics & Government - 1 September 2007

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixSIGWmZdrBw4WckWyDfmvIsD3Sw

During a subsequent search of the house, Mendoza said he received an order from another Marine, Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum, to shoot seven women and children he had found in a rear bedroom.

"When I opened the door there was just women and kids, two adults were lying down on the bed and there were three children on the bed ... two more were behind the bed," Mendoza said.

"I looked at them for a few seconds. Just enough to know they were not presenting a threat ... they looked scared."

After leaving the room Mendoza told Tatum what he had found.

"I told him there were women and kids inside there. He said 'Well, shoot them,'" Mendoza told prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Sean Sullivan.

"And what did you say to him?" Sullivan asked.

"I said 'But they're just women and children.' He didn't say nothing."

Mendoza said he returned to a position at the front of the house and heard a door open behind him followed by a loud noise. Returning later that afternoon to retrieve bodies, Mendoza said he found a room full of corpses.

2007-09-01 14:39:50 · 7 answers · asked by master apple 2 in Politics

Every time I ask a political question, I get nothing but ranting from many of my Liberal responses. For example, I asked a question about what Billary Clinton has actually accomplished as a Senator. The response? Bush is awful, Rusch Limbaugh, Republican stink, etc. Another question-Which was worse, Craig in the BR or Kennedy letting a girl drown. Answer? Laura Bush, Right-wing nuts, insulted I used Billary and not Hillary, etc...So, through all the Libs ranting I rarely seem to get an answer to the actual question that was asked ......Are the Libs really "Answer" impaired or Is it that they have no ideas and really can't stand behind the facts??

2007-09-01 14:38:45 · 18 answers · asked by Is it Friday yet?? 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Please no long sad stories about some poor uninsured person. I what logic, not emotion!!

2007-09-01 14:38:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

What is the procedure to be followed for Arrest ?

How long can a person be kept in custody while under Arrest ?

Are prisoners/convicts entitled to fundamental rights in Jail ?

What action can be taken against police for illegal arrest ?

2007-09-01 14:33:54 · 7 answers · asked by Pramod R 4 in Law & Ethics

Hillary was anacolyte of '60's radical Saul Alinsky, the author of "Rules For Radicals" and one of the seminal influences in the Marxist, anti-American movement that spawned many counterculture yippies such as Allen Ginsberg and so on...her husband completely gutted our intelligence and military services, and he even lost the nuclear launch codes he was supposed to secure on his person at all times. The Clintons are on record as saying they "loathe the military", and BJ himself repeatedly blew off phone calls from national security advisors when Special Forces had Bin Laden in their crosshairs, preferring to continue playing golf, refusing to come to the phone to make a decision and saying he'd "get back to them", which he never did. This is all documented by Lt. Col. James "Buzz Patterson, who carried the "nuclear football"--the special briefcase carrying the apparatus in case of a nuclear confrontation. His first book, "Dereliction of Duty" details the abject negligence of B.J.C..

2007-09-01 14:28:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece

2007-09-01 14:27:48 · 11 answers · asked by master apple 2 in Politics

2007-09-01 14:24:59 · 6 answers · asked by ♥FABULOUS♥ 2 in Other - Politics & Government

It's a sad day in America when a man is forced by a landlord to vacate his place of business simply because he does not speak SPANISH. Where are ALCU and the ilk like them?

And what do illegal alien CRIMINALS and their supporters have to say about this?

PLEASE read the link before you answer.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57432

2007-09-01 14:21:17 · 3 answers · asked by Firestorm 6 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-01 14:19:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-09-01 14:17:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

just since April 28, 2005. Over 1,800 people in August this year. Does anyone know what the death rates were like before we invaded or how to locate that info?

2007-09-01 14:17:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I want to vote in the next federal election but I have not been living in australia for the last couple of years .
I am an australian citisen and antitled to vote.
Do I vote in the electorate in which I was enrolled , or what ?
I have been enrolled in a few different areas of australia over different times.

2007-09-01 14:16:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Isn't it just a little hypocritical to preach all the feel goodery understanding until a Republican gets caught in the kind of behavior they usually approve of and are trying to legalize?

Or is it only wrong and disgusting when it's not a Democrat doing it?

2007-09-01 14:15:14 · 18 answers · asked by Butters! 4 in Other - Politics & Government

I don't see anything wrong with it at all.He was just trying to make friends there,he didn't hurt anyone,wasn't using Drugs,those damn Vice Cops should be out catching real criminals,this is clearly a case of entrapment,who else agrees?

2007-09-01 14:13:06 · 12 answers · asked by enigma 2 in Law & Ethics

China is getting pretty advanced.... announcing plans for space exploration and everything. What happened with Japan? Are they still a really smart country but just aren't interested in being powerful? What other countries are getting powerful?

2007-09-01 14:11:09 · 6 answers · asked by goturtwig 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Can you sign up in a different state than the one you live in? for example you live in texas but want to be stationed in california, do you hav to go to california and sign up there? how does it work?

2007-09-01 14:10:33 · 1 answers · asked by Drock 3 in Military

2007-09-01 14:09:15 · 10 answers · asked by Thomas G 2 in Government

2007-09-01 14:06:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

My own answer on this is no.I feel we live in a lawless society and on the brink of anarchy.

2007-09-01 14:05:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Often times, people ask questions regarding the division of Americans because of this, that and the other.

Are we really at a stalemate because of political differences or are those differences acting as a checks and balance system, preventing one party from too much control?

2007-09-01 14:03:48 · 10 answers · asked by Glen B 6 in Government

Can it be classed as a form of entrapment. If not, why not? I know one thing for sure, it is funny as hell when you watch the look on their faces when the car dies and all the doors automatically lock.

2007-09-01 14:01:08 · 20 answers · asked by GBH 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

what do we need to enter the military premises for a wedding that is held in the chapel

2007-09-01 14:00:43 · 3 answers · asked by mj 1 in Military

A flip flopper, or someone who's oppinions you dissagree with?

(a legitimate flip-flop must constitute a candidate changing their oppinion, then going back)

2007-09-01 14:00:31 · 11 answers · asked by Allen Carlson 2 in Elections

do you have to have active duty marine corp experience to go into their reserve program? what about other branch prior experience?

2007-09-01 13:54:01 · 10 answers · asked by Drock 3 in Military

Who made the most sound ethical choices as President?
Who didn't make the most sound ethical choices as President?

Since the leaders of the free world are under constant scrutiny, how relevant is their personal life to their job? Should skeletons stay out of the public eye or be picked apart by society whom can question the character of said person?

Is their personal life reflective of their ability to perform a job?

Thoughts?

2007-09-01 13:52:47 · 17 answers · asked by Glen B 6 in Law & Ethics

I can tell you for a fact that it is the insurance companies.

2007-09-01 13:50:24 · 8 answers · asked by vegaswoman 6 in Politics

Putting aside any moral apprehension or hopes of rehabilitation, how could it be possible for citizens to legally hunt and kill pedophiles? Would this require a decision from the Supremes, a Constitutional change, or could it be a state-by-state decision?

Are there any countries where this is already legal?

2007-09-01 13:49:18 · 7 answers · asked by maisie 3 in Law & Ethics

My best friend has been in a case with CPS since memorial day. After trouble with the first CPS-contact, the case was taken up by a second. This one told my friend Monday last week that she still had Legal custody of her kids, though my friend's sister has temporary custody (since sometime in late june) and she has the right to go to her kids school functions and medical appointments, etc. Then we find out today, through her mother, that the husband who was the reason for the CPS case in the first place (he attacked her and found me and took the kids who I had for the day, she went back long enough to get the kids after putting up with a 2nd beating when he got drunk) now has legal custody of the kids. My friend was not contacted at any time by any CPS employee. This is after the person who has temp custody of the kids got in trouble for not giving the daughter her epilipsy meds.

What I want to know is was this change in custody legal? Shouldn't CPS have contacted my friend?

2007-09-01 13:47:05 · 3 answers · asked by naomi_ravenmoon 2 in Law & Ethics

A man convicted of killing a woman during a bar robbery in Texas in 1994 was executed late Tuesday after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.

DaRoyce Mosley, 32, was pronounced dead at 10:57 pm (0357 GMT Wednesday) after he was given a lethal injection at the prison in Huntsville, Texas. His execution was delayed five hours while he awaited a decision on his final appeal, which the top US court rejected.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070829/ts_alt_afp/usjusticeexecution;_ylt=AilUarBi4D1k0IVuI.u5xUeyFz4D

♫♫ Why does one state do this and so many others don't? Why do we have the "death penalty" in California, but all that means is that we support them for the rest of their lives? Why should us hard working people support those criminals? Besides, you know we are support their families on the outside because Daddy or Mommy ended up in prison for life.

Any thoughts, good or bad, just a general question to a news item.

2007-09-01 13:46:25 · 10 answers · asked by ♥ ♥Be Happi♥ ♥ 6 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-01 13:45:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics