Politics & Government - 3 November 2007

According to the Washington Post, several memos have emerged from the desk of Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld wrote as many as fifty to sixty memos a day. His staff called them "snowflakes." In one memo, he urged his staff to "Keep elevating the threat from Iraq." In another, he tells them to "link Iraq to Iran."
In his memos, he called the Middle Easterners "lazy" and said their oil wealth has spoiled them. He warned of future problems with Saudi Arabia.
It sounds very much as though Rumsfeld was a co-conspirator in the selling of the Iraq War. By urging the threat to be "elevated," he is following the command of his superiors, who were certainly doing their own elevating. Should Donald Rumsfeld be prosecuted for War Crimes? Or is he simply another Bush Administration liar who will get away with his dishonesty with no accountability at all?

2007-11-03 09:45:36 · 10 answers · asked by Me, Too 6 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-11-03 09:45:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is it legal for your boss to make you sign your time card otherwise you won't get your paycheck?

2007-11-03 09:44:03 · 8 answers · asked by Momma261 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-03 09:42:15 · 7 answers · asked by Susie 2 in Military

2007-11-03 09:42:03 · 12 answers · asked by Brian G 3 in Other - Politics & Government

this case involves a tension between interstate relations and parental rights. Evaluate both sides of the case. Do you think Utah has right to demand Daren Jensen's extradition? Can you explain...

just follow the link...

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2007-11-03 09:40:53 · 1 answers · asked by Juan C 6 in Law & Ethics

like, say for example if i was really rich and had a ferrari, and i was driving in a city, and some hobo kicked it, and put a huge dent in it. now, i would sue the homeless man for the blank number of million dollars it would cost to fix. now, how would i get that money? obviously the hobo doesnt have that money, so what would happen?

2007-11-03 09:40:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-03 09:40:27 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I'm currently a GS11, and my finance is an E-5 in the Navy. I just moved to Naples, Italy and he's still stateside, but up to start negotiating orders in December. Naturally, we want to get him over here. If we were to marry sooner than later, would the fact that I'm a GS11 over here help him when it comes to trying to get orders over here? I'm getting conflicting stories and am wondering if anybody knows for sure. I don't know if my being already here could have any bearing on his orders. Even if someone could steer me in the right direction for Regs to look at, I would appreciate it. Thank you so much for all of your help!

2007-11-03 09:37:18 · 6 answers · asked by Sara E 1 in Military

what I mean is ...if people are good and under assault from bad people, will the good people eventually become just as bad or good as the bad people?

2007-11-03 09:36:54 · 7 answers · asked by ron j 1 in Politics

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I mean it's not as though YOU personally can change anyone's mind about how they feel about those whom YOU classify as illegals. Is it just that you want to vent? or do you really feel as if 300,000,000 people give a ratz behind about your tough guy image?? Mexicans are working for the rich and powerful. We're all just small potatoes....compared to the most influential. In fact, it looks as though big government is working as slowly as they can on this one... and I have to say this because older people in my family say we whites used to feel the same about Black people..but they survived..hell, many of them have more money than any one of you could imagine. So, what is the real deal....are we afraid that white boys will start (oops they already have) becoming interested in some of those rather hot Mexican women?
can you tell the truth about that one?

2007-11-03 09:36:51 · 15 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Immigration

Should I invest in foreclosures, defaulted consumer debt, destressed Enron bonds, or invest overseas like China and Europe where the economy and currency is strong?

2007-11-03 09:36:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I own my home with my boyfriend and his mother....I am in th process of moving out....because the market is so bad I know we would be unable to sell at this time....I am just wondering if I can loose any rights because i am leaving the home with our children. I am going to continue to pay my part untill we can sell my children will still have thier room to come to when the visit there grandmother and father. Just wondering if anyone can help with my question in regards to my legal rights to the home....

2007-11-03 09:35:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-03 09:28:53 · 3 answers · asked by Mommyof2angels 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-03 09:28:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Embassies & Consulates

The reason for Bush's rejection by Univ of Texas Law School has never been made public. But it's a pretty good bet that it was because he was a convicted felon at the time or because he did poorly on the Law School Admissions Test, which is a test of IQ in a legal format; or both. It makes one wonder if his current disrespect for the law is rooted in that rejection. Or if he simply has an attitude about law because of that rejection in his youth.

2007-11-03 09:27:23 · 6 answers · asked by golfer7 5 in Politics

2007-11-03 09:27:03 · 2 answers · asked by Mommyof2angels 3 in Government

Why is it that we are the only country in the world that celebrates a persons attempt to blow up a place of national goverment? I mean if any even so much as contemplated that now we would arrest them shout terrorisam and put them in goal for many years.
I know we are celebrating the fact that his attempt was foiled and that is why we burn him, but again even that seems a bit macarbe in this day of anti-terrorisam.
Even the rhyme that goes with it acknowledges the fact that there was gunpowder, treason and plot, three things now even if the final outcome event failed would still not rule in celebration.
I know this is the only time in Britain (apart from maybe a tad at new year) that we have fireworks but surely in todays culture and with the way of the world that this celebration (if you can call it that) needs to be rethinked.

2007-11-03 09:25:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i said i would give q and a away but i would like to ask this question to all the genuine contributers who have taken the time to post legit questions and have some kill switch wacko press the button and deny you the right of relply to your ligitimate question and stopping those that may have been intrested from hearing the answers that i think q and a is suppost to be about ...what do think folks....seamanab

2007-11-03 09:18:42 · 3 answers · asked by seamanab 6 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-03 09:16:36 · 11 answers · asked by ren p 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Bush wether you are the ones who support him or not has generated a lot of conspiracy theories about him his tactics his oriegn policy - how he won the election voter nullifications based on race in Florida War or oil etc etc

The list of allegations against Bush seemingly from all sides is huge

Has there ever been a President of the US that has had this much heaped on them in the way of utter disbelief and suspicon of motives and so forth ?

2007-11-03 09:15:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

And I'm meant to do a powerpoint presentation on it when I go back to school, with a partner. Can anybody help me?

2007-11-03 09:14:00 · 4 answers · asked by gwirussell 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Bush has given himself extraordinary powers. He has passed the Patriot Act and believes he can declare War without Congressional approval, without anyone's approval. He has claimed the right to wiretap citizens without warrants...all in the name of terror. The possibility of terrorist attacks will remain with us for centuries. The danger of not impeaching both Bush and Cheney and stripping them of these Constitutionally Illegal powers is that the next President may claim them for him or herself, thus ignoring the Constitution to make the Executive Branch one that is above reproach, with no Congressional Oversight. Despite investigations, Bush has evaded giving documents, e-mails or answers. The next President may cling to this same imperial secrecy. The question is, should U.S. citizens insist upon Impeachment and the removal of all imperial powers that Bush and Cheney have claimed as their own, lest the next president follow their path?

2007-11-03 09:12:50 · 13 answers · asked by Me, Too 6 in Government

Michael Moore knows how to do his customary slag on the subject of his own country (it makes lots of bucks), and we Brits know how to puff up our chests and remark how first-rate the ‘NHS’ system is. But, with oil at three times the price over here than the USA; clothes, books and DVD’S which are at least twice as much in Britain than the USA, property is a fraction of the price in the USA and we in Britain being taxed for just about the whole lot that moves and breaths; is our system of health care such a great deal compared to the more affluent Americans?

2007-11-03 09:05:40 · 10 answers · asked by insert_ nickname_ here! 5 in Government

I hear a lot of highly emotional claims that global warming is not real and/or a phony issue promoted by liberals and liars for some unclear, but apparently profit motivated reason. Given that the claimed causes of global warming are the same as those that cause pollution and our dependence on Middle East oil, do the ranters and ravers also believe we should ignore these other byproducts of carbon emissions? Are they missing the trees for the forest? Something is missing in the logic behind their emotions, isn't it?

2007-11-03 09:05:39 · 20 answers · asked by golfer7 5 in Politics

i want to be a pilot of small airctaft.. so what should i major in? and what carrers should i look into ?

2007-11-03 09:05:38 · 8 answers · asked by Jarrod E 1 in Military

I hope to get more points to support it.
Like I thought about it is a business for people because they can earn money from selling guns.
Please feel free to share your point of view. Thanks!

2007-11-03 09:03:24 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Who are you gonna stick with: the Founding Fathers, or.......... Hillary?

2007-11-03 09:02:43 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My girlfriend who is 30 years old works in the same company that I work for. Could we get fired for having a relationship?

2007-11-03 09:02:39 · 11 answers · asked by The Most Beautiful Men 1 in Law & Ethics

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

2007-11-03 08:58:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police