Other - Politics & Government - August 2007

2007-08-20 16:53:41 · 9 answers · asked by politicallypuzzeled 3

Lets for one second quit debating about the temperature steel melts, the temperature a hydrocarbon based fuel burns, controlled demolitions, missiles, and other common points of contention…

Everything the Bush administration has touched has been a dismal failure. Off the top of my head, I can not even think of anything that the Bush administration has done that I would call a hallmark of success.

The administration couldn’t even get its intelligence right when Iraq was invaded. Once in Iraq, the military is under equipped and is in a losing battle against insurgents. The administration had days notice for Hurricane Katrina…what could have been a shining moment was a terrific example of what not to do. I could go on and on about failures of the Bush administration.

I have two questions for the conspiracy theorists who believe 9-11 was an inside job:

2007-08-20 16:14:15 · 16 answers · asked by Slider728 6

Toyota owns some of the largest auto factories in the US that employs 1000s of US workers. Is that good for the US even though Toyota is a major competitor of GM & Ford?

2007-08-20 15:18:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Russians helped create the entire Al Qaeda leadership during their war in Afganhistan & those terrorists ended up planning & executing the 9/11 terror attacks, I just wonder how many new Al Qaeda leaders have been created with today's Iraq war?

One, two, five, ten, twenty, more????

2007-08-20 14:59:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-20 14:53:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-20 14:32:16 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

At least, what people belive the western is. Everybody here believes in God (except in Europe). In North and South America, people are very religious. Don´t forget your language. Forget the British colonization.

2007-08-20 13:26:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would rather pay more for products to ensure the safety and quality of them and preserve job availibility rather than offshore jobs to save a buck. Anybody agree?

2007-08-20 12:32:52 · 15 answers · asked by MyMysteryId 3

2007-08-20 12:26:41 · 12 answers · asked by eldude 5

2007-08-20 11:35:25 · 11 answers · asked by inzaratha 6

And also God is again found in the US's pledge of allegiance as "Under God"? Doesn't having it violate the separation of church and state?

2007-08-20 11:08:23 · 29 answers · asked by ☢☠☣☢☠☣ 3

automatically gives up their human rights, and that the victims of crime should be put first. The guy that killed Phillip Lawrence should be deported without a second thought, our country seems to put perpetrators before victims and these so called Human Rights lawyers are just in it for the money. Our Human Rights are being mocked by these so called people

2007-08-20 10:10:07 · 26 answers · asked by mw3sor 3

Scott Ritter was the American UN inspector that reported to the white house, "NO WMDs", not possible. He began speaking out that bush was lying about the intelligence that Iraq was a threat. This is why th UN did not support the war.

John O'niell was the director of counterterrorism for the FBI's New York office, he was the expert on Bin Ladin and Alqueda, he died in the WTT 9/11 but was previously warning about an attack from Alquida he declared that the main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests and the role Saudi Arabia played in furthering those interests. Bush not only thwarted an FBI investigation of the bin Laden family, he kept the specific nature of his family's business ties to the Bin Ladens as secret as Cheney’s energy task force list.

Read up on them,

2007-08-20 09:50:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary lost her "feminst" integrity leading the disparagments and attacks against any of the several dozen women who would tell the truth about Bill; however, when she conspired with N.O.W. to attack the victim (Paula Jones) the end result, N.O.W. has been totally discredited and no longer has any influence.

Will Hillary be known in history best, for her failed socialized medicine, failed Presedential bid or setting the women's rights movement so far back, they no longer have any political influence?

2007-08-20 09:44:05 · 5 answers · asked by ? 7

... to see who is more likely amongst conservatives or liberals to:

A) Live in a trailer park.
B) Receive a welfare check.
C) Have a police record for spousal abuse.
D) Have no high school diploma.
E) Etc...

I figured something like that would be nice, because we really need to set the record straight. In my own experience, I've never met a person on government assistance who wasn't a liberal, but then again, there's many who say it's vice-versa.

Some cold hard statistics would be cool.

2007-08-20 09:07:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was backing up out of a parking space and this guy walks on the side of my car holding his leg and hopping like I hit him but I didnt. Can this guy do anything like get me in trouble saying I hit him? This is crazy!

2007-08-20 07:15:17 · 9 answers · asked by vttrucking 1

Describe the events in U.S history led to the adoption of freedom of speech i need 5 answwers just try your best plzz please answer

2007-08-20 05:59:57 · 6 answers · asked by superjakechan 1

"The mine safety czar, Richard Stickler, a former coal company executive with a lousy safety record, was deemed so unfit for the post by Republican and Democratic senators alike that they wouldn't confirm him. So Bush appointed him on October 2006 when the Congress was in recess.
"This catastrophe should be seen as the logical product of conservative policy, the sum of a castrated regulatory agency plus an unorganized and vulnerable workforce plus an untrammeled CEO pushing the edges. These conditions added up to disaster. Don't call it an accident. The lives lost are the product, the sum, the result of conservative ideology put into practice."
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/dont_call_it_accident

2007-08-20 05:57:23 · 11 answers · asked by bruce b 3

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5197 Sign up today and tell your friends. We cant wait 15 more months and 1500 more american soldier deaths for America to start a new direction can we?? Or is our military men and women as expendible as Bush and his supporters say they are?? Sign up and tell 10 other friends who want an end to Bush and Chenney

Its pathetic when people say "dont whine you lost live with it" Like thats there way of supporting our troops!!! Live with it for 15 more months is their answer. When their belief seems to be - so long as its not my kids dying on the battlefield

2007-08-20 05:43:50 · 12 answers · asked by writersbIock2006 5

How do you explain 1) preachers starting the Civil War from their pulpits 2) Prohibition 3) the 21 year old drinking age 4) Manifest Destiny in Mexico, the Philippines, Iraq 5) Billy Graham's love of political power 6) the popularity of George W. Bush and the Clintons?

2007-08-20 05:18:00 · 4 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1

Have lawyers noticed the quite lost of Federal rights since 1974?
Us Congress removed our right to have federal court hear our case. This effects Civil Right cases improper denied Jurisdiction/
Today the caselaw holds the self representing party to as high if not a higher standard of legalese, filing procedure.

Ways to counter clainstine thief of our rights? Jan LightfootLane from Maine

2007-08-20 04:31:36 · 6 answers · asked by janshouse justice for all 2

Pain Medicine Use Has Nearly Doubled
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082000147.html

Obviously, this is good for drug companies (more "problems", more profits). Because of their influence in gov't and medicine, are they steering us into a culture of drug dependency and lifelong users( AKA customers)?

2007-08-20 04:26:51 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-08-20 03:39:37 · 12 answers · asked by entropic v 3

2007-08-20 03:24:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting Afghanistan's Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government against the largely Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to overthrow Soviet rule. The Soviet Union supported the government while the rebels found support from a variety of sources including the United States, Pakistan and other Muslim nations in the context of the Cold War. This conflict was concurrent to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 25, 1979. The final troop withdrawal began on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989. Due to the high cost and ultimate futility of this conflict for this Cold War superpower, the Soviet war in Afghanistan has often been referred to as the equivalent of the United States' Vietnam War.
Some observers believe the economic and military cost of the war contributed significantly to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991[5].

Material losses were as follows:
118 aircraft
333 helicopters
147 tanks
1,314 IFV/APCs
433 artillery guns and mortars
1,138 radio sets and command vehicles
510 engineering vehicles
11,369 trucks and petrol tankers

The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces, frontier and internal security troops came to 14,453.

Soviet Army formations, 13,833,
KGB sub units lost 572,
MVD formations lost 28
10,751 men were left disabled
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2007-08-20 03:21:34 · 10 answers · asked by fua57 2

Hey, the Iraq War isn't gonna last forever - even Bush wants it to end eventually - but we gotta keep the terrorists from following us home!

What if we pull our troops out, but instead of bringing them HOME, we pull them back to Guantanamo. Then, the terrorists - incapable of knowing how to get anywhere without following us - will just come to Gitmo, where we can have a giant sheet hanging in front of Camp X-Ray so the terrorists won't suspect, and then our soldiers exit out the back and lock the door behind them, and our other soldiers holding up the sheet just drop it and lock the front door, and the terrorists WON'T KNOW WHAT HIT THEM!

It will be just like on "24", only better!

And you know what? It will SERVE THEM RIGHT FOR TRYING TO FOLLOW US HOME!
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POINT (for the reason-impaired): What stops a terrorist from leaving Iraq TODAY and coming over here? US troops in Iraq? So then how did they bomb Madrid and London while Spanish and British troops were in Iraq?

2007-08-20 03:06:37 · 13 answers · asked by ? 6

Yes? No?

And if yes, under what circumstances?

thanks.

2007-08-20 02:57:01 · 28 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7

I'm focusing on what to do going forward. thanks.

2007-08-20 02:55:58 · 13 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7

2007-08-20 01:37:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are the international views on Azeri Genocide and the invasion of a part of Azerbaijan by Armenians?Are there any international decisions taken about these subjects?

2007-08-20 00:34:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous