Politics - 5 September 2006

Beyond the obvious repercussions in our daily lives, the White House has been able to achieve some major objectives as a direct result of 9/11: oil pipeline thru Afghanistan, control of Iraqi oil fields, fearful citizens who acquiesced to the Patriot Act, billions in non-bid contracts to Bush-supporting corporations like Halliburton.
So they tell us that the Al Qaeda did it. Their motives being “They hated Americans, hated our freedoms, our way of life….”
What if the Conspiracy theory we accept-that 19 Arabs inspired by a guy in a cave in Afghanistan defeated the most powerful country in history and, for the first time in history, defeated laws of physics to collapse three steel-framed high-rises- is inaccurate?
OOOh..but even to think about this possibility for even a second would automatically label us Anti-American and lump us with them, right?

2006-09-05 04:36:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

We know levels of atmospheric carbon are higher than they've been in 800,000 years, and that this is from human activity.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/science_co2_dc)

We know all the world's oceans (which are a more reliable measure of mean warming than is the air) are getting warmer at exactly the rate predicted by climate scientists.
(http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0413011.htm).

George W. Bush has admitted that global warming is real and is caused by human activities.
(http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010612climate0612netp2.asp)
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2023835.stm)

There is speculation that this problem may result in disruption of the gulf stream and may actually trigger a new ice-age (ironically)
(http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=2798)

So - the question here is not whether or not this is a real threat, but how we should deal with the problem. Tell me what you think.

2006-09-05 04:34:48 · 9 answers · asked by Steve 6

DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE PROS/CONS OF POPULAR VOTE?

2006-09-05 04:19:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

It wasn’t hit by a plane or the falling rubble. It would be the first steel-framed, high rise building (47 stories) in history that was brought down entirely by fire alone. So why did the 9/11 commission fail to mention that it even collapsed in their report? Very much the mystery indeed….

2006-09-05 04:09:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

and send them to a US equivalent of Siberia camp and feed them to the wolves and polar bears? How does Arctic sound to you?

2006-09-05 04:09:32 · 27 answers · asked by Shiraz 1

If George Bush leaves Washington, D.C. at 9:30 am on a train to Crawford, Texas going at 50 miles per hour and never comes back to D.C..?

2006-09-05 04:06:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

The war on terror isn't working and I personally think its an excuse for George "Dubya" Bush to bomb people he doesn't like. Also the biggest reason is OIL isn't he friendly with the Saudis so bombing iraq and iran will appease the saudis. The war on terror isn't really working because it is alianating The US and the UK and making the UK a sitting target to bomb plots

2006-09-05 03:52:01 · 23 answers · asked by bellybuttonflasher 1

2006-09-05 03:44:25 · 37 answers · asked by Shiraz 1

2006-09-05 03:41:55 · 13 answers · asked by playtoofast 6

COMMENT PLEASE

2006-09-05 03:36:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does that mean that more than half of Americans are Terrorists?

2006-09-05 03:34:54 · 12 answers · asked by Enterrador 2

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Pat Robinson?

2006-09-05 03:32:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

First we had the science. Then Bush finally admitted global warming was real. Since then we've been seeing the effects around the world.

Finally, new ice-core samples show carbon levels are much higher than they've been in 800,000 years, and radiological testing shows this carbon comes from burning fossil fuel.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/science_co2_dc


Can we finally stop debating this in the "politics" section?

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2006-09-05 03:30:37 · 7 answers · asked by Steve 6

2006-09-05 03:28:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

i want the date

2006-09-05 03:19:10 · 7 answers · asked by fazlur 1

Please, please tell me why you deny so much empirical evidence.

Are all conservatives like this?

2006-09-05 03:17:54 · 4 answers · asked by rimrocka 3

and absurd conspiracies?

2006-09-05 03:11:03 · 19 answers · asked by Super Shiraz 3

She is just as guilty as bush for voting for and pressuring her collegues to vote for this illegal war.
My thinking is" principal over party" if they voted for this war -vote them out.
To me the biggest yard stick of politician's character is how they voted on this war.
And yes I am a democrat check my posts.
Vote every single war monger out, regardless of their party!

2006-09-05 03:09:13 · 11 answers · asked by dstr 6

with tenured professors at the top of the throne, and ungrad students as the bottom feeders.

2006-09-05 03:02:34 · 9 answers · asked by Manbearpig 1

"The United States was attacked on September 11 and many years earlier, well before we toppled the Saddam Hussein regime,"

This is what Bush said in a news story I read, should be on the Yahoo front page. What I don't understand is if Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, why does this statement that Bush has said, seem to imply that they did?

2006-09-05 03:02:20 · 29 answers · asked by Enterrador 2

2006-09-05 02:59:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-05 02:57:02 · 15 answers · asked by hog4ubaby 2

Why do they try to defend or get a person off the hook when they know that he indeed commit a horrible crime? I would drop the case and call the person a waste of a human life, but some lawyers after knowing the truth still seek to set them free, I know what it is, Money right?

2006-09-05 02:53:11 · 20 answers · asked by Enterrador 2

That in college, you say he was stupid, yet his GPA was higher than Kerry's. Go fiqure. You do know that, or are all of you just being parrots for Air America?

2006-09-05 02:51:15 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

from illegals?

what will you do to make the tax rates fair for all people and income ranges?

what is your solution for the ailing social security system that a democrat invented?

are you willing to reach across the isle and work with people like Condi Rice?

what are you going to do about rising gas prices?

what will you do for middle class Americans suffering from unfair property tax?

do you have anything to offer besides blaming Bush?

2006-09-05 02:48:44 · 10 answers · asked by Super Shiraz 3

If blair was to leave as prime minister who would be next in line. And would we really want cameron incharge if the Conservatives won the next election

2006-09-05 02:20:03 · 17 answers · asked by alismudge 3

is the result of a failed policy created by a Democrat?

2006-09-05 01:50:52 · 18 answers · asked by Super Shiraz 3

I woud agree with my friend MadSky and say "think before you speak", what would you say?

http://www.itwillpass.com/Bush_Idiot_3.jpg

2006-09-05 01:49:15 · 15 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5

Don't ask for the same pay if you can't do the same work, simple as that. If your task is to move some boxes and they are too heavy for you to carry, don't ask a man to do it, it's your task. If a man does it for you, then you shouldn't be getting the same pay, plain and simple. You shouldn't get extra break time just because you're on your time of the month, suck it up and drive on right. That is all, you want equal pay, do equal work.

2006-09-05 01:42:23 · 10 answers · asked by Enterrador 2

from which party?

2006-09-05 01:39:07 · 5 answers · asked by nicky 3