Politics - 17 September 2006

2006-09-17 17:17:14 · 20 answers · asked by Jason 1

These are taken directly from our mainstream media. No links provided but you can YAHOO all the headlines they are there.
1)Of the 18 PNAC members, 10 will be in the new Bush Admin.(ABC)
2)Sept. 2000, PNAC calls to increase US defense budget, but says won't happen absent a catastrophic event like a "new Pearl Harbor." (ABC,PNAC)
3)"FAA manager mangled, cut, and destroyed 9/11 tapes." (WashingtonPost)
4)1999, US paid entire annual salary of Taliban gov'tl in hopes to secure a stable Afghan gov't to allow US companies to build a pipeline there to connect to the Caspian Sea." (SF Chronicle)
5)U.S. OK'd a plan the day before 9/11 to topple the Taliban and expel OBL. (MSNBC)
6)-7 of alleged 19 hijackers are reported alive, FBI Director admits identities are in doubt. (BBC, LA Times)
Five of the alleged9/11 hijackers receive training at secure US military bases. (MSNBC)

2006-09-17 17:16:08 · 11 answers · asked by big-brother 3

2006-09-17 17:12:51 · 5 answers · asked by Blurred V 2

Any ideal's?

2006-09-17 17:12:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is considering he doesn't already have one

2006-09-17 17:01:05 · 25 answers · asked by ₦âħí»€G 6

The Oklahoma City bombing made me question this. Nationwide this seems to be a fifty/fifty debate, but I recall following the bombing and the subsequent trial, family members were asked about the bombers being put to death. One family member publicly denounced the death sentence. It should have remained fifty/fifty but it didn't. I am interested in how you feel about it if a close relative like a child or spouse were murdered. Would you be for or against?

2006-09-17 16:57:51 · 29 answers · asked by don1joker 2

He must have an official address. But I couldn't find it on internet. Can someone please let me know? Email address is also fine.

2006-09-17 16:52:17 · 2 answers · asked by windinhair 1

There is so much pressure on being the biggest, best, most powerful, richest, and most intelligent society. Mates are choosing campatibility with each other based on traits and qualities, and where does it all lead? To being the most powerful dominating force in the world. Quoted by president Bush "We should never become a winners take all country" but in reality this is whats happening. Is this any different from Hitlers vision of a pure German and most powerful country?

2006-09-17 16:37:02 · 13 answers · asked by lvillejj 4

And is he really going to rebuild Iraq? I mean Iraq is like devastated right now because of Bush.

2006-09-17 16:22:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 16:22:16 · 16 answers · asked by   6

Tell me what you believe happened to our president and how it had an affect on our nation.

2006-09-17 16:09:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not denying it or advocating it, but do we actually have any control over it?
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_02/

2006-09-17 16:08:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I finished this early this morning. All I will tell you is it is based on a character from a novel I read years ago called ‘Catch-22.’ Contrary to some peoples' belief the novel was not an anti-war book. It’s underlying message was that the right war can be fought the wrong way because of personal egos, greed and stupidity.

By the way, the painting is still untitled. Come up with a good title and I'll use it.

This painting may nothing to do with politics. It all depends on your perceptions. So, what do you think?

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/00027tbr/g21

Click on the image to enlarge it.

2006-09-17 16:08:16 · 7 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7

2006-09-17 16:06:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 16:01:11 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

US citizens, why don't you start by cleaning your own house first?
Before you start criticizing other countries for their terrorism or human rights records, shouldn't the US government clean their own house first?
For example, over the past 50 years, the United States government:

1-Supported and actively organized coups d'etat against numerous third world countries, just to defend US bussiness interests and selfish geopolitical aims.
This includes many democratically-elected governments.
Some examples are Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973, Argentina 1976, Iran (Persia) 1953, Haiti 1957, Brazil 1964, Zaire (congo) 1965, S.Korea 1979, Grenada 1983, Venezuela 2002 (failed attempt), and many more.
In my country, Argentina, 'black lists' with dissidents to be killed were actually written and given to our local death squads by the CIA, during the 1976-83 dictatorship.

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2- Is known to practice 'low-intensity warfare', a set of war strategies that are actually very similar to terrorism itself in practice. This can be seen in the recent 1990's Sudan bombings, in recent bombings of civilian populations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the support you gave to the Nicaraguan Contras to fight the gov. of said country, during the late 1980's. The 'contras' were an illegal guerrilla group, and were properly qualified as "terrorist" by the International Court of Justice.

3- Engaged in unfair economic blockades against countries that didn't bow to US bussiness interests. (example: Iraq, Cuba)
The excuse for doing this was 'dictatorship', but it's an hypocritical excuse, since other dictatorships enjoyed active US support during the same time frame.

4- Still supports numerous dictatorships around the world, specially if they are free-market and let themselves be puppeted by US policy.
Thsi includes S. Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar, Ethiopia, among others.

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5- Mantains illegal "black prisions" with no right to trial and mild forms of torture, in many places in Europe and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

6- Has engaged in active industrial espionage over the past years, thanks to the Cold-war era Echelon network.

7- Has, as a country, poor democratic credentials itself, with only two parties that look very similar and a media that's comprised of mostly large corporations that usually don't dare to damage the interest of their partners.

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My country, of course, is not perfect either... but we are not trying to be world policemen.
We are all in this together, we should try to change things to make them more fair. I'm criticizing the US gov. simply because it's the world's only superpower, and with that comes a large responsability.
Other countries have their crimes too (The UK, France, China and Russia come to mind), and we should not forget about those either.

It just sickens me to my stomatch when I hear the US president talk about "democracy" and "promoting human rights", when they haven't even apologized for what they have done and are still doing, and people like Kissinger are allowed to walk the streets freely when they should be on trial for crimes against humanity.

2006-09-17 16:00:35 · 16 answers · asked by me 6

Republicans have had long enough to ruin the reputation of this great nation. We call a truce, Vote Democrat or Independent and we can stall rebuilding all those bridges, metaphorically and real, that they have destroyed.

2006-09-17 15:56:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just saw on CNN that the U.S Federal and NY state government has leased 1.1 million sq ft. of office space for the new World Trade Center buildings. I have also read before that the first 60 or so floors in the new Freedom Tower will be leased for office space. What about the next 40 or so floors? Will the top floors be for the government?

2006-09-17 15:55:14 · 3 answers · asked by lvillejj 4

Bush has admitted global warming is real, and is affected by human activity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2023835.stm
http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=43896

When these two politicians agree on something, I think it's time all of us on this site stopped debating it's existence and began to discuss solutions.

Now - how do we fix the problem? Personally, I like the global cap & trade method. Any other ideas?

2006-09-17 15:54:21 · 21 answers · asked by Steve 6

2006-09-17 15:50:52 · 15 answers · asked by   6

is there not a single person out there without the phoney laugh and empty head to host these sh*tty tv shows?

2006-09-17 15:40:15 · 8 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/enviro_wackos/algore10yearstodoom.guest.html

2006-09-17 15:39:32 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 15:38:42 · 68 answers · asked by Anonymous

Need I clarify of whom I speak?

2006-09-17 15:18:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lately I have been hearing about oh" the EVIL Bush Administration allows TORTURE" but what kind of torture or what degree? The only torture I have been hearing is water boarding, loud rock and rap music, freezing, cold rooms, and sleep deprivation(U.S special forces trainees and frat members go through worse).

If this is the kind of torture we are using on Islamic terrrorist to save countless lives(these are the same techniques used that helped capture high-level Al-Qiada members, including the mastermind of 9/11) then I'm all for it. Hell, I don't mind slapping around some radical terrorist like what the police do to suspects during interrogations but, I haven't heard anything about fingers getting cut off or eyes being pull out of the socket, nothing in that degree(which I'm against).

Why is this an issue now? Why this administraion, I mean the CIA has been using torture sense the Cold War.
Are these people(Islamic killers) even under the Geneva Convention?

2006-09-17 15:14:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year & that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian & military officials with first-hand knowledge.

Intelligence officials have assembled what they believe to be decisive evidence, from contemporary & subsequent interrogations & intercepted communications, that bin Laden began the battle of Tora Bora inside the cave complex along Afghanistan's mountainous eastern border.

After-action reviews, conducted privately inside & outside the military chain of command, describe the episode as a significant defeat for the United States.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62618-2002Apr16?language=printer

How come "Mr. Perfect Military Man" (AWOL Bush)
messed up so badly & couldn't
catch the man who killed 3000 Americans?

2006-09-17 15:06:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuxNQQXqHKnXr2d4.7BJr2_zy6IX?qid=20060917184957AA9ThnX

Honest question right?

2006-09-17 14:59:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-17 14:47:18 · 21 answers · asked by tom science 4

LMAO Is this what we have to look foward to!!!! LMAO


http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/pages/scary-hillary-clinton.html

2006-09-17 14:44:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

LMAO


http://www.celebrity-pics.net/dp/2-48.htm

2006-09-17 14:28:04 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous