Politics - 30 October 2006

2006-10-30 23:48:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just asked a question asking whether America was a moral leader and the consensus seems to be that America has no morality much like an international whore, so if this is true this leads me to the question is the war in Iraq justifable as it has been perpetrated by a deeply immoral country, without the consent of the international community(the UN)?

2006-10-30 23:45:51 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Lying to justify a war (Iraq, circa 2003)
2. Selling arms to known terrorists (Iran-Contra, circa 1985)
3. Ignoring warnings of an "imminent terrorist threat" (Tenet to Rice July 2001)
4. Lying under oath about oral sex (1996)
5. Granting no bid contracts on post-war reconstruction (circa 2003)

2006-10-30 23:42:25 · 8 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

2006-10-30 23:35:19 · 16 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

The American Constitution states that all Americans are born equal and have an equal right to the pursuit of happiness, if this is so why did white America then proceed on the genocide of the native American community, put in place an apartheid system that discriminated against black America after the civil war which was still in place up until the 70s and lets face it still is, has purpetrated war crimes such as My Lai, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. America claims time and again that it is a moral leader in the world today, is this really credible?

2006-10-30 23:23:42 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Israel looks and feels like a normal western country but it's located in a hostile enviroment, th e common pepole just want to live they're lives in peace, we dont care for wars or religion, but i'm stuck here and desperate.

2006-10-30 23:23:20 · 10 answers · asked by r g 1

much to the Reagan administration's surprise. It was Gorbachev who allowed the Soviet Union to break up (and YES, he could have held it together with an iron fist). It was Gorbachev who opened up the USSR politically and intellectually ...

and it was ultimately Gorbachev who paid the political price for his actions.

And NO, there is absolutely zero evidence of an American plan, secret or otherwise, to bankrupt the USSR. Remember, well into Gorbachev's tenure, the CIA was still badly over-estimating the USSR's economic health.

Why does Mikhail Gorbachev get no credit for ending the Cold War when he clearly did more than Reagan?

2006-10-30 23:18:38 · 3 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

action. Surely punishing people (in the pocket) for acting in the ways they've been told is ludicrous. Why should we, the tax payer, have to pay. Surley there has to be another way of being more enviromentaly safe. With the immediate jump to taxation punishments it makes me feel as if the Government is using the green issue to boost its tax income.

2006-10-30 23:18:32 · 6 answers · asked by John H 3

Or is he some fat, boring, dour Scot?

2006-10-30 23:04:42 · 21 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5

Regarding Iraq, healthcare, education and the war on terror?

2006-10-30 23:03:32 · 9 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5

for selling arms to the Iranians (who had just released 52 American diplomats held for 444 days).

I really want to know. Have we forgotten Iran-Contra?

2006-10-30 23:03:14 · 15 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

The majority of the political arguments here seem to be crude, if not plain wrong, with both neo-cons and liberals regurgitating media spin. But I have seen a number of well thought out answers with firmly sourced facts, offering convincing enticement from both sides of the political divide.

But has anyone actually been affected by these words? I don’t necessarily mean a polar shift, but can anyone name an issue that they now have a different opinion on thanks to Y/A?

2006-10-30 22:51:55 · 6 answers · asked by James C 2

if not ,just say no to the dem,s vote republican ,thats what your president wants you to do...

2006-10-30 22:47:44 · 6 answers · asked by CIVILIAN 4

Neocons don't share America's core values. They don't share the founding fathers' values: Love of liberty; intellectual curiosity; progressive outlook; Liberal activism.

It's in people like Murta, Moore and Cindy Sheehan that we see the spirit of Washington, Franklin and Jefferson.

Limbaugh, Medved, Hannity, O'Reilly and Coulter are the oft-quoted cheerleaders for the new King Georges, the new fascist oppressors of America, the destroyers of the Middle Class with outsourcing and unionbusting, the cultivators of racial and cultural division in our society for their own ballot box profit.

Discuss....

2006-10-30 22:39:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

with British society?

And what can be done about it?

2006-10-30 22:34:24 · 16 answers · asked by Paul 1

So what will your answer be when the democrats ask for your vote and the chorus says No Who buys this garbage?

2006-10-30 22:33:27 · 10 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5

he is you know,but post your rabble...

2006-10-30 22:18:52 · 16 answers · asked by CIVILIAN 4

After getting on YahooAnswers out of curiosity, I - like many I am sure - have quickly noticed that when it comes to at least politics, this is not so much a place to actually ask serious questions, but a place for what seems to be just juvenile slander and sh*t talking; there are some liberals bitching about much of the nations current ailments(specifically Iraq) but what is realistically true is that this place contains mostly angry right-wingers spewing one juvenile crass statement about Liberals or “Democraps” after the other. They literally post over 100 times a day(which leads up to thousands of posts) talking about how Liberals are "fags" who (the now famous)“hate America, and love terrorist!”. Wow, and that is just ONE example.

So my real question is: Does this sort of rant prove that Conservatism is actually a mental disorderlike this actual scientific study indicates??

Please feel free to pass on the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1017546,00.html

2006-10-30 21:54:39 · 9 answers · asked by Young_Gulfbeach_Texican 1

dem,s want to remove our troops ,could this actually coast more lives in the long run,?vs supporting bush plan now?

2006-10-30 21:41:58 · 9 answers · asked by CIVILIAN 4

I know he is the worst president in my lifetime.

2006-10-30 21:26:15 · 19 answers · asked by garrett w 2

Tony Blair is talking about introducing Green Taxes. What is he going to do with the money? Does anyone think he will use it to help people get more green with wind turbines / solar panels etc, either for individuals or nationally?

I suspect it will just disapear into the big black spending hole and make no difference to green issues at all. If it was used to help people go green that could make sense but it doesn't as it stands.

What do you think?

2006-10-30 21:25:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-30 20:52:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

this guy has it all, paranoia, grandiosity, delusions, memory loss, he's a pathological liar, passive aggresive disorder, sexual deviancy, wow, this guy needs help!!!!!!!!!!

2006-10-30 20:31:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-30 20:29:01 · 5 answers · asked by sudhir n 1

2006-10-30 20:26:01 · 3 answers · asked by sudhir n 1

I'm looking for the flag with the communist weapon in the yellow section

2006-10-30 20:25:27 · 2 answers · asked by John X. 2

Are religion and politics the greatest evils we have to face in todays age,In the past it was the cold war and nuclear weapons.

2006-10-30 20:16:28 · 13 answers · asked by Francis7 4

2006-10-30 20:14:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why does every US President, every Israeli Prime Minister and every Palestinian Leader, fail to achieve this much needed peaceful co-existence? Why ???

2006-10-30 20:14:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why would pakistan shoot its own citezens by rokets from the sky ,couldnt they arrest them better if they suspect them as long as they r on a pakistani land?
how can anyone shoot a school with missiles even if they suspect that terrorists r inside,this is the real terror & against all int crime fighting laws.
dont they at least deserve a chance for a fair trial first??
do u think this will realy help in decreasing terrorism???!!!

2006-10-30 19:59:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous