Politics - 10 June 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_us/death_penalty_deterrence;_ylt=AlUr5XPu87cbq4cZIj6fJ.Cs0NUE

The steady drumbeat of DNA exonerations — pointing out flaws in the justice system — has weighed against capital punishment. The moral opposition is loud, too, echoed in Europe and the rest of the industrialized world, where all but a few countries banned executions years ago.

What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument — whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes. They count between three and 18 lives that would be saved by the execution of each convicted killer.

2007-06-10 14:07:17 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

How long do we have to carry their water? Doesn't this dependence just promote resentment, on both sides?

2007-06-10 14:00:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I notice Hillary and others using the term "redeploy" in their plans to end Operation Iraqi Freedom. What's the difference between "redeploy" and cut and run? Did France "redeploy" from Hitler?

2007-06-10 13:50:39 · 11 answers · asked by x 4

2007-06-10 13:19:53 · 29 answers · asked by the d 6

Leading democratic candidates claim America needs to take a step into socialism, state control of wealth. They say capitalism, private control of wealth, doesn't serve the common good.
I wonder how a failed system, as they claim, could have ever given rise to the most powerful and prosperous nation on the planet.
China and the former USSR exceeded the USA in land area, population, and natural resources. Yet under socialism, the combined GDP of these countries couldn't even have funded the USA's federal budget.
What say you? Is capitalism a failed system, or a system that just needs tweaking?

2007-06-10 13:06:09 · 32 answers · asked by .... . .-.. .-.. --- 4

and Labour issues in Pakistan

2007-06-10 13:06:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am so sick of people bashing each other on this site about their political party. Don't go around demoting other parties because you don't belong to them! Why are Democrats getting the brunt of this warfare? Let everyone be reminded that our current 'president' is a republican and not all democrats are lesbians and pro-abortion. Seriously people grow up!

2007-06-10 13:05:37 · 12 answers · asked by Senator D*L*P™ 5

Does the Democrat party use of propaganda in the universities and preying on the unimfomed immigrants and underclasses and hatred of religion seem to follow many of the same patterns of the previos Communist regimes ?

2007-06-10 13:00:27 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

i picture him playing a violin while everything around him burns

2007-06-10 12:55:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

ticket? Things that make you go hmmm. He must know going into this race that he cannot win the Republican nomination. He steadfastly maintains that he will not run on another ticket. I think that is strange.

2007-06-10 12:55:24 · 13 answers · asked by vegaswoman 6

George Bush received a more than warm welcome in Albania - a former stalinist communist country - muslim too. Does anyone have an explanation ?

2007-06-10 12:21:17 · 14 answers · asked by Maka 7

So why all this bullshiite about the Iraqis being terrorists? Theyre just doing what any violently occupied nation would do.

2007-06-10 12:15:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-06-10 12:11:45 · 17 answers · asked by ShadowCat 6

America didn't save Britain they helped.

2007-06-10 12:07:07 · 24 answers · asked by COB RULE 5

2007-06-10 12:02:24 · 27 answers · asked by me 5

I have been following Iranian politics and I think that Ahmaninejad is a political persona created to scare the west to the bargaining table.

Look at Zhirinovsky during the Yeltsin era. He made a lot of wild statements like Russia should retake Alaska and that Russia should reform the Soviet Union. This cause western leaders to rush to support Yeltsin to help strengthen his positions. If you look at Zhirinovsky's voting record in the Duma you will see that on every close vote he sided with Yeltsin and only voted against him when the outcome was certain.

I think that Ahmadinejad is doing the same for Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad makes statements calling for the destruction of Israel, he makes anti-west statements all the time. His actions are outrageous but look at the results. We have had diplomatic talks for the first time since 1979. Khamenei is now legitimized at home (during troubled times) and is the first to talk to the west in almost 30 years.

2007-06-10 11:47:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What state are you from? Do you think your state leans more conservative or more liberal, and do you like living there, or do you wish that it was a different way.

2007-06-10 11:34:23 · 11 answers · asked by Levi S 2

2007-06-10 11:31:24 · 9 answers · asked by tbs_lvr_92 2

For Iraq the dems plan is to do nothing but they say the president doesn't have a plan either?

2007-06-10 11:30:26 · 9 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Is it not their nature to conserve ? Do they tend to waste less energy, resources and capital than most real world liberals because of their conservative traits ?

2007-06-10 11:30:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously, if the USA ever decided to invade Canada and successfully annexed it into the Union, what would other nations around the world do? I have no doubt that we would receive strong condemnation and be even more hated by every other nation around the globe...but would any of them actually do anything about it? Would there be any countries that would intervene and stop us, or would they instead just sit back and watch us take it over? Because in this age where diplomacy goes before war, I'm more inclined to think that no nation would have the balls to risk getting militarily involved in something that isn't directly affecting them. What do you think?

2007-06-10 11:22:37 · 16 answers · asked by bcwhite88 3

If someone wants an abortion, shouldn't their insurance/themself have to pay for it instead of my tax dollars?

2007-06-10 11:19:45 · 11 answers · asked by Pro-Choice Dumbass 1

*notice the emphasis on the "YOU"

2007-06-10 11:16:11 · 14 answers · asked by Pro-Choice Dumbass 1

Obama, Clinton and Edwards posed for camera while voicing their opinion of America!

2007-06-10 11:08:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

a person can give a woman an abortion when she doesn't want it and only be charged with harassment and/or assault and not murder? Is it really the mother's choice? Should it just be called pro-abortion instead of pro-choice then?

2007-06-10 11:04:38 · 14 answers · asked by Pro-Choice Dumbass 1

I have to say this in confidence that someone else out there feels the way I do... I have a lot of trouble in understanding how you can be a conservative or liberal. How on earth can you have a side on an issue without hearing the issue. It seems like people like to say there one or the other without any ral idea of whats going on.... I believe this in part because of great presidents of the past they are pretty equally split parties... Also other few points I have... conservatives = how can you be for the death penalty and against abortion..... . In closing it is just distessing to me that you can have your life values and veiws decided by political parties and not by looking at the acctual issue and making your own desicion on which has moral value and will help our country globally? opinions please

2007-06-10 11:00:24 · 7 answers · asked by Tyler R 1

How can we break the stranglehold that the democrats and the republicans have on our system? There are so many better qualified leaders out there. They should have a chance also.

2007-06-10 10:55:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Throngs of Albanians cheered and jostled for the opportunity to get close to President Bush . After suffering for about 40 years , Albania has chosen Democracy in a very loud and powerful way . Thumbing their noses at the Russian regime that controlled them for so long . It was further reported (hey Liberals get ready to cry) that Albanians idolize America and love President Bush . Hmmmm . They see the United States as their best shot to achieve independence . Wow !! Good News about the United States and President Bush ? What a refreshing change !!
Seems that new democracy's are loved and welcomed when there are no terrorists f'in things up .

Come on now , can you admit that our support of this budding democracy is responsible for it's very existence ?
Can you admit that too many people ran to hatred for President Bush and maybe now it's time to let it go ?

One last comment . . . .U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A !!

2007-06-10 10:55:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-10 10:37:18 · 13 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

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2007-06-10 10:21:31 · 18 answers · asked by impeachbushnoww 1