Politics - 18 July 2007

2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Canada's last known surviving First World War veteran had an early birthday celebration in Spokane, Wash., on Wednesday with friends, family and a letter from the Queen.
Surrounded by family and reporters, John Babcock opened a package of birthday wishes that B.C. MP James Moore brought from Canada.
Included in the parcel were letters of congratulations from Queen Elizabeth and Governor General Michaëlle Jean and a tie with red poppies from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Babcock was born July 23, 1900, on an Ontario farm, and enlisted at the age of 15. His youth meant he couldn't go to the front lines in France, so he was put in the Boy's Battalion doing drills all day long. The war ended before he turned 18. He says he never felt like "a real soldier."
Babcock became an American citizen in the 1920s and joined the U.S. army.

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2007-07-18 13:46:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I thought he was totaly heartless twords the poor.what did you think?

2007-07-18 13:44:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally need suit my own realistic principles and offer a fair representation to all the people, what are you thoughts?

2007-07-18 13:39:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Republicans are called war mongerer's, by Liberals. But that just isn't right is it? Would Liberals of today call Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, John Hancock, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, etc. war mongerer's?
Where would America be, if we had never gone to war?

2007-07-18 13:37:45 · 34 answers · asked by xenypoo 7

President Bush claims that we should wait until September, when General Petraeus will deliver an evaluation of the situation in Iraq, before doing anything else, apparently. Why is this going to take until September?

2007-07-18 13:37:42 · 18 answers · asked by midjrsy 3

Hitler or Bush? Osama is small change next to Bush's death and destruction. Iraqis go to get a carton of milk and get blown to bits! Soldiers die in gutters everyday for oil and war profits. Kids its never been about freedom, grow the heck up, its $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ you naive idiots.

2007-07-18 13:29:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

1) If to fight terrorists? did hell of job creating em' a lot of em' so we could fight em'.
2) For democracy? Why not Saudi Arabia why we are friends with Saudi dictators.
3) Oil? then why the hell I am Paying $3 gallon.
4) WMD? Yeah alright.
5) To Get rid of Saddam. Did it help?
6) To help poor helpless iraqis? They dont look so helpless anymore.

2007-07-18 13:23:31 · 18 answers · asked by thebestbotintexas 2

What do they want now, time and a half overtime pay for the all nighter Congress session?

2007-07-18 13:18:57 · 23 answers · asked by flushles 3

Bwahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop the war yet?

Bwa...bwaaa...bwahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2007-07-18 13:17:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why not just have a binding referendum State by State Province by Province on the issue and make the lobby groups lobby the public instead of the government ?

This wouldn't be government by referendum it would be a referendum on key issues that really should be decided by the people

Don't like the results ? Move to another State Province where your views are more reflected in the populus -


This would be democracy at work ?

So what stops it from happening the government is afraid you'd vote the wrong way ?

2007-07-18 13:14:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 13:06:42 · 25 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070718/us_nm/usa_politics_poll_dc_2

It's simply stunning that 14% of America still supports the Dem congress.

STUNNING.

BTW, Bush is a full 20% higher at 34%.

Poor libs.

2007-07-18 13:06:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Blue state ghetto trash need to learn that dog fighting is no longer allowed. How could they not know? After all, Democrats wrote the book on political correctness.

2007-07-18 13:03:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dear Mr. Swanson:

Thank you for contacting me regarding President Bush’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s prison sentence – a decision I disagree with.
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Although the U.S. Constitution gives the president this power, I believe the vice president’s former chief of staff should have been held accountable for perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements in connection with the federal investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's identity.
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The incident was an affront to the men and women who sometimes must put their lives on the line in our country’s intelligence service.
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Again, I appreciate your interest in the issue. And, please don’t hesitate to contact me in the future on this or any other matter.



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2007-07-18 12:52:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Obama says "We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we're on the wrong battlefield."

Hmm, which battlefield would Obama prefer - US soil?
http://www.nysun.com/article/58447

2007-07-18 12:51:52 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 12:51:38 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was down loading a harry potter movie for my kids and when it was done we sat down to watch it and it was a liberal propaganda film about how bush is the one whowho destroyed thw world trade center and flew military planes into the pentegon why why use harry potter

2007-07-18 12:50:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 12:42:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Go ahead Bush shills show how pathetic you are and belive in it!! hahahaah! dumb and pathetic

2007-07-18 12:41:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should we resurrect the music to keep it real?Song: Fighting Side Of Me Tab

The Fightin' Side Of Me
Written and performed by Merle Haggard
c1970 Tree Publishing C., Inc.

Verse 1:
D A7
I hear people talking bad about the way they have to live here in this country.
D
Harpin' on the wars we fight gripin' 'bout the way things ought to be.
A7
I don't mind them switchin' sides and standin' up for things they beleive in,

When they're runnin' down our country man,
D
They're walkin' on The Fightin' Fide Of Me.

Chorus
A7 D A7
They're walkin' on The Fightin' Side Of Me.
A G D
Runnin' down a way of life our fightin' men have fought and died to keep,

If you don't love it, leave it,
D7 G
Let this song that I'm singin' be a warnin',
A7
When you're runnin' down our country (hoss - 1st // man - 2d)
D
You're walkin' on The Fightin' Side Of Me.

Verse 2:

I read about some squirley guy
Who claims that he just don't beleive in fightin',
And I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk and honey but they preach about some other way of livin',
When they're runnin' down our country man
They're walkin' on The Fightin' Side Of Me.

Chorus

2007-07-18 12:28:32 · 13 answers · asked by WEASEL LIBERALS 3

2007-07-18 12:27:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who else thinks that Rudi Juliani will win the presdential election? It would be a great feeling to have another rupublican in the White House, wouldn't it?

2007-07-18 12:12:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/peterson.asp

2007-07-18 12:09:35 · 13 answers · asked by scottdman2003 5

I just read "The Truth about Hilary" where it says that Hilary is a lesbian, stays with Bill just to influence her political power, etc. Is this true? Or did the author just make things up

2007-07-18 12:08:53 · 11 answers · asked by Lynn 4

2007-07-18 12:07:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

News Flash! A steam pipe exploded in New York City! It's happened hundreds of times but this time, it's on national news and people are afraid, very afraid. Yep, King Georges tactics have succeeded in scaring Americans over anything and everything.

2007-07-18 12:07:01 · 3 answers · asked by Dick W 3

2007-07-18 11:56:17 · 18 answers · asked by Casey D 2

As for how long we have been in Iraq, the cost of a war is not measured in time. It is measured in lives lost.

While our media are impatiently waiting for the 4,000th American death in Iraq that they can trumpet, and rub our noses in — in the name of “honoring the troops” — we need to understand that casualty rates in Iraq are low, as wars go.

If and when that 4,000th American death in Iraq is reached, we need to recall that more Marines than that were lost taking one island in the Pacific during World War II.

During the Civil War, more than twice as many Union soldiers as that were killed — in one day — at the battle of Shiloh, and again at Gettysburg.

The “war on terror” is a misleading phrase. It is the terrorists’ war against us — and it is not something that we can unilaterally call off. Our only choice is where to fight it, over there or over here.

2007-07-18 11:46:13 · 37 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

2007-07-18 11:43:55 · 7 answers · asked by the d 6

I hope we do we will have universal health care, quality education and less poverty, people who make over $250,000 a year should be taxed at a 60% rate, and should not complain, I make over 400,000 dollars a year and i tell you what 60% will not make or break me, so to all you cry baby conservatives out their us liberals will have our time to shine in 09.

2007-07-18 11:43:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous