Politics - 1 September 2007

Article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/hl_afp/uspoliticshealth_070901162222

2007-09-01 14:43:35 · 15 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixSIGWmZdrBw4WckWyDfmvIsD3Sw

During a subsequent search of the house, Mendoza said he received an order from another Marine, Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum, to shoot seven women and children he had found in a rear bedroom.

"When I opened the door there was just women and kids, two adults were lying down on the bed and there were three children on the bed ... two more were behind the bed," Mendoza said.

"I looked at them for a few seconds. Just enough to know they were not presenting a threat ... they looked scared."

After leaving the room Mendoza told Tatum what he had found.

"I told him there were women and kids inside there. He said 'Well, shoot them,'" Mendoza told prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Sean Sullivan.

"And what did you say to him?" Sullivan asked.

"I said 'But they're just women and children.' He didn't say nothing."

Mendoza said he returned to a position at the front of the house and heard a door open behind him followed by a loud noise. Returning later that afternoon to retrieve bodies, Mendoza said he found a room full of corpses.

2007-09-01 14:39:50 · 7 answers · asked by master apple 2

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece

2007-09-01 14:27:48 · 11 answers · asked by master apple 2

I can tell you for a fact that it is the insurance companies.

2007-09-01 13:50:24 · 8 answers · asked by vegaswoman 6

ive heard this on the news, and a few ppl talking about it here and there....well um...what exactly is it?


i dont want any long essay type answers, just simple responses


and please i know this is about politics and stuff like that, so no wise asses. thanx

2007-09-01 13:40:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think Larry Craig and Mark Foley regarding gay sex. Think President Bush's willingness to send soldiers to do a job he was unwilling to do. Think of high and mighty Newt Gingrich and his scandals. Offering Clinton's White House escapades will not suffice; Republicans claim moral purity, Democrats don't.

2007-09-01 13:31:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

France has it and their care is considered the best in the world (WHO report 2000). Every industrialized nation in the world has it...except the US. So, what is the problem? BTW, these other countries provide it at a cheaper rate than the US, by over half per citizen.

Also, where does the US rank? 37th...

2007-09-01 13:25:53 · 22 answers · asked by freewainwright 2

http://nomorebush.premiumfinder.com/war-gallery/USA-soldiers-in-caskets3.htm
http://nomorebush.premiumfinder.com/war-gallery/USA-soldiers-in-caskets7.htm
http://nomorebush.premiumfinder.com/war-gallery/USA-soldiers-in-caskets6.htm

Faces of the Fallen:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/iraq/page2/

2007-09-01 13:24:07 · 17 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

How bright is it not to study an opponent you intend to fight other than the number of tanks they have?

2007-09-01 13:07:56 · 13 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=80558

2007-09-01 12:52:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Shia Muslims have not recognized the authority of elected Muslim leaders, choosing instead to follow a line of Imams which they believe have been appointed by the Prophet Muhammad or God Himself"
http://islam.about.com/cs/divisions/f/shia_sunni.htm

And Bush handed them Iraq...

2007-09-01 12:48:48 · 13 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Would a fruit basket suffice?

2007-09-01 12:37:39 · 12 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Muqtada al-Sadr is aligned with Iran and is the top dog in Iraq.

2007-09-01 12:33:52 · 7 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

without getting caught, BY ANYONE.

2007-09-01 12:31:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is a Veteran?

A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of up to
and including their life. And there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand that.

Author Unknown

Are you one of these people who don't understand, or just don't care?

2007-09-01 12:30:43 · 28 answers · asked by xenypoo 7

2007-09-01 12:25:52 · 2 answers · asked by swimafisha 1

This is getting scary! It's not a question of Republican or Democrat. The ideas that we fought so hard against in WWII have taken roots in our media. Don't get mad at me, you know who they are, and they must be stopped. Actually, most of you do not know who they are. This really is getting scary.

2007-09-01 12:23:52 · 10 answers · asked by waynesworldstage 2

Now let me get this stright. Congressman William J. Jefferson (D-La.) is caught on tape taking bribes from the FBI and no resignation or desire from his party to vacate his office. Senator Craig pulls some funny business in the bathroom and is run out of office? Anyone shed some light on this please?

2007-09-01 12:22:38 · 15 answers · asked by Beth K 1

2007-09-01 12:20:40 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

3 of 18 Benchmarks is NOT a success.*


* as reported by the GAO, aka our own government

2007-09-01 12:13:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I also mean the people that call for wars also in general. Why is this?

2007-09-01 12:08:48 · 27 answers · asked by leaf 4

Democrats are supposedly blinded by their emotions and republicans use logic and reason. Are republicans being blinded with their emotions concerning Iraq?

2007-09-01 12:07:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just don't get your political party. Why is it that when your political party did that bad thing nobody seemed to care, but when my poltical party does this bad thing everyone from your political party goes crazy?! Why is everyone from your political party such a hypocrite? The great your political wing conspiracy is ruining America!

2007-09-01 12:01:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

How did America's educational system fail all those Bushbots so badly?

2007-09-01 11:56:00 · 15 answers · asked by obl_alive_and_well 4

You want to see the real-world problems with right-wing extremism? Here's a good example from Big Sky Country.

With Montana facing major wildfires, senior Montana Republican lawmaker John Sinrud - who heads the state House's appropriations committee - used a legislative hearing this week to attack Gov. Brian Schweitzer's (D) administration for - get ready for this - trying to prevent homes and buildings from being burnt down. At the hearing, he asks "Why not just let [buildings] burn?" Ah yes, what a refreshing dose of "compassionate" conservatism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070901/cm_huffpost/062776;_ylt=Aht_4VS0SWJgv3ZFjuO.mrX9wxIF

2007-09-01 11:53:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

like the rest of America can't see the truth about Iraq?

2007-09-01 11:46:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-01 11:37:48 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here are a few links - credible sources - for you to try and counter. Good luck traitors.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22337285-601,00.html

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03202007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/why_its_working_____opedcolumnists_gordon_cucullu.htm?page=0
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258381,00.html

http://www.progressiveu.org/101752-the-surge-is-working-in-iraq-what-say-you-dems


Not that you people care about the facts or anything, but I thought you might enjoy reading some truth. Instead of your tipical liberal propaganda.

2007-09-01 11:26:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-01 11:14:21 · 18 answers · asked by 2012 4

I have heard many rumors about this possibly happening.

Do you want another Bush family member as the President?

2007-09-01 11:13:38 · 19 answers · asked by Kelly B 4