Politics - 16 October 2007

2007-10-16 16:29:37 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

Believe whatever you want

But this whole Jesus comes back at the end of the world stuff seriously ----should that whole suicidal justification of predestination based on a 2,000 plus book be allowed in a serious discusion of national motives ?


Quotes from the bible do not pass in court as an exscuse for murdering homosexuals or witches why should it be treated differently in world politcs ?

2007-10-16 16:25:15 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-16 16:23:24 · 10 answers · asked by WJ 7

2%

2007-10-16 16:22:56 · 10 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21163806/site/newsweek/

The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV.

2007-10-16 16:22:22 · 8 answers · asked by Charlie D 1

Results of this poll are not scientific. :D

2007-10-16 16:22:08 · 16 answers · asked by mark623112 4

Okay, okay... I know we actually have hundreds and hundreds of political parties in the USA. But when will there be congress reps from other parties, and a third candidate from the same third party on more than a few Presidential elections?

2007-10-16 16:19:51 · 7 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

I saw this article and could not believe what I was reading.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071016/wl_mcclatchy/20071016bcusiraqcemetery_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop

Deaths drop and all the reporter can talk about is how it hurts cemetery workers? Is this for real?

2007-10-16 16:18:20 · 14 answers · asked by Chainsaw 6

Politicians have no authority other than waht has been granted them by US citizens. How does it feel to be a sheeple?

2007-10-16 16:17:21 · 7 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

What exactly has he done to neo-cons garner such hate?

2007-10-16 16:14:01 · 12 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

2007-10-16 16:11:26 · 18 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

I'm pretty sick of 1000% focus on ill gotten wars. Wouldn't it be refreshing to have new ideas in DC versus having the same "old dogs" pull their same "old tricks"?

Isn't everyone fed up with the status quo? Why would you elect more of the same?

2007-10-16 16:06:27 · 24 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Or Sean Hannity? What about Michael Savage? Surely, Ann Coulter will get one, right????

Funny, I can think of a few "libs" with Nobel Peace Prizes (MLK, Carter, Gore), but draw a blank on the neo-cons...

2007-10-16 15:56:22 · 20 answers · asked by freewainwright 2

2007-10-16 15:55:17 · 12 answers · asked by seafish 1

You hate Clinton's version of her health care bill and believe poor people should pay for their own children's care. At the same time, you are totally against abortion. You say Democrats don't care for the unborn, but it seems to me many Conservatives don't care about them once they ARE born. They grow up in an uncaring world and then do harm to someone, so now they are executed, which is something else many Conservatives believe in.

Can someone explain the thinking in this process?

2007-10-16 15:50:47 · 18 answers · asked by linus_van_pelt_4968 5

Who would it be and why?

My pick would be Obama

2007-10-16 15:47:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Russia has made it clear that an attack on Iran is going to have a lot of consequences

Will Bush go ahead and provoke China into decimateing the US economy and provoking a massive nuclear power like Russia into a possible last world war


Or will Bush back off and shut up ?

2007-10-16 15:32:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please answer this question ONLY. Let's see if there is a Republican out there that can answer a question about their own party without mentioning the Clintons.

2007-10-16 15:18:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see it a lot on here, now that I think about it...

like I just noticed one a second ago that that's what made me think about it...

for example: it was a conversation about immigration, and a guy said he didn't understand why today's immigrants are different than previous immigrants...
why they all don't learn English immediately and all want government handouts...

now, if something doesn't make sense to me, that's the FIRST CLUE that something may be wrong with what I'm thinking...

except it seems like Republicans just kind of shug, and don't bother looking into it or even try to make sense out of it and just keep believing what they believe?

same with poverty... racial differences (like why white people earn more, go to jail less)...

most just seem to use some stock answer like "they're all lazy"... but does that even make sense? when people from one area are 5 times more likely to be poor, is that because they are just all magically more lazy from that area?

2007-10-16 15:15:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-16 15:07:02 · 2 answers · asked by Sally_M 1

Why didn't his recipe for include peanuts?

2007-10-16 14:59:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-16 14:33:15 · 14 answers · asked by vijay k 3

Rudy.
Poor guy.And to think they won't even let him parade around in a dress anymore.
Such callousness - don't you think?

2007-10-16 14:31:36 · 4 answers · asked by Your Teeth or Mine? 5

Lying low in a wide stance?

2007-10-16 14:27:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-16 14:25:54 · 21 answers · asked by notyoursecret 1

And how could he not be the cut & run President when even the Dems majority in Congress couldn't get a bill signed to bring US troops home. But Bush is now slowly & very quietly starting to pull them out of Iraq. Hoping of course that nobody will notice.

So to all those "patriotic" Theocons out there. How do feel now that the President you voted for twice, is now stabbing you in back?

2007-10-16 14:22:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Nobody has the right to judge Turkey like this," Erdogan said. "Those who dare confront an important country like Turkey will pay the price."

Bagis said Turkey should impose sanctions against Armenia because it supported the resolution.

"Turkey must impose sanctions against Armenia," Bagis said. "Turkey has already done a list of what and when it will do, and the prime minister has already given necessary orders."

The border between Turkey and Armenia is closed. But Turkey could cancel flights between Istanbul and Yerevan, as well as stopover flights to Armenia, and also prevent around 4,000 trucks from hauling goods to Armenia through neighboring Georgia.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/16-10-2007/98906-armenia_punishment-0

It is not OK to deny themurder of the Jews and yet it is OK to deny the murder of Christains!

Henry Morgenthau
American Ambassador to Constantinople
1913-1916



CHAPTER XXIV

THE MURDER OF A NATION

The destruction of the Armenian race in 1915 involved certain difficulties that had not impeded the operations of the Turks in the massacres of 1895 and other years. In these earlier periods the Armenian men had possessed little power or means of resistance. In those days Armenians had not been permitted to have military training, to serve in the Turkish army, or to possess arms. As I have already said, these discriminations were withdrawn when the revolutionists obtained the upper hand in 1908. Not only were the Christians now permitted to bear arms, but the authorities, in the full flush of their enthusiasm for freedom and equality, encouraged them to do so. In the early part of 1915, therefore, every Turkish city contained thousands of Armenians who had been trained as soldiers and who were supplied with rifles, pistols, and other weapons of defense. The operations at Van once more disclosed that these men could use their weapons to good advantage. It was thus apparent that an Armenian massacre this time would generally assume more the character of warfare than those wholesale butcheries of defenseless men and women which the Turks had always found so congenial. If this plan of murdering a race were to succeed, two preliminary steps would therefore have to be taken: it would be necessary to render all Armenian soldiers powerless and to deprive of their arms the Armenians in every city and town. Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless.

In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen. Instead of serving their country as artillerymen and cavalrymen, these former soldiers now discovered that they had been transformed into road labourers and pack animals. Army supplies of all kinds were loaded on their backs, and, stumbling under the burdens and driven by the whips and bayonets of the Turks, they were forced to drag their weary bodies into the mountains of the Caucasus. Sometimes they would have to plough their way, burdened in this fashion, almost waist high through snow. They had to spend practically all their time in the open, sleeping on the bare ground---whenever the ceaseless prodding of their taskmasters gave them an occasional opportunity to sleep. They were given only scraps of food; if they fell sick they were left where they had dropped, their Turkish oppressors perhaps stopping long enough to rob them of all their possessions---even of their clothes. If any stragglers succeeded in reaching their destinations, they were not infrequently massacred. In many instances Armenian soldiers were disposed of in even more summary fashion, for it now became almost the general practice to shoot them in cold blood. In almost all cases the procedure was the same. Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the Turks had stolen all their clothes. In cases that came to my attention, the murderers had added a refinement to their victims' sufferings by compelling them to dig their graves before being shot.

Let me relate a single episode which is contained in one of the reports of our consuls and which now forms part of the records of the American State Department. Early in July, 2,000 Armenian "amélés"---such is the Turkish word for soldiers who have been reduced to workmen---were sent from Harpoot to build roads. The Armenians in that town understood what this meant and pleaded with the Governor for mercy. But this official insisted that the men were not to be harmed, and he even called upon the German missionary, Mr. Ehemann, to quiet the panic, giving that gentleman his word of honour that the ex-soldiers would be protected. Mr. Ehemann believed the Governor and assuaged the popular fear. Yet practically every man of these 2,000 was massacred, and his body thrown into a cave. A few escaped, and it was from these that news of the massacre reached the world. A few days afterward another 2,000 soldiers were sent to Diarbekir. The only purpose of sending these men out in the open country was that they might be massacred. In order that they might have no strength to resist or to escape by flight, these poor creatures were systematically starved. Government agents went ahead on the road, notifying the Kurds that the caravan was approaching and ordering them to do their congenial duty. Not only did the Kurdish tribesmen pour down from the mountains upon this starved and weakened regiment, but the Kurdish women came with butcher's knives in order that they might gain that merit in Allah's eyes that comes from killing a Christian. These massacres were not isolated happenings; I could detail many more episodes just as horrible as the one related above; throughout the Turkish Empire a systematic attempt was made to kill all able-bodied men, not only for the purpose of removing all males who might propagate a new generation of Armenians, but for the purpose of rendering the weaker part of the population an easy prey.

2007-10-16 14:22:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

what if the government is all conservatives and they contribute my extra tax money to wars...? thats not right

2007-10-16 14:17:28 · 21 answers · asked by Advice Guru 2

...whose standard of living should fall first? Should it be the ultra-rich who can afford a falling standard of living and still be living large? Or should it be the poor and middle class whose standard of living can fall a long way as a consequence of marginal amounts of higher taxes or lower income?

2007-10-16 14:11:15 · 16 answers · asked by ideogenetic 7

2007-10-16 14:08:15 · 12 answers · asked by Dude #2369™ 4