Politics - 8 December 2007

2007-12-08 08:47:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

An Iranian attack on Israel or the US - would that get Bush the war he seems to want ?

And if they don't attack ? What then - ?

2007-12-08 08:39:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it is a shame that people reject him simply because he is African American. I think you need to look at the heart of a man and listen to what he has to say, rather than passing judgements on him because of his race.

2007-12-08 08:23:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams

I think Adams is saying that without religion, or some kind of objective morality, our whole political structure will collapse. Freedom is possible in a society where people are generally moral. If people are generally immoral, a free society cannot function.

2007-12-08 08:21:06 · 9 answers · asked by GrizzlyMint 6

Bush says the reason we need to win in Iraq is that if we left Iraq tommorow, it would be a "Safe Haven for terrorists" and the Iraq insurgency would attack the USA. Do you think the Iraq insurgency wants to attack the USA? If not, then what the heck are the Iraq insurgency members fighting for?

2007-12-08 08:20:05 · 14 answers · asked by bionicleis2cool117 1

I suppose, and not to be a flammer, it's because they get their views from late night television, sitcoms, and the like, which amounts to liberal indoctrination. If that's the case, how can liberals consider themselves enlightened, which so many love to profess?

2007-12-08 08:17:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mike Huckabee wants to be president, but have you heard the latest?

-Mike Huckabee personally petitioned for the release of a violent rapist who went on to rape and murder again

-Mike Huckabee called for the segregation of aids patients in hospitals and medical centers

Is this the person to protect us and lead us as president?

Any thoughts out there?

2007-12-08 08:16:29 · 10 answers · asked by infobrokernate 6

Why do not care about what is happening in the world of war and killing, such as what is happening in Palestine and Iraq?

2007-12-08 08:06:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was watching a debate where he gives these long speeches about how devoutly religious he is....the man believes in creationism and not evolution... it seems like the man talks more about how hed be a good president because hes such a conservative CHRISTIAN and devout believer, as opposed to having any good policies.

and yet he still is winning certain polls...isnt it sad that just proclaiming how you are a devout Christian is enough to get people to vote for you

2007-12-08 08:03:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

is your hatred for Bush greater than your love for your country and neighbors?

2007-12-08 07:57:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

....a really good endorsement? When they spew and spit and hiss, is it a sign a person is on the right track?

2007-12-08 07:53:50 · 15 answers · asked by leo080564 1

Waterboarding has a long history, it was used in the Spanish Inquisition.
-Regimes like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia have used it.
-In some versions, prisoners are strapped to a board, their faces covered with cloth or cellophane, and water is poured over their mouths to stimulate drowning; in others, they are dunked head-first into water.
-The US has used it on al-Qaida suspects.
-Our present CIA Director Michael Hayden thinks the CIA should be able to use it, since they're so well trained
-Vice President Cheney said it's worth using it to save lives. He doesn't consider it torture.
-Human Rights Groups condemn it.

Now Congress is set up to fight Bush over it, since he's for it. Does the end really justify the means? If we use it, why can't other countries and regimes justify their use of it on US soldiers? Does the US want to use an interrogation technique many other countries consider torture? UK Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2223150,00.html

2007-12-08 07:52:01 · 23 answers · asked by edith clarke 7

Who, if either, would be most likely to cheat first?

2007-12-08 07:41:41 · 15 answers · asked by golfer7 5

...shouldn't we just send them off to Russia?

Or would Putin get annoyed with the little debauchees and kick them out?

2007-12-08 07:38:54 · 9 answers · asked by Content is another word for lazy 2

To give Al Qeada more support in their time of need?

The have gone on TV and declared "The War in Iraq is lost." and have gone unheard.

They have tried to set a timeline for US military pull out, and failed.

They have tried to pull funding for our US military when they are winning every battle against Al Qaeda.

Any suggestions? What say you?

2007-12-08 07:33:13 · 10 answers · asked by T-Bone 7

2007-12-08 07:30:27 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

corporations and state?

2007-12-08 07:28:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

the WPA was created during the great depression as a means of putting people back to work, doing things like building dams, roads, skilled work for the government, etc.

you always hear a lot of people on welfare staying on it because the kind of jobs they are qualified for pay less than what they would get for welfare, so why dont we just guarantee everyone a job and make people on government assitance do community improvement things like pick up trash, do various things for the government, etc. rather than just giving them a handout? And for the single moms that complain about not having anyone to watch their kids or daycare being too expensive, some of them can work as daycare providers.

2007-12-08 07:22:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

repeating the same warning to and about IRAN, it is because this time Mr. Bush needs better "ammunition" than the ones he used against Iraq (I'm saying ammunition figuratively of course), and that he cannot risk it by having a WOMAN (Condoleeza Rice), do this. She is really the person most appropriate for this, for she is, just like Colin Powell was, the Secretary of State?

I know his political career seemed to have been completely destroyed after it was all discovered to be untrue_the weapons of mass destruction, I mean_and for which he had been the constant voice of impending doom.

So Mr. Bush doesn't think she can do a better job then Gates, or is he just trying to save her from the same fate Powell suffered?

2007-12-08 07:08:18 · 4 answers · asked by news-n-more-news 2

I told my son, just a few minutes ago, I'm going to make a Republican out of you whether you like it or not (teasing him), and he said back to me, "well, why would I want to be a Democrat, I mean Liberal, anyway? I want to be an American! A Republican!"

Yes, he said this LOUDLY, and assuredly! Why do you think he said that?

2007-12-08 07:06:30 · 23 answers · asked by xenypoo 7

I think the former is the case. He always had his sights on Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran and presented his agencies the task of finding intel that would back up his agenda.

2007-12-08 06:58:47 · 10 answers · asked by Kelly B 4

2007-12-08 06:53:52 · 14 answers · asked by Stars and Stripes 3

2007-12-08 06:47:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many times do you people have to be lied to before you realize that George W. Bush and Fox News is untrustworthy?

Perhaps in November 2008, you will finally get the message.

2007-12-08 06:41:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-08 06:27:13 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

How about a Muslim?

2007-12-08 06:17:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2005: Iran developing nuclear weapons.
2007: Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003.

Right....

Here's a better idea. Maybe America should stop starting wars completely.

2007-12-08 06:14:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Making people take an IQ test before letting them have children?
I know it is against our freedoms of America and all that, it is just a theoritical question

2007-12-08 06:01:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-08 06:00:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Team Clinton’s latest sleazy trick, an astonishing press release about Barack Obama’s gradeschool essays….Yep Grade School.
Countering an Obama jibe about certain senator’s “long-held plans” to run for president. Hillary’s well oiled attack machine accessed its data base – accusing Obama of “rewriting history” by ignoring his own lingering interest in the White House.

The evidence? A pair of essays he’d written – one back in 3rd Grade and the other when he was even younger. :In kindergarten” deadpanned the Clinton release “Sen Obama wrote an essay titled “I want to become President”.

Naturally the Obama camp stated it was prepared to counter the suggestion that he’d actually flip-flopped from his 2nd grade dreams of becoming an astronaut.

Now all this would be funny if it was not disgusting, to tell the truth, Team Clinton’s actually message was meant to be something like “If we know what you did in kindergarten, Sen Obama, Just imagine what else we know about you. You’ll tread lightly, if you’re wise”

And that would be ironic given how many years Hillary has been crying about smear campaigns against her.

As the ridicule mounted, Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn finally claimed the press release had been a joke, professing his amazement that anyone had taken it seriously. Right, it was a joke, but it wasn’t wrong, message delivered, And no doubt, understood by Obama

Now question, who gets someone to go and investigate what someone did in “KINDERGARTEN” ? and if you stoop that low, whats NEXT ?

2007-12-08 05:50:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous