Why do some people in the Politics section ask questions that are impossible to answer?

Question

How many would still be alive in Iraq if GWB had not done this or that? What kind of BS is that?

The answerer must provide an answer to the question or be in violation of the Y/A TOS. Hypothetical questions should also be a violation of the TOS. Answers like "I don't know" are not acceptable. I view questions like these as a setup.

Open your eyes, you need to remove your head from your anal orifice. Questions like those are designed to get the people who reply reported for not answering the question. I am not sure what part of that you don't understand.

Wrong cowgirl, my question asks for an opinion not a statistic.

Answer 1

There are TONS of people who here who do not ask "questions" at all. They merely state their own opinion, put a question mark at the end, and wait to see affirmations/agreements of other people who feel the same way. Then when someone of the opposite persuasion posts a comment that disagrees with the "asker," the asker accuses the opponent of not paying attention to the "question." Yes, it is very, very tiresome. But there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Answer 2

Its easier to Blame the President for all the ills of the world than it is to take on at least some of the responsibility for policies that are deemed unfashionable by various people of the World including Americans. The only thing is that those in power got their through election.,.and in some cases..political pandering to special Interests. Americans have within the last 20 years according to some statistics.,..gradually been moving away from being Informed Voters,.. voting Instead strictly along Partisan Lines. Recently within the past 4 years...Americans have began to re-evaluate their Political Leanings..and have moved Closer to the Political Center than in previous years. This is mostly due to the average American becoming disillusioned with the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.and also with the their Own Elected Officials. Also this Centralizing of the American political Mindset..stems from the Negativity Americans see and hear from other Nations..most of which casts a negative light on the USA. This angers many Americans to the point to which ,..the Average Voting American or what is known as the Silent Majority,.has caused and continues to cause a low tolerance attitude,.and most feel America is being wrongly characterized by a large part of the rest of the World....and so More Independently minded voters become polarized and make themselves known to the Elected government,..this is a move that will Transform American Politics...and maybe even the World itself. I hope this book helps...hehe

Answer 3

Maybe you just don't know all the answers. I haven't had any problem finding something to say - if it's a question I choose to answer. Or were you just leading in to a bash on anti-Bush posters? Face it, GWB is a loser, and he lost the war in Iraq. Game over.

Answer 4

Lol questions like that are merely asked to annoy George Bush supporters. And it looks like it's worked. Now now vegas. Calm down. I must be right because you are just a little bit mad. Also you say they are designed to get the answerer reported. Well only if you answer it. And if it really is a big old load of BS, why are you even entertaining it?

Answer 5

Its B.S. of the highest degree. These people are idiots.

All they do is show how really STUPID they are. So have some fun. Give them an algebraic formula you know they can't solve. Alive answer is equal to the population pre-invasion, times a normal growth factor of 1.4, plus a loss factor of 1.3 times the years of the war, less all the bombs dropped divided by 62 percent hits, plus Sadams age.

The more I read from these people, the more I KNOW our schools have really let our population down.

It seems they are creating an entire new class of dumb.

Try to NOT let it get to you. If you think this is bad, you should work with criminals.

Dumb is an understatement.
Its more like REALLY, REALLY DUMB.

Try to have a good day.
Florida guy.

Answer 6

Politics in whole is confusing,so how are people suppose to answer any questions about it.i try not to answer questions about politics because there are more important questions out there,things that can be of benefit to someone,unlike politics that would run up your blood pressure.besides there are enough politician in the world today.i don't see why everyone just don't try to learn another trait.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

They might be a statistical analyst. And a question like that is normal to them.

Like the guys in Vegas that calculate odds

Answer 9

Those are not true questions,those are democratic hack statements posed with a question mark to make statement for us to read and get it past the yahoo q & a censors

Answer 10

this is a start to the answer...

Civilian death toll in Iraq spikes in May By Mussab Al-Khairalla
Sat Jun 2, 10:06 AM ET



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed in Iraq jumped to nearly 2,000 in May, the highest monthly toll since the start of a U.S.-backed security crackdown in February, according to figures released on Saturday.

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Militants blew up a strategic bridge that links Baghdad to the northern cities of Kirkuk and Arbil, and a mortar barrage on the Sunni enclave of Fadhil in mainly Shi'ite eastern Baghdad, killed 10 people and wounded 30, police said.

In Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Masoud Barzani, president of Kurdistan, urged Turkey not to send troops into the region to crush Kurdish separatist rebels believed to be hiding there.

An Interior Ministry official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorized to release the figures, said 1,944 civilians were killed in May, a 29 percent hike over April. At least 174 soldiers and policemen were killed in the same period.

The death toll was based on statistics compiled by Iraq's ministries of interior, defense and health on the number of people killed and wounded in attacks in Iraq.

After three months of declines, there has been a sharp rise in the number of sectarian murders in Baghdad. Mortar attacks in the capital are becoming deadlier and car bombs remain common.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in two mortar attacks on Shi'ite and Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad in the past 48 hours. In Saturday's attack, 10 people were killed in a barrage on the Sunni Fadhil district

Police, who reported fewer than 10 sectarian murders a day in the first weeks of the security crackdown, are now typically reporting 30 or more.

U.S. military commanders says this is a spike, not a trend, and the full impact of the crackdown will not be known for months.

FIGURES POLITICALLY SENSITIVE

The United Nations has rebuked Iraq's government for refusing to disclose the politically sensitive civilian casualty figures in what it calls a "rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis."

Maliki's government has accused the U.N. mission in Iraq of exaggerating the death toll from sectarian violence between majority Shi'ite Muslims and minority Sunni Arabs, and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data.

The U.N. mission said in January that 34,452 civilians were killed and more than 36,000 wounded in 2006. These figures were much higher than any issued by Iraqi government officials.

Militants in northern Iraq destroyed the Sarha Bridge, a main route for commercial and military traffic north from the capital and other provinces early on Saturday, police said.

A policeman at the joint operations room in the nearby town of Tuz Khurmato, 150 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, said half the length of the bridge had been severely damaged. About 20 unexploded cans of explosive material were on the other half.

Motorists were detouring across the dry riverbed below the bridge, said the official.

Several bridges have been targeted in Baghdad, most notably in a truck bombing in April that sent large sections of the famous Sarafiya steel bridge crashing into the Tigris.

At a joint press conference in Arbil, Maliki and Barzani warned Turkey against any military incursions into northern Iraq. Recent troop movements on Turkey's south-eastern border have prompted speculation about possible military action.

"If there are problems then we shouldn't resort to threats, force and weapons because this worsens the problems," Maliki said. "We don't want to harm neighbouring countries, but we also don't want neighbouring countries to interfere with military raids."

Pressure within Turkey for an incursion is growing after a suicide bombing in the capital last week killed six people and wounded scores more. Authorities blamed the attack on the PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has bases in the mountains of Kurdistan.

(Additional reporting by Shamal Aqrawi in Arbil and Sherko Raouf and Mustapha Mahmoud in Kirkuk)