
chicot
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HA ha! Bolton steps down from UN!
chicot replied to Joey Balls's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Ok, so the inspectors didn't destroy the Al-Samoud missiles themselves but rather supervised their destruction. I don't really think that's a point worth splitting hairs on but there you go. I'm sorry but I haven't got time to cross-reference every single post you've made on this subject, so I'm simply going to go on what you've said in this thread. When I stated that the UN did not authorise military action you said that that made it irrelevant because it doesn't enforce it's own resolutions. I took that to mean that you obviously didn't consider the presence of UN inspectors as any form of enforcement. Yes, of course there is middle ground (or should be). However, I think it's pretty damn obvious that there was no middle ground that would be acceptable to the US (or it's UK lapdog) because they were hellbent on invasion come what may. Do you honestly believe that there was anything the UN could propose, short of the invasion of Iraq, that the Bush administration would agree to? -
McCain Says More Troops To Iraq
chicot replied to jimmy_from_north_buffalo's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Are posters forbidden from commenting on subjects that they have no direct experience of? -
HA ha! Bolton steps down from UN!
chicot replied to Joey Balls's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
So the only way to enforce their resolutions is by a full-scale invasion and occupation? Having UN inspectors crawling all over Iraq and blowing up missiles doesn't count at all? Even assuming that an invasion was the only way to enforce the Iraq resolutions, does that mean that there should be no consideration of the consequences? If it is likely that invading Iraq is going to result in a far worse situation than not doing so, should the UN still approve military force just to look tough and not lose credibility? -
HA ha! Bolton steps down from UN!
chicot replied to Joey Balls's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The UN did not approve the use of force and clearly was not going to approve the use of force, which is why the attempt to get a second resolution was abandoned. -
? I think "no religion" implies that there wouldn't be such a thing as radical muslims.
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What exactly is the mission? How will you know when it is finished? Is there any point at all at which you decide that the "mission" is not achievable or do you continue to waste lives and money indefinitely?
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Are you saying that everyone who is poor is so because they are "lazy, unmotivated and undeserving"?
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The trick is in setting the benefit level high enough to provide a safety net yet not so high that people don't have enough incentive to work. Heck, if I could receive my salary for doing nothing I wouldn't be bothered to go in (if work was any good you'd do it for free).
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And I suppose no one ever goes hungry in the US I'll take a wild guess and state that a smaller percentage of the population goes hungry in Sweden than it does in the US.
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Under the Geneva Convention, it is the responsibility of the occupying power to provide security in the occupied nation. The US failed miserably to do this in Iraq and therefore cannot be so completely absolved from blame as you would have it.
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The difference is that under Saddam there were ways that you could minimize your risk of being killed. Don't go into politics or criticize the regime and, by and large, you could get on with your life without a high probability of being killed. The risk of death came from one source only and there were ways and means of reducing your danger. That is not the case now. You can be killed in a hundred and one different ways and for a hundred and one different reasons. You can be a sunni picked up by a shiite deathsquad or a shiite picked up by a sunni deathsquad. You can be killed by religious maniacs for dressing immodestly (if you are a woman), wearing shorts, drinking alcohol etc... You can be blown up by a suicide bomber, shot in the crossfire during a shootout between the US army and the resistance, or murdered by kidnappers (underreported but a very frequent occurrence in "liberated" Iraq). There are so many ways you can be killed now that it is extremely difficult to get on with your life without incurring a very high degree of danger.
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? Why should I want to kill Chef Jim?
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I'm not exactly ecstatic at seeing my hard-earned cash being taken either, but if I think the money is going to be used to build a better society then I believe it to be a price worth paying.
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Contractors cutting and running...
chicot replied to RuntheDamnBall's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I don't know that you can really make that distinction. The policy of a country's government can't really be divorced from that country, especially in a democracy, and Bush et al weren't just elected, they were re-elected even with Iraq becoming a fiasco. If America's government is to blame then surely America is to blame. -
True enough. What I meant was that the last British government that could truly be described as "socialist" was Callaghan's in the '70s.
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The UK hasn't been socialist for decades. I'm not arguing that socialism is the cure for all the world's ills, merely that the automatic kneejerk reaction of most Americans to recoil in horror and make the sign of the cross at the mere hint of any sort of a socialist agenda is shortsighted.
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Where are you referring to? BBC country profiles: Denmark "Denmark has won plaudits for running a healthy economy. Its employment levels are the envy of many industrialised countries and it accommodates a competitive economic edge as well as a generous social security system. " Finland "The country invests heavily in education, training and research, investment which pays dividends by delivering one of the best educated and trained workforces in the world. " Norway "The Kingdom of Norway enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world." Sweden "Unemployment is low and the economy strong." "The Swedes still enjoy an advanced welfare system, and their standard of living and life expectancy are almost second to none. " Damn socialists. They sound like terrible places to live
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Exactly. The label. Socialism seems to equate to satanism in the eyes of many Americans. In reality, all forms of socialism do not necessarily lead to the apocalypse. For decades the politics of the Scandinavian nations have been dominated by democratic socialist parties and this did not lead to the collapse of civilization, far from it.
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About time Vermont to elect socialist
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Never said he was a great guy. In fact, he was a brutal and cruel dictator. That doesn't change the fact that stating that he systematically killed "tens of millions" is completely ridiculous.
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Tens of millions?! What is this - think of a number and double it?
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911truth.org responds to South Park
chicot replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Actually I've never subscribed to any 9/11 conspiracy theories so your implication is both childish and just plain wrong. Fairly typical for you. Your obsession with me is becoming somewhat worrying however. You seem to be unable to refrain from referring to me even in threads in which I have taken no part. -
Head of British Army calls for Iraq withdrawal
chicot replied to chicot's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Not an entirely unexpected response. Yes, polls can be inaccurate or downright wrong. However, when you have a whole series of polls taken over a long period of time that show large majorities (typically 70-80%) in favour of the withdrawal of foreign forces, it simply is not credible that all of them are out to such a degree that there is not a majority in favour of withdrawal. -
Head of British Army calls for Iraq withdrawal
chicot replied to chicot's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
So is Sir Richard Dannatt also full of sh-- since those are his comments I quoted?