Well it doesn't always work out quite so nicely. Where I live, there are a large number of well educated, well payed parents. The schools are also considered some of the best in the state.
There is a Catholic high school about a mile from my home. It's very well respected and likes to flaunt...
I think what the OP is implying is that Operation Iraqi Freedom WAS very popular at the time of the invasion and for the first few months afterward. It has since become very unpopular.
I think that if the public is the driver for the policy or it was started by a previous administration and...
The US in only holding back the end of the world if you believe that book your getting all this information from has accurate prophecies. Since the belief that that book is truly accurate only comes with faith, belief in it's prophecies is only going to come the same way.
To put it another...
I will buy that fighting the war on terror is justified, what I will not buy is that invading Iraq was justified by the war on terror. Afghanistan, absolutely, it has been shown that the Taliban and al-Qaeda were/are joined at the hip in a symbiotic relationship where neither would have gotten...
I'm not completely sure they need 60 votes it they remove the tax portion. I know they need super majorities for tax proposals, but I'm not sure if that would extend to a bill that only raises the minimum wage. That said, I suspect Bush will finally veto something if he gets a bill with only the...
I don't disagree. I think that were she chairperson, it's more of a conflict than if she were a member of the minority party. It's a conflict either way.
Then the question becomes, when were these contracts awarded. Because, as was noted above, Feinstein would not have been chairperson of MILCON after the mid-term elections in 2002, Hutchinson was. If they were awarded after January 2003, Feinstein would have at most been the ranking Democrat on...
Since you haven't read it, your critique of the book is of little value. By scholarly, I mean very detailed and highly cross-referenced. And it does actually make the CIA out to be like a bunch of bafoons for their use of the ISI as a proxy while the State Department tried to enforce some...
al-Qaeda does not owe its birth to the CIA. It owes its birth to the Muslim Brotherhood, if anyone. And the Muslim Brotherhood started mainly in Egypt, before the Soviets fought in Afghanistan.
You could definitely make an argument that using the Pakistani ISI as the conduit for the vast...
The US didn't train Osama, OK? It didn't happen. They trained and provided arms for some of the anti-soviet groups in Afghanistan. Osama had relations with some of those same groups, but he provided his own funding. He took great pride in being able to bring has band of mercenaries to bear in...
No, but they have beat and 'hung' people to death w/o anyone being really punished for their actions. Even trying to cover up the crime by making it look like the guy was on an IV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manadel_al-Jamadi
And they have beat known members of the Iraqi military, who...
I also read the report about being shot in the back of the head, but they also stated that they couldn't prove whether they were dead or not before being shot.
And just remember, according to our own government statements and repeated on this board over and over again, these men have no...
And it's not just the bureaucracy, it's the stupidity of the bureaucracy. The rules for getting a trailer have been applied with many different standards.
When I was on my first church-affiliated trip to the area we gutted the house for a woman in Gulfport, MS. Her house was north of the...
Sorry, but my point wasn't that there was no rape or murder committed. I think the article gave quite a bit of evidence that those crimes did actually occur. My point was that these losers weren't charged with either of those crimes, and I am wondering why not.
Can you show me where those military tribunals allowed hearsay or coerced evidence? Or where they allowed the prosecution to limit the evidence the defense could present by having the prosecution preapprove it? I didn't say that military tribunals are by definition bad, I am taking issues with...
I'd really like to understand how the Pentagon can claim they are ensuring these people "are prosecuted before regularly constituted courts affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized by civilized people" if they will allowed coerced or hearsay evidence. Those two allowances go...
And lets not forget what the Serbs (largely Eastern Orthodox Christians) and Croats (largely Roman Catholic Christians) did to the Muslims in the Balkins. And that was only about 10 years ago.
Maybe someone should put up pictures of Jean Charles de Menezes right next to those posters, preferably laying dead on the floor of the subway. That will remind people what a bang up job those watchers are doing of protecting society.
Hey, they could have been like TastesLikeChicken. He repeated all the pro-Bush talking points in almost every post he made but claimed to be a lifelong Democrat. He was just trying to counter the rabid liberal wing of the Democratic party, you know.
Changing their minds is fine, part of growing as a human is learning new things and changing you perspective of the world based on that new knowledge. The disgusting part is that many of them are denying they held and strongly stated their previous opinion.
Palehorse is no different than the supposed Marine who wrote the letter critical of US policy in Iraq being discussed in another thread here. In fact, Palehorse himself took the time to post in that thread claiming the guy could not be real. Well we have no more proof of his existence as a...
These parts of the article pretty much sum up my reasons for feeling that the coalition casualties are not worth it. Those and the lack of real evidence Saddam had the WMDs we accused of of having in the first place.
Except that while Rudolph was more than willing to kill innocent people by bombing public places, he didn't have the sense to kill himself in the process.
The Governor DID call out the guard. She declared a state of emergency and had an agreement with Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico BEFORE the hurricane made landfall to get guard troops in to help because Katrina was at level 5 and bearing down on her state. But the federal government didn't...
This is also true of the schools in Washington, DC. They have funding levels very close to or higher than those of the surrounding suburbs but they still have a huge gap in achievement. It's not about the money, it's about the way the schools are run.
Look at the comparison graph on this web...
Seekermeister,
But the bible then says that god created all of the air and sea-borne creatures on the 5th day and all of the land-borne creatures, including man, on the 6th day. So there shouldn't be any bones from any animals, whether humanoid or not, more than a day older than when Adam...
Yep, the only county close in size to Fairfax or Arlington is the one that includes Virginia Beach. And both of those counties are pretty strongly democratic.
I've got no problem with him being in jail, but that quote says allegedly. So there is either proof he did these things or there isn't. If there is proof he needs to be convicted in a court of law with open evidence standards and punished. Otherwise, he should be released. And if the only...
Were those children born here? If so, they are legally US citizens and shouldn't be deported. If they were not born here, they should only be allowed to stay if the relatives they are staying with can afford to keep them w/o gov't assistance.
Yep, when the Iraqi's even turned on their targetting radars during the time of the northern and southern no-fly-zones, the US and UK planes would blast the hell out of the arrays. And this was all condoned by the world as acceptable.
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