JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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How do you ‘force’ someone to have sex? Threat of death or violence will make people do terrible things. Rape in all of its forms is among the most wretched crimes imaginable. Should he be found guilty, jail time is nowhere near what I would consider justice. He could be the Russian chief of ice-cream for all I care, a rapist is a rapist.
Posted in: IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail
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Pakistan has cooperated with us on drone and missile strikes in the past. They're just angry because the killing of OBL highlighted the how little control they have over their own territory, this is more of a publicity stunt to make their own people thing they still have some level of authority. The fact of the matter is that Pakistan is proped up on foreign aid, primarily from the U.S, and is under constant assault by the insurgents in the tribal regions. Without the U.S their positions becomes even weaker, this is just posturing, nothing more.
Posted in: Pakistan warns U.S. of supply line cut if missile attacks don't stop
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If Ron Paul got the nomination I might actually vote for one of the two major parties, that would be the first time in years. As far as I'm concerned both parties have positioned themselves on the path to strip individuals of their rights, they just go about it in slightly different ways.
Posted in: Tea party favorite Ron Paul running for president
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Yeah, real men maintain journals.
If he'd done his homework maybe he would have realized that American's, throughout the entier history of the nation, only have three emotions as a mass entity; happy, apethetic, and angry. If he actually wanted the U.S out of the middle east he would have given himself up and told all his buddies to go do something productive with their lives.
Posted in: Bin Laden's diary shows he was looking for new targets, big body count: U.S.
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Nobody follows international law because nobody enforces it. If France or the U.K did I doubt you'd see anybody ready to send troops or invade. It really is just a set of guidelines and I don't particularly like several of the laws anyway especially when a particularly nasty war could be ended with a few well placed shots and a million dollar bounty.
However, I don't believe that international law was violated in any case. This happens often enough in drug busts involving SWAT teams. They go in to apprehend, one of them resists and he gets shot. With a person like OBL even if he weren't reaching for a weapon he could have been wearing a bomb vest, setting off an IED, or any number of less obvious but no less deadly. The soldiers were doing their job and looking out for their own saftey, do the people on this site expect soldier to tackle terrorists that may very well be loaded down with bombs?
Posted in: Bin Laden's sons say U.S. broke international law by killing their father
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I guess terrorist info gathering isn't all that good. On a slow day you might just end up with a busted up empty train car and a pissed off Amtrak operator. Or do they actually think that people in the U.S make frequent use of trains?
Posted in: Info from bin Laden raid shows interest in U.S. train attack
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Codenames are likely chosen at random. Ask the computer for an apology.
Posted in: Geronimo's tribe seeks apology for bin Laden code name
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Woah now, I was under the impression wee dealing with the U.S Afghanistan dynamic. If we want to look at the entire history of every country the U.S is a small devil in the room when you compare it to the war, famine, and genocides committed by nearly every country in current existence that have been at it way longer.
You don’t just go comparing ‘this war’ to ‘that other conflict’. It’s like grouping WWII with Kosovo and Vietnam, it doesn’t make ay sense. You lose context and without that all nations start looking like mad, genocidal entities when I reality they are, by and large, very logical ones that take calculated risks that they feel will be to their countries greatest benefit at the time.
Moderator: Back on topic please. The subject is Osama bin Laden's death.
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This is the best way it could have ended instead of a monkey court. Justice has been twisted to mean fair when it was originally meant to mean equitable. Getting shot in the head for his actions wasn’t quite equitable but it’s a long and tedious process to impose the death of thousands on the frame of one person, there just wasn’t enough time.
Oh, I don’t doubt that they could have taken him alive. They just didn’t for a slew of perfectly good reasons.
Yeah but if anybody was listening they’d be able to figure it out in a heartbeat. You can’t call a cat a feline and expect it to be a descent code word.
I’m sure some very happy SEAL’s have recently benefited from a discreet transaction into their shiny new Swiss bank accounts
The vast majority of them can be laid directly at the feet of the very people the U.S is trying to eliminate. They walk in civilian clothing, dive civilian cars packed with explosives, lay mines on civilian roads, blow themselves up in civilian markets, fire mortars at schools that educate girls, and seem to get off by kicking the biggest hornets’ nest in world history by blowing up its people.
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I agree with other posters. No on nuclear phase out. Yes on finding new means of energy production.
To date thee have been 3 serious nuclear disasters. Three Mile Island barely counts at that. Only one true meltdown. That’s out of hundreds of nuclear power plants and even more nuclear reactors used on naval vessels.
If you applied that same rule to windmills or solar panels would be virtually nonexistent. Maybe it would be better that way. Might encourage more research, I’d love to see a functional fusion reactor in my lifetime.
Posted in: Should countries phase out nuclear power plants and look at other sources for their energy needs?
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As stated on other articles the deaths were the result of a NATO airstrike on a command center, you know, a place one doesn't normally stick a daycare.
Posted in: Libyans burn UK, Italy missions after NATO strike
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Neither of them did jack. All credit goes to where it belongs, the CIA and intelligence community that found him and the special forces unit that carried out the attack. I don't care who was sitting in what chair when it happened as long as it happened.
Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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After nearly ten damn years he's finally dead. Not from cancer, disease, kidney failure, or by some stupid gesture of martyrdom that would have bolstered his legions of filth, but by the long arm of the U.S. armed forces. Damn fine job guys.
Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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A little birdy told me that the U.S had their own little offensive cooked up. I'd never go so far as to say I'm happy about the death of another human being, but this time it got pretty damn close.
He could mount the body on the 2012 campaign wagon and you wouldn't hear a peep of dissent from me.
Posted in: Taliban use child bomber at start of offensive
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John Paul was a great peacemaker and a beloved figure within the church. If anybody deserved the fast track it would be him, he may very well replace Maximilian Kolbe as my favorite saint when the process is complete.
Posted in: Pope beatifies John Paul before 1.5 million faithful
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My mom and girlfriend made me stay up to watch the wedding, it was a pain waking up this morning but between seeing how much those two liked it and how excited my niece was I'd say it was worth it. I'll leave it to the talking heads to argue about the cost, right now I'm just happy for them.
Posted in: William, Kate marry as 2 billion tune in across globe
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Everything is related to the drug trade down there.
Posted in: 5 women found with throats slashed in Acapulco
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Why are U.S taxpayers sending their money to Hong Kong? Additionally even if a fraction of money paid for other treatments and drugs I doubt that medical advancement would have ground to a standstill or even slowed for that matter. People still want medicine and they're willing to pay for it. I don't know of a business in the world that would stop producing a product or researching new ones if there was money behind it. Plus the government has this bad tendency of funding really stupid projects as well as making it absurdly difficult to start researching good ones via the FDA's testing requirements before a drug is considered acceptable.
My group's funding for research was based on a clear outline of demanded results and we got them this time. For the longest time the only treatment plans in the states that I had to look forward to was one of a few types of radiation or one of two drug therapies that pretty much guaranteed diabetes. I don't get to pick what research my taxes go to and the results I was getting were unacceptable.
Were that true in this case I'd stand by my position of ending subsidization anyway.
Posted in: House passes huge GOP budget cuts, opposing Obama
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My patience ended a while ago.
Posted in: Raul Castro: Be patient for generational change
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For mine? None that I know of, the treatment was financed by a couple hundred of us with a particular variety of acromegaly.
Self-serving, absolutely. Everything I do I do for me from my work, to my retirement plan, to my charity work I love making myself happy and I'm the best qualified to keep myself that way. Anti-social, heck no. I love people, one of the main reasons I don't like entitlement programs is because I've seen what they do to people. I've also seen what subsidization and excessive grants have done to once successful businesses.
Posted in: House passes huge GOP budget cuts, opposing Obama