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I'll drink to that.
Posted in: Netanyahu: No war crimes trials for Israelis
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What do you use to clean up scum, a MOP, lovely.
It's still in use, its just very rare that we need anything larger than a conventional cluster bomb or guided missile to take out a big area. Plus the MOAB is for use against soft or medium targets, not for petetrating hardened structures like mountains.
"Talk softly but carry a big stick"
Artical didn't say the old bombs sucked but that we are making newer, bigger ones in case our current pea shooters don't carry enough umph.
Given the option of loosing no men and killing a whole bunch with technology or loosing a couple men and killing a whole bunch by throwing soldiers at the problem I'd side with the technology to. It's not as if we shrink from equipping the troops (while maintenance is an issue) the men and women of the U.S military are among the best equipped in the world and recieve some of the most intense training.
Those 'anyone's would be the ones wouldn't be the ones having the cowardly technology dropped on their heads would they? The same 'anyone's that are more than willing to fill every black bag available with whatever remains they can scrape off the landscape I take it?
Posted in: U.S. wants bunker-buster fast
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Prop 8 is up to the courts, President can only do so much when it comes to the judicial system.
Posted in: Gay rights advocates march on DC, divided on Obama
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I've don't normally follow the crowed crying hero worship but this is just getting to be to much, even for me. I mean honestly, most NPPs are given a decade or more after a monumentous achievement has taken place in the name of peace, give it to John Paul II post humorously or fricken Christiane Amanpour for her reporting in the last decade. Nothing the current president has done is overly remarkable or groundbreaking aside from his election (which was more an action of the electoral college than the president himself).
Posted in: Do you think U.S. President Barack Obama is a good choice for the Nobel Peace Prize?
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How is doing you're job being a 'trigger-happy republican-leaning' officer? A General doesn't play to lose and the troop request is part of their strategy, if the president wants to change the game plan and focus on counter-terrorism only than that would change things.
Difference is that the saudi government never killed anybody we particularly cared about.
So you're saying that the war is hopeless but we should build stuff to foster goodwill...
Personally I'd be all for going flat out counter-insurgency. Increase troop presense by a few thousand, increase aerial sweeps, and start lighting them up. A platoon for every cave and a Tomahawk for every mountain pass. Make them never want to deal with us again.
Posted in: Obama rules out cutting troop levels in Afghanistan
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No, just to their own. But it's OBL and his boy's were after, you guys just picked the wrong side and now you'll suffer the consequences.
Yes, loving parents that butcher innocents and blow up buses full of other mothers and fathers. Dear, misunderstood, terrorists that wouldn't need to do these things if we'd just make everybody give up music, alchohol, dancing, alchohol, colorful clothing, artistic expression, and did I mention alchohol? Oh, and if the western world would just cease to exist that would be the feather in their cap, just so long as its not to flamboyant a feather...or they'd have to flog you.
Posted in: Taliban say they're no threat to other countries
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He can't want it if he's dead, and his buddies can't fight us if they're decorating the inside of a crater. If we can do those two things we'll have won, never mind stability, that's just a fringe benefit.
Considering America and the American people are the largest international investors in the world and we are the largest buyer of consumer goods in the world you had better hope you're wrong. The remifications may not be all that you'd wished for.
Problem is that they weren't content to kill their own innocents, they went and killed a bunch of ours. Now every single one of them is marked.
Posted in: Obama rules out cutting troop levels in Afghanistan
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Could save a few bucks and I could pile them into my dads rowboat a few at a time and take em to one of the prisons around Miami...whoever lives longest gets a trial.
There's fiscal responcibility for you and here's the kicker, do you know where around 900 million of that money for unnecessary aircraft came from? Directly from money that was allocated to maintenance for operations in Afghanistan, we could send all the troops but it won't make a lick of difference if the vehicals won't run, replacement parts aren't available, or equipment becomes unreliable. And all so that the pundits (several repubs but a whole lot more dems) could continue to recieve contributions from Boeing.
Because, you know, it's not like we're already a few dozen C-17's over what the Pentegon has said was necessary for any possible military conflict.
It was a spirited arguement (with a nice big graph might I add) that fell on deaf ears on both sides of the aisle.
My my, somebody is a bit antagonistic today.
Posted in: Senate passes Pentagon budget, war funding
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Most people, including the church, doubt that Jesus was wrapped in the shroud in question but it remains a beautiful piece of art whether or not it has any actual historical significance.
But that make up for the fact that they would have no idea how they're results would look, jeez it took the atheist group years to figure it out with the advantage of centuries of accumulated knowledge and technology. To think that a couple of dark age miscreants had the brains and the time to figure it out without the Church killing the guys for heresy is unrealistic at best. There are better theories on how the shroud was created out there that disprove its age that seem far more likely.
Huh, I always credited the human condition for most of the atrocities of the world. While religion may have been a means in some instances it is very rarely the ends, that can be attributed to men of great power and great cruelty. There are an infinate number of excuses to commit a crime, most are interchangeable and seem to change with the times.
Posted in: Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin
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Kyoto was a joke that required some countries to cut their emmisions but would allow others like russia and china to actually increase their emmisions. Pfft...more U.N hogwash.
Posted in: Rich, poor nations divided over climate talks
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But why would hoaxters of centuries past go through all that trouble to create a negative and not just dye the thing? It's not like the average person back then was sophisticated enough to tell the difference between an imprint and a subtle application of pigment. To say that they would do it using the means the Italian group claims would require the knowledge that someone would one day have the means to analyze the molecular structure of the shroud, they are attempting to disprove what they view as illogical with an arguement equally illogical.
Heck, I'm Catholic and I'm a little shakey on the authenticity of the shroud but if anything was going to convince me that it was a complete and utter hoax this wouldn't be it.
Posted in: Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin
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Interesting question, those in power are always looking for ways to cement their authority. I suppose a fine judge of whether or not a nation has the authority to impose its will on another in terms of nuclear arms is whether or not the nuke craving country has the capacity to engauge in M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) with whatever country(ies) that don't want it to have a nuclear arsenal.
Iran could not go toe-to-toe with the United States, India, or the combined nuclear arms of the EU therefore it's ability to get them and not expect significant backlash is diminished. Nobody initially wanted China to have nuclear weapons but it had the material capacity to make enough nuclear arms to pose a threat to those who opposed them, not to the extent of Russia or the U.S of course, but enough to allow them to produce and keep them.
In addition one has to factor in whether or not they will endorse a 'no-first-use' like China and India, if they will only use them only if attacked with nuclear weapons such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Israel, or if they are willing to use them against without precondition such as...well...russia. (These are the official positions, whether or not they would hold them up is a matter of speculation)
So I guess it's a matter of how much you are willing to risk to get your hands a couple of those lovely recepticals of atomic destruction. If you play you're cards right you may get a couple, if not, well...at least you won't be around long enough to regret your decision.
Posted in: Should some countries have the right to tell other countries whether they can or cannot have nuclear weapons?
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Where the heck are you looking? Kroger? Me and my bro split the difference for a pallet of 9mm rounds last year, it'll take months to expend all of that.
Or, you know, they could just like guns. I just happen to enjoy the smell of gunpowder and WD-40, plus I periodically shoot skeet with my dad, brother, and his kids so we get the whole family bonding thing...with guns.
Posted in: Ban handguns? U.S. Supreme Court taking a new look
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They're just going straight to Afghanistan, out of the frying pan and into the fire as they say.
Posted in: U.S. to bring 4,000 more troops home from Iraq
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My family would love to go back to cuba to see how it's changed since they left, but not until there are serious reforms over there. It wont matter that the embargo is lifted if the actual cuban people aren't allowed to benefit from trade. Otherwise you just get more of the same old thing going on, happy well fed and clean people in the hotel towns eager to serve the every whim of the tourists with shanty towns and repressed citizens just out of sight having to make due with antiquated machinery. That's the true face of the cuban people and we shouldn't even consider lifting the embargo until that ends.
Posted in: U.S., Cuba hold unannounced talks
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Thats a falsity and you know it. Socialism is not merely the taxation of the upper class. It's government control of the factors of production and their distribution among industries. Most Americans are unequivocally against that.
People wanting to tax the rich is not so much a desire for economic/social equality as it is an angry populace wanting to 'stick it' to the people they feel responcible for their current sad situation. That in itself is not socialistic in nature, which is supposed to be a genuine desire for people to be equal in terms of property, capital, and other economic means.
I would rather allow people be left to their own devices with absolutly no help whatsoever. In Detroit there are a whole lot of people that would rather collect welfare than activly look for a job because nobody is willing to pay them what they were making before being laid off. That's just lazyness and I find it despicable.
Heck, when I got fired from my firm I made a call to the man I worked for in college and played the reposession game for a few months until I got a job similar to the one I lost, albeit not as well paying as my origional one.
Huh...considering how much more coverage extramarital affairs get over the taking of bribes in the media I'm actually kind of surprised at that one.
Posted in: Wal-Mart best symbolizes America; Clooney favored over Obama: poll finds
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Good on Germany.
Posted in: Merkel wins 2nd term in Germany
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Merkel has been a strong, stable leader with a solid power base and I highly doubt that any threats are going to change that.
Posted in: Germans vote amid economic issues, Islamic threats
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Moore's just an angry, overweight, insignificant man who makes money by telling you that there is no way that an angry, overweight, insignificant person like you could possibly get ahead in life.
Posted in: Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism'
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Oh my, who could have possibly predicted this...
Posted in: Obama warns Iran to 'come clean' on nukes