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Amazon Sells IPAQs for $10
TomHoward writes "In a pretty huge blunder, amazon.co.uk have put the HP IPAQ H1910 (RRP about £300) for sale for just over £7.32 (plus postage and packing). It's very hard to get through to their site right now, but if you're quick you can have a look at their blunder here." Don't bother clicking through, Amazon has taken the items down.
shoutz to da gcs crew, --sq
fp - and i got one of these on order :-)
CSLib Menace strikes again - what a bargain.
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How on earth have we arrived at this crucial juncture in our country's history? How has a war on terrorism been converted into an attack on Iraq? What threat does Iraq pose to us? We must lay the blame squarely on our congress, who according to our Constitution, only has the power to declare war. For congress to cede it's war-making power to the executive branch is unconstitutional on the very face of it and effectively destroys our three branches of government. Circumventing our Constitution is very bad, and the undeclared wars, which have resulted in our recent history, have had disastrous results. Undeclared wars have no declared objectives, and therefore can widen at will, and our foray into the Middle East will likely set in motion a long-term wave of retaliation. Indeed, I believe that the administration would like to entice Iraq into firing the first blow so some justification could be paraded at the United Nations. If the United States government can adopt this unreal doctrine of preemptive attack on any nation, anywhere, at any time, so can other nations! This is how world wars begin. If the President goes into Iraq alone without a UN resolution, he will be in violation of the war powers given him last October by congress which was contingent on UN approval. A constitutional crisis will occur.--
Sorry to burst your bubble, but unless you plan on nuking bagdad, even the kids will be shooting your soldiers.
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Way off topic... but Saddam is a ruthless dictator who needs to be ousted from power. The people are not free to elect their own leaders and they're imprisoned, tortured and/or killed for speaking out against the government (hmmm... I could be describing North Korea, Iran, the former Soviet Union, etc...). Regardless of the weapons of mass destruction, Saddam needs to be taken out of power - and the people want him gone -- the kids too.
Honestly I don't support the war, but I'm opposed to dictatorships and I don't see an alternate way to get rid of him that doesn't involve the military. The choices our president is making now may or may not result in him reelected next year. But at least our people can choose their leaders. [insert joke about how we didn't pick Bush]. The next election will certainly be interesting.
Bush clearly went down the wrong path if his goal was to invade Iraq. The way I see it, if Bush was going to go to war with or without the UN, he should never have involved them. All it did was make himself look worse than if he had just gone ahead and done it. If the US had immediately followed the campaign in Afghanistan with a campaign in Iraq, the world would have looked the other way. Instead, after 8 wasted months later, a half dozen completely tangential arguments (they're terrorists, they have WMD's, they torture people, they're lying, they're only cooperating to delay war, etc...), and world support dwindling down... now we attack. Woohoo... now we look like bullies. Thanks W.
All I'm saying is that he could have gone about it differently - but it doesn't change the fact that the kids are going to be thanking, not shooting, our soldiers.