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January Elections in Iraq?
bettiwettiwoo writes "Last week Kofi Annan claimed, in a BBC interview, that: 'You cannot have credible elections [in Iraq] if the security conditions continue as they are now.' Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi disagreed ('pointedly disagreed', according to the International Herald Tribune):'We definitely are going to stick to the timetable of elections in January ... Democracy is going to prevail and is going to win in Iraq.' According to Tony Blair: 'The people who are trying to stop that Iraq coming about, who are engaged in killing, maiming and acts of terrorism, are people who are opposed... to every single one of the values that we in countries like this hold dear.' Iraq the Model points to an IRI poll which states: 'In a stunning display of support for democracy and a strong rebuttal to critics of efforts to bring democratic reform to Iraq, 87% of Iraqis indicated that they plan to vote in January elections. Expanding on the theme, 77% said that "regular, fair elections" were the most important political right for the Iraqi people and 58% felt that Iraqi-style democracy was likely to succeed.' It would appear that the poll was undertaken sometime in July/August this year, but if such a large majority of the Iraqi population continues to favour elections, would it really be fair to the Iraqis to postpone the January elections whatever the security situation and whomever might be against them?"
you're right, there are many other options then kerry or bush, but none of them have a chance in hell and we definitely need to displace bush no matter what. the only way I could and will support endorsing third party candidates is if you're in one of the 30 or so states that are solid red or blue.
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Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Well, my printer prints 300 dots per inch, I keep it in draft mode to save toner. A dot is the print equivilent of a pixel. Paper is 8.5 inches wide. Folowing me so far? good, ok, now when you mulitply 300 by 8 you get 2550 Dots, however you have to take margin into consideration. Puting a half inch margin on each side that means we're down to 2250 dots. Now explain to me again why fucktards can't let their audience's web browser do it's job and figgure out where lines should end?
That which is done from love exists beyond good and evil
it's not, poverty is
That's the most ignorant statement I've heard all day. That's like saying that darkness is a threat.
Poverty is nothing more or less than the relative condition caused by the absence of wealth. We draw an arbitrary line and say that people with less than X wealth are living in poverty while people with more than X wealth are not.
What you really mean here, what you're really talking about, is not poverty but rather inequity. You're one of those "let's make everyone equal" nutcases who thinks that communism is actually a pretty good idea that was never implemented correctly.
Attempts to understand the root causes of support for radicalism
Attempting to understand the root causes of terrorism does one thing and one thing only: it guarantees, with absolute certainty, that the next guy who has a beef is going to blow up a building to get attention.
Stop bombing people into the ground and it just might not happen to you.
"Just might not" isn't good enough. If we continue bombing everybody who supports terrorism back into the stone age, eventually folks will get the message that terrorism is a bad idea all around.
It is about putting peace before closing your eyes to world suffering.
La la, sunshine, lollypops and rainbows. What a fucking tool.
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