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ACTA To Be Signed This Weekend
We've been following the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement for over three years, from its secretive beginnings, to the controversy and debate that followed, and to the document it eventually evolved into. Now, Japan has announced that the agreement will finally be signed on Saturday during a ceremony that follows an anti-piracy symposium on Friday.
"The negotiation has been carried out among Australia, Canada, the European Union and its Member States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States, and reached a general agreement at the negotiation meeting held in Japan in October 2010, followed by the completion of technical and translation work in April 2011. ... The signing ceremony will be attended by the representatives of all the participants in the ACTA negotiations, and those that have completed relevant domestic processes will sign the agreement. The agreement is open for signature until May 1, 2013."
no, i was implying that i enjoy my chocolate and bacon flavored coffee sausages in the morning, take a 70 minute hot water shower despite only being inside of the shower for 5 minutes, shoot several personally owned rifles and pistols before work, drive my giant 5 mpg V10 sports car to said work, put in 8 hours manipulating second rate countries(e.g. your hellhole) into doing our bidding and elongating my lifestyle, come home and bang my fake titted wife, then browse a selection of over 1000 channels on my 60 inch flat screen while getting drunk on arguably the best bourbon whiskey in the world. you jealous?
don't worry, The United States will take care of and protect you.
until they decide you have something they want at which point they will fabricate a story about you having WMDs and invade your country.
Iraq debacle? You mean the successful invasion of Iraq for the purpose of deposing the convicted mass murderer and general crackpot Saddam Hussein
Oh, was that the lie they eventually settled on? I lost track after the fifth time they changed the pretext for Bush and Cheney's Excellent Adventure.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
That's the one, the one where various parts of the US government and military scrambled for as many cooked-up reasons as they could grasp in order to justify a military campaign against a country that was no threat, with a rag-tag band of allies who were drawn into it largely under the protest of their people and pretty much present just to make it look like the US wasn't taking unilateral aggressive action.
The Iraqi people are probably better off now. Probably, after tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths. The number of allied deaths is irrelevant if we were doing this out of the goodness of our hearts, the fact you quote that statistic is very telling of your attitude.