How many people would have died in Iraq had we not liberated her, starved or tortured to death by the terrorist Saddam?
Ok, first of all, he was a DICTATOR, not a terrorist, you fucktard.
Secondly, how many people? LESS THAN 137 THOUSAND. AND the museums and archeological sites wouldn't have been looted. Not to mention the environmental impact of all those pipeline fires.
Is their freedom worth nothing?
You're confusing "lawlessness" with "freedom". They went from one dictator who doesn't give a crap about their lives or wellfair to another.
from JULY 2003 about them finding more parts for a centrifuge buried in a physicists garden...?
From JANUARY 2005:
Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer (search) is to deliver his final report on the search next month. "It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report," McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that
Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either.
Inspectors were shown over a 9 year period to be ineffective. And since we know Saddam had a bioweapons program ready to ramp up at a moment's notice and was more than eager to get back into the business, only a fool would think
WASHINGTON -- The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said there no longer is an active search for weapons and the administration does not hold out hopes that any weapons will be found.
Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer is to deliver his final report on the search next month. "It's not going to fundamentally alter the findings of his earlier report," McClellan said, referring to preliminary findings from last September. Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either.
Now, would you rather get the mad man out of there before he was making them or only after they were stockpiled?
The Iraqi regime's violations of Security Council resolutions are evident and they continue to this hour. The regime has never accounted for
a vast arsenal of deadly biological and chemical weapons. To the contrary, the regime is pursuing an elaborate campaign to conceal its weapons materials and to hide or intimidate key experts and scientists, all in direct defiance of Security Council (Resolution) 1441.
This deception is directed from the highest levels of the Iraqi regime, including Saddam Hussein, his son, the vice president and the very official responsible for cooperating with inspectors. In intercepted conversations, we have heard orders to conceal materials from the U.N. inspectors.
And we have seen, through satellite images, concealment activity at close to 30 sites, including movement of equipment before inspectors arrive.
Has been proven to be nothing more than distorted "intelligence". It was based on the purchase of a number of aluminium tubes that, it turns out, were destined to become conventional rockets:
February 5, 2003. In his presentation to the UN, Powell alleged that Iraq had intended to use the aluminum tubes for a centrifuge program and not for artillery rockets as experts from both the U.S. Energy Department and IAEA had argued. To support the administration's case, he cited unusually precise specifications and high tolerances for heat and stress. He said, "It strikes me as quite odd that these tubes are manufactured to a tolerance that far exceeds U.S. requirements for comparable rockets. Maybe Iraqis just manufacture their conventional weapons to a higher standard than we do, but I don't think so." [Washington Post, 2/5/03g] Powell also contended that because the tubes were 'anodized' it was unlikely that they had been designed for conventional use. [Washington Post, 3/8/03] But this argument had been discredited earlier in an October 9, 2002 report by nuclear physicist David Albright. [Institute for Science and International Security, 10/9/03] Powell failed to mention that Iraq had rockets identical to the Italian Medusa 81 mm rockets, which were of the same dimensions and made of the same alloy as the 3,000 tubes that had been intercepted in July 2001. [Washington Post, 8/10/03] This had been reported just two weeks earlier in the Washington Post. [Washington Post, 1/24/03]
March 7, 2003. Chief Weapons Inspector ElBaredei told the UN Security Council: "Extensive field investigation and document analysis have failed to uncover any evidence that Iraq intended to use these 81mm tubes for any project other than the reverse engineering of rockets." [Los Angeles Times, 3/7/03; Washington Post, 3/8/03; Associated Press, 3/7/03; CNN, 3/7/03; New York Times, 3/8/03; Reuters, 3/7/03]
justified in thinking that Iraq was a real threat to the world.
The Iraqi regime's violations of Security Council resolutions are evident and they continue to this hour. The regime has never accounted for
a vast arsenal of deadly biological and chemical weapons. To the contrary, the regime is pursuing an elaborate campaign to conceal its weapons materials and to hide or intimidate key experts and scientists, all in direct defiance of Security Council (Resolution) 1441.
This deception is directed from the highest levels of the Iraqi regime, including Saddam Hussein, his son, the vice president and the very official responsible for cooperating with inspectors. In intercepted conversations, we have heard orders to conceal materials from the U.N. inspectors.
And we have seen, through satellite images, concealment activity at close to 30 sites, including movement of equipment before inspectors arrive.
Like when theit boss made a statement that no self-respecting 26y/o would been seen in public playing GBA.
How could they not suceed after calling their entire target demographic loosers and dorks? Oh wait, this isn't bizarro world. Good. I hope they lost a bundle.
I guess I shouldn't have been subtle when I made a comment about the sociological dangers of cell-phone use.
Here, I'll spell it out then:
If you use your cell phone in public places as if you were in a private, secluded area, you will irrate those around you. Some of these people might be prone to expressing their anger in a physical manner. Therefore, on top of the direct dangers that the apparatus' radiation pose on your central nervous system, an additional, indirect danger of neurological dammage also exists in the form of blows to the head that might result from a cell phone user's inapropriate social behaviour.
For example: By disregarding the rules of theatre etiquette and engaging in loud, distruptive behaviour at the cinema.
we are a demographic which can be a good thing as companies start thinking of us a targe audience. This might mean more games.
Like hell. What it'll probably mean is more gamer-oriented ads for chips and soft drinks.
Mario gets home after a long day of eating mushrooms and popy-flowers and goes to the fridge for band-y sugar-loaded carbonated water, stuff like that.
Being a demographic just means that they are figuring out ways to get at your wallet, not to provide you with quality products. Just effective advertisement.
They didn't massacre it for it's violence, they just said it wasn't very good for christians.
I like the quote at the end, " it makes no allowances for the Christian gamer. " Like they expected Rock Star games to have you witness at the end and find Jesus. Lol.
How dare they not pander to their special-interest group! ; )
We get a story like this ("Many Gamers Not Psychopaths!" or "Games Good For A Small Part Of Your Brain!") twice a week, always with this triumphant spin as though something significant has been rebutted.
It's to accompany the "senile politician/lawyer attempts to ban videogames" stories we also get twice a week.
An ice shelf is floating miles away from the coastline. The part of the glacier that _might_ be broken off in the event of collision is completely waterbound, miles away from the coastline... ie the barrier between the ice shelf and over-land ice is not threatened.
If you read the FREAKIN' article, you'd know that the part of the glacier in question is an ice shelf that extends off of land into water. Even if a huge chunk of the glacier breaks off, it's still sitting in water.
Here's a word you apparently never heard before: Avalanche.
The Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range
Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex.
Hey, Rimmer actually did that in an episode of Red Dwarf!
Started a whole civilisation of smeag-heads... didn't turn out right;-)
I'll bite: because the glacier is sitting on land? Remember: the North Pole is all ice and no land, but the South Pole is a pretty big landmass with the ice on top of it.
It's funny how many of those frothing-at-the-mouth, "global warming isn't real science" people don't even know that. Not "ha ha" funny... more like, I need another drink funny.
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Saddam gassed CIVILIANS, that's terrorism PERIOD END OF STORY.
Ok, first of all, one question mark per sentence will be quite enough.
Secondly: Gassing civilians makes you a terrorist?
Finally: STFU and don't troll me again.
How many people would have died in Iraq had we not liberated her, starved or tortured to death by the terrorist Saddam?
Ok, first of all, he was a DICTATOR, not a terrorist, you fucktard.
Secondly, how many people? LESS THAN 137 THOUSAND. AND the museums and archeological sites wouldn't have been looted. Not to mention the environmental impact of all those pipeline fires.
Is their freedom worth nothing?
You're confusing "lawlessness" with "freedom". They went from one dictator who doesn't give a crap about their lives or wellfair to another.
From JANUARY 2005:
if someone could put an elegant GUI on a robust unix kernel don't you think Microsoft or IBM would have done it already?
Could you tell me the name of your prescription? I'm gonna ask my doctor for one : )
And since we know Saddam had a bioweapons program ready to ramp up at a moment's notice and was more than eager to get back into the business, only a fool would think
deaths
Listed.
Visual aide.
I found the whole election to be ironic.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Has been proven to be nothing more than distorted "intelligence".
It was based on the purchase of a number of aluminium tubes that, it turns out, were destined to become conventional rockets:
look at all the good that has come out of the liberation of Iraq
At least 131,830 lives lost to date
Visual aide.
Off-topic whatever. This must be said. Roland Piquepaille
How come I keep getting replies talking about Roland Piquepaille? I just made a comment about Gattaca and pianists!
: (
you got the first reply
I also got a mystery "-1" mod : )
I guess, er... the editors didn't like Gattaca?
Like when theit boss made a statement that no self-respecting 26y/o would been seen in public playing GBA.
How could they not suceed after calling their entire target demographic loosers and dorks?
Oh wait, this isn't bizarro world. Good. I hope they lost a bundle.
Wow! 5 comments modded +5 making the same obvious joke about how the N-Gage never was relevant, 2 making it indirectly.
:D
Not a "redundent" in sight!
I'm so glad we all agree
Is what it sounds like.
Where's my six-fingered pianist?
I guess I shouldn't have been subtle when I made a comment about the sociological dangers of cell-phone use.
Here, I'll spell it out then:
If you use your cell phone in public places as if you were in a private, secluded area, you will irrate those around you. Some of these people might be prone to expressing their anger in a physical manner.
Therefore, on top of the direct dangers that the apparatus' radiation pose on your central nervous system, an additional, indirect danger of neurological dammage also exists in the form of blows to the head that might result from a cell phone user's inapropriate social behaviour.
For example: By disregarding the rules of theatre etiquette and engaging in loud, distruptive behaviour at the cinema.
If used during a movie, it also increases the chances of me kicking you ass!
You've been warned.
we are a demographic which can be a good thing as companies start thinking of us a targe audience.
This might mean more games.
Like hell.
What it'll probably mean is more gamer-oriented ads for chips and soft drinks.
Mario gets home after a long day of eating mushrooms and popy-flowers and goes to the fridge for band-y sugar-loaded carbonated water, stuff like that.
Being a demographic just means that they are figuring out ways to get at your wallet, not to provide you with quality products. Just effective advertisement.
They didn't massacre it for it's violence, they just said it wasn't very good for christians.
I like the quote at the end, " it makes no allowances for the Christian gamer. " Like they expected Rock Star games to have you witness at the end and find Jesus. Lol.
How dare they not pander to their special-interest group! ; )
We get a story like this ("Many Gamers Not Psychopaths!" or "Games Good For A Small Part Of Your Brain!") twice a week, always with this triumphant spin as though something significant has been rebutted.
It's to accompany the "senile politician/lawyer attempts to ban videogames" stories we also get twice a week.
An ice shelf is floating miles away from the coastline. The part of the glacier that _might_ be broken off in the event of collision is completely waterbound, miles away from the coastline... ie the barrier between the ice shelf and over-land ice is not threatened.
Look, he said it well. Go troll him now.
If you read the FREAKIN' article, you'd know that the part of the glacier in question is an ice shelf that extends off of land into water. Even if a huge chunk of the glacier breaks off, it's still sitting in water.
Here's a word you apparently never heard before: Avalanche.
The Clone Song
;-)
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Hey, Rimmer actually did that in an episode of Red Dwarf!
Started a whole civilisation of smeag-heads... didn't turn out right
I'll bite: because the glacier is sitting on land?
Remember: the North Pole is all ice and no land, but the South Pole is a pretty big landmass with the ice on top of it.
It's funny how many of those frothing-at-the-mouth, "global warming isn't real science" people don't even know that.
Not "ha ha" funny... more like, I need another drink funny.