I saw Shaolin Soccer (a dub of the hong-kong flick), its freakin' funny.
Its a parody of martial arts movies, there is no way an american corporation can do it justice, they can only butcher it.
However I do support cutting out the part where they sing in a restaurant...that was lame, and might have made sense to chineese viewers, but was mostly weird for me.
No, I'm asserting that the oil wells in Kuweit drill into oil reserve that are under the territory of Iraq and that when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, it was taking controll of all the oil of Iraq. Therefore, when the coalition forces liberated Kuwait from Saddam, they did it for the oil.
Now, if you don't think that Kuwait does drill into oil reserve that Iraq might resonably think of as "their's" on account of they are mostly under their sand, then read up on the subject boy, because they do.
Well, they just found Saddam AND the hand-written memo that links him to Al-Qaeda, the sept 11th attack, and nigerian uranium? All in one day?
Wow.
I'll refrain from being excited until the document is proven not to be a fake.
Personally, I find memos from mysterious sources that read "Dear Saddam, here is all the info your enemies want, love someone-in-the-know." highly suspicious.
But, even if it does turn out to be true, you cannot use something you didn't know at the time as justification for your actions.
Might as well execute people at random and say "I was right" when it turns out you killed a pedophile or something.
Go to google and check the "sharpshooter fallacy", its fascinating stuff.
a willingness to throw away old conventions to make way for progress?
They have daily things called "earthquakes". They break stuff sometimes. If you're gonna be rebuilding stuff anyways, might as well upgrade while you're at it.
Yes, geological activity has an impact on the local culture and society...who'd have thought? : )
Yeah, actual quotes of Bush telling the UN that he wants to use force to remove Iraq's WMDs is "weak proof" that Bush said that he wanted to attack Iraq because it had WMD.
They knew WMD were there to begin with for a fact.
They know because they kept the reciept.
The gassing of the curds wasn't done with farts.
That was 20 years ago, and there was never proof that it was Saddam who did it. As far as we know, it might have been Siria. Hussein is the likliest suspect, but it wasn't proved.
Do you know how big a gas canister is?
Sorry Bub, they weren't talking about a canister, they were talking about an arsenal deployable in less than 45 minutes. An immediate threat to the entire world.
No, it wasn't about WMD, nor can you back up your claims that it ever was supposed to be all about WMD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush turns his attention on Friday to the United Nations after the Senate joined the House in strong votes authorizing a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.
The Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate by wide margins approved the resolution that Bush wanted to reinforce his demand that the U.N. Security Council threaten the use of force, if necessary, to enforce its requirements that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein abandon programs for biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
"The Congress has spoken clearly to the international community and the United Nations Security Council," Bush said in a statement issued after the early-hours vote.
"Saddam Hussein and his outlaw regime pose a grave threat to the region, the world, and the United States. Inaction is not an option, disarmament is a must," Bush said.
Or why didn't we take Iraq's oil during the first Gulf War? Hmmm?
We did.
That was the whole point of the Gulf War! Iraq had invaded Kuwait (a tiny mini state composed of a corner of iraq's coast) because Kuwait was slant-drilling into the iraqi oil reserves and selling that oil wich Saddam said was his.
The coalition forces went in and got that oil back.
If you liberals had your way, Saddam would still be killing these people, instead, we stayed strong and now he's been captured.
Yeah, now its the U.S. and the terrorist who are killing them. Much better.
20 Iraqi policement were killed by a bomb a few hours before they caught Saddam, I'm sure the families of those victims are saying "At least they weren't killed by Saddam, that would have been bad."
Hussein was a bad man who did bad things. I'm glad that they caught him and I hope he'll be put on trial (a real trial, not a Bush-reelection show trial), but the people of Iraq are not safe yet. Sure, they're happy he was caught, I would be too if he was my former dictator, but they are still getting killed. Their streets are still not safe.
Catching Saddam Hussein did not make everything allright. It will not stop the semi-dayly bombings (hope I'm wrong on that last one, but I fear I'm not).
all the "insightful" posts modded 4+. they are ALL ANTI-BUSH, and anti-war. Why do you think that is.
That is because you are a lying troll. The VERY FIRST comment modded 4+ is all "Yay team! Get Bin Ladden next". Sheesh.
1) the proof is in the putting - al qaeda was cranking out incriminating audio propaganda non-stop. in fact, in one tape, bin laden claimed that attacks on the world trade center were actually self-defense, and therefore supported by islamic law.
He approves of them, there is no doupt about that. But approving of something and doing something is not the same.
I approve curing cancer and introducing the duck-billed platypuss into the north-american eco-system, but I'm not doing anything about either of these things.
So, it might be a clue, but its not proof...
Hey, maybe he did, I totally believed it the first time they said he attacked the towers (remember the car bombings in the underground parking lot in the 90's?), so it might be true...I'd just like proof, not just repeated claims.
Quit with the silly comments about Saddam not being linked to Al-Queda, or Bin Laden not being caught or WMDs and what have you. It is stupid. Don't pretend like you are The Great Enlightened One and the only person that can see the truth and the rest are mindless sheep.
I will keep replying to the mindless sheep who are happy that the Great Bush has "accomplished his goal" and "protected America" and "won a victory in the war against terror" by having his troops capture Saddam.
Because none of it is true, and they DON'T allready know, and they need to be reminded. And if you think that the truth is stupid and childish, then I pity you.
Based on today's events, I feel that Bush is the guy that will protect America (and her allies). If you go after America, we'll get you.
OMG!
When, exactly WHEN did Saddam "go after America"? When, and how?
Saddam was all cozy in his little kindom, not having any weapons of mass destruction or anything, and Bush decided to go after Iraq, not the other way around. He did it for many reasons: Oil, a distraction from internal scrutiny, a well known villain, but NOT because Saddam attacked America, because he never did.
I agree, Sadaam was evil. He should have been removed. But power has its limitations. You can't acheive everything at once. With patience and strategy, we could have removed him, at lower cost, not just in money but to our long term interests and to the interests of humanity at large. Granted, Iraqis would have unfairly borne the cost of Sadaam's regime for some months longer. It wouldn't have been fair to them.
Lets see...
They had the shit bombed out of them, they had their electricity cut out for months. Water cut out for months. Sewer system cut out for months (hold your breath, and enjoy your fun case of cholera!). Their hospitals ransacked while U.S. troops watched and joked. Their museums pillaged while U.S. troops smoked their cigarettes next to the doors. Their police disbanded, letting all manners of criminals run loose for months.
Saddam was bad, but no hospitals, no police, no electricity, bombs, and no hospitals is worse.
Sure, the whole thing will eventually be rebuilt, but in the meantime they have a major case of terrorism goin on, killing them on a semi-daily basis.
Things are not much better now...they might be worse. There's a promise that it will get better, but now its worse.
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I saw Shaolin Soccer (a dub of the hong-kong flick), its freakin' funny.
Its a parody of martial arts movies, there is no way an american corporation can do it justice, they can only butcher it.
However I do support cutting out the part where they sing in a restaurant...that was lame, and might have made sense to chineese viewers, but was mostly weird for me.
Thanks for the Informative(tm) comment.
So Kuwait diplomats were idiots then... note to self: Do not taunt heavily armed dictators.
No, I'm asserting that the oil wells in Kuweit drill into oil reserve that are under the territory of Iraq and that when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, it was taking controll of all the oil of Iraq. Therefore, when the coalition forces liberated Kuwait from Saddam, they did it for the oil.
Now, if you don't think that Kuwait does drill into oil reserve that Iraq might resonably think of as "their's" on account of they are mostly under their sand, then read up on the subject boy, because they do.
my only question is why anyone would still be using netscape when mozilla seems to be far superior. or is there something i dont know?
Never underestimate the power of brand-name recognition.
And what does a browser have to do with purchasing internet access?
Well, I heard that I need to buy Netscape if I want to install the internet on my IBM-compatible Personal Computer...
Using Netscape as the brand for an entry-level ISP makes no sense whatever, whereas extending the AOL name makes perfect sense.
America On Line?
I don't want to go onl-line, I want the internet!
Somewhere out there, somebody is thinking like that...
Well, they just found Saddam AND the hand-written memo that links him to Al-Qaeda, the sept 11th attack, and nigerian uranium? All in one day?
Wow.
I'll refrain from being excited until the document is proven not to be a fake.
Personally, I find memos from mysterious sources that read "Dear Saddam, here is all the info your enemies want, love someone-in-the-know." highly suspicious.
But, even if it does turn out to be true, you cannot use something you didn't know at the time as justification for your actions.
Might as well execute people at random and say "I was right" when it turns out you killed a pedophile or something.
Go to google and check the "sharpshooter fallacy", its fascinating stuff.
And believe me, it's entirely fair to generalize about an entire population based on its wrestlers.
;- )
Just look at the US and the WWF.
Its WWE now, the World Wildlife Fund had to protect its trademark...anyways:
Yes, that's why Mexicans blend-in so well in Canada: They're allready wearing ski masks
a willingness to throw away old conventions to make way for progress?
They have daily things called "earthquakes". They break stuff sometimes.
If you're gonna be rebuilding stuff anyways, might as well upgrade while you're at it.
Yes, geological activity has an impact on the local culture and society...who'd have thought? : )
What do the Japanese have that the US does not, to allow them to create a MagLev?
;-)
Tiny Japanese people...easier to lift with magnets
Ah yes, from the lesser known Jyhad card game.
Actually, that's the Vampire card game now, they were pressured to change the name...
Isn't it funny when OTHERS make the typos?
Yes, yes it is.
Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi, like most of the 7-11 attack terrorists.
Ah yes, from the lesser known Jyhad against convenience stores...
Those big-gulp hating bastards!
Saddam has publically funded terrorism against Israel for a very long time. This is well known.
At one point if you would suicide bomb Israel then Saddam would write a fat check that would support your family for life.
Hmmm, forgot about that one.
Personally I think that at this point Israel is just as bad as everybody else, but in all honesty the poster wasn't as incorrect as you interpreted.
My bad, thanks for the friendly reminder.
lol!
Yeah, actual quotes of Bush telling the UN that he wants to use force to remove Iraq's WMDs is "weak proof" that Bush said that he wanted to attack Iraq because it had WMD.
At least you're a funny troll : )
We don't kill innocents.
Count 'em!
They knew WMD were there to begin with for a fact.
They know because they kept the reciept.
The gassing of the curds wasn't done with farts.
That was 20 years ago, and there was never proof that it was Saddam who did it. As far as we know, it might have been Siria. Hussein is the likliest suspect, but it wasn't proved.
Do you know how big a gas canister is?
Sorry Bub, they weren't talking about a canister, they were talking about an arsenal deployable in less than 45 minutes.
An immediate threat to the entire world.
Lets stick to the original story.
No, it wasn't about WMD, nor can you back up your claims that it ever was supposed to be all about WMD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush turns his attention on Friday to the United Nations after the Senate joined the House in strong votes authorizing a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.
The Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate by wide margins approved the resolution that Bush wanted to reinforce his demand that the U.N. Security Council threaten the use of force, if necessary, to enforce its requirements that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein abandon programs for biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
"The Congress has spoken clearly to the international community and the United Nations Security Council," Bush said in a statement issued after the early-hours vote.
"Saddam Hussein and his outlaw regime pose a grave threat to the region, the world, and the United States. Inaction is not an option, disarmament is a must," Bush said.
Or why didn't we take Iraq's oil during the first Gulf War? Hmmm?
We did.
That was the whole point of the Gulf War! Iraq had invaded Kuwait (a tiny mini state composed of a corner of iraq's coast) because Kuwait was slant-drilling into the iraqi oil reserves and selling that oil wich Saddam said was his.
The coalition forces went in and got that oil back.
If you liberals had your way, Saddam would still be killing these people, instead, we stayed strong and now he's been captured.
Yeah, now its the U.S. and the terrorist who are killing them. Much better.
20 Iraqi policement were killed by a bomb a few hours before they caught Saddam, I'm sure the families of those victims are saying "At least they weren't killed by Saddam, that would have been bad."
Hussein was a bad man who did bad things. I'm glad that they caught him and I hope he'll be put on trial (a real trial, not a Bush-reelection show trial), but the people of Iraq are not safe yet. Sure, they're happy he was caught, I would be too if he was my former dictator, but they are still getting killed. Their streets are still not safe.
Catching Saddam Hussein did not make everything allright. It will not stop the semi-dayly bombings (hope I'm wrong on that last one, but I fear I'm not).
all the "insightful" posts modded 4+. they are ALL ANTI-BUSH, and anti-war. Why do you think that is.
That is because you are a lying troll. The VERY FIRST comment modded 4+ is all "Yay team! Get Bin Ladden next". Sheesh.
They also haven't found evidence of WMD yet. That doesn't mean they won't. And therefore you can't yet say that the war was illegal.
There is a difference, they knew Saddam was there to begin with, for a fact.
And another: An arsenal of weapons of mass destruction takes up much more than a "spider hole" to hide.
And another: They interrogated all the scientists and administrators (with lie detectors) that would have been involved in the WMD projects, nada.
And they haven't found El Dorado yet, so there might yet still be a city of gold in peru?
Saddam asked Osama and Bigfoot to hide his WMD in atlantis?
1) the proof is in the putting - al qaeda was cranking out incriminating audio propaganda non-stop. in fact, in one tape, bin laden claimed that attacks on the world trade center were actually self-defense, and therefore supported by islamic law.
He approves of them, there is no doupt about that. But approving of something and doing something is not the same.
I approve curing cancer and introducing the duck-billed platypuss into the north-american eco-system, but I'm not doing anything about either of these things.
So, it might be a clue, but its not proof...
Hey, maybe he did, I totally believed it the first time they said he attacked the towers (remember the car bombings in the underground parking lot in the 90's?), so it might be true...I'd just like proof, not just repeated claims.
Quit with the silly comments about Saddam not being linked to Al-Queda, or Bin Laden not being caught or WMDs and what have you. It is stupid. Don't pretend like you are The Great Enlightened One and the only person that can see the truth and the rest are mindless sheep.
I will keep replying to the mindless sheep who are happy that the Great Bush has "accomplished his goal" and "protected America" and "won a victory in the war against terror" by having his troops capture Saddam.
Because none of it is true, and they DON'T allready know, and they need to be reminded.
And if you think that the truth is stupid and childish, then I pity you.
Based on today's events, I feel that Bush is the guy that will protect America (and her allies). If you go after America, we'll get you.
OMG!
When, exactly WHEN did Saddam "go after America"?
When, and how?
Saddam was all cozy in his little kindom, not having any weapons of mass destruction or anything, and Bush decided to go after Iraq, not the other way around. He did it for many reasons: Oil, a distraction from internal scrutiny, a well known villain, but NOT because Saddam attacked America, because he never did.
Like him or not, Bush is the man right now. He accomplished his goal, and a grand victory is always embraced by a leader's people.
Yay! Bush caught Osama Bin Laden and discovered massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! Hurr...what?
Have you ever heard of the sharpshooter's fallacy?
You shoot at a wall and then draw a target around where you hit.
Yeah, Bush "accomplished his goal", he caught *someone*.
Just out of curiosity, why *was* Darl in Tikrit?
The sweet aroma of open sewers...hmmmmHMMMmmmm...
Reminds him of home.
I agree, Sadaam was evil. He should have been removed. But power has its limitations. You can't acheive everything at once. With patience and strategy, we could have removed him, at lower cost, not just in money but to our long term interests and to the interests of humanity at large. Granted, Iraqis would have unfairly borne the cost of Sadaam's regime for some months longer. It wouldn't have been fair to them.
Lets see...
They had the shit bombed out of them, they had their electricity cut out for months. Water cut out for months. Sewer system cut out for months (hold your breath, and enjoy your fun case of cholera!). Their hospitals ransacked while U.S. troops watched and joked. Their museums pillaged while U.S. troops smoked their cigarettes next to the doors. Their police disbanded, letting all manners of criminals run loose for months.
Saddam was bad, but no hospitals, no police, no electricity, bombs, and no hospitals is worse.
Sure, the whole thing will eventually be rebuilt, but in the meantime they have a major case of terrorism goin on, killing them on a semi-daily basis.
Things are not much better now...they might be worse. There's a promise that it will get better, but now its worse.