If I was chasing someone for $97.8 trillion dollars (forgetting the billion thing for the moment) and this person had escaped to a tropical island, I would go to a bank and say, "hey, loan me $20 billion dollars so I can buy this island this guy is living on. Then, I'll extradite him and when I get my $97.8 trillion dollars out of him, I'll give you $40 billion dollars".
I appreciate your reasoned response to my post, both sides of the war debate have been getting pretty worked up the last few weeks:)
I would like to raise two points that you may want to consider.
1. Why didn't we bomb South Africa to end Apartheid? They tortured and killed Africans for forty-fifty years (as part of Apartheid) and for longer before that. Sanctions took 15+ years to work there but no-one now suggests that bombing them would have helped.
2. On the subject of hide and seek, contrary to what some media has reported, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Saddam's arsenal. Perhaps, and I wish to be proved wrong, Iraq did disarm. The only way to objectively tell was for the UN inspectors to report. Sadly, we can now never independently verify this.
Anyway, I want to be convinced this war was the only way, but I just can't help but think that the chance for peace wasn't exhausted.
> There are RULES to an election -- including deadlines and not trying to have the counters use ESP to guess what people intended.
I would rather take an extra week or an extra month to try to find out what the people wanted and what the truth was (regardless of whether it was Bush or Gore), rather than just using some magic number cut-off date to stop counting.
I guess that's why I was also happy to wait a month for the UN weapon's inspectors to finish their expert jobs (the time they said it would take), rather than to bow to some arbitrary deadline set by Bush (as much as I trust his expert scientific opinion).
Woohoo! The War and the botched 2000 Election, all in one post! Mod me down, baby!
Your father was a fish. You evolved
from an egg laid in water, fertilized by
a sperm fish swimming upstream -
just as salmon swim up stream to
fertilize female egg laid in the water.
Maybe, you should worship a fish god.
I like this quote. At first it's funny, but then it starts to make sense in a post-modern/ideas-are-bound-by-words way... Anyone know if this web-site is for real or not?
We all have things in our past we don't like to talk about. For me, it was the period in the early nineties when I wore silver parachute pants and hypercolour t-shirts.
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If I was chasing someone for $97.8 trillion dollars (forgetting the billion thing for the moment) and this person had escaped to a tropical island, I would go to a bank and say, "hey, loan me $20 billion dollars so I can buy this island this guy is living on. Then, I'll extradite him and when I get my $97.8 trillion dollars out of him, I'll give you $40 billion dollars".
For that kind of money, there would no escape.
(Unless you are Skase)
I appreciate your reasoned response to my post, both sides of the war debate have been getting pretty worked up the last few weeks :)
I would like to raise two points that you may want to consider.
1. Why didn't we bomb South Africa to end Apartheid? They tortured and killed Africans for forty-fifty years (as part of Apartheid) and for longer before that. Sanctions took 15+ years to work there but no-one now suggests that bombing them would have helped.
2. On the subject of hide and seek, contrary to what some media has reported, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Saddam's arsenal. Perhaps, and I wish to be proved wrong, Iraq did disarm. The only way to objectively tell was for the UN inspectors to report. Sadly, we can now never independently verify this.
Anyway, I want to be convinced this war was the only way, but I just can't help but think that the chance for peace wasn't exhausted.
Here is my question for SCO:
Do you blame Bond for the failure of Plan Omega,
or was it due to a break-down in organisational
process?
Wait a minute, I'm thinking of SPECTRE, not SCO
... sorry.
> There are RULES to an election -- including deadlines and not trying to have the counters use ESP to guess what people intended.
I would rather take an extra week or an extra month to try to find out what the people wanted and what the truth was (regardless of whether it was Bush or Gore), rather than just using some magic number cut-off date to stop counting.
I guess that's why I was also happy to wait a month for the UN weapon's inspectors to finish their expert jobs (the time they said it would take), rather than to bow to some arbitrary deadline set by Bush (as much as I trust his expert scientific opinion).
Woohoo! The War and the botched 2000 Election, all in one post! Mod me down, baby!
Your father was a fish. You evolved from an egg laid in water, fertilized by a sperm fish swimming upstream - just as salmon swim up stream to fertilize female egg laid in the water. Maybe, you should worship a fish god.
I like this quote. At first it's funny, but then it starts to make sense in a post-modern/ideas-are-bound-by-words way... Anyone know if this web-site is for real or not?
Maybe I *should* worship a fish god.
We all have things in our past we don't like to talk about.
For me, it was the period in the early nineties when I wore
silver parachute pants and hypercolour t-shirts.