He might have used them in the past (when the US sold them to him, for example), but they had all been destroyed. The remnants found in Iraq were degraded to the point of not being WMDs (as in their potency had weakened to the point they could not cause mass destruction), and mostly left in caches since the Iran/Iraq war of the late 80s. Some were stolen from weapons testing sites (where they were tested for leakages, etc.), but they had also degraded. The notion that he had stockpiles ready for use is bizarre, as no-one is claiming that. There was no on-going WMD program in Iraq, precisely the opposite of what Bush et. al claimed.
Yeah - innocent. Being an Iraqi doesn't make you magically guilty. ISIS were born from the Iraqi insurgency, which was only as successful as it was because Bush removed Saddam and disbanded the army (returning thousands of weapons-trained men to civilian life, without a salary and without security). Whether Saddam wanted everyone to know he had WMDs or not doesn't matter, as the US simply made up their intelligence. We know this. It doesn't matter if the person after Bush made it better or worse - without Bush there would be no "it".
Stop pretending it's Dems vs. Republicans - it's standard US foreign policy being continued. It's been this way for decades, and will continue to do so until someone or something stops the US from fucking over parts of the world for bizarre reasons.
Don't talk so strongly about mental blocks when you so clearly have one the size of the Titanic parked in your brain. It's not becoming.
Bush invaded for no good reason, created a power vacuum, disbanded the army, and let sectarian violence flourish. Obama couldn't fix that any more than repairing a broken dam shortly after it's fully breached. Once the tribes had taken over, ISIS had little centralised opposition. The only areas of resistance were the Kurdish areas, and that was only because Bush left them alone after the invasion. Hell, ISIS were born from the Iraqi insurgency, which was only as successful as it was because of the poor decisions made after the invasion.
It appears in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. Should a member state not abide by it, they can (amongst other things) be pressured by other states or kicked out of the UN, meaning they have far less clout when it comes to dealing with other countries, possibly massively hurting their economy. But you are free to complain about the UN as much as you want, seeing as you know so much about it.
It's 56%, which includes great healthcare and lots of other benefits. If you compare what Swedes get for their taxes compared to Americans, you'd see that 56% is actually a pretty sweet deal.
I wasn't going to agree with you, but as you spelled MS "M$", clearly you are 100% correct with everything you said. You are a very intelligent, rational person, and I think you must be Jesus or something because of how you stuck it to Microsoft by using a dollar sign. Simply incredible. I can die happy. I shall name my firstborn child rtb61 after you.
You're being rather disingenuous by considering the entire globe's population rather than the population of the system being railed against. Someone making $1 a day in Africa doesn't magically make all the wealth issues in the US go away. You also magically inferred everyone's reasons for not attending the OWS events and magically made them fit your own narrative. You neglect to consider, for example, people who have to work every hour they can to survive.
Counter to your psychology, perhaps. Some of us don't own cars, and should we want to take a 100 mile jaunt into the mountains, we'd use public transport. I use taxis occasionally, and I never get upset that I don't have a flat-rate taxi pass, or that I don't own the taxi. I do, however, enjoy not having to pay to buy, maintain, tax & insure a car. That's pretty awesome. You are not everyone else, and everyone else is not you. Which is a good thing, as I'm sure you'll agree.
The recent trend where Microsoft is lowering the prices of their most-used products, and offers well-priced subscriptions for some, and outright ownership for others? Wow.
It doesn't seem like it. We have cars which can start, drive through cities and down highways, and navigate to a destination and park. They dodge obstacles on the way, and so forth. What part of autonomy is missing?
Those emergency situations you talk about are frequently due to pilot error, so I don't know what your point is... that humans can adapt to humans fucking up?
It's the "sweet spot" is it? What happens to all our crops which are not geared for that amount of CO2? And what happens to the farmers whose farmland is now no longer farmable? Should they move further north, where the soil has been scraped away by glaciation? Genius. There is so much wrong with your glib, trite post it's simply not funny.
And you think AGW isn't real because a single low temperature was recorded. You don't really understand these "logic" and "evidence" things, do you? It's sad. Your society failed you massively - it didn't give you the tools to think rationally, but gave you the hubris to make sure you never realised that. What a mess.
It does mean something, though - that the person who uses it to disparage those they don't like is a gibbering idiot frothing at the mouth. I find it a very useful term.
You should see how expensive it is to run diesel generators to produce the electricity, especially when you have to literally ship the diesel in first. Having a line back to the mainland also means the windfarm can sell excess production, and the islanders are free to buy energy from the mainland as well. Or you can just go with your gut and ignore what's actually happening. I'm sure that'll work out really well for you. Really well.
You seem to be confusing the Bible with a work of non-fiction. How quaint. Just because something claims to be divine in nature doesn't magically make it so. The rest of your post makes about as much sense as arguing about Spock.
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He might have used them in the past (when the US sold them to him, for example), but they had all been destroyed. The remnants found in Iraq were degraded to the point of not being WMDs (as in their potency had weakened to the point they could not cause mass destruction), and mostly left in caches since the Iran/Iraq war of the late 80s. Some were stolen from weapons testing sites (where they were tested for leakages, etc.), but they had also degraded. The notion that he had stockpiles ready for use is bizarre, as no-one is claiming that. There was no on-going WMD program in Iraq, precisely the opposite of what Bush et. al claimed.
Yeah - innocent. Being an Iraqi doesn't make you magically guilty. ISIS were born from the Iraqi insurgency, which was only as successful as it was because Bush removed Saddam and disbanded the army (returning thousands of weapons-trained men to civilian life, without a salary and without security). Whether Saddam wanted everyone to know he had WMDs or not doesn't matter, as the US simply made up their intelligence. We know this. It doesn't matter if the person after Bush made it better or worse - without Bush there would be no "it".
Stop pretending it's Dems vs. Republicans - it's standard US foreign policy being continued. It's been this way for decades, and will continue to do so until someone or something stops the US from fucking over parts of the world for bizarre reasons.
Don't talk so strongly about mental blocks when you so clearly have one the size of the Titanic parked in your brain. It's not becoming.
Bush invaded for no good reason, created a power vacuum, disbanded the army, and let sectarian violence flourish. Obama couldn't fix that any more than repairing a broken dam shortly after it's fully breached. Once the tribes had taken over, ISIS had little centralised opposition. The only areas of resistance were the Kurdish areas, and that was only because Bush left them alone after the invasion. Hell, ISIS were born from the Iraqi insurgency, which was only as successful as it was because of the poor decisions made after the invasion.
1992 is not 2015. Just a thought!
It appears in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. Should a member state not abide by it, they can (amongst other things) be pressured by other states or kicked out of the UN, meaning they have far less clout when it comes to dealing with other countries, possibly massively hurting their economy. But you are free to complain about the UN as much as you want, seeing as you know so much about it.
It's 56%, which includes great healthcare and lots of other benefits. If you compare what Swedes get for their taxes compared to Americans, you'd see that 56% is actually a pretty sweet deal.
Just as before, you assume your knowledge is supreme without spending a few seconds on Google. Hint: search for "Centralia" and see what you read.
I wasn't going to agree with you, but as you spelled MS "M$", clearly you are 100% correct with everything you said. You are a very intelligent, rational person, and I think you must be Jesus or something because of how you stuck it to Microsoft by using a dollar sign. Simply incredible. I can die happy. I shall name my firstborn child rtb61 after you.
You're being rather disingenuous by considering the entire globe's population rather than the population of the system being railed against. Someone making $1 a day in Africa doesn't magically make all the wealth issues in the US go away. You also magically inferred everyone's reasons for not attending the OWS events and magically made them fit your own narrative. You neglect to consider, for example, people who have to work every hour they can to survive.
Counter to your psychology, perhaps. Some of us don't own cars, and should we want to take a 100 mile jaunt into the mountains, we'd use public transport. I use taxis occasionally, and I never get upset that I don't have a flat-rate taxi pass, or that I don't own the taxi. I do, however, enjoy not having to pay to buy, maintain, tax & insure a car. That's pretty awesome. You are not everyone else, and everyone else is not you. Which is a good thing, as I'm sure you'll agree.
The recent trend where Microsoft is lowering the prices of their most-used products, and offers well-priced subscriptions for some, and outright ownership for others? Wow.
It doesn't seem like it. We have cars which can start, drive through cities and down highways, and navigate to a destination and park. They dodge obstacles on the way, and so forth. What part of autonomy is missing?
Those emergency situations you talk about are frequently due to pilot error, so I don't know what your point is... that humans can adapt to humans fucking up?
It's the "sweet spot" is it? What happens to all our crops which are not geared for that amount of CO2? And what happens to the farmers whose farmland is now no longer farmable? Should they move further north, where the soil has been scraped away by glaciation? Genius. There is so much wrong with your glib, trite post it's simply not funny.
With every single post you are just showing yourself to be the ignorant fool you appear to be hell-bent on railing against. Tragic stuff.
And you think AGW isn't real because a single low temperature was recorded. You don't really understand these "logic" and "evidence" things, do you? It's sad. Your society failed you massively - it didn't give you the tools to think rationally, but gave you the hubris to make sure you never realised that. What a mess.
Cute. No idea, but such anger! You should be in a zoo. It's hilarious. Hint: where you are != the entire world.
It does mean something, though - that the person who uses it to disparage those they don't like is a gibbering idiot frothing at the mouth. I find it a very useful term.
Burning wood is pretty good, isn't it? It's as close to load-following carbon neutral as one can have with such a low cost of implementation.
You should see how expensive it is to run diesel generators to produce the electricity, especially when you have to literally ship the diesel in first. Having a line back to the mainland also means the windfarm can sell excess production, and the islanders are free to buy energy from the mainland as well. Or you can just go with your gut and ignore what's actually happening. I'm sure that'll work out really well for you. Really well.
So much opinion, so few links! Amazing stuff. Nicely done.
That might be true, but to ignore how many have died or been displaced as a direct result of the invasion is slightly dishonest, surely...
It's nothing at all like that, which I'm sure you know deep down.
Are you sure you're not a blithering idiot? You just confused Islam with ISIS, or wrote such a confused post that you sure made it seem that way.
You seem to be confusing the Bible with a work of non-fiction. How quaint. Just because something claims to be divine in nature doesn't magically make it so. The rest of your post makes about as much sense as arguing about Spock.