Isn't wearing a bonnet while playing with a torch a fire hazard? And why would you were a bonnet to work on a car anyway? Can' ya'll speak right over in England? I mean sheesh, doensn't everybody know that the English language was invented by Araham Lincon and exported to the world by Thomas Edision?
For high end products a six-month life cycle is impossible. The customers who are willing to pay professional prices expect professional service and support for more than six months.
A cogent argument rarely has any effect on budget people. My utility company wouldn't spend $5,000 to buy UPS devices when they were losing 25 grand per system crash with 2 to 3 crashes per year. All because the 5 grand was capital investment and they didn't care what was coming out of somebody else's(O&M) budget.
There is a reason that most pencil pushers in the government really like expensive sofware. When something doesn't work its the vendors fault. Can't blame them. Not at all. They spent a lot of money on the product so the problems can not not not not be their fault.
Lets see, drones were found. They were early prototypes but they were there. The 9/11 commission found links to Al-Qaeda but not to September 11th(of course nobody ever claimed that Saddam was involved in the attacks on the 11th). The Polish Army who is helping us in Iraq just found chemical artillery rounds. Brittish Intelligence still stands by the assertion that Saddam tried to buy yellowcake from Africa. Within the last week confirmation has come from other european nations that that country was in negotiations with North Korea, Iran, and China as well. Anything?
Well here is a try. The top 20% of earners pay over 80% of the income taxes. The bottom 40% don't pay any income taxes. You can't cut taxes for people who don't pay the tax.
How about supplying those "facts". You prove his sentence. Accusation without any proof. Of course the definition of a lie is relevant here. A lie is a purposeful erroneous statement. Being wrong or drawing good conclusions from bad information is not generally considered lying.
Of course the only way to remove yourself from all rulers is to remove yourself from human contact. As long as 2 people are interacting there will be a necessity to work out conflicts. To do this somebody must take the initiative. In larger groups the ones who take the initiative to deal with problems become the rulers. All groups of individuals will have conflicts that must be resolved.
"The only source I can find that stands by the claim of British Intelligence is Tony Blair's statement that the forged documents weren't the only source of information on the subject"
Reports on the news today that French and German intelligence agencies have confirmed the the Nigerian government conducted multiple negotiations with Syria, China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and other countries during meetings in various European countries.
"we're unable to find the 500 tons of radioactive material that was allegedly bought"
Saddam was not accused of buying to material, he was accused of trying to buy the materail. This was used as evidence that he had a nuclear program. Note program, not weapons thus taking us back to the pre part of preemption.
"I couldn't disagree more since we always had the option of containment. Indeed, that strategy proved effective against a foe that had ICBMs pointed at us for decades."
Containment worked because of MAD(Mutually Assured Distruction). The jihadists cannot be contained in this way. If you check beyond the NYT headlines of the 9/11 report you will find that though there was no connection between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks their were connections between Saddam and Al'quieda. There are very solid links between Saddam and Hamas and other terrorist groups. The future threat of Sadams WMD's was not him using them. It was that he would give or sell them to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al'quieda, or other global jihadist groups.
You seem to have skipped over 2 important facts in that article. 1) The prepartions needed to be kept classified, the guy complaining that he could put out fires cheaper didn't say how many people with clearances he had. Despite his bitching preparations for oil fires are tied directily to intelligence that is gathered from Iraq and where the assult is planning to go. By watching the preparation for oil fires an enemy can pretty well figure out the planned path of attack, and possibly comprise intell assests.
2)KBR has done their job in multiple other places and has done a damn good job. Do you really think its a good idea to not go with a proven track record of doing things well? It says in the article that the feedback from troops was that when they went to war they wanted KBR to be the guys there because they were so good.
1)The administration put forth how much Sadam was know to have had, combined that with no evidence to back up Sadams claim that they were destroyed and active development programs(The evidence of which was found) brought the US to the conclusion that Sadam had some. The numbers put forth were the max that he was known to have had. Again Sadam said he destroyed all of them. Did he? maybe? did he get rid of a lot but try to develop methods to quickly produce them therefore removing the sticky problem of storage while keeping the ability to use(produce as you use)? looking back that is what appears to be the case. Again I ask the question, should we have just taken Sadam at his word? Not only have mass stockpiles of WMD not been found, no evidence of any kind has been found to account for those massive amounts either. You don't dispose of that much stuff without some documentation. Its back to prudence, If you know somebody had something, you know they are not trustworthy, you know they are developing the methods for mass production, is it really a good idea to believe them when they say they don't have it anymore? I will also point out that every country with significant intelligence apparatus thought he had the weapons. France, Germany, Great Britton, the UN. The disputed info about yellowcake from Africa came to the US from British intelligence which to this day stands by their sources.
2)Even a poor starving army can cause huge problems if not accounted for. Also France and Germany have been pushing for years to remove the sanctions on Iraq. The options were fight the Saudi's(or Iran or Syria) and Sadam, or take Sadam by himself. By taking Sadam out by himself we a:remove a future threat b:set the stage to bring western type government to the whole middle east. The governments of Iran and Saudi are unstable with a growing population unhappy with the rulers. With Iraq and Afghanistan as a model the people in those countries have something to work for. Hopefully we won't need to fight the others in the region. As Iraq continues to improve the people of Iran and Saudi could very well take care of the problem themselves. This is why Iran overtly and Many people in power in Saudi covertly are working to stop our progress in Iraq. It's a gamble but we are making progress. Japan took 5 years after WWII to get where we expect Iraq to be next January, and that was without and active insurgency from neighbors.
3)Their is a lot of oil in the Middle East. The expertise is all in the western world. Saudi specifically has been running their country by diving out oil revenues. Thats why their are so many foreigners in the country. They run the infrastructure. This where the previously mentioned instability comes from. With a population rising faster than oil revenues the standard of living is dropping. With no significant economy outside of oil and a population that doesn't work this is causing problems. Saudi's don't work. Work is done mainly by Palestinians and Pakistanis who are imported and paid just about nothing. Skilled labor like building and running oil is done by westerners, mainly Americans, who are imported and paid a whole lot. The Saudi government could not build or maintain a single sight if they had to use only Saudi's to do it.
We have run into this problem in Alabama. But nobody has come up with a way to give property tax breaks to legitimate farmers that won't allow this type of manipulation. If you can come up with the wording to this please send the law to one of my state reps so we can get it passed.
Disney didn't try to "put the movie away". The deal from the beginning was that the production would be funded but they would not distribute it. Disney told Moore this before the movie was made. Playing with the facts a little did really help Moore create publicity.
To bad for Moore that the people on that flight were screened by the FBI and left after flight restrictions were lifted. Admittidly that were just about the first flight out, but it was after the restrictions were lifted. Moore has a habit of dropping important facts. As for time in Afganistan, have you ever heard the quote "amatures study tactics and stragety, professionals study logistics". The problem isn't dropping a bomb. The problem is getting people on the ground to ensure the bomb goes in the right place. To put the people on the ground you have to be able to transport communicate and resupply those people. Once the people are there you have to find your target. I'll simulate, You need to find John Doe, he is in south west Texas: Go
It's about a little of all of those. I'll address them in order. 1)WMD, unfortunately we spent over 6 months dicking around with the UN. That is plenty of time to hide, or export. Also the point on this idea was to stop WMD programs before huge stockpiles were built. Thus premption, to prempt the threat. The claims of what was thought to exist were based on the fact that they did have and use them and had no proof that they were disposed of. What are we supposed to do, take Sadam at his word? 2)That is a strategy problem. Sadam was the big dog on the block. If we hit Syria, Saudi, or Iran or any of the others in the area Sadam would have jumped in "to help his Arab brother" and grab as much land as he could in the process. 3) The fact of the matter is that there is only one country, hell there is only one state in the union to go when you need serious oil expertise: Texas. Who should have gotten the contracts that Haliburton got?
Now is Outlook or Access the one you want for email. Hmmm, mabey it's Excel. Why doesn't Microsoft name their apps something easy to figure out just from the name. Something like Kontact.
Everybody has a sidearm. In Afganistan the local populace can carry around an AK-47 type rifle. As long as they don't do anything threating with it they will be fine. You can also carry around whatever you want as long as it is not an anti-tank or crew-served weapon. Where you will run into issues is the compound you are living on. Depending on who is running the compound you may have issues carrying the weapon around.
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Isn't wearing a bonnet while playing with a torch a fire hazard? And why would you were a bonnet to work on a car anyway? Can' ya'll speak right over in England? I mean sheesh, doensn't everybody know that the English language was invented by Araham Lincon and exported to the world by Thomas Edision?
They are expanding into the rural counties in Alabama as well. Most people in those areas still don't have any real reason to buy yet.
For high end products a six-month life cycle is impossible. The customers who are willing to pay professional prices expect professional service and support for more than six months.
A cogent argument rarely has any effect on budget people. My utility company wouldn't spend $5,000 to buy UPS devices when they were losing 25 grand per system crash with 2 to 3 crashes per year. All because the 5 grand was capital investment and they didn't care what was coming out of somebody else's(O&M) budget.
There is a reason that most pencil pushers in the government really like expensive sofware. When something doesn't work its the vendors fault. Can't blame them. Not at all. They spent a lot of money on the product so the problems can not not not not be their fault.
John McCain has an illegitimate African-American child? Where did this come from? I've never heard of this.
Lets see, drones were found. They were early prototypes but they were there. The 9/11 commission found links to Al-Qaeda but not to September 11th(of course nobody ever claimed that Saddam was involved in the attacks on the 11th). The Polish Army who is helping us in Iraq just found chemical artillery rounds. Brittish Intelligence still stands by the assertion that Saddam tried to buy yellowcake from Africa. Within the last week confirmation has come from other european nations that that country was in negotiations with North Korea, Iran, and China as well. Anything?
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Most of them just cheat on you.
I would also like to know where exactly you file a "Global" lawsuit? And where exactly does that place derive its authority?
Didn't microsoft stop releasing regclean? The last time I checked I couldn't find anything newer than a release in 2000.
Well here is a try. The top 20% of earners pay over 80% of the income taxes. The bottom 40% don't pay any income taxes. You can't cut taxes for people who don't pay the tax.
How about supplying those "facts". You prove his sentence. Accusation without any proof. Of course the definition of a lie is relevant here. A lie is a purposeful erroneous statement. Being wrong or drawing good conclusions from bad information is not generally considered lying.
Of course the only way to remove yourself from all rulers is to remove yourself from human contact. As long as 2 people are interacting there will be a necessity to work out conflicts. To do this somebody must take the initiative. In larger groups the ones who take the initiative to deal with problems become the rulers. All groups of individuals will have conflicts that must be resolved.
"The only source I can find that stands by the claim of British Intelligence is Tony Blair's statement that the forged documents weren't the only source of information on the subject"
Reports on the news today that French and German intelligence agencies have confirmed the the Nigerian government conducted multiple negotiations with Syria, China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and other countries during meetings in various European countries.
"we're unable to find the 500 tons of radioactive material that was allegedly bought"
Saddam was not accused of buying to material, he was accused of trying to buy the materail. This was used as evidence that he had a nuclear program. Note program, not weapons thus taking us back to the pre part of preemption.
"I couldn't disagree more since we always had the option of containment. Indeed, that strategy proved effective against a foe that had ICBMs pointed at us for decades."
Containment worked because of MAD(Mutually Assured Distruction). The jihadists cannot be contained in this way. If you check beyond the NYT headlines of the 9/11 report you will find that though there was no connection between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks their were connections between Saddam and Al'quieda. There are very solid links between Saddam and Hamas and other terrorist groups. The future threat of Sadams WMD's was not him using them. It was that he would give or sell them to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al'quieda, or other global jihadist groups.
You seem to have skipped over 2 important facts in that article. 1) The prepartions needed to be kept classified, the guy complaining that he could put out fires cheaper didn't say how many people with clearances he had. Despite his bitching preparations for oil fires are tied directily to intelligence that is gathered from Iraq and where the assult is planning to go. By watching the preparation for oil fires an enemy can pretty well figure out the planned path of attack, and possibly comprise intell assests. 2)KBR has done their job in multiple other places and has done a damn good job. Do you really think its a good idea to not go with a proven track record of doing things well? It says in the article that the feedback from troops was that when they went to war they wanted KBR to be the guys there because they were so good.
1)The administration put forth how much Sadam was know to have had, combined that with no evidence to back up Sadams claim that they were destroyed and active development programs(The evidence of which was found) brought the US to the conclusion that Sadam had some. The numbers put forth were the max that he was known to have had. Again Sadam said he destroyed all of them. Did he? maybe? did he get rid of a lot but try to develop methods to quickly produce them therefore removing the sticky problem of storage while keeping the ability to use(produce as you use)? looking back that is what appears to be the case. Again I ask the question, should we have just taken Sadam at his word? Not only have mass stockpiles of WMD not been found, no evidence of any kind has been found to account for those massive amounts either. You don't dispose of that much stuff without some documentation. Its back to prudence, If you know somebody had something, you know they are not trustworthy, you know they are developing the methods for mass production, is it really a good idea to believe them when they say they don't have it anymore? I will also point out that every country with significant intelligence apparatus thought he had the weapons. France, Germany, Great Britton, the UN. The disputed info about yellowcake from Africa came to the US from British intelligence which to this day stands by their sources. 2)Even a poor starving army can cause huge problems if not accounted for. Also France and Germany have been pushing for years to remove the sanctions on Iraq. The options were fight the Saudi's(or Iran or Syria) and Sadam, or take Sadam by himself. By taking Sadam out by himself we a:remove a future threat b:set the stage to bring western type government to the whole middle east. The governments of Iran and Saudi are unstable with a growing population unhappy with the rulers. With Iraq and Afghanistan as a model the people in those countries have something to work for. Hopefully we won't need to fight the others in the region. As Iraq continues to improve the people of Iran and Saudi could very well take care of the problem themselves. This is why Iran overtly and Many people in power in Saudi covertly are working to stop our progress in Iraq. It's a gamble but we are making progress. Japan took 5 years after WWII to get where we expect Iraq to be next January, and that was without and active insurgency from neighbors. 3)Their is a lot of oil in the Middle East. The expertise is all in the western world. Saudi specifically has been running their country by diving out oil revenues. Thats why their are so many foreigners in the country. They run the infrastructure. This where the previously mentioned instability comes from. With a population rising faster than oil revenues the standard of living is dropping. With no significant economy outside of oil and a population that doesn't work this is causing problems. Saudi's don't work. Work is done mainly by Palestinians and Pakistanis who are imported and paid just about nothing. Skilled labor like building and running oil is done by westerners, mainly Americans, who are imported and paid a whole lot. The Saudi government could not build or maintain a single sight if they had to use only Saudi's to do it.
We have run into this problem in Alabama. But nobody has come up with a way to give property tax breaks to legitimate farmers that won't allow this type of manipulation. If you can come up with the wording to this please send the law to one of my state reps so we can get it passed.
Disney didn't try to "put the movie away". The deal from the beginning was that the production would be funded but they would not distribute it. Disney told Moore this before the movie was made. Playing with the facts a little did really help Moore create publicity.
To bad for Moore that the people on that flight were screened by the FBI and left after flight restrictions were lifted. Admittidly that were just about the first flight out, but it was after the restrictions were lifted. Moore has a habit of dropping important facts. As for time in Afganistan, have you ever heard the quote "amatures study tactics and stragety, professionals study logistics". The problem isn't dropping a bomb. The problem is getting people on the ground to ensure the bomb goes in the right place. To put the people on the ground you have to be able to transport communicate and resupply those people. Once the people are there you have to find your target. I'll simulate, You need to find John Doe, he is in south west Texas: Go
It's about a little of all of those. I'll address them in order. 1)WMD, unfortunately we spent over 6 months dicking around with the UN. That is plenty of time to hide, or export. Also the point on this idea was to stop WMD programs before huge stockpiles were built. Thus premption, to prempt the threat. The claims of what was thought to exist were based on the fact that they did have and use them and had no proof that they were disposed of. What are we supposed to do, take Sadam at his word? 2)That is a strategy problem. Sadam was the big dog on the block. If we hit Syria, Saudi, or Iran or any of the others in the area Sadam would have jumped in "to help his Arab brother" and grab as much land as he could in the process. 3) The fact of the matter is that there is only one country, hell there is only one state in the union to go when you need serious oil expertise: Texas. Who should have gotten the contracts that Haliburton got?
Now is Outlook or Access the one you want for email. Hmmm, mabey it's Excel. Why doesn't Microsoft name their apps something easy to figure out just from the name. Something like Kontact.
Isn't this what Bush did?
Everybody has a sidearm. In Afganistan the local populace can carry around an AK-47 type rifle. As long as they don't do anything threating with it they will be fine. You can also carry around whatever you want as long as it is not an anti-tank or crew-served weapon. Where you will run into issues is the compound you are living on. Depending on who is running the compound you may have issues carrying the weapon around.
When does this start to get simple?