Actually, I was claiming that the liberals would rather have africans die than replicate Africa's most successful program to prevent AIDS because it would strengthen the hand of religious people the world over.
How does it feel to have blood on your hands? Is it any better that it's a bunch of 3rd world darkies you'll never even meet?
It's disgusting that 1st world homosexuals are so callous with other people's lives while they play the victim, looking for sympathy when their own behavior gets them in trouble.
A = Abstinence before marriage B = Be faithful to your spouse "zero plowing outside your field" C = Wear a condom if you can't handle A/B
Condom programs exist all over Africa. Uganda is head and shoulders above other countries in preventing AIDS.
Condoms may be part of the answer but they certainly have been demonstrated to be fallible. Abstinence and fidelity have a better disease prevention history for STDs of all types.
Actually they have to demonstrate intent to relinquish citizenship to a jury. In other words, I think this is aimed at people found on a battlefield fighting the US Army. I would expect the final proposal that goes into the sausage machine that is the US Congress would make it much more clear.
Somebody asked a legislative or administrative aide to really unload and put together a package of law enforcement initiatives to combat terrorism without worrying about legislative viability or even constitutionality. The memo gets written with an authoritarian's wet dream and then the lawyers hack at it excising the unconstitutional portions then Karl Rove hacks at it, removing the stuff that is political suicide. I think this is the draft before anybody else reviewed it.
So, from an atheist/secularist perspective, having 6 year olds throw stones at military men is just peachy?
I'm not to proud of when american kids were doing it to the british in Boston either. It's a dangerous thing and only happened once in the US revolutionary war, probably because colonial parents had the good sense not to encourage it. The palestinians seem to be making it a habit.
After 8 years of Clinton/Gore we were getting all too close to having armed resistance movements out west. Within a month of the Bush administration arriving and telling the Interior department to cut it out, the threats against govt. agents virtually ceased.
You're right, I do see a differentce between Bush and Gore. Bush saved us from the start of a low grade civil war.
That's not to say that civil liberties aren't under threat from this administration. Certainly several of the provisions in this draft are clearly unconstitutional and others need to have sunset provisions put in for after the war.
The problem is that neither major political party wants to touch the real cause of this war, intra-muslim religious repression. If a muslim scholar wants to get Islam out of the box it's in and issues some heterodox opinions, his life is immediately threatened and extremists regularly make attempts to kill islamic reformers.
Until the US and the rest of the West make it clear to the violence prone faction of Islam that this is simply not going to be tolerated and they will find no safe haven from which to do it.
Not only soil scientists but others in agriculture as well. Let's say you made a 'plot' from each Progress shuttle that came in, using some for used hardware to be recycled, most others for agriculture, some to be sold out for whatever people want. The agriculture ones could be rented out to ADM or some other agri concern and the food sold for just under the replacement launch value. So you have robotics experts to create an appropriate telecommanded robot, and farmers along with soil experts.
The major costs would be increased fuel requirements for orbital boosting. If a plot isn't rented after a few boosts, you can just let it drop. You could string them out on a frame.
I could see one of those Japanese real estate/construction conglomerates funding the whole thing. Toss Russia a x% interest in exchange for the shuttles and you've got most of a deal there. Chances are, there will be fewer takers than there are shuttles so you can swap out old shuttles for new.
Well the raw material doesn't have to have any fancy containment or even atmosphere until somebody works out the necessary seals to keep the air from being fouled.
I think that the only thing holding this back is the snooty perception that doing it would be incredibly white trash.
You say there's nothing in space you can't get cheaper here. Try 50 terawatts of power. The world currently runs on 10-12 terawatts and that's with a lot of it stuck in the dark ages. If we were to liberate the 4/5ths of mankind stuck under repressive regimes and they would start to have the ability to purchase power because of higher standards of living, there simply isn't enough uranium, coal, oil, or natural gas available on the planet to do it.
Yes, we do need space resource extraction, not least of all to provide energy for all those liberated people who aren't dying of malaria et al and want to live a modern life.
We have a cure for malaria, it's called DDT (which they now know how to use safely and not cause problems for the birdies anymore) but the greenies would rather let people die. The Ugandans have a great program that has cheaply slashed AIDS infections in their country but because it relies heavily on faith groups to preach a message of behavior modification the AIDS establishment is burying Africa's biggest success story. And on it goes. The human mind and spirit can solve virtually any problem but can we fight past human greed, envy, and pettiness to implement the solution?
Where does the crap go? Why don't they just put it in a big crap sack and offer it as a prize to the first practical solution to the problem of space farming. Stick it outside, it's not like it will smell up the joint. As time goes on, it would be an increasing prize.
Let's face it at $10k/kg lift costs, a ton (metric) of already orbiting feces has a value of $10,000,000. Assuming 1.5kg of crap produced daily (3 man crews, sounds sensible) we're talking about $15k down the spout per day the ISS is occupied (double that during changeovers when there are six people on board). A metric ton would be accumulated every year and nine months give or take.
Heck, throw the competition wide open to other uses. How thick a layer of crap is required to make a good meteor shield? If the space elevator needs a counterweight, would several tons of crap suffice to shorten the amount of cable necessary? How about military uses? stick a JAM guidance pack on it and drop it on Kim Jong Il. Not only would it provide a fatality but it would make any former dictator so dispatched the object of endless jokes.
Am I joking? In some parts, yes. But the idea of storing very expensive material (including the most expensive crap there is) in some sort of storage space and running contests for creative use of the stuff would certainly create an increased level of interest. You could do it as a green contest, as a guy thing (it's the world's equivalent of those jars and cans every guy has in the garage to store washers and other random stuff he might have a use for in the future), or a farmer thing (we're back to feces fertilizer) but everything there is horribly expensive. Let's get our money's worth.
Here's a link and below, some relevant quotes showing various recent acts of Iraqi bad faith.
"Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed the inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
" I turn now, Mr. President, to the key requirement of cooperation and Iraq's response to it. Cooperation might be said to relate to both substance and process. It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide cooperation on process, notably access.
A similar decision is indispensable to provide cooperation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course.
An initial minor step would be to adopt the long overdue legislation required by the resolutions. "
" In this updating, I'm bound, however, to register some problems. The first are related to two kinds of air operations. While we now have the technical capability to send a U-2 plane placed at our disposal for aerial imagery and for surveillance during inspections and have informed Iraq that we plan to do so, Iraq has refused to guarantee its safety unless a number of conditions are fulfilled.
As these conditions went beyond what is stipulated in Resolution 1441 and what was practiced by UNSCOM and Iraq in the past, we note that Iraq is not so far complying with our requests. I hope this attitude will change. "
" I'm obliged to note some recent disturbing incidents and harassment. For instance, for some time farfetched allegations have been made publicly that questions posed by inspectors were of an intelligence character. While I might not defend every question that inspectors might have asked, Iraq knows that they do not serve intelligence purposes and Iraq should not say so."
" Demonstrations and outbursts of this kind are unlikely to occur in Iraq with initiative or encouragement from the authorities. We must ask ourselves what the motives may be for these events. They do not facilitate an already difficult job, in which we try to be effective, professional, and at the same time correct. Where our Iraqi counterparts have some complaint, they can take it up in a calmer and less unpleasant manner."
" These reports do not contend that weapons of mass destruction remain in Iraq, but nor do they exclude that possibility. They point to a lack of evidence and inconsistencies which raise question marks which must be straightened out if weapons dossiers are to be closed and confidence is to arise. They deserve to be taken seriously by Iraq, rather than being brushed aside as evil machinations of UNSCOM.
Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration, most of which is a reprint of earlier documents, does not seem to contain any new evidence that will eliminate the questions or reduce their number."
" I turn to biological weapons. I mention the issue of anthrax to the council on previous occasions, and I come back to it as it is an important one. Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 liters of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991.
Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction. "
If he is violating the cease fire agreements then he needs to be taken out. Part of those agreements were that he wouldn't invade other countries anymore. So if he can violate some terms with impunity why not others? Iraq takes out Kuwait and SA and mines the oil rigs and we've got to kowtow to Saddam forever.
Agreed that war is the health of the state but you lose sight that we can actually lose this war and the powers that be certainly don't want that. It is important to understand what kind of 2nd class jim crow like system these islamist nutcases want to impose on us.
Islam has this unfortunate tendency to kill its reformers. When we get the balls to host all the heretics and protect their lives by going after those who issue death fatwas against them, the war will soon be over.
All that needs happen is for people to start realizing that muslims don't have 1st amendment protection equal to jews and christians. It's not government repression that's the problem though, it's that our govt. doesn't take it as seriously when an islamic jurist sentences a US citizen to death as they would if the Archbishop of Canterbury would do it.
You wouldn't be surprised but you obviously have no clue. If we hadn't opened up our gates and let in foreign scientists we wouldn't have ever had an atomic bomb in time to avoid an invasion of Japan. How many non-immigrants *were* there on the core team? That's wartime immigration policy. Certainly, I'd change immigration policy but I'd reshape it so that those who want to come here, make a buck, and go home and fix their own countries are encouraged to do so without having to pay snakeheads or coyotes.
Not only are you an ac ass but you obviously are young and weren't around in the 70s or early 80s. This recession is *nothing* compared to the crap that happened then. People are really hungry? Then why is it that so many poor people are obese? They have a higher obesity rate than the non-poor.
I'd actually have more hope in the (R) side of the Congress to fix the DMCA than the (D) side but the Senate's so finely balanced that anything that isn't very high priority just simply isn't going to get through.
Let's face it, nasty as the DMCA is, judge confirmations, the budget, and the war all outrank fixing it.
for 6 years the Iraqis claimed they have 0, null, zero, zip active in biowarfare. Then a defector appeared who worked high up in the program and spilled the beans. The Iraqis then admitted to running a program. The same was true for their nuclear and chemical programs.
The production paperwork for an awful lot of Vx gas was discovered by the last round of inspectors but there never was any provision of proof of destruction. Vx is very nasty stuff and enough is in Iraq's hands to make the populations of a few cities completely disappear. Then there's the mustard gas, the anthrax, the botulin (sp?) toxin, and the list goes on.
The cooperation is nowhere near as good as it gets. Take a look at South Africa for a practical example of a better situation of disarmament cooperation or even Romania which had a nuclear program that successfully seperated U-235 (the one part of the nuclear production chain that Saddam hasn't figured out). They announced that the previous (communist) govt. had a nuclear program, brought the IAEA inspectors to the labs, helped the IAEA inspectors pick their jaws off the floor when they saw what was there and shut it all down. They ended up getting a nice CANDU nuclear complex out of it all (Cernavoda 1-4) which is exactly how the NPT treaty is supposed to work. Small states stay non-nuclear in exchange for help with peaceful nuclear programs for energy.
Well, it could be if a government decided to make it an official uniform. Take a look at the history of uniforms sometimes. Some of them are downright bizarre (US civil war stuff at the beginning included some real screamers).
Actually I don't feel sorry for H-1b holders. I think they get a good deal and so does the US. The US is running a society where several industries (technology is only one of them) simply don't have enough US residents/citizens that are qualified. A US green card doesn't make you qualified to work as a medical doctor. Not enough people are signing up for medical school to serve the US population. So how many people need to die for lack of medical care just to make sure no foreigner is taking a US job?
As for oil factoring into our Iraq position, do you deny that we treat the democratic aspirations in Saudi Arabia different than Poland 15 years ago? Why? It was about oil then and it's about oil now. The US kowtows to tyrants only when it absolutely must. With Iraq free, it's likely that we won't have to do that to the same extent anymore. What's so wrong with no longer betraying your principles?
Frankly, I don't have much hope of reaching you either. You're too brainwashed in reflexive anti-americanism. Good luck and I hope you come over to the side of good soon.
You obviously have no knowledge of the oil market.
The only oil exports we make are to Japan because it's cheaper to ship oil from Alaska to Japan and buy Venezuelan crude to replace it than for Japan to buy it from the Middle East and pay the pirate tax for shipping it through the Straights of Malacca. And btw, Russia is a major oil exporter and competitor to Iraq. I'm pretty sure they're not getting Iraqi oil except in lieu of cash for the money the USSR fronted them during the Cold War.
Beyond that, Iraq can't control where it's oil is going after they sell it. Price differentials just don't work because the low price consumers will up their buys and resell at a profit to the high price consumers.
World peace was at stake in 1991 with the swallowing of Kuwait. We never signed a peace treaty with Saddam and neither has anybody else. He's in power only because we signed a cease fire and the UN went along with that.
When you have a cease fire in a war and one side violates the terms, the rule is simple, the other side gets to resume hostilities immediately. The US has bent over backwards to try to avoid war, Sec Council res 1441 is just the most recent example.
That doesn't fix anything. The US isn't the only one with satellites. Can you imagine the furor if two days later Russia addresses the Security Council and says, here's *our* satellite photos of the same area at the same timestamp and the US simply lied about the evidence.
It would stop the drive for war with Iraq dead. By june, Iraq wouldn't even have sanctions against it. No US govt. official is going to sabotage US foreign policy that badly by presenting evidence that can be easily checked.
You have not been paying attention. Saddam's already been caught post Kuwait with active WMD programs because defectors who had worked in those programs told earlier inspectors where to look. We're talking tons of chemical weapons and no convincing evidence that they were ever destroyed. This is what the current inspectors are saying, not the US administration or some outside hardliner.
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Actually, I was claiming that the liberals would rather have africans die than replicate Africa's most successful program to prevent AIDS because it would strengthen the hand of religious people the world over.
How does it feel to have blood on your hands? Is it any better that it's a bunch of 3rd world darkies you'll never even meet?
It's disgusting that 1st world homosexuals are so callous with other people's lives while they play the victim, looking for sympathy when their own behavior gets them in trouble.
The Ugandan program has the catchy name of ABC,
A = Abstinence before marriage
B = Be faithful to your spouse "zero plowing outside your field"
C = Wear a condom if you can't handle A/B
Condom programs exist all over Africa. Uganda is head and shoulders above other countries in preventing AIDS.
Condoms may be part of the answer but they certainly have been demonstrated to be fallible. Abstinence and fidelity have a better disease prevention history for STDs of all types.
Actually I missed that article on reusing human waste. Where can I find it?
Actually they have to demonstrate intent to relinquish citizenship to a jury. In other words, I think this is aimed at people found on a battlefield fighting the US Army. I would expect the final proposal that goes into the sausage machine that is the US Congress would make it much more clear.
Somebody asked a legislative or administrative aide to really unload and put together a package of law enforcement initiatives to combat terrorism without worrying about legislative viability or even constitutionality. The memo gets written with an authoritarian's wet dream and then the lawyers hack at it excising the unconstitutional portions then Karl Rove hacks at it, removing the stuff that is political suicide. I think this is the draft before anybody else reviewed it.
So, from an atheist/secularist perspective, having 6 year olds throw stones at military men is just peachy?
I'm not to proud of when american kids were doing it to the british in Boston either. It's a dangerous thing and only happened once in the US revolutionary war, probably because colonial parents had the good sense not to encourage it. The palestinians seem to be making it a habit.
After 8 years of Clinton/Gore we were getting all too close to having armed resistance movements out west. Within a month of the Bush administration arriving and telling the Interior department to cut it out, the threats against govt. agents virtually ceased.
You're right, I do see a differentce between Bush and Gore. Bush saved us from the start of a low grade civil war.
That's not to say that civil liberties aren't under threat from this administration. Certainly several of the provisions in this draft are clearly unconstitutional and others need to have sunset provisions put in for after the war.
The problem is that neither major political party wants to touch the real cause of this war, intra-muslim religious repression. If a muslim scholar wants to get Islam out of the box it's in and issues some heterodox opinions, his life is immediately threatened and extremists regularly make attempts to kill islamic reformers.
Until the US and the rest of the West make it clear to the violence prone faction of Islam that this is simply not going to be tolerated and they will find no safe haven from which to do it.
Not only soil scientists but others in agriculture as well. Let's say you made a 'plot' from each Progress shuttle that came in, using some for used hardware to be recycled, most others for agriculture, some to be sold out for whatever people want. The agriculture ones could be rented out to ADM or some other agri concern and the food sold for just under the replacement launch value. So you have robotics experts to create an appropriate telecommanded robot, and farmers along with soil experts.
The major costs would be increased fuel requirements for orbital boosting. If a plot isn't rented after a few boosts, you can just let it drop. You could string them out on a frame.
I could see one of those Japanese real estate/construction conglomerates funding the whole thing. Toss Russia a x% interest in exchange for the shuttles and you've got most of a deal there. Chances are, there will be fewer takers than there are shuttles so you can swap out old shuttles for new.
Well the raw material doesn't have to have any fancy containment or even atmosphere until somebody works out the necessary seals to keep the air from being fouled.
I think that the only thing holding this back is the snooty perception that doing it would be incredibly white trash.
You say there's nothing in space you can't get cheaper here. Try 50 terawatts of power. The world currently runs on 10-12 terawatts and that's with a lot of it stuck in the dark ages. If we were to liberate the 4/5ths of mankind stuck under repressive regimes and they would start to have the ability to purchase power because of higher standards of living, there simply isn't enough uranium, coal, oil, or natural gas available on the planet to do it.
Yes, we do need space resource extraction, not least of all to provide energy for all those liberated people who aren't dying of malaria et al and want to live a modern life.
So I guess you're opposed to the X prize which pushes for a reusable launch vehicle that can fly twice in two weeks. A shame really.
We have a cure for malaria, it's called DDT (which they now know how to use safely and not cause problems for the birdies anymore) but the greenies would rather let people die. The Ugandans have a great program that has cheaply slashed AIDS infections in their country but because it relies heavily on faith groups to preach a message of behavior modification the AIDS establishment is burying Africa's biggest success story. And on it goes. The human mind and spirit can solve virtually any problem but can we fight past human greed, envy, and pettiness to implement the solution?
Where does the crap go? Why don't they just put it in a big crap sack and offer it as a prize to the first practical solution to the problem of space farming. Stick it outside, it's not like it will smell up the joint. As time goes on, it would be an increasing prize.
Let's face it at $10k/kg lift costs, a ton (metric) of already orbiting feces has a value of $10,000,000. Assuming 1.5kg of crap produced daily (3 man crews, sounds sensible) we're talking about $15k down the spout per day the ISS is occupied (double that during changeovers when there are six people on board). A metric ton would be accumulated every year and nine months give or take.
Heck, throw the competition wide open to other uses. How thick a layer of crap is required to make a good meteor shield? If the space elevator needs a counterweight, would several tons of crap suffice to shorten the amount of cable necessary? How about military uses? stick a JAM guidance pack on it and drop it on Kim Jong Il. Not only would it provide a fatality but it would make any former dictator so dispatched the object of endless jokes.
Am I joking? In some parts, yes. But the idea of storing very expensive material (including the most expensive crap there is) in some sort of storage space and running contests for creative use of the stuff would certainly create an increased level of interest. You could do it as a green contest, as a guy thing (it's the world's equivalent of those jars and cans every guy has in the garage to store washers and other random stuff he might have a use for in the future), or a farmer thing (we're back to feces fertilizer) but everything there is horribly expensive. Let's get our money's worth.
Here's a link and below, some relevant quotes showing various recent acts of Iraqi bad faith.
"Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed the inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
" I turn now, Mr. President, to the key requirement of cooperation and Iraq's response to it. Cooperation might be said to relate to both substance and process. It would appear from our experience so far that Iraq has decided in principle to provide cooperation on process, notably access.
A similar decision is indispensable to provide cooperation on substance in order to bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection and to bring the monitoring task on a firm course.
An initial minor step would be to adopt the long overdue legislation required by the resolutions. "
" In this updating, I'm bound, however, to register some problems. The first are related to two kinds of air operations. While we now have the technical capability to send a U-2 plane placed at our disposal for aerial imagery and for surveillance during inspections and have informed Iraq that we plan to do so, Iraq has refused to guarantee its safety unless a number of conditions are fulfilled.
As these conditions went beyond what is stipulated in Resolution 1441 and what was practiced by UNSCOM and Iraq in the past, we note that Iraq is not so far complying with our requests. I hope this attitude will change. "
" I'm obliged to note some recent disturbing incidents and harassment. For instance, for some time farfetched allegations have been made publicly that questions posed by inspectors were of an intelligence character. While I might not defend every question that inspectors might have asked, Iraq knows that they do not serve intelligence purposes and Iraq should not say so."
" Demonstrations and outbursts of this kind are unlikely to occur in Iraq with initiative or encouragement from the authorities. We must ask ourselves what the motives may be for these events. They do not facilitate an already difficult job, in which we try to be effective, professional, and at the same time correct. Where our Iraqi counterparts have some complaint, they can take it up in a calmer and less unpleasant manner."
" These reports do not contend that weapons of mass destruction remain in Iraq, but nor do they exclude that possibility. They point to a lack of evidence and inconsistencies which raise question marks which must be straightened out if weapons dossiers are to be closed and confidence is to arise. They deserve to be taken seriously by Iraq, rather than being brushed aside as evil machinations of UNSCOM.
Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration, most of which is a reprint of earlier documents, does not seem to contain any new evidence that will eliminate the questions or reduce their number."
" I turn to biological weapons. I mention the issue of anthrax to the council on previous occasions, and I come back to it as it is an important one. Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 liters of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991.
Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction. "
If he is violating the cease fire agreements then he needs to be taken out. Part of those agreements were that he wouldn't invade other countries anymore. So if he can violate some terms with impunity why not others? Iraq takes out Kuwait and SA and mines the oil rigs and we've got to kowtow to Saddam forever.
Agreed that war is the health of the state but you lose sight that we can actually lose this war and the powers that be certainly don't want that. It is important to understand what kind of 2nd class jim crow like system these islamist nutcases want to impose on us.
Islam has this unfortunate tendency to kill its reformers. When we get the balls to host all the heretics and protect their lives by going after those who issue death fatwas against them, the war will soon be over.
All that needs happen is for people to start realizing that muslims don't have 1st amendment protection equal to jews and christians. It's not government repression that's the problem though, it's that our govt. doesn't take it as seriously when an islamic jurist sentences a US citizen to death as they would if the Archbishop of Canterbury would do it.
You wouldn't be surprised but you obviously have no clue. If we hadn't opened up our gates and let in foreign scientists we wouldn't have ever had an atomic bomb in time to avoid an invasion of Japan. How many non-immigrants *were* there on the core team? That's wartime immigration policy. Certainly, I'd change immigration policy but I'd reshape it so that those who want to come here, make a buck, and go home and fix their own countries are encouraged to do so without having to pay snakeheads or coyotes.
Not only are you an ac ass but you obviously are young and weren't around in the 70s or early 80s. This recession is *nothing* compared to the crap that happened then. People are really hungry? Then why is it that so many poor people are obese? They have a higher obesity rate than the non-poor.
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I'd actually have more hope in the (R) side of the Congress to fix the DMCA than the (D) side but the Senate's so finely balanced that anything that isn't very high priority just simply isn't going to get through.
Let's face it, nasty as the DMCA is, judge confirmations, the budget, and the war all outrank fixing it.
for 6 years the Iraqis claimed they have 0, null, zero, zip active in biowarfare. Then a defector appeared who worked high up in the program and spilled the beans. The Iraqis then admitted to running a program. The same was true for their nuclear and chemical programs.
The production paperwork for an awful lot of Vx gas was discovered by the last round of inspectors but there never was any provision of proof of destruction. Vx is very nasty stuff and enough is in Iraq's hands to make the populations of a few cities completely disappear. Then there's the mustard gas, the anthrax, the botulin (sp?) toxin, and the list goes on.
The cooperation is nowhere near as good as it gets. Take a look at South Africa for a practical example of a better situation of disarmament cooperation or even Romania which had a nuclear program that successfully seperated U-235 (the one part of the nuclear production chain that Saddam hasn't figured out). They announced that the previous (communist) govt. had a nuclear program, brought the IAEA inspectors to the labs, helped the IAEA inspectors pick their jaws off the floor when they saw what was there and shut it all down. They ended up getting a nice CANDU nuclear complex out of it all (Cernavoda 1-4) which is exactly how the NPT treaty is supposed to work. Small states stay non-nuclear in exchange for help with peaceful nuclear programs for energy.
Well, it could be if a government decided to make it an official uniform. Take a look at the history of uniforms sometimes. Some of them are downright bizarre (US civil war stuff at the beginning included some real screamers).
Actually I don't feel sorry for H-1b holders. I think they get a good deal and so does the US. The US is running a society where several industries (technology is only one of them) simply don't have enough US residents/citizens that are qualified. A US green card doesn't make you qualified to work as a medical doctor. Not enough people are signing up for medical school to serve the US population. So how many people need to die for lack of medical care just to make sure no foreigner is taking a US job?
As for oil factoring into our Iraq position, do you deny that we treat the democratic aspirations in Saudi Arabia different than Poland 15 years ago? Why? It was about oil then and it's about oil now. The US kowtows to tyrants only when it absolutely must. With Iraq free, it's likely that we won't have to do that to the same extent anymore. What's so wrong with no longer betraying your principles?
Frankly, I don't have much hope of reaching you either. You're too brainwashed in reflexive anti-americanism. Good luck and I hope you come over to the side of good soon.
You obviously have no knowledge of the oil market.
The only oil exports we make are to Japan because it's cheaper to ship oil from Alaska to Japan and buy Venezuelan crude to replace it than for Japan to buy it from the Middle East and pay the pirate tax for shipping it through the Straights of Malacca. And btw, Russia is a major oil exporter and competitor to Iraq. I'm pretty sure they're not getting Iraqi oil except in lieu of cash for the money the USSR fronted them during the Cold War.
Beyond that, Iraq can't control where it's oil is going after they sell it. Price differentials just don't work because the low price consumers will up their buys and resell at a profit to the high price consumers.
Get a clue
World peace was at stake in 1991 with the swallowing of Kuwait. We never signed a peace treaty with Saddam and neither has anybody else. He's in power only because we signed a cease fire and the UN went along with that.
When you have a cease fire in a war and one side violates the terms, the rule is simple, the other side gets to resume hostilities immediately. The US has bent over backwards to try to avoid war, Sec Council res 1441 is just the most recent example.
That doesn't fix anything. The US isn't the only one with satellites. Can you imagine the furor if two days later Russia addresses the Security Council and says, here's *our* satellite photos of the same area at the same timestamp and the US simply lied about the evidence.
It would stop the drive for war with Iraq dead. By june, Iraq wouldn't even have sanctions against it. No US govt. official is going to sabotage US foreign policy that badly by presenting evidence that can be easily checked.
You have not been paying attention. Saddam's already been caught post Kuwait with active WMD programs because defectors who had worked in those programs told earlier inspectors where to look. We're talking tons of chemical weapons and no convincing evidence that they were ever destroyed. This is what the current inspectors are saying, not the US administration or some outside hardliner.
A little basic fairness would be in order.