"Some people now think that this was a very clear, open-and-shut case. We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors. We had evidence that they had a lot of bad stuff for a very long time which we discovered after the first Gulf War. Knowing that he was a megalomaniac, knowing he would not want to compete for attention with Osama bin Laden, there were legitimate concerns about what he might do. So, I think I made a reasoned judgment. Unfortunately, the person who actually got to execute the policy did not."
Hillary either has the experience in her "term" in the white house, or she is ignorant.
There was no reason to invade Iraq. If Hillary has or had the experience, she knew damn well that Iraq wasn't a threat. There was no link to Al-Qaeda. The UN weapon inspections had worked and ascertained a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. We went in there, and guess what? No WMDS... surprise, surprise...
What did she expect was going to happen when giving an administration, who was outright lying about intelligence, authorization to go to war and to preemptively invade? Could she not see the megalomaniac(s) that were in the executive office? After all the inspections and dealings with Iraq during the Clinton administration she could not see though the Bush administration's bullshit? Come on.
Either she made the vote for her own political gain, or she believed in the actual rational behind the invasion, that perhaps US economic hegemony was more important than the lives of our US service men and women and the lives of countless Iraqi civilians.
How can you exercise your rights when you have absolutely no means to?
How can one persons rights (the fetus) supercede or even be equaled to anothers (the mother) when it is explicitly dependent on another human for it's existence?
The mother already lives and has a life in which to exercise her rights. Pregnancy is a burden, and can even be life threatening. This is where we get "except when it threatens the life of the mother". So, there is a common idea that a mothers right to live supercedes the right of the unborn child's right to live.
Humans have mastered many things when it comes to living and surviving on the earth. Much of the earth's surface is covered by farms to feed us. We have dominated much of the globe and pushed other species out, even to extinction. I believe our lives, realities, and species would be best served if we were to support, not just allow but support, a woman who believes she is not capable of caring for a child and committing part of her life to the child in a positive manner just as much as we support couples who have committed to each other and their child.
I do agree with the right to live as a basis to all our other rights, but I believe the mothers right to life and her quality of life supercedes that of the unborn fetus. I believe that we are better off with less people than human life being brought up in negative environments.
The woman should always have the right to choose. She should also be responsible in her decision and terminate the pregnancy as early as possible.
First, last time I checked, there is currently a "backdoor draft" with regards to the military's "stop-loss" program to involuntarily extend enlistments. I believe there is cause for concern for American's being enlisted in the military involuntarily.
Second, it's the "liberal media" showing sex and violence on satellite TV that is the motivating factor of terrorist acts?!? Where'd ya get that info? Did you ever think that it may have to do with the U.S. foreign policy and how the U.S. government and U.S. corporations conduct themselves throughout the world?
Oh wait, I forgot, they hate us because we love freedom.
Those silly Muslim masochists...
Third, that liberal media is trying to say that the economy is bad, huh? Of course a $7.4 trillion debt and $500 billion deficit aren't anything to worry about down the road. We'll be able to pay that off from the new founded tourism from people in other nations with outsourced American jobs!
Fourth, it's one thing to be liked or not liked. I don't always like other people I work with, but I still work with them. Unlike the Bush administration who, as with the Kyoto Protocol, just walks away instead of at least trying to work with the other nations toward something positive. Nope, their way or the highway, period. It's not a matter of world appeasement, but of cooperation. The Bush administration was going to war in Iraq no matter what the world had to say about it. It would seem their main issue was appeasement to the American public, not the UN. Their method of appeasement was deception and blatant lies. We impeached Clinton over lies under oath. Of course, that is much worse than lies to the American public and the world.
Fifth, Bush's tax cut's didn't contribute to the deficit? What about the war in Iraq that we are footing the majority of the bill for?
Finally, I guess some of us do listen to what "they" tell us, which is better than listening to what one single administration says and propagates.
What he does say is: On the Internet, this card will confirm all the information required to gain access to
a state network -- while also barring anyone who isn't legal age from entering an adult chat
room, making the internet safer for our children, or prevent adults from entering a
children's chat room and preying on our kids.
I believe Dean is arguing that people need a more secure identity to prevent identity theft and the like.
Perhaps an RSA or DSA private key instead of a SSN number or Drivers License, where I could distribute public keys to those that need to authenticate me?
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"Some people now think that this was a very clear, open-and-shut case. We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors. We had evidence that they had a lot of bad stuff for a very long time which we discovered after the first Gulf War. Knowing that he was a megalomaniac, knowing he would not want to compete for attention with Osama bin Laden, there were legitimate concerns about what he might do. So, I think I made a reasoned judgment. Unfortunately, the person who actually got to execute the policy did not."
Hillary either has the experience in her "term" in the white house, or she is ignorant.
There was no reason to invade Iraq. If Hillary has or had the experience, she knew damn well that Iraq wasn't a threat. There was no link to Al-Qaeda. The UN weapon inspections had worked and ascertained a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. We went in there, and guess what? No WMDS... surprise, surprise...
What did she expect was going to happen when giving an administration, who was outright lying about intelligence, authorization to go to war and to preemptively invade? Could she not see the megalomaniac(s) that were in the executive office? After all the inspections and dealings with Iraq during the Clinton administration she could not see though the Bush administration's bullshit? Come on.
Either she made the vote for her own political gain, or she believed in the actual rational behind the invasion, that perhaps US economic hegemony was more important than the lives of our US service men and women and the lives of countless Iraqi civilians.
I for one, will not support Clinton.
Here's a good link on this topic:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/02/6802/
I know Lacerte 2004 and older will not work with IE 7.
Also Quickbooks 2005 and prior also will not work with IE 7.
See also:
http://smalltechnotes.blogspot.com/2006/10/quickbooks-and-internet-explorer-7.html
How can you exercise your rights when you have absolutely no means to?
How can one persons rights (the fetus) supercede or even be equaled to anothers (the mother) when it is explicitly dependent on another human for it's existence?
The mother already lives and has a life in which to exercise her rights. Pregnancy is a burden, and can even be life threatening. This is where we get "except when it threatens the life of the mother". So, there is a common idea that a mothers right to live supercedes the right of the unborn child's right to live.
I believe people should have children when they are able to raise them and take care of them, when they are able to commit part of their lives to this other person. People should not be having children simply because they engaged in sexual activities, be it irresponsibly or responsibly (54% of women having an abortion said they used some form of contraception during the month they became pregnant).
Humans have mastered many things when it comes to living and surviving on the earth. Much of the earth's surface is covered by farms to feed us. We have dominated much of the globe and pushed other species out, even to extinction. I believe our lives, realities, and species would be best served if we were to support, not just allow but support, a woman who believes she is not capable of caring for a child and committing part of her life to the child in a positive manner just as much as we support couples who have committed to each other and their child.
I do agree with the right to live as a basis to all our other rights, but I believe the mothers right to life and her quality of life supercedes that of the unborn fetus. I believe that we are better off with less people than human life being brought up in negative environments.
The woman should always have the right to choose. She should also be responsible in her decision and terminate the pregnancy as early as possible.
Truly informed about the world around you?
First, last time I checked, there is currently a "backdoor draft" with regards to the military's "stop-loss" program to involuntarily extend enlistments. I believe there is cause for concern for American's being enlisted in the military involuntarily.
Second, it's the "liberal media" showing sex and violence on satellite TV that is the motivating factor of terrorist acts?!? Where'd ya get that info? Did you ever think that it may have to do with the U.S. foreign policy and how the U.S. government and U.S. corporations conduct themselves throughout the world?
Oh wait, I forgot, they hate us because we love freedom.
Those silly Muslim masochists...
Third, that liberal media is trying to say that the economy is bad, huh? Of course a $7.4 trillion debt and $500 billion deficit aren't anything to worry about down the road. We'll be able to pay that off from the new founded tourism from people in other nations with outsourced American jobs!
Fourth, it's one thing to be liked or not liked. I don't always like other people I work with, but I still work with them. Unlike the Bush administration who, as with the Kyoto Protocol, just walks away instead of at least trying to work with the other nations toward something positive. Nope, their way or the highway, period. It's not a matter of world appeasement, but of cooperation. The Bush administration was going to war in Iraq no matter what the world had to say about it. It would seem their main issue was appeasement to the American public, not the UN. Their method of appeasement was deception and blatant lies. We impeached Clinton over lies under oath. Of course, that is much worse than lies to the American public and the world.
Fifth, Bush's tax cut's didn't contribute to the deficit? What about the war in Iraq that we are footing the majority of the bill for?
Finally, I guess some of us do listen to what "they" tell us, which is better than listening to what one single administration says and propagates.
You'd even need it to access the internet...
This does not appear in his speech.
I'm not sure where Declan McCullagh got that...
What he does say is:
On the Internet, this card will confirm all the information required to gain access to a state network -- while also barring anyone who isn't legal age from entering an adult chat room, making the internet safer for our children, or prevent adults from entering a children's chat room and preying on our kids.
I believe Dean is arguing that people need a more secure identity to prevent identity theft and the like.
Perhaps an RSA or DSA private key instead of a SSN number or Drivers License, where I could distribute public keys to those that need to authenticate me?