I think you are arguing from the perspective of Common law which does not apply in Germany. Here, judges and courts in general have much more freedom in discovering the truth during trials, they may ask questions, they may ask for more information. And we are happy they do so.
I don't recall anybody saying "What a pity Opel decided to use a cheaper identical product rather than a more expensive one". What they said was "Great, we have a long term contract, a patent and an unassailable technical lead."
Are we talking about the same Opel that lost the quality race in Germany in the 90's in all fields? The same Opel that is almost certainly bankrupt no later than Q2 2009 because we do not like to buy their cars anymore?
Not promptly providing access is proof they are trying to hide something.
Now this sounds a bit too much like a conspiracy.
Maybe the factory director didn't get the memo? Maybe he was on a walk and the security guy at the front door wasn't authorized. Maybe there was absolutely no one there? Maybe the director was with a boy at the time and feared his fellow co-workers? Who knows? Hans Blix certainly wasn't too much worried about that little slip.
I also notice that you let go of all your initial arguments. Already convinced?
This is key, it doesn't take more than one location to hide bio weapons.
Starting a war because someone did not give access promptly to one site for inspection sounds rather harsh, doesn't it? That sounds more like a rationale and not like a reason.
Just being in the country doesn't mean that they were able to do any actual inspecting.
Hans Blix said himself, that "Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well". Furthermore "access has been provided to all sites" and "with one exception it has been prompt." Source
On top of that, how do you know the citizens didn't support it?
These historical huge demonstrations of concerned citizens were a dead giveaway, weren't they?
and every other country in the world that invaded Iraq with the US,
While there were certain governments to support the invasions, the citizens of these countries did not.
not due to WMD's, but due to Saddam not allowing UN weapons inspectors in. Iraq was not a sovereign nation, it was part of a ceasefire agreement where they promised to allow weapons inspectors in, and when they refused, they were then subject to the consequences.
Which is another apparent falsehood on your side. There were UN weapons inspectors in Iraq until few days before the invasion. The "coalition of the willing" regularly denounced any Iraqi efforts to follow agreements. I remember very well the day when Iraq gave thousands of pages of protocols and archive data to the United Nations. The coalition did not even read anything of it before condemning the material as untrustworthy.
I think you are misled here. The Hitler diaries were an extreme failure for Stern. Their circulation dropped down to below 1Mio from previously almost 2 million sold copies. They never recovered and still sell less then 1M.
There were great discussions about our educational system after our terrible PISA results (I for one think it is a statistical problem). A lot of politicians believe that a all-day school system would help.
I believe that pupils should be slotted at least 2 years later, parents should care for their children again and education should be better standardized between the states. Especially our school books are a mess, teachers are forced to base their lessons on copies from other sources too often.
A lot of people in Germany don't go to a College after normal school/gymnasium but start an apprenticeship which is a semi school/job training where one already receives money. That seems to be very effective.
And they want to displace our 4 year Diplom system at universities with a 3+2 year Bachelor/Master system, which should be seen in about 20 years as a terrible mistake.
In Germany (no, data does not search you) it is forbidden to gather more information than necessary. We call that principle "Datensparsamkeit" (data frugality).
And it is not allowed to give information away or even sell them (that is only allowed for public available information)
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I think you are arguing from the perspective of Common law which does not apply in Germany. Here, judges and courts in general have much more freedom in discovering the truth during trials, they may ask questions, they may ask for more information. And we are happy they do so.
Are we talking about the same Opel that lost the quality race in Germany in the 90's in all fields? The same Opel that is almost certainly bankrupt no later than Q2 2009 because we do not like to buy their cars anymore?
UN-support, popular support, "Saddam not allowing UN weapons inspectors in". You mentioned some reasons for the war and they are all gone. What now?
Did Iraq look particularly well managed to you? And I just gave you some examples that you cannot go from one rather minor problem to full warfare.
Now this sounds a bit too much like a conspiracy.
Maybe the factory director didn't get the memo? Maybe he was on a walk and the security guy at the front door wasn't authorized. Maybe there was absolutely no one there? Maybe the director was with a boy at the time and feared his fellow co-workers? Who knows? Hans Blix certainly wasn't too much worried about that little slip.
I also notice that you let go of all your initial arguments. Already convinced?
Starting a war because someone did not give access promptly to one site for inspection sounds rather harsh, doesn't it? That sounds more like a rationale and not like a reason.
Hans Blix said himself, that "Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well". Furthermore "access has been provided to all sites" and "with one exception it has been prompt." Source
These historical huge demonstrations of concerned citizens were a dead giveaway, weren't they?
The united nations were far away from supporting the invasion of Iraq. This Guardian article explains the details.
While there were certain governments to support the invasions, the citizens of these countries did not.
Which is another apparent falsehood on your side. There were UN weapons inspectors in Iraq until few days before the invasion. The "coalition of the willing" regularly denounced any Iraqi efforts to follow agreements. I remember very well the day when Iraq gave thousands of pages of protocols and archive data to the United Nations. The coalition did not even read anything of it before condemning the material as untrustworthy.
I think you are misled here. The Hitler diaries were an extreme failure for Stern. Their circulation dropped down to below 1Mio from previously almost 2 million sold copies. They never recovered and still sell less then 1M.
Do we have a different understanding of the word
"system"?
You are excluding an important aspect, while
characterising: You speak only of the help that this
health care system can provide.
I speak also of the people who can affort this help.
Because the United States maybe have the best Health Care System money can buy.
Not the best Health Care System in general.
A health care system where millions of people
are not included is not really worth the name.
You are right in your main points.
Just some supplements:
There were great discussions about our educational system after our terrible PISA results (I for one think it is a statistical problem). A lot of politicians believe that a all-day school system would help.
I believe that pupils should be slotted at least 2 years later, parents should care for their children again and education should be better standardized between the states. Especially our school books are a mess, teachers are forced to base their lessons on copies from other sources too often.
A lot of people in Germany don't go to a College after normal school/gymnasium but start an apprenticeship which is a semi school/job training where one already receives money. That seems to be very effective.
And they want to displace our 4 year Diplom system at universities with a 3+2 year Bachelor/Master system, which should be seen in about 20 years as a terrible mistake.
In Germany (no, data does not search you) it is forbidden to gather more information than necessary. We call that principle "Datensparsamkeit" (data frugality).
And it is not allowed to give information away or even sell them (that is only allowed for public available information)