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Originally posted by SIRR1
This document protects heads of state and their assistants from legal issues resulting from a countries actions.
Right or wrong heads of states are protected.
Saddam Hussein was not the President of Iraq, he was not an elected leader under a free democratic process.
Why do you think Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is spouting off about Israel, Mahmoud is the elected leader of Iran and he is protected by diplomatic Immunity.
If you don't like your leadership run for office, get involved and change the world or shut up !
Originally posted by SIRR1
Saddam Hussein was not the President of Iraq, he was not an elected leader under a free democratic process.
If you don't like your leadership run for office, get involved and change the world or shut up !
Originally posted by neformore
Originally posted by SIRR1
Saddam Hussein was not the President of Iraq, he was not an elected leader under a free democratic process.
Now....elected, maybe not, but then - and I hate to bring up this old chestnut - was Bush actually elected? Or did the supreme courts in the US make the decision whilst disregarding a whole load of evidence that something might just have been a teeny little bit amiss with the voting system?
Originally posted by SIRR1
Diplomatic Immunity
Originally posted by MysticalUnicorn
You can debate all you feel like, but when you call for the President of America to be hung, IT IS ANTI-AMERICAN!
Originally posted by LoneGunMan
Our leaders had a different agenda now didnt they?
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
He absolutely WAS the President of Iraq! Regardless how he came to be or whether you approve of it or not, that was his title. President. Of Iraq.
"Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein," Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983
Originally posted by LoneGunMan
Originally posted by MysticalUnicorn
You can debate all you feel like, but when you call for the President of America to be hung, IT IS ANTI-AMERICAN!
Why is that anti-American? These people that took power and ran this gret nation nearly in the ground are un-American, it would be very American to put these rabid dogs down.
Show the world WE do not take it well when dictators get into power and ruin our country in the eyes of the world. After 9/11 we had the world finally with us once again. Good LEADERSHIP would have kept this alive. Our leaders had a different agenda now didnt they?
Originally posted by GT100FV
dic·ta·tor (dĭk'tā'tər, dĭk-tā'-)
n.
An absolute ruler.
A tyrant; a despot.
I don't think that President Bush meets the qualifications here. This website wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't be having this discussion, if we were in fact under a tyrannical system.
Originally posted by number1hammer
The President of the United States dropped the ball in new orleans. Plain and simple. They knew a catastrophic storm was coming to the gulf coast region. And they were totally unprepared for the devastation that came. If you as teh president of the united states cant get the # done that needs to be done to get MORE than enough help to the gulf coast. You need to be held accountable. Now obviously you dont need the gallows. But he is the president. he should take accountability for the problem. not pass it on down the line. Most individual states do not have the funds, goods, services needed to take care of something that catastrophic.
Originally posted by number1hammer
That is why we pay federal taxes. I think natural disasters fall under that. There should have been more than enough helicoptors roaming the waters. More than enough mobile hospitals. More than enough clean water. More than enough buses.
More than enough food to eat. more than enough of everything that was goign to be needed to make that situation the best it could be. And he simply did not make sure that got done. You cannot argue that. People were straned in flood waters for weeks. Sitting on top of their houses for weeks. That is not exceptable.
In the United States, the head of the executive branch has the authority to declare a state of emergency. The President of the United States, a governor of a state, or even a local mayor may declare a state of emergency within his or her jurisdiction. This is relatively rare at the federal level, but quite common at the state level in response to natural disasters. Typically, a state of emergency empowers the executive to name coordinating officials to deal with the emergency and to override normal administrative processes regarding the passage of administrative rules.
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The courts in the United States are often very lenient in allowing almost any action to be taken in the case of such a declared emergency, if it is reasonably related.
Originally posted by marg6043
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Yes it was a time when The president of Iraq was not a bad person at all.
Originally posted by jaguarmike
If it weren't for a small group of England's population being "Un-English" we wouldn't have America!
[edit on 4-1-2007 by jaguarmike]
Originally posted by devilwasp
Originally posted by jaguarmike
If it weren't for a small group of England's population being "Un-English" we wouldn't have America!
[edit on 4-1-2007 by jaguarmike]
What you trying to imply?
Originally posted by GT100FV
.....The UN passed resolutions requiring Saddam to turn over WMD, or prove they'd been destroyed. He didn't(and they're likely in Syria and Iran, if not buried somewhere in Iraq).
Originally posted by jaguarmike
Saddam was silenced becuase he held trade secrets as a result of being in business with our military industrial complex. He was a murderer and a #ing horrible person yes, but at the level he played most are. When you play with billions and trillions and you're a horrible person people turn into cattle and lunch is served.
Bush should be tried under congress for impeachment on his NSA spy program, invading a country under false pretenses, and lying to the American people. No more, no less. The man should not be harmed whatsoever in my opinion. I'd think in our country we can resort to more ethical ways of punishing people who do wrong. Jail time/fines/no possibility for careers... oh wait Halliburton and Saudia Arabia... what a mess...
Originally posted by jaguarmike
Oh really?
www.counterpunch.org...
video: www.youtube.com...
funny video: www.youtube.com...
I win.
[edit on 4-1-2007 by jaguarmike]