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Originally posted by The Godfather of Conspira
reply to post by jsobecky
Alright let's fan the flames of patriotism here a bit...
Saddam used some of them on his own people, the UN inspectors destroyed some of them, the rest are probably in Syria.
How could the Inspectors destroy them if they admit they found almost no evidence of WMD's and they were forced to leave early?
www.cbsnews.com...
Kind of hard to destroy something you can't find?
Even the Heads of the Inspection Team admit there was little compelling evidence to invade Iraq on in 2003. www.cnn.com...
I think it's safe to say the judgment of the Inspection Team supersedes your clouded and misguided comments.
UNSCOM inspection activities and Coalition military strikes destroyed most of its prohibited ballistic missiles and some Gulf war-era chemical and biological munitions, but Iraq still has a small force of extended-range Scud-variant missiles, chemical precursors, biological seed stock, and thousands of munitions suitable for chemical and biological agents.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Stop The Presses! News Alert!
The contest for the most idiotic, harebrained statement ever posted on ATS is NOW CLOSED.
We have an undeniable WINNER! Nobody can top StellarX!
I'm not even going to respond to the rest ( i.e., "Saddam was benevolent ) of your post because a) it's really insane and b) I'm still laughing too hard at what you already said.
And to think you actually got starred for it.:shk:
Buh-bye.
This social history is confirmed in the efforts of the government to generalize opportunities for basic education throughout the country. Between 1976 and 1986, the number of primary-school students increased 30 percent; female students increased 45 percent, from 35 to 44 percent of the total. The number of primary-school teachers increased 40 percent over this period. At the secondary level, the number of students increased by 46 percent, and the number of female students increased by 55 percent, from 29 to 36 percent of the total. Baghdad, which had about 29 percent of the population, had 26 percent of the primary students, 27 percent of the female primary students, and 32 percent of the secondary students.
With the outbreak of the war, the government faced a difficult dilemma regarding education. Despite the shortage of wartime manpower, the regime was unwilling to tap the pool of available university students, arguing that these young people were Iraq's hope for the future. As of early 1988, therefore, the government routinely exempted students from military service until graduation, a policy it adhered to rigorously.
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by TheNetherlands
You guys ILLEGALLY invaded a country
you guys forced other country's like mine to participate in that illegal and outrageous war
You are not the World Police
so stop DICTATING other country's yourselves.
you want Iran to stop making nucleair weapons because hey, only you guys may have them.
you guys putted the whole planet on flames.
I am so sick of the american arrogance...
#ing get your own # together
and leave other people on the other side of the planet alone.
People are dying everywhere, because of you guys.
1 - The war was approved by our government so according to our laws, it was not illegal as far as the USA is concerned.
2 - The UN, and any country on this planet that you can name, has NO BUSINESS telling us what we can or can't do. Our soverignty is NOT in your hands, or the hands of the UN, or anyone else.
3 - The UN doesn't run the world. It's rules are a paper tiger. It means nothing.
1 - It's not illegal.
2 - It's not 'outrageous'.
3 - No one forced your country to go to war. It decided to all on it's own.
So YOU stop DICTATING what American can and can't do. Open your eyes and take a look around. Every country not of the third world takes care of international business to make things best for their own country.
Wrong. It's because Iran can't be trusted with nuclear weapons. Their leadership is whack. Completely whack.
AND it's leadership has, many times, called for the destruction of America. OF COURSE we aren't going to want them to have have nuclear weapons.
And we are sick of foreign arrogance telling US what to do .. and sick of foreigners blaming US for everything wrong in the world ... and sick of foreigners siding with terrorist maggots like the PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
Originally posted by The Godfather of Conspira
The UN may not mean much,
America has no business invading a sovereign nation with no proper justification
and defying 130 other countries
so they can sit atop the world's second largest reserve of oil and make record profits for their oil-addicted, Republican Administration.
Invading another country just so you can plunder their natural resources and make record oil profits,
America needs to stop dictating Foreign Policy for other nations and how people 10,000 miles away should live and under what government.
To my knowledge the only nation whose used Nuclear Weapons is the Yanks, correct? If anyone's not be trusted with 14,000 Nukes it's the USA.
Which has been debunked about 20,000 times now:
The Arab World is sick of Americans.
Their sick of you and your Oil-addicted nation
The greatest threat to stability in the Middle East….
They're sick of being told how they should live their lives by Western Standards.
People in the Middle East have been living by Quran for 1,500 years and if you think you can bomb that lifestyle out of them then get the hell off the computer and travel more.
You guys gave the perfect justification for all those "terrorists" and "whackjobs" …
You sure know how to make Muslims feel warm and fuzzy!!
Originally posted by AceWombat04
Wow.
I read through this entire topic, and all I saw were people condemning one opinions for not aligning with their own.
I read countless posts which were entirely off topic, and instead resorted to borderline-personal-attacks that are just formal enough to avoid getting warns, attacking people's intellect, views, politics, ethics, and feelings, rather than discussing the topic of Saddam's fear of AIDS while in custody.
This is addressed to both "sides" of the debate I witnessed raging herein:
Just because you all disagree with one another, it doesn't automatically render the holder of those differing views less intelligent, informed, or experienced.
People are different. People can have an equal sum of experience, be equally intelligent as you, and be privy to all of the same information as you, and STILL come away with a perspective completely contrary to your own.
Why? Because people are diverse, and diversity is what makes communities like this one strong (in my opinion.)
People always seem to assume that if someoe does't believe what you do, then they must somehow lack something that you have. How conceited, in my opinion.
No doubt someone will now rebut, "And your own off topic post contributed how exactly?" or something along those lines. I would argue that that would be to totally avoid and deflect my point, however. (Which is, of course, your right... but I hope you will consider what I have said at least.)
That's all I have to "contribute" to this thread and others like it. *sigh*
Originally posted by FlyersFan
1 - The war was approved by our government so according to our laws, it was not illegal as far as the USA is concerned.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
2 - The UN, and any country on this planet that you can name, has NO BUSINESS telling us what we can or can't do. Our soverignty is NOT in your hands, or the hands of the UN, or anyone else.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
3 - The UN doesn't run the world. It's rules are a paper tiger. It means nothing.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
you guys forced other country's like mine to participate in that illegal and outrageous war
1 - It's not illegal.
2 - It's not 'outrageous'.
3 - No one forced your country to go to war. It decided to all on it's own.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
You are not the World Police
Neither is the UN.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
so stop DICTATING other country's yourselves.
You are acting like the USA is the only country on the planet that moves things internationally to best advantage itself. Guess what ... EVERY first world country ... and many second world countries ... do! EVERY stink'n one of them. Every country does what it best for itself.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
you want Iran to stop making nucleair weapons because hey, only you guys may have them.
:shk: Wrong. It's because Iran can't be trusted with nuclear weapons. Their leadership is whack. Completely whack. AND it's leadership has, many times, called for the destruction of America. OF COURSE we aren't going to want them to have have nuclear weapons. (duh!)
Originally posted by FlyersFan
America has had nukes for 60 years. We can be trusted with them.
Iran can't. It's as simple as that.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
you guys putted the whole planet on flames.
WRONG. Radical Islam has the world in flames and the streets running with blood. They were at it long before we came along and they'll be at it long after America is gone.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
I am so sick of the american arrogance...
And we are sick of foreign arrogance telling US what to do .. and sick of foreigners blaming US for everything wrong in the world ... and sick of foreigners siding with terrorist maggots like the PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
and leave other people on the other side of the planet alone.
We will when they leave us and our part of the world alone. Which is something other countries have NEVER done. NEVER.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
People are dying everywhere, because of you guys.
:shk: People are dying everywhere because of RADICAL ISLAM.
People are being helped and are LIVING everywhere because of the generosity of American citizens.