Yeah, denu, xxx i hate to argue, but i can't keep my effin mouth shut!!!
MMI, i believe what Master was saying about the election year is that it's the cherry on top of the whole reasoning process for not rounding folks up like they did back then. GWBitch (btw i posted a joke in the Biker Jokes thread about him lol) has some low ratings and has had the same low ratings for years now. He promised to get the terrorists...Osama, in particular...now almost 8 years and nothing. Funny, our Prez can't find Osama, but the guy who did that show, "Supersize Me", says he saw the bastard and has 15 minutes of footage to prove it, to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival...wonder if that's true?
Donald Rumsfeld was the one blamed for the false intelligence according to NPR...and GWBoob just followed along - it supported what he wanted to do anyway. i must state though, that i find it interesting that if Saddam had no WMDs, why did he disallow the UN inspectors and begin trucking everything from his warehouse (for lack of a better term) immediately? They did find remnants of supplies used to build certain WMDs. Sounds to me like a "breach of contract" since Saddam himself agreed that he would no longer *dabble* in this sort of thing, in order to be free from some of the sanctions that had been laid upon him (and his people) for his basically childish way of running his country.
i do believe that if the draft was brought back, and NO exceptions allowed, there would be many more children of these politicians involved in the war...then they might be a bit more sparing with the amount of troops they are willing to risk at war...and how many prisoners get tortured, as well, since the possibility of their own kin being treated the same way.
Thanks for looking at my links, i hope they are all helpful. Some of them i've read and some i just scanned, but i found them all interesting. Here is another, to a site that appears to be quite informative, as far as this issue, and others raised in this thread, are concerned....
http://www.globalsecurity.org/
But particularly these...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...guidelines.htm
(you'll need to read the PDFs to see the whole thing)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/securi...1211-voa01.htm
If you use the search function on this site and type in waterboarding, you will find all sorts of interesting things about it. The more i view this particualr site, the more i like it.
i guess i'm not gonna withdraw. LOL. Like i said before, i can't keep my trap shut.