Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
i dont think millions of dollars were spent on saddam's WMD trial do you?
Well no... I was talking about the scenario if he was brought into the US.
Joss Weatherby
Seeing that the original plan was to drop nearly a dozen GBU-31 on him... aka these...
...probably killing anyone within 200-400 meters of the compound in the process, I think the fact that he was armed or not when he was shot is rather ing moot, no?
Sanjoy
an old norwegian humor-sketch has suddenly gotten its revival :p
tranceevolution
Moral Hazard
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Originally posted by Sanjoy
an old norwegian humor-sketch has suddenly gotten its revival :p
I presume one must be Norwegian to see the humor.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Light The Fuse
so because your enemy does one thing this makes it okay for you to do it as well?
get out!
Best/most hopeful thing ive seen on the news so far was a New York woman who said - "Im never happy when another person dies - im not going to lie i dont feel bad about it - but im not celebrating his death either - and he was my brothers killer"
But yeah, from my vantage point some of the celebrations look exaclty fundamentalists in the middle east - and i guess they are they are the same except they be fundamentalists in the west.
meh fkn religon.
Except we didn't kill Osama and then publicly drag his corpse around through the streets whilst praising god that he's dead. I agree that there shouldn't be a huge celebration over somebody's death, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't glad he's dead. The world is a better place without him in it.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by The17sss
This is why you should go to college, if you really want to learn about history. Our public education system is a joke. I went to a private high school and got a lot more history study than what seems to be going on in public schools.
You're making an incredibly broad generalization about the public school system in America. There are tons of very good public schools. The vast majority of undergrads at top colleges in the US graduated from public schools.
Halcyon+On+On
There are many barbaric examples of what you're talking about, but the dragging of the corpses through the streets, the display on the bridge that you keep talking about - these are things that happened in Fallujah, where Blackwater contractors got their pushed in because they were firing on unarmed civilians.
It was not a good situation, but not so seemingly black and white.
srussell0018
Right, but as you said, that is most certainly not the only example of atrocities committed by terrorists on American soldiers/civilians. Does anybody remember the very public video of Daniel Pearl being beheaded by his captors? I don't know how anyone could possibly feel any remorse for the way that this operation was carried out. Do you think that if al-Qaeda somehow managed to assassinate Obama, that they'd clean his body and give him a proper burial, whether it be at sea or otherwise?
The17sss
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Originally posted by srussell0018
You're making an incredibly broad generalization about the public school system in America. There are tons of very good public schools. The vast majority of undergrads at top colleges in the US graduated from public schools.
I think the numbers speak for themselves regarding the staggering amount of money we spend on public education and the ty return on that investment. Look at graduation rates and standardized test scores by state, and look at our performance vs. other countries. But boy do our students have great self esteem numbers! Of course we have good schools and teachers. But we have a LOT of garbage too, and it's systemic.
