Lets start back there with...Piggy!
I could talk about Palestine and Israel but it's too broad a subject to get into here.
Well I'm not surprised you want to avoid that subject Piggy. You're pretty quick to blame it all on the Yanks, but when some counter arguments are presented you run away.
And you say it "..remains to be seen" if democracy works in Afghanistan?
Man...its already working! They just held FREE, FAIR and
PEACEFUL democratic elections in the country and elected a democratic leadership. Anyone who attempts to depose that democratic government is no 'freedom fighter' as you would call them, but terrorists and criminals.
I just had a look at all those links you provided.
Did you actually read the texts you propose to defend your points with? They seem to run counter to your own argument!
Let me demonstrate:
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"With JSOW (Cluster Bombs) we can attack SAMs [surface-to-air missiles] from well outside the threat rings and destroy rather than suppress" the target, a Navy document notes. In other words, years of bombing in Iraq have had less than spectacular results of Iraq’s air defenses and the U.S. military is looking for some way of causing more permanent damage to the country's military capabilities. On average 5 percent do not detonate.
So the US military defines the target of JSOWs as military installations - not personnel! And in no place in that article does it say that the US has ever used them to TARGET civilians. The 5% fail rate of detonations is the cause of rare civilian casualties after the fact. Civilians walking into target areas afterward and picking up unexploded munitions.
That can happen with any kind of explosive weapon Piggy. Perhaps you've heard, but they still have to carry out mine clearing and bomb disposal from First and Second World War munitions!
95% detonation rate is very high, and accuracy is better than you get with your average terrorist car bomb.
Piggylink
American pilots dropped the controversial incendiary agent napalm on Iraqi troops during the advance on Baghdad. The attacks caused massive fireballs that obliterated several Iraqi positions.
And your problem with this is....????
Regarding Depleted Uranium. This is a heavy metal used to tip certain armour piercing shells. Those shells are highly succesful in killing Tanks, hardened bunkers and Armored weapons. They are a key weapon therefore in battlefield warfare.
The uranium tip emits low level radiation (that is - Alpha radiation) - which also forms the background radiation we live with every day, and which is also emitted by common appliances in the home such as TVs.
According to Prof Ian McAulay of Dublin's Trinity University who carried out the EU study:
"I don't think there is any reason to be afraid - in the case of the average back garden, there is as much uranium as you would find in a shell" !!
BBC Article
Anotherperson:
Oh, when were the trials then? - I must of missed those.
I believe trials are starting - with Moussaoui, the 20th WTC hijacker who missed his flight. I guess they'll all get a fair trial in the end. I'm not sure they deserve it personally. I hope Moussaoui gets the death sentence he richly deserves.
Marie:
Asimov - I wonder if you have any theories as to why George W. Bush, intolerant of what he felt to be the slowness of the work of the UN Weapons Inspectors led by Hans Bick, did not propose sorting his differences with Saddam Hussein out around a negotiating table?.........
Actually Marie, if you would just read my posts you'll already know that I did not support the invasion of Iraq...I'll remind you....."I think it is a bloody waste of young American lives and a lot of taxpayers money." (pg 4 11/11/04 1:33 am).
I'd have just let the Iraqis stew under Saddam, and encouraged him to continue fighting the Iranians.
Much more productive to see them killing each other.
To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson..."I don't see why young American boys should be doin' for the Iraqis what they oughtta be doin' for themselves."
Shnaek:
I think I've answered your point in what I've written above.
Our system of rights works when people respect the system from both sides. The animals caught fighting out of uniform would have just been summarily executed in past wars. Shot as spies or saboteurs. Unfortunately we don't do that any more. Instead we give them clean clothes, food, a bed and a fair hearing. And we then let them go to attack us again!
U.S. military officials say that despite being freed in exchange for signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.
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I have a deep and abiding hatred of people who creep around in the dark, stabbing in the back, planting bombs that are INTENDED to kill civilians, murdering innocent men by gruesome evil decapitations, always hiding their face and fading away when faced with an opponent who will fight them standing up and face to face.
They aren't 'freedom fighters' - they are bullies and cowards!
I would love to be one of those Marines in Fallujah getting real payback from those s**ts. What a pleasure that would be, to put a bullet in one of them myself.