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First of all, you can stop with the "youngerster/youngin'/young man" crap. It doesn't matter what age any of us here are, only our knowledge of the subject at hand and maturity in the way we debate it.
It's just my way to say Sir or Miss without knowing your sex. Do you have another sugestion for that?
You are all young, not neccesarraly yuonger then me, but you're still young, so I yought "Young one" shuld be an OK word to use. I'll refere to you as Good miss, then, and guess that you're a woman.
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Actually, "Three Kings" was about a few soldiers who wanted to steal the gold that the Iraqis had stolen from Kuwait during their invasion. It centered around that, and the uprisings in smaller villages, but not on the revolution on a grander scale. America did tell the Iraqis to rise up against Saddam, but when they did--expecting American assistance--they were struck down and trampled, tortured, executed, and worse.
But then they ended up freeing some helpless people. People that were fighting becouse they had heard that they should have support from the US under the revolution. Help they didnt get. That's the part I reffered to, not the rest. I reffered to the movie from the middle to the ending, that, being the importance and impact of the movie.
If the US had helped the rebbels, the US would had done something nice. But by telling them to fight, they basically told them to jump on armed guns. These people were under-equiped. They were tortured indeed, I blame it all on the US.
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You're serious about this? Hell, I was being sarcastic, if you didn't notice.
Of course you was sarcastic, but it's my oppinion and yes, if many people did it, Iraqi rebels might have had gotten some backbone to stand upp against Saddam. They would then have asked for help, and the US soldiers would have been welcome, with the Russians, the Italians, the French, the German, the Danish, the Japanese, the Chinese and well, everyone that would like a nice revolution. I wouldnt count on the US on that as a revolution is gennerally looked uppon as being farly leftist, but Bush wanted a war, so they could agree on it.
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And by the way, random rapes may still be as frequent, but women no longer have to worry about being kidnapped and raped by entire squads of Iraqi Republican Guard soldiers. But letters like this haven't changed much of anything in the past, and they wouldn't change anything in this case--if you haven't noticed yet, violence is never a first resort.
But it isnt a last resort ether. Letters like this would potentially give influence to everyone who heard them. Surounding countries would care, the Iraqui's would even get to hear it if the message was sent at the corect TV chanel. If not, you could allways send a letter to Iraqui journualists with a nice video clipp. Much like what Osama Bin Laden does, but without the treats.
Rapes were even more frequent right after the war, and before the ellection. Things should be more normal now, tough.
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What? You want to KEEP some of they money you earn? You're evil! You're selfish! You're narcisitic! What kind of world would we live in, if people actually had a motivation to work?!? If one man's greater work ethic put him above another man's laziness? Oh, the horror--oh, the humanity!
I never said evil, you're just like the rest of them. People would work becouse they want to help other people. For survival, like wolfs in tribes, they hunt for food together. If one wolf is sent outside the tribe, that wolf is dead. We're a bit more intelligent so we wont die alone, but we'll hunt in a group, with society, if you get me.
As you're reffering to Socialism in most cases, you get to keep some of your money, but you have to give around 50% to the government. It isnt much, considdering all that the government gives back to you.
It's more socialist to have free health care then to force every civile habitant to pay for theyr own health care. Should rich people have right to higher medication? I think not.
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No, you're not taking from what another person has earned--you're taking from what every person has earned. And if you do a more valuable job than every other person, you get no reward for it--leading people to forsake the more difficult, more educated, more important jobs to go for the easier, more common jobs.
Not really, medics are farly common in Cuba.
And do you really think that a title is more important then civil rights?
Is a lawer more important then the smiling guy who serves food at a common resturant? Not really. Food coulnd be served without the waitress.
What about the bussenis man (edducation needed) in countrary to the artist (creativety needed)? The artist is, in my oppinoin, clearly more important, as he contributes more to society then the bussenis man.
The fundamental importance in this logic is that people are allways, whitout any exeption, more important then cash or any item.
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All men are created equal. Their lives place them on the level they should be, and seperate the equality we have at birth.
The level they should be? I strongly disagree!
They all play an importance to our society. Without the baker, people couldt get bread from the market. Without the garbage men, people would live in a more clean nature. There are people alive today that care for nature even tought caring for it dosnt putt you in a high job possition, I guess these people would still care if theyr title gave them as much importance as the medic.
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Yes, because we all know that everybody in Communist and Socialist countries just have the time of their lives every day, they couldn't be happier, right? :
Of course this is sacasm, but I didnt mean it like the time of theyr day. I ment it like, if everyone in those countries had free health care, they would be more happy then if everyone in those countries had to fight or sell theyr body just to cure theyr decease.
But of course, they can allways organize something funny with each other. You cant buy happyness etherway, what's the difference?
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Yes, your bills would all be taken care of--by everybody else. And you'd be paying everybody else's bills. Income would be distributed equally, and the entire population would be completely equal in their poverty.
When I said that bills would be payed by others, I ment that it would be more or less free. It's rather common these days that you can use stuff for free. Take the net, now we have broadband, what could also be distribuited for free by the government. The same could be done with electricity. Nothing to pay, really.
Completelly equal in their poverty and wealth, yes. What's the problem?
If they all can eat every day, I see no problem what so ever. If they get sick, they've got a cure for free, unless it's an incurable deseace of course. They'll live in a cleaner enviroment, and they'd just be happy with each other.
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If Hiroshima hadn't been nuked, the war would have went on for months, possibly years, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands more soldiers on both sides. By using (extreme) violence against the citizens of Japan, that was avoided. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it works.
That's brutal! I'd rather see 3.000 dead soldiers then 30 dead civiles. Years? not likelly WW2 didn't last long enugh for that. Months? possible.
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If you had a daughter that was brutally raped and mudered, you would shame your family by placing more value on the life of the rapist/muderer than the life of your daughter, and I pray nobody like you ever breeds.
I wouldnt shame my family! I would not put more value in the raper, I'd just put enugh value in him not to get him killed. That would be more a honour then a shame, really. Strenght is to forgive. My family, as far as I can rememmber, has allways been opposed to death penality.
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According to your illogic, that would be forcing something upon those children, which would make it violence, and very very wrong.
Not really. It's not a brute force, I basically mean that they should putt those children in the same project as the foringers, at a very young age. The childrens would learn early that foringers arent nessesarraly evil, what theyr parents try to say.