Bah, politics!
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Re: Bah, politics!
Posted by DrGlass on Tue Apr 18th at 8:38pm 2006


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The USA would never have occupied the oilfields, it wouldn't have been accepted and would have been totally against their principles for invading.

Installing a US friendly administration is the easiest way to do it. The war in Iraq was a badly dressed attempt to protect American oil/industrial interests in the Persian Gulf at a time when more and more of the Arab nations were starting to become more and more belligerent with the US.




This is how the world has worked for a long time. At least thats how I understand the facts that I know. The big boys help pro-big boy rebles take controle of countries to gain a foot hold there, even if the person/people they help get into power are currupt (see Iraq for example)

Also, my point wasn't about how many A-bombs have been dropped. I said 2 were used in combat, and 2 were used in combat by the US. My point is that if we dont want anyone to ever use Atomic wepons the US should give them up along with the "bad guys".




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Re: Bah, politics!
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Apr 20th at 12:54am 2006


I was thinking about this during my last run. It gets boring driving so you have lots of time to think. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

This is how I view, "tolerated" and "accepted"

This is also a true story so don't feel that I made it up just for examples purposes.

Anyway, as a youth I discovered that hunting, and killing animals bothered me. I still do it but, I only hunt animals that I am willing to eat. I do not trophy hunt or any of that other crap big time hunters do.

Anyway, I realized that I will prolly always feel this way, and I have come to "accept" that on some level, it will always bother me to kill them. As I grew older, I built up a "tolerance" to the notion that I am actually killing a living creature. I accept that it bothers me, but it doesn't bother me like it used to.

Now, some may see this as one and the same, accepting and tolerating, but I do not.

So, if you see it differently, I accept that, but you will have to tolerate me not seeing it your way.





The best things in life, aren't things.




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