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Such kind words.

Both the Gulf war of the 90s and the War in afghanistan were radiological wars.

Gulf war veterans now have radioactive uranium in their semen.

13 yr old girs in Iraq have breast cancer.  the lukimia rates for children in the heavily shelled areas of iraq is 14 times the pre war rate.

The congenital defects in children in iraq has quadrupled.  Children are being born with missing limbs, spinabifida, etc.

the reason?

Depleted uranium.

In a NHTSA study, the only statistically significant outcome associated with marijuana was that drivers drove more slowly.

A Simulator Study of the Combined Effects of Alcohol and Marijuana on Driving Behavior-Phase II, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation (1983).

A number of driving simulator studies have shown that marijuana does not produce the kind of psycho-motor impairment evident with modest doses of alcohol.

Kv'alseth, T.O., "Effects of Marijuana on Human Reaction Time and Motor Control," Perceptual and Motor Skills 45:935-39 (1977); Hansteen, R.W. et al, "Effects of Cannabis and Alcohol on Automobile Driving and Psychomotor Tracking," Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 282:240-56 (1976); Moskowitz, H. et al, "Marijuana: Effects on Simulated Driving Performance," Accident Analysis and Prevention 8:45-50 (1976); Moskowitz, H. et al, "Visual Search Behavior While Viewing Driving Scenes Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana," Human Factors 18:417-31 (1976).

Dose-related impairment was observed in drivers' ability to maintain steady lateral position. However, even with the highest dose of THC, impairment was relatively minor - comparable to that with blood-alcohol concentrations of between .03 and .07 % and many legal medications. Drivers under the influence of marijuana also tended to decrease their speed and approach other cars more cautiously.

Robbe, H. and O'Hanlon, J., Marijuana and Actual Driving Performance, Washington, DC: Department of Transportation (1993).

When you come across statistical studies that imply that THC does increase traffic accident rates, if you read them you will see that they do not have control groups or placebo.  In other words they involve bad science.

while we are at it, I think we should just nuke the middle east, burn it till the sand turns to glass.

then we pave it all over, and turn it into one giant starbucks.

a neat little fact about W.  Next time you watch him give a speech, watch for the smirk.  You will notice that each time he dishes out a loaded good speak sound-bite-able line of propaganda, he makes this smirk.

I was in the 5th grade, in Douds Elementary, Iowa. 

The teachers had planned to play the launch in every classroom, but they had some technical difficulty.  Only the monitor in the teachers lounge/office across the hall had worked. 

I had a view out the window and across the hall into that office.  I noticed some sort of commotion.

Our teacher came in, somewhat glassy eyed and informed us that the shuttle and blown up.

At that age an event of that magnitude baffled me.

The most vivid memory I have at that age.

Please back up this statement.

I've never seen anyone die because somecareless pot smoker had 3 bowls of cheerios. 

THC users do not lose reaction time.  When you drink alchohol, the more you drink, the longer it takes your brain to react and the longer it takes signals from the brain to reach muscles.  This simply is not the case with THC.

more often than most white males realize, women are discriminated against in the workplace.  I have personally witnessed this myself several times.

I had 2 business partners in the 90's.  They both had horrible notions of the place women should hold in the office. 

I worked in a medium sized corp. in Manhattan.  There was absolutely a glass ceiling in that office for women.

I once had a black business partner, and being a young boy from tennesee at the time in a very white city in the south that had just reciently ran a black family out of the public school, I inquired heavily about the situation of african american businessmen in america.

You have to understand that much of america is struggling with conflicting elements in their culture.  Although most white americans believe themselves not to be racists or sexists, racial and gender steriotypes still greatly influence our judgment of others.

Every once in a while I thank god I'm not a woman.  Women today have an Impossible standard that our culture asks them to live up to.  To be a good modern woman, a woman today must both hold the traditional roles of mother, wife, and caregiver; but in addition they must now fulfill their own career goals as well.  Add to this the pressure our culture applies to women in reguard to appearance and beauty.

UNICEF would not agree with you.  Why not see what they have to say about it?

Iraq can get as much food as it wants?  Why is it that there is more then enough food grown each year to feed everyone on the planet, yet people still go hungry?  There is enough food after all.  Answer this and you might get a bette understanding as to why people starved in Iraq.

The biggest killer though was not starvation, but the lack of sanitary waiste water treatment.  These plants require chemicals like chlorine that are to this day still not allowed in.  These plants were damaged or destroyed during the gulf war.  Parts and equipment needed to repair them were not allowed in to fix them.

Civilian power plants were targeted and destroyed during the Gulf War.  (This is illegal, according to the geneva convention btw)  Vital services were cut off, like water treatment and sewage treatment and hospitals.  Equipment to repair them was not allowed in.

so not only is saddam hiding WMD in Lebanon, but he is also test firing them there?  While the whole worlds watching.  And lebanon is just groovy with this you say?

1: the president of the US declares you one of 3 "axis of evil"

2: the US prepares to smite the holy hell out of the first one on the "axis of evil" list, Iraq.

3: at least on the surface, Iraq tries to negotiate its way out of war to no avail.  Iraq rolls over and lets inspectors in, invites CIA operative is, practically begs the us not to beat its ass.  US does not listen, builds more troops.

4: you know you were on that list, and you might be next.

would you just sit on your hands and wait for the bombs to drop on your cities?

Which propoganda machine would you prefer I listen to?