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Tom one of the reasons that so many foreigners are working in the red sea and Saudi oil fields is the problem that the average citizen of the middle east is not far of being a peasant.

What we should do with the likes of Iraq and through demonstration is to improve the education and with this education to create people who understand what voting means.

That way Democracy will spread and the mad Mullahs of Iran will find themselves at less of an advantage.

Tom what you describe as Democracy has little bearing in the daily lives of the average Iraqi or any middle eastern inhabitant. The idea of countries being democracies is a very recent event in the world and a lot of so called democratic countries are not anywhere near this. Look at Africa as an example.

Democracy is not natural to the middle east and modern democracy came with the increase in education and increase in social rights. We found that what really forced the creation of western democracy was the advent of a stronger middle class. In the middle east there just is no such thing. As an example banking the cornerstone of our financial institutions is anathema to the middle east in general it is not legal under Sharia law. The middle east is one area like Africa where there was no increase in education before the concept of Democracy was dropped on them and like Africa it does not fare well. People will vote the way there neighbours and tribe will vote. It is one thing to have this wonder called democracy but it is another matter to not stick with your tribe and people.

All they see is patrols stopping them from travelling where they want if they get to close to convoys private soldiers literally shoot at them, The air is full of combat helicopters. The conditions that existed under Saddam are still present there is no food the water and power works infrequently but there is now the added danger just going to the shops could get you killed by the other tribes waiting to pick up and execute you as part of the general ethnic cleansing that happens.

If you have someone die or get ill you cannot go near the hospital in case you get arrested by the kill squads operating and you disapear.

So that is daily life in Iraq and its constant filming is leading the locals to only one answer this is what democracy gives. So dont expect it to work they are learning a view of democracy that is as false as can be put but in the end there is nothing else showing them different.

Untreated Syphilis eventually goes into its more dangerous stages and it is this third and second stages that allow it to be passed on by touch and even airborne. After the Nazi's under doctor Mengele the second most unethical medical experiment ever carried out was the Tuskegee Syphilis study. This was state sponsored and was only stopped in 1972 so not ancient history at all and not obscure.

The problem is cost and the limited amount of produce it will make.

So pricing fish out of the cheap market and into the expensive luxury market.

It is always going to be a problem to work on the Moon,Mars and Asteroids. We honestly rely on gravity to allow us to do a lot of things and with different gravities we find that what we take for granted just will not work.

Could it happen possibly

India To Book Place In Space

Time For The Saudis To Act

In the end we cannot solve the problems of Iraq and the middle east we can only show the way and in this we have lost all credibility. Saudia Arabia is the USA's "best friend" in the region it is nowhere near being a democracy the rulers where appointed by god you see.

Still it is to Saudi that all the other states are looking to for protection from the rise of Iran and it is likely that even there pariah state Israel might come on board to deal with what is a non Arab state bent on regional domination.

We have to take some of the blame for this as we helped remove the stoppers to Irans ambition it could not really do anything except rant at us until we made such a public balls up in Iraq and it has gained a lot of knowledge in our weaknesses.

It is simple we are against the death penalty and as it is part of our democratic process so is our goverment. Tom you have put forward the idea that we are in Iraq to give them democracy well in Europe that means no death penalty.

There are plans for a novel means to escape the launch gantry for the crew and technicians. This is to use a rollercoaster.

KSC Safety Roller Coaster

Still there is also the mineral Ilmenite which will give you Titanium if you need stronger alloyed parts. Certainly we will have a lot on hand as we will be looking for ilmenite so that we can extract the oxygen from it.

Titanium combined with Aluminium should make decent strength alloyed components. And there is also the iron from it too though less in quantity.

Tom, the world is not black and white. We have already seen that in the situation in Iraq if we knock of the top dog in this case the Sunni Arab Baath tribe/party aka Saddams crew we end up with other sections rising. In this case since we in a stroke removed the Sunni control of Iraq we empowered the oppressed Kurd minority and more importantly the Shia as well.

The US army showed just how effective it was in destroying Iraqs army but it then made the mistake that though you need a certain amount of men to win the war often you need double that to actually control the country. Since the US and its allies did not have that manpower insurgency thrived. The security that Iraq had before the war was beheaded and the police in short disbanded. Militias from the minorities increased if only to defend themselves. Fear of these other minorities gave Al-qhaeda its chance to arm and train the Sunni and Iran and its secret services have given training and arms to the Shi'te forces. The Kurds are being trained by Israel.

It is now at the point that death squads are killing other ethnic groups off and we have ethnic cleansing working in Iraq on our watch. We also can do little to stop it as the insurgency and Militias are more or less in control of the countryside and our patrols run serious risks if we venture outside. Even increasingly in the cities the insurgencies have made it risky for us as the technology and arms flood across Irans,Syria's,Saudia Arabia's borders.

When we leave we had better have left a much more stable country behind than what is currently present. We may even have to divide the country into three. If we dont what will happen is that as soon as we leave conflict will break out and this could easily pull in all the other local countries and cause the middle east to explode. Tom you may not care but you will if it puts the cost of petrol up to the point you cant afford to use it. This is quite likely since the most common tactic in middle east wars is to attack the defenceless floating bombs that are oil tankers to stop the other sides finances. Iran is already planning it why do you think she has built all these new attack boats and Surface air effect attack craft.

Still there is the possibility that collisions on the Moon from volatile laden asteroids/comets has delivered some of those volatiles into locations where the sun does not reach and so they remain there even if buried under the regolith debris of further collisions.

The only way to know will be to send a rover in to look.