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The Soviets did have the military capacity to attack Japanese Islands. In fact they attacked several small Islands. How ever the Japanese surrendered before the Soviets got to big Islands (not counting Sakhalin). Besides several colonies in the mainland were considered part of Japan. Especially Korea. To take Korea would be to take Hokkaido.

Denying them resources so that America could commercially exploit China. America had the same problem with UK and France who had large  colonies. The only differences between the British and the French was that they considered Japanese lower then Europeans.

Much better then bombing cities and killing thousands of innocent civilians so that their morale can be reduced. YEAH!!!! In the end we can accuse them of war crimes and ignore our own.   

The greatest injustice in the world wasn't letting the Emperor go. It was that British,Soviet and Americans were hanged like the war criminals they were along with the Nazis and the Japanese.

All indiscriminate attacks on civilians should have been punished by hanging. The Luftwaffe reduced Rotterdamn and Eastern European cities to rubble. The people responsible for it should have been hanged and only one died that I know of (Goering). The Allies should have also hanged their own leaders like Eisenhower,Truman and Churchill.

Believe me. I have no love for Churchill. He was one of the greatest assholes in the history of the world. The fact that idiots in this country I live in celebrate him is sad. The fact that Americans glorify him is even sadder.

Churchill was there when Stalin and the poles planned to ethnically cleanse the Germans. When he didn't like Soviets he managed to make that an issue.

Actually thats the problem with America. Their belief in that the Government can't run things smoothly. Tell me. Who will invest in Mass Public Transit? The Government who collects money from high fuel taxes or the people who save money. I'm guessing the former because the latter will spend the saved money on clothes and coffees.

The congestion has nothing to do with the public transport. It has everything to do with the fact that London is the one of the biggest financial centre in the world. Unlike America London is very old and the people who originally built the cities didn't actually think about traffic congestion so what you can do with the city is very limited.

I've seen pictures my cousins sent me of Oregon and Minnesota. The streets there are huge compared to the streets in the UK. They were smaller way before the fuel taxes came in to play.  In fact when Americans went to Paris in WW2 they found out the hard way that European cities have smaller roads because they tend to be hundreds of years old and in the case of London just under 2 millenniums.

Now Imagine thousands of people travelling to the Inner London on streets that doesn't have the capacity to take them all? The only way to make them wider would be to knock out some houses.

The other reason why congestion exists is because fuel efficiency laws here is stricter in the UK while cars that are efficient enough for American roads are illegal in China. People can afford to drive to inner London and relax in the congestion. The CC will add extra penalty to the driving.

By the way. Do you know what the government is doing to encourage people to get off cars? They are building more Public transport. They took some of the money they get from fuel taxes and spent it on a £16 billion ($31 billion dollar) railway that will connect small towns outside London and Outer London to Inner London. When it comes the amount of people using cars to get to central London will drop.

Do you know why you have that problem Spacenut? Because of low fuel taxes.

Look at me. I'm came back to the UK after helping my mother set up two businesses in Kenya. Now I'm unemployed but my situation is better then yours. My local shop is 5 minutes away. The local park is 1 minute away.

hahahha funny. Not. Go and study up the geography of the UK.

Do you know why my situation is different from yours? Because people in the UK never moved out of the cities. We live either in the cities or just outside it.
I see the smugness of that Commodore and cIclops have over that. They aren't the only ones. Almost every American I meet make those excuses. Except for my cousins who actually grew up in a country with high fuel taxes so they learnt to live with it.

You people still have the mentality that it's your right to use petrol wastefully driving 60 miles a day. What happens when the high fuel prices make that damn unprofitable? You are stuck. Because you don't have a mass transit system. There were fuel taxes to fund them and your to spread out to make it unfeasible for every single suburb to be connected.

Do high fuel prices suck? Oh yeah. Are they good for the economy,the people and the environment in the long term? You bet. Except for the small haulers in the UK who can't adapt most businesses in the UK are well tuned to the high prices. Our government protects precious  from being built upon. 

By the way I was wronged when I said that people in the UK don't live 30+ miles from their work. There are actually people who travel more then that. They are mostly people who work in the financial centre in Central London and earn a lot of money. But instead of using their cars they use trains.

No the original poster was right. It is an occupation. It's not a peacekeeping mission because the UN haven't sent any troops. The Iraqis have no choose if they want the Americans to stay or not. The non Kurdish populace want them out and only the Kurds and parts of the Government want them to stay.

No it didn't. What it did was provide Osama a fertile ground to attack Americans. Before 2003 Al-Qaeda was shattered with the remains hiding in Afghanistan mountains and in Pakistan. What the Iraq war did was provide them a population that hated the US. Gave them several thousands of tons of supplies due to American forces focusing on the Oil infrastructure and not the Iraqi Army caches.  It also provided them a nice area to radicalise Muslim Youths.

Saddam persecuted people Sunni,Shia and Kurd for one reason and one reason alone. If they challenged his power they had to go. The Kurds in 1980s became treasonous and helped Iran invade Northern Iraq. Saddam killed them and gassed them. During the Iran-Iraq war Shia men were giving their lives to Iraq especially Southern Iraq where they were the majority from Iran.

In the early 90s when the Shia and the Kurds revolted and killed his soldiers,police officers and intelligence agents. He massacred them.

There was a difference between Post WW2 Europe and Iraq.

1: Germany officially declared war on USA even though USA were waging war secretly on the Axis nations it didn't declare war.
2: Germany was occupied. Thats why US troops were there.
3: After the Occupation ended the troops stayed to defend Germany from USSR.

Now has Austin said. Iraq IS occupied.

Ah the biggest war crime in history to go unpunished. Well the Japanese surrendered because the Soviets invaded and defeated their troops not because of the nukes. Besides US couldn't leave. There were two giant Communist nations right next to Japan and several other small ones near by.

I learnt a long time ago that New Mars has pretty conservative posters but even you guys can't still be believing the crap that the Republicans spew after 8 years.

Oh and the Obama thing. Obama has denounced Rev. Wright who speaks 80% truth and 20% crazy talk. The real candidate you should be worrying about is McCain. He gladly accepted the endorsement of John Hagee. The man who hates Muslims like me,Catholics and thinks that New Orleans Hurricane was a punishment from God.

Global warming isn't something that you can simply hide. I doubt that Crazy left wingers have such a control of the world that they can force the entire scientific community to shut up and manipulate the media to follow them expect for one or two crazy people. Channel 4 has been known to produce "controversial" programs. That channel is really sad. It would do anything for ratings. Example. The racism in this years Big Brother.

Anyway. I have always believed in global warming. What i really hate is people who spout global warming has if it is a new fad. They only believe in it because the media has picked it up. I really hate these people. Seems that global warming is the new fad after Poverty in Africa in 2005.

Personally in my opinion. Nothing can be done about it. People talk about how China and India are polluting the world. Yet Ironically USA burns more in a day then China and India can dream of. Last statistics i saw said that USA uses 80 million barrels of oil a day while China uses 20 million. All the FUD about climate change won't work.

You won't stop people from flying. You won't stop them from driving. If Tony Blair does introduce the Carbon Tax. That will be the Poll Tax of these ages. Introducing unwanted taxes killed Margaret Tatchers career and harmed the Conservatives in the UK irreparably forcing them to come up with an idiot who emulates Tony Blair.

I think we should focus on increasing the efficiency of appliances and engines while at the same time storing Carbon Dioxide.

I'm embarrassed that i even responded to you in the first place. Your probably going to tell me next that USA saved Britians ass during WW1 and ww2. 

Damn it. You really know how to piss me off. You just answered your own question. A random terrorist bomb is much worse because it is random. It goes after people doing their normal activity. During the Saddam era. The security forces would only come after you if you did something that threatened Saddams power. Which means that you knew what you were doing before you did that.

please. Don't corrupt The Lord of the Rings.

They are a minority that are heavily armed. A minority that have the backing of the entire Arab nations.

Yeah. The troops will die. Most of the US deaths come from the Al Anbar province. That province is so out of control Al Qaueda were patrolling the streets announcing that they are creating a new nation.

Well lets see. The Kurds want their own country. The Shias want their own Islamic Republic. The Sunnis want their own Islamic Republic. Can the Sunnis force their will on the entire nation? Probably not. But can they make Iraq ungovernable? Oh yes they can.

Saddam wanted a secular government. Most sunnis couldn't really care since the US sanctions were making their lives a living hell. After the invasion they got influenced by Al Qaeda.

You know Tom. Your the kind of guy that is going to get American troops killed. Your an idiot who talks out of your ass and you don't think what you say thoroughly.

I hope it's true and not Carbon Dioxide. If it is. Then it would be another reason to go there.

China doesn't really have a lot of money to spend. They are desperately trying to keep their country together without having an economic meltdown. But just to piss you off. I do hope China get their first. American arrogance doesn't need to be feed.

The NPT also calls for Nuclear disarmament. South Africa and Libya have done so. If the nuclear powers are failing to hold up to their part. Why don't they stick the treaty up their ass? Oh i forgot. Anyone remotely Anti USA is pure evil and will ony use the technology for harm. I am glad that Iran is standing up to USA and to ( i write this ashamed at Tony Blair) it's loyal dog UK. If Ahmadinejad  didn't stand up then USA would treat Iran differently. When Khatami listend to the americans. All he got treated with anger. When Ahmadinejad restarted the uraninum enrichment he got treated angry and a lot of empty threats came his way. BUT. USA offered the first diplomatic meeting for 20+ years. Now thats what i call backing down. USA doesn't have an option here. They can't attack Iran because the Nuclear facilities have been spread around the country (a lesson learnt from Israel attacking Iraq) and American troops and Israel would be vulnerable to attack. Also they can't sanction Iran because Iran has had a US sanction for years. It won't hurt them if USA tries to use the security council because Russia and China support Iran.

Must be bad to be Bush. 

Kind of Old. They said that they wanted to try again with Cosmos. They were looking for funding from their members. I hope they do get it. After all their members have to donate 50 dollars each.

5 000 000 / 100 000 = 50

Good film. Really good film. Sorry to hear about your waistline.