"Hitler was a Strong leader that demanded all do his bidding Bush is a strong leader that demands all do his bidding. Hitler was elected Bush was elected. Bush said, soon after the election of 2000, that it would be easier if we had a Dictatorship so long as he was the Dictator! The comparisons are a bit scarey!" That comparison is indeed scary, but only because it shows us where the education system has failed. Wh
"According to US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday, the US government often considers whether it would be better to stop detaining prisoners at Guantanamo." Perhaps they should be extradited to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia officially regard Bin Laden and his ilk as traitors and revolutionaries (and rightfully so). And I believe Saudi Arabia has the death penalty for treason. That would solve the problem.
"Well, why don't you try getting detained. thrown in jail, arrested, or whatever you want to call it, in...oh...say Saudi Arabia and asking for a Holy Bible. Oh...wait...that's right...it's illegal to own a Holy Bible in Saudi Arabia. Getting caught with one will get you arrested." Perhaps we should learn from our Muslim friends. Israel could, for example, announce that they recognise the wisdom of the Saudi princes and will hencefort
Excellent, Lucas. All the best! But what does the title mean? "My self with something suffer my health"?
"Well I'll come up with a good rebutal later. In the meantime all I can say is the move to Intel chips is a very bad move for Apple." I disagree with the statement. But I am eager to hear the rebuttal.
"the guards' treatment of the Koran, or attacking innocent civilians using the Koran as justification?" I'm afraid I am sometimes rather pessimistic about this. It seems to me that very often the Muslim community, specifically the Arab Muslim community, do indeed believe that treating a book badly is worse than treating a human being badly, specifically when the Koran is used as an excuse for the latter or when the victim is a Jew.<BR
drmiler: source?
"invasion fiasco" Indeed, a fiasco from the point of view of the left. Millions of Arabs, who the left have claimed are not fit for democracy, have voted in their first free elections. A Kurd has become president of Iraq. Kuwaitis are no longer afraid of their neighbour. Syria and Iran are now both surrounded by countries unfriendly to them. Lebanon got rid of their Syrian occupation. And Libya has admitted to having
"The Intel Mac boxes will almost definitely be 100% standard PCs." The one thing we know so far is that they won't Apparently they'll use the same firmware as Intel's Itanium boxen. OS X has been available for x86 in the late 90s. That was before the five years of parallel development. Note that since OS X's base system is open source there is no technical reason for why OS X would not run on any PC, just as the PowerPC versi
"Gitmo is Cuban." Are there any laws against torture and wrongful imprisonment in Cuba?
"One point being made throughout the invasion fiasco is that you cannot impose democracy at the end of a gun. It's doomed to failure." I grew up in West-Berlin and I don't believe you. In fact, I think your statement is based on a complete ignorance of history.
"Don't care about what the Muslim world will think about it." Why should we? And furthermore, why would the Muslim world be angry? Isn't it them who keep telling us that Islam is a religion of peace and that the terrorists are not Muslims?
"I am a white English Christian Male." Why would you think that the colour of your skin is important? "I think that along with GW Bush and T Blaire, your comment rank as some of the most distasteful I have ever seen written." Ok, I withdraw my comment: the terrorists ARE Muslims, the Muslim scholars and Arab heads of state who repeatedly tell us that terrorism is NOT what the Koran is about are wrong, attacking civilians IS a
"The Intel chips that will be used in the new Macs will not be x86 based." Where did you pick that up? Apple's developer documentation refers to x86 and the binaries created by Apple's developer tools are, according to "file" x86 binaries.
"May I ask, would you equally deny prisoner's rights to the Bible, considering it is supposedly a religion of peace, in spite of all the violence committed in its name." Yes. If some terrorist group claimed to be Christian but isn't, I would also withhold the Bible from them in prison, under the same circumstances (i.e. violence in Christian countries because of alleged mistreatment of a BOOK. "However, your unsubstantiated assertion
Had Intel suceeded in establishing Itanium on the desktop, as they originally planned, Itanium chips would probably be cheaper than they are now. Of course, once the chip is established as the new standard, like x86 before, the price would have gone up, since users need the chip as much as the operating system. The result would have been a monopoly of stand
Dude, you seem to believe that the law you quote refers to terrorists captured in a war. It does not. You don't remember correctly. The presumption of innocence is a feature of most legal systems because a case has been made that society at large benefits from each individual having such a right, even if it is clear that they are guilty. But I am not aware of any such case being made for a similar right for the terrorists captured in
Toblerone, let me ask you something. A very simple question. But I find it an important question: Why do you assume that Goering was right? Looking at Germany's history, which part exactly made you think that Goering was right and his shrink was wrong?
"Err no, a quiet disagreement doesn't not lose elections, hell not even a loud one does (remember the demostrations, opinion poles etc) Only a majority disagreement loses elections and that is exactly what the tactic is meant to deal with*cue mock scharmyness* you see everyone that knows something about democracy knows that." Why can a majority disagreement not be quiet? In a democracy, the majority makes the ruler, not the loudest fa
Zinkadoodle, "I tend not to really compare the Bush administration to Nazism and Hitler, but rather to its similarities to the concept of fascism, in general." what exactly is the "concept of fascism" as opposed to "Nazism and Hitler"? You might be under the impression that stating that Bush's policies compare to the gasing of several million people is a position that "remotely hints of dissent from the dubya administration p
"In this case, we're merely pointing out the similarities. You don't like it, tough shit. Just calling a spade a spade." Zinkadoodle, you don't understand. What we don't like is not that you point out similarities, it is that you do not. And if we don't like it, is indeed "tough shit" (sorry), but not for us, but for you; because it means but one thing, namely that the "argument" has completely failed to convince any one of u
Toblerone, yes, you are absolutely right. Afterall, we all know that World War II began because Hitler won an election, was re-elected in free elections, had an elected parliament to support him, and attacked a country that was in violation of a cease-fire. I see the similarities to Bush's policies. It's quite amazing. The enemy, of course, was a moustached dictator who gases people and hates Jews. So there were arguabl
Lawrence Auster's reader makes a good point: "The way to end the "Koran abuse" is simply to take the Korans away. I don't think there is anything legally that requires we provide Korans to war prisoners and terrorists. Frankly, it seems the harder we try to be polite and respectful to these prisoners the more we are hated. So why bother with this courtesy."
I believe Jews are only slowly turning to the Republican party now. It's true the Republicans have been the white man's party for a long time. But so have the Democrats before that. Things change.
Champas, that article was mine. I wrote it because it was true. I did see Neo-Nazis demonstrating against the Iraq war hand in hand with left wingers. If the left have a problem with that, the left will have to change sides. As I said, quiet disagreement with fascism is not enough. You have to fight them. And fighting the fascists is a lot more difficult and expensive than demonstrating against those who do!
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