RE: Iraq; a question of oil.

“Last year at a meeting in London a senior American diplomat warned French and Russian oil companies that any deals signed with the Iraqis would be torn up after the removal of Saddam Hussein.”

Damn skippy! You make a pact with the devil…you can expect to hear about it from God. }>

RE: UN security council

>Yes because the US exports everything we in the rest of the
>world need to survive, while you import nothing from
>anywhere.

Hmmmm…ever heard of oil? Then again, being the innovative country that we are we could always develop an alternative to that too. 😉

>So what a glowing Middle East… Why should I care whether
>they kill each other slowly like they are now even with US
>diplomatic help or quickly with a few nukes?

Yeah, you’re right…that nuclear cloud would just sit right over the site it was dropped on. Hmmm…NOT!

>Yes… America solved all of the problems there… NOT.
>The most recent problems in Kosovo would have been better
>sorted out if they had been left alone. Right now they are
>in the same position as when Tito took over… lots of
>groupd very unhappy… except Tito is replaced by NATO
>troops. When Tito or NATO leave guess what is going to
>happen. Gee whiz that US diplomacy is great stuff for
>lightly glossing over problems so we can pretend we have
>done something about a problem. You’ve got Slobodan
>Milosovic… he was the problem I’m sure you were right and
>everything will be hugs and kisses in the Balkans when NATO
>pulls out.

You seem to be giving NATO a lot more credit than it deserves…just replace “NATO” with “American Forces” and you’ll be correct…if the Euro troops left, no one would notice. 😉

>Yes, they have no self control… those little children.
>Just as well Colin Powell was able to leap in there and show
>them that the correct response to terrorism was dialog… I
>think he was telling them this just as the US bombed the
>hell out of Afghanistan because the leaders of that country
>wouldn’t hand over certain people without any proof of
>anything being showed to them. (Just like America does all
>the time… Castro says give me John Doe and he’s on the
>next plane to Havana…)

Are you saying that those “certain people” were not guilty of the crimes levied against them? If so, than you are even more of a dullard than I had originally thought.

>Yes this shows you intimate knowledge of world affairs…
>this is why the US is so powerful… their understanding of
>the parties involved.
>China has said it will only invade Taiwan if Taiwan decided
>to become independant. If you think they are bluffing why do
>you think Taiwan isn’t independant some many years after
>they seperated from the mainland? Of course US citizens all
>know much more about the situation than those dumb Taiwanese
>people…

Actually, it shows how little you know of the China/Taiwan situation. It is America that currently keeps Taiwan from officially announcing its independence from the mainland…not Chicom bullying. Do just a modicum of research on the subject and you will find that I’m correct and you are not.

>The South has an economy 20 times bigger than the North. It
>also has a significantly more powerful armed force in every
>area and category.
>The North would probably be happy just surviving.

Is that so? Hmmmm…let me see…the North has over 1 million troops and 10,000 pieces of artillery (and thats just what is poised directly across the border, not in reserve)…while the South has 450,000 troops and 6,000 pieces of artillery. Guess that shoots a big fat hole in your “every area and category” theory huh? 😉

>Such modesty surely the whole world will collapse quicker
>than that… I mean look at the empty void that existed
>before America was found? (I am talking here about found by
>white people… not those cheeky Indians that had the
>temerity to get there first… still you showed them…)

At least those “cheeky” Indians were brave warriors…unlike the Euros who would rather make appeasement with psychopathetic leaders like Hitler and Hussein rather than confront them from the beginning. }>

GaryB

“We are not talking about defence… if we were Sweden would be at the top of the list.”

LAUGH! I can’t wait for you to qualify that statement. Lets hear it.

Just for you Gary, I’ll revise my list….

1) United States

2) doesn’t matter, after the U.S. no one comes close enough to deserve a rating. 😉

RE: reply to post 36, Cyrus

hey there Ge…nice to see that you’re following your own advice and ignoring me. 😉

(btw, did you get my email yet?)

RE: Iraq : who’s in?

“why should we still feel afraid?”

Maybe you shouldn’t…but if we ever find out that you have given him any assistance (such as intel on how we obtained our proof of his guilt in developing WMD), thus causing us or our informants harm…may God have mercy on your souls because the U.S. sure won’t! x(

RE: Iraq : who’s in?

Hmmmm…isn’t Belgium a suburb of Paris? 😀

RE: Iraq : who’s in?

“Bush only seems to give intelligence information to the Britons, but the other members haven’t seen much proof.”

Yeah, like we’d share it with all of Sadam’s buddies like the French, Germans, Russians and Chinese!!! All nations who are currently lining up to get a share of the economic pie once sanctions are lifted by portraying themselves as “the only nations who really cared about the poor, poor Iraqi people…not those evil, bad Americans.” (NOTE: HEAVY SARCASM)

“Aren’t the words “liberty, egalité and fraternité” written on the statue of liberty }> ?”

Yep…and where does the Statue of Liberty currently reside? In Paris or in New York harbor? Appropriately, its in U.S. care and not in the hands of the hypocritical French. 😛

RE: WORLDS MOST POWERFUL NATIONS – 2003!!!

“Hehehehe… interesting.
You think Australia is more powerful than china simply because it is America’s B!tch…”

Hehehehe….YEAH!

If China were to launch an attack against Australia…I guarantee you the US would respond in kind against China. Since America is #1 on everyone’s list…well, I guess you can do the math yourself. You can do simple math can’t you? Or are you uneducated as well as ignorant?