Government at Work - In mid-March, as war started in Iraq, a resolution was introduced in the Seattle City Council offering support for U.S. troops. However, some council members wanted to use the resolution to express opposition to the war, while others wanted to go beyond troop support to commend the war itself. When the Council finally agreed on a politically bland-enough resolution on April 14, it meant that the members had been fighting over the wording of the resolution for a longer time than it took U.S. troops to enter Iraq and capture Baghdad.

Somehow, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. An example, of why nothing gets done much by governement.

A question... did they actually FIND any weapons of mass destruction? I was never clear on that point; because IIRC that was the main reason they used at the start for invading Iraq, I could be wrong tho...

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What ever became of those mobile labs they found a while back? There was speculation they were used to be used for something. </font>

Don't you just love an efficient use of tax money? :D

I'm willing to bet, that the majority of these pinheads don't even know the reason why their arguing, they just know that if the opposition agrees than it can't be good, so therefore gets an automatic veto.

About the only thing that politicians and government officials are capable of agreeing upon is a salary increase for themselves.

I have absolutely no faith in any form of government, be it my student union or our national parlimentary system. none of them actually give a crap about what we have to say. a couple thousand students protest against differential tuition and what do our board of governors say? screw that we want more money!!! jackasses

When Gordon Campbell, my premier, got pulled over dui, sloshed full of martini's in Hawaii i began to think something is wrong with my province's government. When i think of the massive cuts to healthcare, education, the forced exodus of thousands of govt. workers, and his middle finger to the environment.. amongst many other piss you off points..

oh yeah.. British Columbia.. we need a premier.

[ 06-18-2003, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: Djinn Raffo ]

Maybe the problem is with me.. but imho inventing cassus belli to sway popular opinion is a piss off offence. It sucks to be lied to, it's like admitting you bought a lemon from a used car salesmen, no no, Jon Voigt owned this LeBaron. Whether the lie is about getting bj's in the oval office.. or the reasoning behind why my son has died on the other side of the world. It's easier to make excuses for the lies than admit that their was a lie.

The ends justify the lies don'tcha know. ;)

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Oh good grief not this again...There were about 2 dozen Official reasons for going after Saddam, the one that got everyones attention (and so was the one pounded on hardest) was WoMD. The Euphrates river had huge quantities of chemicals poured into it by the Iraqi's so there are some of the WoMD, they found chemical bombs so there are some more for you...they found Chemical rockets...yet more for you, god only knows how much stuff got smuggled out to Syria and Iran. Eveyone from the UN to Hans Blix all Stated that the WoMD did at some point exist, the question that was at hand was..."Where the F&^* are they?" Saddam was required by the ceasde fire agreement to divulge this info...he did not. and round it goes.

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Now to post back on topic instead of dragging the Iraq war into things...

You see this is a prime example of why I am for limited government, abolition of the income tax and every other form of wealth redistribution sponsored by the government...they are complete bunglers in administering these kinds of things. They cannot do any thing efficiently and are the single biggest source of waste in the nation.... [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img] ok Im done now. </font>

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