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Originally posted by MagiK:
Im not aware that being a great at conquest was Nobel material [img]smile.gif[/img] of course that also depends on which Ceasar you are talking about..some of them were complete morons.
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I was referring to Caesar as someone who had a big political influence on the world centuries ago. Many of them will do. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by MagiK:
Ok you posted a couple of different Ideas here. First. the inspectors are NOT there to find WoMD. The Inspecotrs are and were ONLY charged to ensure that Iraq has Completely and honestly disarmed...they have not. People keep trying to twist the Job of the inspectors into new things but they really were ment only to verify the disarmament, not be detectives trying to feeret out hidden materials.
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Then the nations can even less base that war on Iraq having or not WOMD. Since they cannot base a decision on information they don't have. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by MagiK:
About Politicians, if the person has a working knowledge and has been kept up to date onn issues then yes they should have a greater influence, but if the guy has spent 99% of his recent time traveling, writing books, building homes for the poor and out of the loop for the classified info..then yes that makes his opinion of no real value other than from an academic point of view.
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Well, not exactly. He has enough relations to keep in touch, and he has enough experience to know the inside of world politics and to keep better informed than we could, and he has enough notoriety to be able to speak to influential political personnalities. Which he had to do anyway to take care of developping programs for poor people all over the world. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by MagiK:
10,000,000 people protesting an action can all be wrong, because they do not have all the facts....or have distorted facts or are plain stupid...numbers do not make a cause right, numbers do not necessarily equate to corectness, it just means a lot of people have the same opinion and opinions are like bung holes, every keg has one and they all smell.
Edit: really bad grammar and spellin errors...*sigh*
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That is a funny comment related to the suggestion you posted on GD that the US should have as many votes in the UN as they have states.
