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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
By the way....isn't it Canada with the oil contracts in Iraq
I wasn't aware of this, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the info!
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and the NEW flag in the North Pole just to piss of Russia? Don't worry about that Russia thing though.....as usual, Big Bro to the south will make sure nothing bad happens to ya all.:thumbsup:
Not just a flag, we're setting up 2 military bases up there:jointsmile:. It's hardly "just to piss off the Russians", they're the ones who started the whole thing by trying to claim the arctic land by planting the first flag. Now who has rights to the area is debateable I suppose, but Canada nonetheless is making efforts to protect our arctic sovereignty and valuable resources. I'm glad we finally have a government with the balls to stand up for Canadian interests.
What I find incredible is that America is actually trying to claim rights to certain arctic passages and regions. If I remember my geography right, I think us Canadian folk are a bit more connected:wtf:
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sorry p4b i think youve lost this battle
Oh and dude, there's nothing more anoying then people who just end debates by declaring themselves the winner whilst arguments are still being made.
Iranian police arrest partygoers
yeah dude im just messin with p4b, been saying that to him for 2 yrs now, you still see him here, right....adios....
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Originally Posted by fishman3811
they are hated and considered the biggest threat to world peace since Hitler.So hows that P4B you like being the worlds new Germany?....
you guys cant control a bunch of kids with AK-47s and home made bombs.
With all due respect, i find that comment very ignorant.
To Gandalf:
I see your stance on the "we can;'t impose our values on a nation whose values we denounced" thing...it's just that when those values become murderous and dangerous to other nations, I think it may be wise to step in. Sure, Israel has firepower, but Iran has hardcore devoted soldiers, and in no way shape or form would this war be "easy". Not that any ever is.
I don't want the war. But if it helps secure the world...and it's what becomes inevitable..then we should at least prepare. It's all fine and dandy to wave a diplomacy flag...to a CERTAIN point...and to be smart, a country should figure out that point, because if you wait and try to solve everything with diplomacy, you wake up to a huge disaster, that could have been avoided, but we chose to be "civil".
It's not nice..i'd love to live in a paradise world where we could get everyone to toke a fat spliff and work it all out..and respect each other and help each other....but the world has become so aggressive. It just isn't going to happen. Countries are changing. Gaining strength. And becoming more open and antagonistic.
I also like that Harper sent some stuff up there to keep the Russians company. That was a bold move by them...by Canada's standards...With the liberals it'd be...please don't go there...ok..you went. Well have a nice time eh! :rasta:
Iranian police arrest partygoers
US 'biggest global peace threat'
The Iraq war continues to damage the US image, the survey says
People in European and Muslim countries see US policy in Iraq as a bigger threat to world peace than Iran's nuclear programme, a survey has shown.
The survey by the Pew Research Group also found support for US President George W Bush and his "war on terror" had dropped dramatically worldwide.
Goodwill created by US aid for nations hit by the 2004 tsunami had also faded since last year, the survey found.
The survey questioned 17,000 people in 15 countries, including the US.
The latest in a series of annual polls by the Pew Global Attitudes Project interviewed respondents between 31 March and 14 May 2006.
Its release coincides with a surprise visit by President George W Bush to Baghdad in an effort to shore up support for US policy in the region.
'Fading goodwill'
The latest survey shows the worldwide reputation of the US continues to suffer over its prosecution of the "war on terror".
Sharp declines in the public perception of the US were particularly apparent in India, Spain and Turkey.
Goodwill towards the US had fallen from 71% to 56% in India, from 41% to 23% in Spain and from 23% to 12% in Turkey.
A majority of people in 10 of the 14 countries outside the US surveyed said the war in Iraq had made the world a more dangerous place.
Some 60% of people in the UK, which is the US biggest ally, felt the Iraq war had made the world less secure, while 30% said it had made the world safer.
According to the survey:
Worldwide support for the "war on terror" has remained the same or declined
European confidence in Mr Bush has sunk even lower than it was last year
A majority of people in most countries feel the US will not achieve its goals in the "war on terror"
The survey also found little remaining evidence of the goodwill the US had earned over its aid for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
In Indonesia, a major recipient of US tsunami aid, favourable opinions of the US had fallen from 38% in 2005 to 30% this year.
"Last year we saw some good news in countries like Russia and India," Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Centre, told the Associated Press news agency.
"That good news being wiped away is a measure of how difficult a problem this is for the United States."
Muslim differences
According to the survey, people in the US and Europe have grown increasingly concerned in the last year over Iran's nuclear programme.
The US has accused Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb - but Iran says its nuclear programme has a purely civilian objective.
Almost half of the Americans surveyed, 46%, viewed the current government in Iran as a "great danger" to stability in the Middle East and to world peace - a figure that has risen from 26% in 2003.
In Germany, Spain, France and the UK, the percentage of people who regard Iran as a great danger is roughly three times greater than it was three years ago.
However, the poll showed public opinion in predominantly Muslim countries was far less troubled by Tehran's nuclear programme.
Muslim people also appeared less concerned than Europeans and Americans by the victory of the Hamas militant group in Palestinian elections earlier this year.
The survey found concern over bird flu was largely confined to Asia, while two-thirds of people surveyed in each country said they were worried by global warming.
Concern over the greenhouse effect was highest in India and Japan and lowest in the US and China.
The survey interviewed people in China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the US.
Its margin of error was two to six percentage points.
Iranian police arrest partygoers
["Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? TIME asks for readers' views."--Results to date: North Korea 5.6 %; Iraq 6.5 %; The United States 87.9 %; Total Votes Cast: 673,027 -- "TIME Magazine," March 10, 2003]
Al Goodman, "Polls: 90 percent of Spaniards against war," CNN, March 29, 2003
William Pfaff, "A fiction shattered by America's aggression," International Herald Tribune, November 1, 2003
[The survey, conducted in October, of 500 people from each of the EU's member nations included a list of 15 countries with the question, 'tell me if in your opinion it presents or not a threat to peace in the world'. Israel was reportedly picked by 59 per cent of those interviewed.--Peter Beaumont, "Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace," Guardian, November 2, 2003]
[Only 5 percent of those polled said they believed the United States invaded Iraq "to assist the Iraqi people," and only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy there.--Walter Pincus, "Skepticism About U.S. Deep, Iraq Poll Shows," Washington Post, November 12, 2003]
Richard Morin and Dana Milbank, "Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War," Washington Post, February 13, 2004
Jeff Sallot, "Bush lied to justify Iraq war, Canada right to stay out: poll," Globe and Mail, March 15, 2004
[BBC World asked 1,500 viewers of its news and international channel for the biggest problems in the world with 52% saying the US and globalisation.--"'US is bigger threat than terror'," BBC News, April 9, 2004]
[the findings of a new survey of African attitudes, thought to be the biggest-ever of its kind . . . 54 per cent of the interviewees - not just among Muslims - saw the US as a threat.--"Us and them," Independent, October 18, 2004]
[Fifty-eight per cent of the 22,000 who took part in the poll, commissioned by the BBC World Service, said they expected Mr Bush to have a negative impact on peace and security, compared with only 26% who considered him a positive force.--Ewen MacAskill, "World fears new Bush era," Guardian, January 20, 2005]
[That put the United States behind China (69 percent positive), and not even in the overall Top 10 countries, regions or groups that Australians respect.--Raymond Bonner, "U.S. Image in Australia Isn't So Good, Poll Finds," New York Times, March 29, 2005]
[15 of the 23 countries surveyed said the US had a negative influence in the world.--Raymond Bonner, "Europe influence seen as positive," BBC, April 6, 2005]
["America is less a beacon of hope than a dangerous force to be countered." So says a report by a nine-member State Department ad hoc advisory committee--"U.S. Needs to Go Goodwill Hunting," Washington Post, September 30, 2005]
Julian Borger and Uki Goni, "Bush feels hand of God as poll ratings slump," Guardian, November 5, 2005
[Asked to name the two nations that present the greatest threat to regional peace, 70 percent named Israel, 63 percent the United States, and 11 percent Britain. Only 6 percent named our bete noire Iran.--Patrick J. Buchanan, "Might the Arabs Have a Point?," American Conservative, January 16, 2006]
Brian Knowlton, "Image of U.S. falls again," International Herald Tribune, June 13, 2006
Ewen MacAskill, "US seen as a bigger threat to peace than Iran, worldwide poll suggests," Guardian, June 15, 2006
[30 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is the greatest threat to global stability.--"Europeans See U.S. as Threat to Global Stability," Angus Reid, September 5, 2006]
[British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.--Julian Glover, "British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il," Guardian, November 3, 2006]
[The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington had dealt with Iraq.
The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas had been handled.--"View of US's global role 'worse'," BBC News, January 23, 2007]
Simon Tisdall, "Environment and US policy top global fears," Guardian, June 28, 2007
[In the US itself, North Korea and Iran are seen as the biggest risks. However, the youngest US respondents share the Europeans' view that theirs is the biggest threat, with 35 per cent of American 16- to 24-year-olds identifying it as the chief danger to stability.--Daniel Dombey and Stanley Pignal, " Europeans see US as threat to peace," Financial Times, July 1, 2007]
Iranian police arrest partygoers
FreshNugz so which part of my statement did u find ignorant?I find it extremly ignorant what the American government has done in Iraq.I find it extremly ignorant of how many Americans to this day still think Iraq had something to do with 9/11.I also find it extremly ignorant how anyone can support a war of aggresion against a country ill equipped to defend itself for the soul purpose of controlling its natural resources.So if calling a spade a spade offends you then what can i say?
