I think it’s important to support democracy, but the formal way to remove a leader who’s misusing power in democracy is through impeachment.

Impeachment with Georgia is something I’m researching as well.

The other issue I’m researching is whether or not Georgian soldiers are to blame for 2000 deaths, along with what this ‘irregular’ army of South Ossetia may have done to citizens. On the surface it appears that the war may have been a great cover for selective weeding of South Ossetian dissent - this is a tactic that can provide a lot of fear.

To find out more about this, investigators need to ask WHO was killed, WHY they were killed, and WHAT social responsibilities and WHAT political viewpoints they were dealing with.

I also think that providing more oil and energy to the US is critical, but it doesn’t remove the EU’s dependence, which will continue well into this century. Poland’s energy prices are right now being manipulated by Russia.

Without subsidizing fledgling democracies - Iraq, Poland, and Georgia’s reconstruction, these democracies will fail. There needs to be a recognition of the value of a liberal democracy; these countries never start wars with each other. What happened in Georgia is still unclear, but it appears to be a poorly structured response to border skirmishing and over the border raiding.

WaPo article states the same stuff I’m thinking: “According to witnesses, the Ossetian militias began widespread looting. “They ask for access to the house, and if there’s any protestations, they shoot them at the door,” said Marcus Bleasdale, a freelance photographer who has traveled to villages in recent days, adding that he had seen several bodies in doorways.”

…
” While Ossetian residents reported sporadic instances of looting by Georgian soldiers — a DVD player here, an electric shaver there — there were few reports of violence, and most deaths among Ossetians seem to have been caused by shelling.

“Nobody told us about any mistreatment, any cruelty by the Georgians as they entered the houses,” said Anna Neistat, a senior emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch, who spent several days interviewing witnesses in South Ossetia and Russia.

1. Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I
saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.”

2. Dressage commentator: “This is really a lovely horse and I speak
from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.”

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my
mother and father.”

4. Boxing Analyst: “Sure there have been injuries,and even some
deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.”

5. Softball announcer: “If history repeats itself, I should think we
can expect the same thing again.”

6. Basketball analyst: “He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t
like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.”

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: “Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of
the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.”

8. Soccer commentator: “Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like
they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.”

9. Tennis commentator: “One of the reasons Andy is playing so well
is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said?”

…and friends!

(I love a debate also)

I remember watching the second plane hit the trade center on 9.11.01 and a few hours later, I heard the first eyewitness to what the NYFD and NYPD did out of a sense of duty.

The guy said something along the lines of, “… as we were running out, they were running in…”

That’s the shared sense of duty I see in the volunteer military of today. Do you realize that only 0.4% of this nation currently serves, and only 8.5% of this country’s current living population ever served, in any capacity, peacetime or wartime?

As for the basis of a lie and WMD, well of course if you read this blog you’ll find carefully researched analysis of these issues. Bottom line is that I don’t know what your source is, but my sources include the BBC and CNN, not to mention official Government reports.

1) Al Qaeda link to Saddam - yes, there are confirmed reports. YadaYadaYada he supported terror and had access to mass casualty weaponry.
http://www.saddamandterror.com has the most compelling evidence of this. Zawahiri was there for a reason, healing up from his battles within Afghanistan. There were training camps. Go get educated and come back to me debating the accuracy of those sources I researched. You say they’re not legit, better back up your words or you look foolish.

2) WMD - well, I personally count RDDs as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. We recovered a few tons. TONS. Tons of highly radioactive material after the 2003 invasion.

Both those points are detailed in this previous post:
http://dirkadirka.redgriffins.org/2004/10/18/my-letter-to-my-best-friends-regarding-wmd-and-iraq/

Hmm. Whole lotta love.

I have a hard enough time trying to understand the issues on the ballots in plain English. Can you imagine the complexity of it in Tagalog?