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Babak -- are there analogies between Saddam and the regimes of the despots named above? if so, anything to draw from that? Naturally, there are significant dissimilarities, some obvious, some less than, and some hidden - how important are those? Btw, thanks everyone for your comments - some...

agree - I interpreted some of what ElCubano was saying as delving into them as well - we have the capacity to alter the technology of our lives very rapidly, but perhaps too quickly for the non-technological aspects of life to keep pace...

It's useless to discuss this - anyone that brings up an interpretation that doesn't enthusiastically parrot the Presidental sales pitch, or dares to ask why politicians universally understood to be serial liars througout history have suddenly been reformed, is drowned out by mindless attacks and...

you list good examples - I agree. A counterexample in the same field IMO would be human cloning.

That technology will allow for more solutions as well as problems was a flaw in Malthus' theory, and that applies today as well. on the other hand, a thinking person must admit that it is debatable whether frenetic pursuit of advancement, for the sole purpose of advancement, is really...

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/34Act/index.html

Thank you for the kind words, Cesko. The impressiveness of your intellect is surpassed only by that of your incisive logic. Forgive me if I don't exchange ad hominem nonsense with you. If you'd like to detail which non-NY Times evidence might suffice for a brainwashed robot, please do.

Tripack - I think we actually agree - the UN is vastly inefficient and ineffectual - what I meant was that it's the only thing available for global negotiations on that scale. It sucks, but that's all there is for now.

Good point - but what bothers me is then WHY has no one else has interpreted this as such an imminent threat. The whole UN can see that Iraq has not complied, yet there is only one country threatening war. Is it that the rest of the world doesn't care? is too weak? or that they don't see the...

For clarification, I'm FAR from pro-Saddam - If the proper evidence is presented, then I'd support Saddam's removal completely - and I assume most of the world would, as they did in Gulf I. But until we get more than clumsy Bush speeches and grim predictions from parties with vested interests...

IMO, the UN has all the faults of any government, the lust for absolute power, the grandstanding, the bureaucracy, and the comical chattering about hyper-PC causes. However, it's the mechanism for global governance available now. The theory is that cooperation and negotiation of disputes is...

do you have a link or a source with official statements?

are you referring to the media or to the governments here? AFAIK, no other country has expressed support for Bush's war plans, officially - the most vocal has obviously been Blair, but I haven't heard that an official position has been taken. this might no longer be true, though - if you...

Aren't these two points related? and isn't that exactly the problem - that there is no unified lust for Iraqi blood outside of those advising the President, there are no screams for war from the American or international population? And, evidently, no legitimate justification. If there were...

Don't encourage them...

Must say I don't get it - who wins here? How would just preventing ISLD from disseminating the book information help the AMEX (or whoever lobbied for this ruling)?

LOL!! - this one is just too good.... "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." —George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Thanks all for your posts - very enjoyable and insightful. I don't know anything about bio-feedback measurements, but as a possible example, I think any fan of Tennis or Golf can "tell" when a player is "off his game" mentally, so to speak. A tennis player can win a brilliant set, every shot...

Bryan - thanks for the link. While that article is far from unbiased, it makes some great points. The hypocracy would be funny, if the subject weren't so serious... ============= ''We must take the battle to the enemy,'' he (Cheney) said of the war on terrorism. ''The single most...

wow - that is a quite a statement, especially given that he's a Republican. he's right of course - it's easy to command 17 year old kids to their deaths from the luxury of a palace or senatorial chamber. wasn't there a song or a quote along the lines of "if the politicians had to fight...