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Actually Bryan, electrolyzing water is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as the cost of containing the component that result. Believe it or not, gasoline is a fairly stable way to keep the chemical energy stored, compared to hydrogen and it's low ignition point and extremely low liquifaction temperature. Overall, it's more expensive and MUCH more dangerous. Secondly, we use oil for a lot more than just gasoline. The plastic that your keyboard is made from is an oil deriv

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Wombat: The other countries that Griffinme is referring to are Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, an Turkey. The US has been repeatedly accused of causing the deaths of 500,000 children in Iraq over the last decade, usually by Iraq and other international groups. You've taken my response to you question about other terrorist situations and twisted them. The comment I made about Bosnia was primarily to illustrate the difference between the UK, which did not ask for our assistance,

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"One can only wait for an unjustified strike to mount an appropriate and deadly response, real life is not a video game" Are you seriously suggesting that we need to wait until a nuclear bomb goes off in an American city before we can respond? Or did I just read that wrong?

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But that's my point. He didn't accept them without condition. If you read the letter that was sent to the UN carefully, it says that they will unconditionally discuss the return. In subsequent statements (like last week)Saddam reiterated that Iraq's sovereignty must be respected, and that the inspectors will not be allowed in places that he deems inappropriate. Namely the Presidential Palaces. Which puts us right back were we were a year ago...

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Pax, that's got to be the silliest thing I've ever heard. Prove himself? Iraq has defied the UN and shown them to be ineffective for 10 years. Until the inspectors were thrown out 4 years ago, they were very busy seizing WMD's. You should note that the inpsectors, who've been on the ground and tried to work in Iraq, have supported Military intervention, because they are effectively hamstrung by the Iraqi government. That's what this is all about. Hussein refuses t

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I think some of you are missing some very salient points here. Desert Storm could not be completed because the "Coalition" wouldn't support removing Saddam SPECIFICALLY. The UN created the sanctions that have killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the last 10 years, and Saddam has shown no sign of complying with UN resolutions. Ask me again who is showing the United Nations to be irrelevant. People, this is not some "woke up on Tuesday and decided to invade a Middle Easte

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Mariuss: Your doctrine of non- or limited-violence is simply wrong. You're speaking from the point of view of someone who believes this violence to be wrong, and think that if the causes of this hatred are addressed then the violence will stop. In the view of these Muslim fanatics we are not evil because of what we've done, we're evil because of what we are. We've sided with Israel and for that simple reason must be destroyed. Changing that will not change the attitude, because