bertman

Many country outside US have strict gun laws, who in practice give just Police and the military the right to have possession of gun in public spaces.. And where even hunting is somewhat regulated.. You have to be member of a gun club, and have a license to hunt. And go true a rather strict protocol to be allowed to have a weapon at all.. And where your gun is to be kept in a regulated gun locker at all time when you doesn't use it for hunting..

In some country, like my own, the police are not set up with gun at all.. Well they Do have gun, but it is strictly regulated, and they have to get permission for every time they have to use it as part of the uniform.. And have to go true a lot of paper work, if they ever have to use it....

And compared to many country's of this world, we do have a LOT of weapon in private ownership, but we doesn't have the same numbers as US have, when it come to death by gun.... 11.000 it was last year, in US..

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newmac

Im from Europe, and for the good of my life can't understand why someone docent want to have a decent public option to health care. It is a right most europeans take for granted to have the possibility to get the healtcare we need, when we need it.. Okay we pay a lot of taxes to get it, and not everything is okay in our healtcare system. But compared to the US I would say most europeans healtcare system is like coming to the heavens in comparison...

I can for myself say that I would far more rather pay the taxes and get decent healtcare when needed. As I have been in need of some times the last 5-6 year. Hospitalized twice, and for the moment have a bad knee who need MR, and possible a surgery to fix what is wrong in my knee.. The surgery will not cost me a dime because I already have paid for it by my taxes, but I'm not sure when the surgery Will go ahead... In the meantime I have painkillers on receipt, and it was on "blue receipt" so it doesn't cost me a lot of money to have it get out, think it all cost NKR 144, or like 25,44 US dollar.. Im not sure what the surgery in my knee would have cost me, but more than posible far more than I can afford at present...

And can I say that I get my dental for free?

I'm somewhat mind blowing when people who really are in need of healtcare is crying out as the health care is communism, and that is a danger to what US is all about. They sees to doesn't have a clue what is the reality of a public option and is brainwashed to believe it to be communism... If all they who fight this really know how good it had been for them,to have a public option....

And it is not that the private companies loose out of this. Even in Scandinavia where I am living, the private companies whose profession is to get some of us to pay to private institutions is pretty well living. But compared to US they are small, and strictly regulated. They cant even be aggressive in commercials, and for the most part, they who want a private insurance get it on their own, by insurance companies or by given it by the company they are working for...

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RB TexLa

I doesn't know about things work in the great USA, but here where I live you Will automatic be given a FINE if you doesn't have seat belt on.. The rules is there for a reason, safety is maybe the most important reason.. And the fines is rather stiff too

And to cry about your fines, because you doesn't feel "comfortable" with it, it just stupid. I for one doesn't feel sorry for your fines.. If you doesn't want to get a fine anytime you drive, get your seatbelt on, and live with the "uncomfortable"..

I guess you ARE an grown up, and therefore should know that you doesn't always can live in comfort... Not even in your own car.

To not bear seatbelt is just selfishness and stupidity...

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bemildred

Then I guess that it can go two ways, becouse UK have a great intelligence comunity, and a lot of intelligence assets in the middle east and in south east asia.. not to say the rest of Asia and Afrika and other places.. After all the british was over the whole globe at one time and even today have close conections to most places

This nothing more than a treath nothing more. Withouth the "ears" in UK most of the intell about Russia, and many other places the US have some special interst it, is more or less dead.. And it wil take long times to build new sites to get intell.. Not even Poland wil accept that withouth some resevation

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RoccoR5955

You doesn't need to ba a man/woman of color to be inspired by this woman.. Dam she was hot in the old days - and still are, but now maybe more for her intellect than for her body.. And I would say I find intelligent woman sexy as hell.. Even tho they also scare the jebbuz out of me for some reason or another

And if this movie is THE movie to trow mr Bush and the rest of that criminal Enterprise where they deserve. Then so Mitch better

Go Uhuru, the first black first officer on a Star Fleet flagship.. You was way ahead of your tame there Roddenberry..

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Lena inRI

Yes, my screen name is indeed from the Roman emperor who in the late 280 early 300s managed to keep the empire together - by the treads by the way, and ended up as an old man on pention in Split.. Or to be correct, the palace/mausoleum he build for himself as an retainment home wasn in due time rebuild as a City, and even as the old palace and mausoleum is more or less goon today, the city of Split is still there, and until the 1700-1800s it was inside the roman wall limits of the early 300s.. The split between the different parts of the empire The Balkans and the western parts was more the fault of them who came after than himself.. But yes his partition of the empire, for the sake of better governance was the first sign of the division who always had been there, and who in the 300 and 400s AD was going to be worse and worse, to the time when the last west roman emperor was put into a luxurious retainment and the Western empires symbols of power was given back to Constantinople, with the letter telling that they was no more needed in the west.. Justinian tried for a while to keep the two parts togheter again but it was futile, and the eastern roman empire had their own problems with the arab Bedouins in the 600s... And the Western parts collapsed soon into the dark ages who lasted for many dark hundred years.. But still there the flicker of light was seen here and there, most in the monastery of the roman Catholic Church who in many cases started the rest of european history...

Bush Jr was indeed a puppet no doubt about that, he was also a terrible horrible leader who bl owed up all chances of going together with most of your NATO alliance to go after Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qauda with "either you are with us or against us". And he more or less blow all chances ha might have had to build a really big solid coalition against Iraq in the 2002-03 if he had coming up with real facts instead of the comic mr Powell was given UN in early 2003.. Even Powell was against the evidences...

Your current President Barack H. Obama really deserve the Nobel peace prize, because he have already by being elected by the AMERICAN PUBLIC showing the world that he and the american public at a large wanted a better future than the past had been.. And I for one was up to 5 in the morning the day the election happened to just se who won the presidency.. And I am afraid I wake up most of the neighborhood when I was standing outside the house to shout on the top of my lungs YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES OBAMA IS ELECTED THE NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT (in Norwegian off course )

And yes Obama is your last best chance to turn the tide and to make it possible to work togheterer with the US than to be dragged kicking and screaming before the bulldozer that is the US war machine... Obama is not just YOUR best chance, he is also OUR best chance to a better future than mr Bush and the right wings of the republican party ever managed to give us.. And still many Norwegians was telling that mr Bush deserved it better than Obama when it was confirmed that Obama got the prize. Obama have heritage a lot of horrible problems from your last president, and it will be a mess for many years ahead before the big ship who are the United States of America is in better water than today.. YOu will need at least a couple of presidents like your current (maybe even some little more to the left) to even try rebuild the damage that your last republican president was doing to US

I have never had the displeasure of listening to mr Deck, but I did have the displeasure of listing to mr Rush "humburg" Limbuagh by accidence sometimes.. And I for one are pretty sure that he is a man man, as in really sick.. And I'm also pretty sure the rest of the gangs is like him, mad as hell and with an illness of sorts..

The danish helping of the jews, who most surly would have ended in the gas chambers of Treblinka Sorbinol and so on is something that is really admirable.. Of the jewish population 99 percent get out of the country and over to Sweden who was neutral and not occupied by anyone and survived to the end... I would say our own history about the persecution of the jews is less admirable because just 24 of the more than 3000-4000 member of the jewish community survived the war. That was they who was arrested and send to germany - Stettin in Poland was a important port of entry - before a long way to the east where they was gaset.. But many also helped the jews, specially children to escape to Sweden and some sorts of peace there the rest of the war..

Denmark is a small country compared to Norway, and it was somewhat more easy to transport the jews to sweden than it ws to help the jews in Norway. But it is a shame to admit that in many cases the authorities and the german occupation force (SS and Gestapo and SIPO) did their work and put most of the jews on the trains and then off to the ships to Germany... It is a shame we have to live with - but after the war Norway have been a good friend of the state of Israel then - even that we do have our things there too.... But it surly messed up the german plans to first segregate and then get the jews into the trains who is been send to concentration caps, when half the population is going around with yellow stars and armbands... It would seen to be a hopeless project, and the danish Resistance groups was also really good in given the Germans hard time when they blow up railroads and such all the time... Compared to be in Denmark to Norway was more or less day and night.. In Norway the "parole" was more or less, be carefully and doesn't let the germans have a chance to go hard on you.. And compared to the danish Resistance the Norwegian was pretty peacefully, and it was not before 1943-44 and the winter of 1944-45 that Milorg really get into action against german targets... (Milorg was the official military branch of the Resistance) Their main case was not to fight the germans in every faction, but to inform the allied forces what happened and where the german forces was.. And in many cases they did a excellent work and many german war ships was clipped down as they was sailing true Norwegian sea water... Even the mighty Tirpitz, who after the sinking of Bismarck was the most mighty battleship on the Atlantic ended her days in the bay of Bodø in 1944... And for the point of history, the airport was using the panzer plates from Tirpitz to build rwy 07/25 /main civilian runway by the way) And most of what was salvageable was also used to build some forts in the harbor of Bodø.. Even some of the canons was been used that way to defend the inlet to the habour... And the last of the canons I believe was out of commission in the late 1980s...

Your family have to be an really brave family if some of them was telling Il Duce in public what a rat he really was.. That is hugely admirable I would say.. It could not be easy to have "different belief" in the fascist Italy - not that it ever have been easy to be public communist in Italy in any cases. Admirable it is, to tell the Duce that he was a rat... Something like the students of Oslo did when they was ORDERED but he occupation forces to stand in the streets up to the royal Palace in 1942 when no less than Heinrich Himmler was wisting Norway.. The students was rather against the whole case.. And as the Reich fuhrer SS was coming up Karl Johan (our parade gate) 3000 students and civilians turned their back on the mighty leader of the SS, and showed just their back as he was driving up to the Palace.. The Reich fuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler was furious and it almost ended the time of one of Norway's other nemesis in the war a Rhinelander with the name Terbhoven.. Who by the way blow himself up instead of been arrested 4-5km from where I'm living today... And most of the students who was not running for their life to Sweden ended up arrested and put to concentration camps in Germany for some "re-eduction" for the rest of the war.. Many of them died too

Yes mr Chomsky is warning for what can because of US.. And I for one would say he has been better and better as his age progresses.. Very sad he cant live forever - but as long as he is alive it is still some hope for the democracy in US i would say... But he tend to be somewhat arrogant when asked about things...

You all must got it Fred være med deg - peace be with you also my friend:fistbump:

And no, my parents have not given me a roman sounded name, I'm named after both my grand Fathers, and have a solid Norwegian sounding name to boot.. Hopeless for anyone outside scandinavia to really understand when I'm telling my name.. But if I write it down, then some of them understand it

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zbdent

When it comes to abortion I would say it this way, it is the law of the land, both in US and here in Norway, and even tho I have some resevation about it I wil never, ever kill or harm peopole who have to use abortion.. I wiuld never attac another becouse of that, why, becouse I KNOW that it is many reason before a woman goes to a abortion clinic to terminate something than in 9 mountsh is a living child.. And I wil never condemd they who do it - even tho I do have some resevation about it.. That is just what I feel about the whole affair. But I accept that this is tha law of the land, and it is NOT law of the land to kill pepole you are in disagreement... And to say that abortion is like the gas shambers is just... mindblowing becouse it cant even be on the same case at all...

I for one would say that it is becouse if the public as a whole get the knowlegde about what HEALTCARE for everyone really is, and what it can do for them who need the healt care most.. Then americans maybe start to rethink other parts of the right wing policy.. The hestiation of give healtcare for the masses is a clever way of controlling, and put fear into the masses.. If you dosent slave into your old ages, you cant affor your medical bills.. And then if you is sick and need healt care - then they deny you it, becouse it was not part of the deal - or the close your account and trow you out to the wolfes...

Thankfully in our neck of the wood we have healtcare for everyone, and even that we might pay a lot mot taxes than You are doing at the current, we have also a healtcare for everyone, and if i got ill, I wil be given proper medical need..

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zbdent

"Have the RW media sent millions to the gas chambers?"


My answer to that is "not yet". The nazis of the 1930s dosent start to gas chamber peopole right away when they got into power, it took years to build up the systems, and to make the men capable of gassing their own friends, their own families and their own nabours. It took years before the "final solution" where millions of inocent woman, men and children would be killed, not becouse they had did something, but becouse they was who they was..

Give the right wing of the republican Party enough time, and the nazis wil be like a trip in the park compared to what the republicans can do. In the 1930s it was clear limits to what the nazi germans could do to kill others.. And most of their victims was not killed by gas but by rifle rounds.. In the age of the nuclear weapons, millions of "inferiour humans" can be killed in an instant, and no one is sercure at all.... It is a nightmare I really hope never to experience...

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defendandprotect

It took most germans a lost war to understand what they had been coerset to accept as normality.. And even that many germans had tried, and died for making most germans aware of what the nazis did do, the Nazi-regime still had large support in most of germany til the end, when the russians was outside the Fueher bunker in Berlin, and the children of Dr Gobbles was lying dead in their beds inside the bunker where Hitler once had believed to rule the largest empire on the face of the earth. In a capital who should dwarf the rest of the worlds capitals...

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by Lena inRI

Im not so sure about that every norwigians have understand the right wingers in the world.. If you can managed to read norwigian newspaper it is many who disagree about the nobel institutes desision to make president Obama the next winner of the nobel peace prize.. Some also say that mr Jageland should resign over it...

But many norwigias understand and smell the faul taste of neo-nazism and extremism.. That is true. It exist still a generation who know first hand what happend in Europa between 1933 and 1945. And still know how bad it was when the nazist was in power..

I for one do hope that US dosent have to learn it the hard way Europe did when the nazis was marshing into power and then using all type of scaring tactitcs to get where they wantet, total power...

And mr Shomsky is absolutely right about how the right wings of US is similar to the nazis of old europe. They do share the same distain for everything that is not like them self, and want to mars into power, and be there for the next 1000 year or so.. It was lucky for the world, and for US that mr Bush was not fully comited to the neo conservatives cause, but in some prospect was looking as a brake for some of the more radical idead that Cheney and Rumsfelds was loving to make..

And still you haven't close down the ilk of mr Rush Humburg and Co, who most surly would not have had more than ONE hour of broadkast in the airwaiwes in Europe, if they ever was to make a stand here. The Right wing of US is to far right to even get a voice in Europe legaly.. Not in Main stream broadcast anyway..

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laststeamtrain

Then it is good to know, that this man never wil be in the halls of power again.. Hopefully

To more or less public tell the world, IAE can't belive that a meeting like this wil not be known outside the room.. that if Israel want to attack Iran by nuclear weapon, then go ahead to do it.. Wel then Im hopefully the same mn is ready to take the consequenses when the nuclear fallout is going over and the grim pictures of what is the reality of nuclear weapon faces home too.. When your media really is waking up to its duty, to show what nuclear weapon is all about, then mr Bolton, and the american enteprize wil have a chance in hell...

Even under the high of the cold war, when the super powers of the day was ready to luch weapon who would destroy sivilisation as we know it in 15 minutes, maybe 30 of we was lucky.. Even then most leders bolted over the consept.. No american president ordered that nuclear weapon to be used from 1949 to 1991 and it was not before Bush jr was "elected" into office that the nuclear option was there again.. Now the right wing and I say the REALLY RIGHT WING is back, and is more or less traying their best to play hardball, with nuclear weapon that is....

And then we have both Russia and China, who is sort of friends with Iran, and have nuclear weapon too.. DO mr Bolton really for a second belive that they would not do something, if Iran was attaced by either US or Israel, specially by nuclear weapon?.. I would say it is 99.99 chance that a nuclear attac against Iran wil cost both the US and Israel far more than anyone on the american enteprise have counted in.. Just the IDEA of using nuclear weapon are in my mind madness.. Now this want to provoce and to it posible by a proxy.. If Israel are to lob a nuclear weapon against Iran, no defence force in the world wil surive the angry mobs of the arab world... Or if US are to use nuclear weapon against Iran, then I would not be in that area of the world, becouse of the deep anger that wil blow up as hell... No government in the arabic world wil surive a attack like that if they dosen't turn on their friends from US.. Not even Saudi-Arabia wil be parts of the friendship and allianse after a attack like that.. And the west and specially US can say byebye to petrol from the middle east for the next 50-100 year

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lovuian

The Russian Aiforce and Navy have been "testing" US borders for the last 50 year or so.. As long as Russia have had an long range Navy and Airforce they have allways had patrols who put them in the border lines of United States of America.. Do you really belive for a nano second that the last couple of subs, who have been detected outside the coast of US haven't been doing that for the last couple of decades... I for one have read, and know some stories about russian subs who more or less lurked inside some of your habours sometimes... And I also know some stories about US subs who more or less lurked inside some of their habours - even some really nasty military one on the pasific ocean side of Russia.. And thankfully neither was discovered.. Even that I belive the US counterpart do have some leverage against their russian counterparts...

And for the most part the russian subs was allmoust a decade older than the US subs in most of the cold war anyway... More noise, and far more accidents than the US had...

Russian Airforce, who are for the most part not excactly top of the like aircraft - the versaltile TU96/142 is a design who is from the late 1940-1950, and who can give their ancestory to four B29 bombers who was "confisicated" when they had to have an emergency landing in Siberia in the late stages of the war.. Thankfully the crew was given back in good condition, but their aircraft never came back to US soil then.. Even the Backfire T160 Blacjack who by the way is a large cousine of your B1B bomber is more than 40 year old - and compared to their american counterparts rather outdated.. Even TU160 have not been fitted with many of the newest tecnology that most first line pilots in the west takes for granted.. Half of the Fighter squadrons of MIG29 is grounded becouse they have no spare to get them out and of the ground. For the most part everything have to be rebuild and the russian airforce just dosen't have the money to fix them as they want it.. In many cases half the fighters is canibalized to make the other half able to fly, and the russian pilotes also lack what is practized again and again in west, training, training and more traning.. For the most part, the pilotes who are now flying near your airspace is not doing it to provoce a war or to test your strengt, but rater to learn the new aviators to know the airplanes.. The TU95s and the TU160 is beast to fly - even beatifully beast, they are still beast to fly, and in most cases the new russian pilotes have not been known to get enough hour under the best to really know this beast and to know their limits, but also their abilities.. It was far more knowlegde about the inner working of the Tu family and MIG familiy and SU familiy of bombers and fighters before Soviet colapsed and the train stoped up in a grain pit.. It is more than 17 year since the Russian Airforce and Navy last had the chance to really practice what they are there for... And even if they DID get their force up to 50-60 percent over the last decade for what was the norm of the 1980s, then still they have a lot work to do, to get up to the top of the line they do had in the early 1980s when they had more than 2000 figheter/bomber less than 20 km of the Norwigian border.. At that point we had not be given all our F16s yet - and still had to wait long before the F5 was "relived of duty" - that happend first in the early 2000s..

You cant hold military bases all over the glove when you are billions in debt.. Some country have alleready ask the US troops to leave, other wil do it later. Even the british empire who had been there for more than 300 year, and expandet to an area who on one time was 1/5 of the planets surface had the brain to understand that the money needed, and the money they had was going the wrong way after WW2... Even that it took a decade and half before the Empire finally was over, and most of the empirets assets was independed in one form or another the empire of UK, was down peacefully, and it dosen't broke the UK treassary to mutch in the end too.. Vel the Pound had to be re set some times in the meantime, and it never got the same power in the world that it had before.. But the Pound is still a mighty old currency in world affairs... And as long as the britts have their pound sterling, the world wil survive I guess

If Obama is willing, he might get many of your roops home, and many bases closed before the next decade is over.. Yes it wil be painfull, both for the soldiers, the sivilians who in many cases is depended of the job the military bases is given them. But in time it wil other jobs.. And in the end even the Empire of USA might surive this too... In difference to most empires before them the americans can relocade, and even build new ones when they lost some bases around the world. The idea here is not to trow the last american back to the Iseland of Hawaii, but rather to do it more easy to manage the bases you have out there.. You dosen't need more than 10000 bases to controll the world.. You can still ha lot of leverage in world affairs with 500, or less, if the bases is build smart where they are needed.. Most of the UK bases in the time of the mighty British Empire was located where trade routes, and peopole was traveling.. Or where conections to other parts of the world was important.. In the whole the empire of India, where the british King and Queen was emperor and empress, the whole military administration was less than 5000 british soldiers.. 5000 soldiers in a place who was maybe 60 times the sise of UK... Most british who was in India was not even military, but rather in the sivilian sectors as sivilian servants and sutch.. Many from the gentry and many others got their "spores" in the Indian sub continent...

If your dollar is wortless - and I hope it wil not be like that, but I have fear it becouse it is in bad shape.. Then your bases wil be closed faster than everyone can dream of.. When the US dollar isen't wort the print it is made of. Then it goes the same way as the old Reichmarc of the Weimar Republic, or the Ruble of the Russians in the 1990s... DOwn the drain... In germany's case a new currency, the D mark was the salvation... In the Russian case the ruble is still there - just hanging in as it goes up and down in the currency marked...

I hope that the US dollar dosent go the same way as the dodo - but I also hope that many of your bases in the world wil be closed, not becouse i "hate" americans, but becouse I really dosen se the point of having more than 1000 military bases around the world - spesially when nobody in their right main have the power to try to attac you in any way... The US is using more than 20 times the rest of the group of "the biggest spenders" in the world are doing - and still many americans are scared to death for the fact that in "maybe 20 or 30 years time" China can be deep sea power.. And you have had an vice-president who on the record have told the world that he wanted to treatedn China to stop builing new fighter jets, and to modernize the military.. And you have the same vice-president who more or less provoced the russians to really start a little arm race in the baltic region, becouse of the missile plan he and jr wanted to put in Poland and in the Chech Republic...

For me who are on the outside I would say many americans - or maybe even most of you are really scared of the world outside of your own borders.. And you have a scaring lack of knowlegde about the same world. But want to comand and to "lead" the world in the direction you want it to be like... Maybe it is time for americans, to try to educate themself about the world outside Arkansas, or Florida or Vermont.. Maybe even try to educate yourself of why so many is pissed of, and dosent want your military bases on their soil anymore in the same degee as 50 year ago?.. Try to understand and be somewhat educated about the world outside your own borders - then maybe, just maybee you wil understand the rest of the world.. And in most cases survive as an nation by using diplomacy and not military... Diplomacy is in most cases far more easy and cheap compared to using strong arm tactic.

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lovuian

She might mean the BIG ONES who level a city of millions in a blast And if that is the case, only ONE nation as i know it have ever USED the bomb... And we all know which country that is... So no name is needed to point to direction I guess..

DU ammo is a waste product from production of nuclear fission, and is low radiated (as I know it then) compared to other nuclear waste products.. But still it IS radioactive, and it is still a waste product.. The reason the US, and other nations is using Du ammo is because it is cheap compared to other type of ammo with the same penetration range.. And it is also easy to produce compared to other type of ammo.. And even small amount of DU ammo is enough to blow large holes in everything from T55 to the newest western tanks.. It is versatile and cheap.. And can and is used in most conventional weapon of today..

The other side of the weapon, who you never will be told by they who made the weapon, and who in the first case decided DU is a smart metal to have on weapon, is that it is poisonous, and can/Will harm large areas because of the radiation. DU is really a horrible weapon for the enemy then.. It burns skin and bones to nothing is there.. And even US enlisted and officers have told stories that when they used DU on iraq Tanks in the first golf war, the tanks could burn for days - not just from the ammo and the petrol inside, but also from the Heat the DU managed to produce when they fired the weapons...

I'm not sure what to say about it, but I would say that DU is a form of nuclear weapon, even tho it doesn't blow up like their bigger brothers and sisters and level a whole city. As long as it is radioactive - as DU ammo is, it should be recognized as a form of small nuclear weapon and be used like that - never.

The only reason no country have used a nuclear weapon after 1945 is because the weapons itself was in a way to big to be used.. Even if both Warsaw and NATO pact country's do had plans for using nuclear weapons on a central european war front, everything from "Small" tactical weapons to city busters was planed if the two forces ever got into action.. It never materialized thankfully, even it was close more than one time between 1948 and 1989.. Today both the will and the technology is seen to make the weapons so small both in zise and in Yeld, that someone believe for real that nuclear weapon can and should be used against the enemy.. The problems is that the first nation in modern time who use a nuclear weapon even if the yield is "small" compared to other systems Will be given all the contempt it deserve.. The past Republican Administration of mr Bush jr, more than one treated the world with the use of nuclear weapon, if they dosen play by the book of them.. If a Administration who was more stubborn and less willing to play ball with the world at large, then what?. (even it Will be hard to go more down than the republican administration of mr Bush jr then) Should US as the biggest spender of weapon also be allowed to USE the weapon, even a small, small tactical weapon against country the US doesn't trust or like?. Or should every nuclear weapon state be allowed to make a pre-emtive strike when needed?...

I for one would hope to give my children (when that time comes) a near nuclear free weapon world to their future. It is so dead wrong to even think about the billions of billions who have been used to dig holes in the ground, to put missiles with nuclear weapon on them, to stand guard in more than 60 year now, against an enemy who also had the nuclear weapon, and who also used trillions of dollars, to waste it on a war who thankfully never materialized itself because both sides had to much to loose to risk it.. But darn it was close many times and even if the Cuba crises was the most known it is many other times both sides had their nuclear weapons on standby. Billions of dollars, who could and should have been used to give us a better future than past.. If the world have spend so many money on peace as they have been doing on war, i really doubt that it would have been necessary to have nuclear weapons, or an army for that case... And the military industry had always survived, they could always try to explore the galaxy..

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lovuian

The Russians is more or less sablerassling, again. But they do have a point about nuclear weapon... The US have for years now tried to stop the gap between conventional weapons, and nuclear one, with some of the biggest, most mean "bunker busters" human ever have seen to this day... And the nuclear weapons have been smaller and smaller, and a new generation of Small nuclear weapons is out there, who can be used against targets - and they claim that the new weapons is not radiation danger than the "old types" of today

I for one Will say that the use of Depleted Uranium os a sort of use of nuclear weapon.Even if it docent blow up as a nuclear weapon, it radiate, and radiate for a long time after use... And it is more or less proven that DU ammo is DANGEROUS for humans, more than 12 year after the Iraq-Kuwait war, it is still a lot of cancer in the area of Basra, before the war, when the US first used the stuff - many of the types who is there today was not existing, or at least on a level where it was more or less "statistic safe"...

But I guess it count first and most important when americans are hit by the weapons the americans is using in large quanta I guess... Yes I'm cynical, but i am also somewhat of a realist, and this type of weapons is "to important" in the US military to be stopped used because of little radiation poising by civilians who the US have no responsibility for, or care for...

Diclotican

Truthway

First of all It is just wrong that Albania, who for the time beeing is member of the alliance seatet in Brussel is in any shape to attack Macedonia to build something like an greater Albania. If it is proven that Albania can in any way be conected to an war in Macedonia, or for that case in other parts on the Balkan, then Im afraid that the membership of Albania is in yeapardy.. And Albania dosen't want to jeaperdy the fact that Albania is member of the NATO alliance, and specially that they are - for the time beeing "good friends of USA". In fact the one and reall reason that Albania is a member of NATO is becouse the then President George Walker Bus jr, more or less preassured the Alliance to give Albania membership in 2004.. I for one would say it was wrong to make Albania a member of NATO, becouse Albania are in no way a country who are stable enough, and have the democratic institution to really make a positive impact on NATO at all.. It is still a poor stricken corrupt coutry with a lot of resenment by the population becouse they dosen't are in their "rightfull place" in the worl.. Many albanians still belive they can be a superpower on the Balkans, and have the right to parts of Maecdonia, Greece, (Kosovo) and so on.. And in many cases the "right" is more than two thousands year ago, when the area whi is parts of Balkan was a province in the roman empire named Illyria..

I hope that the Balkans can be somewhat stable soon, and that the population in Balkan as sutch can accept the borders who is drawn one way or another the way it is been drawn.. But Im also clear that the groups who live there, in many cases hate eatch other with a pashion the rest of Europe just dosen't get..

Diclotican