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As I said before on another thread a God figure is the most logical possibilty for the Universe coming into Exsistence, because the Universe didnt create itself.
Hmmm. This woman in the film is on very thin ice. :shock: She could well get her a.ss sued . Saying most of the US Military General’s are Faggots!.
According to the newspaper I read today “Harry Potter’s” a big favourite in the Prison Library at Guantanamo Bay. As well as Table Tennis and Board Games.
That’ll probably lighten the stress in between getting their Electric Shocks, and having their toenails and teeth removed.You’re a sarcy old codger aint ya. :wink:
EU condemns secret CIA prisons
The European Union condemned on Friday the detention of terrorism suspects by the United States in secret overseas prisons, whose existence U.S. President
George Bush first acknowledged last week.European nations had held back from criticizing Washington over the matter after it first emerged in media reports last year, and said last December they were satisfied with U.S. statements denying any wrongdoing.
“The existence of secret detention facilities where detained persons are kept in a legal vacuum is not in conformity with international humanitarian law and international criminal law,” Finnish Foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja told a news conference after the bloc’s 25 ministers discussed Bush’s comments.
“We reiterate that in combating terrorism, human rights and humanitarian standards have to be maintained,” said Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency.
Bush publicly acknowledged the
CIA held high-level terrorism suspects, including alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in secret overseas locations.He strongly defended the secret detention and questioning of terrorism suspects and said the CIA treated them humanely and did not torture. The detention program, disclosed last year by The Washington Post, provoked an international outcry.
“Secret prisons are illegal, immoral, and counter-productive in any strategy to win hearts and minds,” EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gijs de Vries said in a statement on Friday.
Bush announced last week Mohammed and 13 others were transferred recently to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center run by the
Pentagon to be prosecuted in the future.“We acknowledge the intention of the U.S. administration to treat all detainees in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva convention,” Tuomioja said.
On Thursday a Senate panel rejected Bush’s pleas that new legislation on foreign terrorists allow CIA interrogators to use tough interrogation methods.
Instead the Senate Armed Services Committee endorsed an alternative bill by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) that would better protect the rights of foreign terrorism suspects.
Bush has not revealed the location of secret overseas jails, but EU member Poland and candidate country Romania have been accused of hosting such jails by an investigator for Europe’s human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe.
Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Stanislaw Komorowski, issued a fresh denial on Friday. “The prisons did not exist in Poland and there is no need to return to the issue,” he told reporters in Brussels.
Spanish Foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told EU lawmakers investigating the CIA abuses on Thursday that Spain may have been a stopover for secret CIA flights but that there is no evidence that violations of international law were committed on its soil.
I suspect you’ve hit the nail on the head PB. Better hope they never find out that you’re onto them.
Well it wasnt me if that’s what your implying.
Hope so Rob. :wink:
I just feel there’s a certain snobbery in some quarters. Man U are on a different planet to us financially. They’re a great side, and they’re movement and passing was there for all to see.
We came and had a go though, and aside from some dodgy passing from Gravesen we’d have got something from the game. Sure it could have 10-4 but it wasnt 10-4. That’s what Goalkeepers are there for to save shots. Surely anyone must have known before last night’s game that Man U would have the bulk of possesion and shots at goal.@geoff wrote:
@American Woman wrote:
Geoff – Let’s just be thankful that you live where you do and I live where I do. Instead of criticizing our politics, criticize your own country for standing beside us in this fight.
I criticise our donkey Government regularly. And I have every right to criticise your aggression politics.
No country is safe with these radicals running around. Not my country and not your own country. So do you feel we should just coward away from them? We went into Iraq after 9/11 because it posed a threat. Iraq was and is breeding Islamic Fascism. It needs to stop. It’s dangerous to the world.
Iraq posed NO threat, once again this was dispelled and I shall once again provide links if you so desire. Geneva conventions (or UN – sorry can’t remember) do not allow a country to forcefully enter another country purely on threat, so your Government should be liable to war crimes. Our country was safe until the Republicans decided to put a stop to it. I don’t remember the fundamentalism being anywhere near as bad under the Democrats.
No matter what is thought of Americans and their policies and politics – It’s a human tragedy. Al Queda went after the innocent not our military. They are crazy and need to be stopped. I’m glad we’re not cowarding away.
Cowarding away? The American Government are the biggest bullies of the 20/21st Century!
It took American citizens several years to wake up and smell the roses with the Vietnam conflict. However when they did protests happened nationwide, indeed all over the world to pull American troops out. Again, it may take several years, however the majority of American people will come to the realisation eventually of the reasons behind this war and demand action. It just seems to take several years before they realise they are being brainwashed.
I absolutely agree with what Geoff’s posted here.
AW-The War on Terror is one that ABSOLUTELY had to be fought. It had to be fought right there and then after 9/11. Nothing else would have been sufficent.
However the wrong country was attacked. As has been pointed out, according to international law a country cant be invaded purely on suspicion of guilt. The US (and UK) ripped that international law up when it suited them.
The result of invading the wrong country has been tens of thousands of angry young new recruits for Al Queda. The next generation of Al Queda Terrorist is here, and the US and UK have created this situation by their illegal invasion of Iraq.We’ll see after the home leg Matt. :wink: Having home advantage in Europe is a huge advantage as we witnessed last night.
With a big home crowd behind us at Parkhead? Absolutely!
