[Tsar]

Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER

tsar, north korea has very limited ability to hit a target witrh a warhead. yes, they do have better war heads, but the payload delivery is an issue they still have to contend with. without an effective payload system, they are still only an immediate threat to the nations they live next to that have less nuclear technology. we also live with teh grand advantage of them not being dumb enough to **** with us, cause they don't have teh fire power in teh arsenal to level us, but we can turn them to dirt several times over.

you also don't seem to have any grasp of the concept of time. comparing modern times to how governments acted 200 years ago is idiotic. would you also like to briong up the world wide slave trade and the fact that every other european nation that tried to expand throughout the "new world" leveled tribes too? cause then we coudl jsut past over england, france, spain, italy, portugal, sweden, and russia for the people they killed/enslaved/displaced too.

i wonder if my lack of world travel means i have never heard of the reputation of american toursits? umm, yeah, i pickeed up on that one. shoudl we also talk about the tourists i ahve dealt with and the people from other countries i see all teh time and the way they act? cause there are a lot of ******** from a lot of different parts of the world that we could have discussions about.

My problem with north Korea is that, they actually have WMDs but Iraq did NOT. yet you still attacked it.

Ok, lets dismiss the old stuff for a second, what about use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in Yugoslavian and first Gulf war? that ive mentioned earlier? or is that going back too far for you too? even I STILL remember those wars, and i was a kid so it wasnt that long ago.
Maybe you need a little refresher course on what depleted uranium does?

DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.

Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project said: 'There is a moral point to be made here. This war was about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves.' He added: 'Such double-standards are repellent.'

According to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'.

are you above the law too?

DU has been blamed for the effects of Gulf war syndrome -- typified by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss -- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict. The use of DU has also led to birth defects in the children of Allied veterans and is believed to be the cause of the 'worrying number of anophthalmos cases -- babies born without eyes' in Iraq. Only one in 50 million births should be anophthalmic, yet one Baghdad hospital had eight cases in just two years. Seven of the fathers had been exposed to American DU anti-tank rounds in 1991. There have also been cases of Iraqi babies born without the crowns of their skulls, a deformity also linked to DU shelling. A study of Gulf war veterans showed that 67% had children with severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems and fused fingers.

The Pentagon has admitted that *320 metric tons* of DU were left on the battlefield after the first Gulf war. In 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.

is that contemporary enough, or is that outdated too?
*I'm willing to convert tons into pounds for any retard that doesn't know metric system.


Your lack of travel around the world shows your lack of first hand knowledge about other peoples culture, and how they operate and think. Its actually pretty simple and self explanatory and i would compare that argument to taking sex advice from a virgin.