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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:20 AM
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Should an unstable, dangerous nation like ours be allowed to have nuclear weapons?
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:28 AM
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1. No!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:29 AM
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2. NO
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:34 AM
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3. Especially not if we end up with Grandpa McCain on Ambien. nt
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:34 AM
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4. No. Eliminate them all before they {we} eliminate us
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:35 AM
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5. No nation should be allowed to have them....
its idiotic to think we and Israel are so superior to other cultures that we are the only nations who SHOULD own them.
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:49 AM
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8. When have we ever bitched about
the British and the French owning nuclear weapons.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:46 AM
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13. Im sorry, I dont understand your premise....nt
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 06:16 PM
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24. What I meant is
that we do not have a problem with Western Europeans (i.e. Britan and France) also having the bomb.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:35 AM
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6. No!
Maybe one of the reasons George & Co. is so worried about Iran having nukes is that they are just like us.
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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:46 AM
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7. Allowed by what?
We have them because we can. When or if there is ever a time that there is a form of organization that has not only the power to tell us we can't, but the power to back it up, then we won't.

Even then, we probably wouldn't listen. What country listens? Any country that has the ability to do something does it.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:56 AM
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9. Allowed by the People.
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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:01 AM
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10. Who is this, the People?
People don't matter. This is a world of, by, and for the institution. As we saw, Japan didn't die after it got hit twice. Individual Japanese people did, but again, people don't matter.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:06 AM
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11. You are the People.
You matter.

Tell the rest.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:45 AM
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12. Im afraid its been a very long time since
We the People did anything of substance that was good. If I am wrong in this, please educate me.:)
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:48 AM
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14. Nuclear weapons are the worst creation since Spam (the edible kind).....
n/t
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:57 AM
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15. Oooh. Dumb question of the day.
Who's going to stop us?
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 09:09 AM
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16. Actually, it's ironic.
See, it's fun to judge ourselves by the same standards we judge everyone else...um...by.

(Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. These are words to live by.)
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:33 AM
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18. Last Line Is Very Funny
Both sentences telling one what not to do, does it! Good stuff.
The Professor
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:45 AM
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21. Credit goes to...
...my 9th grade English teacher, Mrs. DeWitt.

1975-76. Bellflower High School. Bellflower, CA.

That was some goood teachin'. It stuck.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:51 AM
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22. You Betcha
Congrats, Mrs. DeWitt.
GAC
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:29 AM
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17. There's someone who accompanies our pResident everywhere he goes with the nuclear football.


And the fuggen idiot who can authorize the destruction
of the planet can't even pronounce nuclear.

So, no, it's not a good idea under the present circumstances.



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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:37 AM
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20. Interesting article regarding the pronunciation of nuclear
Confronting 'NOO-kyuh-luhr' Proliferation

snip

Yet the use of ''NOO-kyuh-luhr'' is not uncommon, even among prominent and educated people, including four of the nation's last 10 presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was widely admonished for it; Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter, who did graduate work in nuclear physics, and also used ''NOO-kee-yer''; and now George W. Bush.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7D9123AF930A25753C1A9649C8B63
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:34 AM
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19. NO
Edited on Wed May-28-08 10:38 AM by alyce douglas
No country should have nuclear weaponry, enough with the little boys having big toys to kill people.
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 11:27 AM
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23. Of course not, that's why we have them
The people with the most nukes in the world are the ones least likely to use them "responsibly"- if that term can even be applied to a nuclear arsenal.
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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:01 PM
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25. Nuclear weapons? Hell no. He can't f'ing handle pretzels!
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:43 PM
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26. NO. n/t
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 09:31 PM
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27. No, no one should. n/t
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