HuskerDem
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Sun Aug-22-04 03:43 PM
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How many dictators currently rule? How many with known WMD? |
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Has anyone taken account of this? I would be very interested to know how many countries there are currently in the world which are ruled by a single individual with autocratic control, be they monarchies or generals or whatever. How many of them (like Pakistan) have known WMD?:nuke:
I'm getting sick to effing death of this BS line about "bringing freedom" and "spreading democracy" because we just CARE SO MUCH :puke: about liberating the people of the world from dictatorships.
Has anyone got the numbers?
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Sun Aug-22-04 03:58 PM
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He's on vacation though, so I don't know if that counts. ;)
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Sun Aug-22-04 03:59 PM
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2. Find the paper America Judas |
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here on du. It's on the Plame threads and you will be able to get some idea on how widespread wmd's are..including nukes.
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Sun Aug-22-04 05:15 PM
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3. The WMD concern me less than the hypocrisy |
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And the STUPIDITY of the sheeple who repeat the empty and ridiculous notion that the war in Iraq had ANYTHING AT ALL to do with "democracy".
How many brutal dictators are we ignoring right now because they are not sitting on a puddle of fossil fuel?
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Sun Aug-22-04 05:58 PM
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4. China, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea |
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They all have nukes and are basically dictatorships. Course they would be a bitch to conquer and IraqNam has much more oil.
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Sun Aug-22-04 06:09 PM
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1. usa 2. china 3. russia 4. france 5. UK
I know this reads like the Security council, but that is the ultimate irony is it not.
6. Israel 7. Pakistan 8. India 9. South Africa (secret still) 10. Iran (secret still) 11. Japan (secret still)
All of these countries are avid supporters of the bush nuclear proliferation drive and the hope to spread nuclear weapons to terrorists the world over for the bush reelection.
Bush wants to be remembered as the man who faced nuclear terrorism and the CIA and military are working hard to bring the dream to a detonation near you.
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:09 AM
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Am I missing something? I thought they both had democraticly elected leadership. I understand #1.
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Mon Aug-23-04 04:08 PM
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8. That list is for nuclear countries, not dictatorships. |
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Mon Aug-23-04 04:14 PM
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9. I was fairly sure that |
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Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 04:15 PM by hughee99
South Africa had voluntarily dismatled it's nuclear program in 94' under the UN supervision, an accomplishment that the Big Dog was fairly proud of. When did Israel, India, South Africa (if it does still have nukes) Japan, the US and France become dictatorships? When did France and Iran become big backers of *'s nuclear proliferation drive?
How did North Korea not make your list? Does anyone argue that it is not totalitarian or that it doesn't have nukes?
Just curious.
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Mon Aug-23-04 04:02 PM
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7. Probably about 75 countries are dictatorships or totalitarian |
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And in that 75 we shall NOT count this one--we have an opportunity, however slight it may be, to remove our current junta and put an elected leader in his place.
Just about everything south of the equator is a dictatorship. Add in Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, China and the entire Persian Gulf.
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