My final thread on John Kerry, I promise. Options

[*CrackedRearView*]

This is a formal challenge to all who plan on voting for John Kerry. I know this is going to be hard, because it's a 12 minute documentary created by the Republican National Committee, and I understand that that's an immediate turn-off. But just follow me on this.

http://www.kerryoniraq.com/

Go there and watch the documentary. What's special about this documentary is that it's Kerry's words over time, on not only this Iraq war but the last as well, taken directly from newscasts. There's a clip of Howard Dean and some news footage from various stations, but it's almost exclusively Kerry talking. It follows his stances from 1998, as one of the only men in the Senate urging a war on Iraq, to 2004, where he considers himself an "anti-war candidate," and a possible (almost certain) motive for his policy reversal.

So my challenge is to watch this video. Its hard to consider yourself fully informed about your candidate without understanding where he's voting and why, and this gives very interesting information about his thought process and voting records through the years.

Now, I know there are lots of reasons to vote for Kerry. You like what he'll do with the economy, you like paying taxes, you like an unpredictable government, you think he might actually do this health care thing like he says he will. But if you honestly think he's a good man to run our foreign policy, watch this, and then tell me why you think that. And if you can still wave your "UnBush 2004" sign and tell me he's our best option for commander-in-chief, then there's nothing else I can say to change your mind on the fact that this man is a complete idiot when it comes to foreign policy.

And that, my debate colleagues, will be my final topic on John F. Kerry.

[mechwarrior1989]

I really must applaud you, good research this time. Never would have thought it possible from your previous post. Anywho, I'm tired and I need to go to bed, but I'll post this for now.

India population 'to be biggest'


India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050, while some countries will shrink by nearly 40%, according to new research.
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) says the next half century will see wild swings in population sizes.

It predicts that the number of people on Earth will reach 9.3bn by 2050, compared to 6.3bn today.

Britain's population is likely to overtake that of France, while the US will grow by nearly 50%, it says.

The Washington-based PRB says the general trend will be for Western developed nations to decline slightly in numbers - the US being the major exception - while developing states continue to expand rapidly.

India is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently.

The US will remain the third biggest nation, according to the report, growing to 420m from 294m people.

Britain is expected to grow only slightly, to 65m, from 59.5m, while many of its European neighbours decline.

In Eastern Europe the decline will be marked, if current trends continue.

Bulgaria could lose 38% of its 7.8m inhabitants, with Russia declining by 17% - some 25m people.


PREDICTED POPULATIONS, 2050
1 India, 1,628m (2)
2 China, 1,437m (1)
3 United States, 420m (3)
4 Indonesia, 308m (4)
5 Nigeria, 307m (9)
Source: PRB (2004 position in brackets) 
The organisation says that at present "nearly 99% of all population increase takes place in poor countries".

This is from the BBC, Wednesday, 18 August, 2004, and this "John Kerry" Thread has gone downhill, seeing as how we're debating about China and what not. But since you seem to be in research mode. Could you find some recent news reports of horrid treatment of prisoners. And yea, sorry about all the sh!t and stuff, I was getting too worked up. I'm going to bed.


Since I've beed adding stuff to this, I might as well also add that one paper out of the University of Philidalphia means nothing. There's the one guy and Harvard or MIT or somewhere who does not believe that the Halocaust ever happened. That doesn't mean it didn't happen now did it. BTW he was a webpage and has published papers and stuff. Don't know his webpage though so you'll probably have to find it.