The Thailand expat forum for Travel, Lifestyle and Fun.

Milkman

Only by the ignorant.

The term "communist" is a part of the propaganda.

"Doi Moi" is "new thinking."

Doi Moi really means, "we really screwed up the economic management by practicing something that is a failure. But since we attacked, killed, and put small business owners in jail, we better keep using the same term, even though we are now capitalist."

Many capitalist countries, basically have one political party.

__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

_____________

Norton

Thank you for your assessment of my fine self.

Seems to very good propaganda effort. Sure confuses this ignorant ole boy. The governing party calls themselves communists, their members call themselves communists but they are really Republicans. Got it!

blackgang

Aint that the truth Nort, and now the Bunch of Republicans calling themselves the CPC are fucking with that other little Chinese country that they have been in control of for 50 years and the people are going to raise hell at the Olympics games and then that bunch of Republicans is going to kill the shit out of some of em and they will be saying that they need some human right edu.

But that is because Tibet ain't Republican I guess.

__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Political Correctness: A doctrine, fosteredby a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

sabang

The United States has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, allowing them to be prosecuted under national laws, the Iraq foreign minister has said.

"The immunity for private security guards has been removed. The US has agreed on it," Hoshyar Zebari said on Tuesday after briefing Iraqi MPs on the controversial US-Iraq security pact.

Mirembe Nantongo, the US embassy spokeswoman in Baghdad, declined to make a comment on the issue.

"We do not comment on the contents of the ongoing negotiations," she said.

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Immunity for Iraq guards removed

The Iraqi foreign minister says its is agreed, the US Embassy spoleswoman says still being negotiated. We'll see.

__________________
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

AntRobertson

^Wonder if it will be retrospective? I doubt it, but you never know.

Bugs

^^ This particular point has probably been tentatively agreed upon but the scope and scale of the new US-Iraq security pact is still pending and under negotiations. Which means there is still a chance wording related to this particular point can end up changing prior to the signing of the final/complete agreement.

^Retrospective? I think maybe the word you were searching for is retroactive. And I doubt very much any of the terms of the agreement will be retroactive.

__________________
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion" - Steven Weinberg

Milkman

They are not Republicans.

That is an American term.

These government leaders and politicians are "free marketers," basically.

You cannot apply a domestic political label to a foreign nation with a different ecclecticism.

Apples and oranges.

Larn

If you’re so upset at the profiteering why not jump on the bandwagon.


Look at the items on this list US Military Equipment in Iraq, summary by NATO Stock Number (NSN)

Find a supplier


Put unrealistic supply quotes in for government orders.


Sooner or later one of more of your quotes will be accepted.


Bingo you’re in the money.

Mid

DOJ preparing to charge Blackwater guards in Iraq killings: report
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Nick Fiske at 2:54 PM ET




[JURIST] The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters [backgrounder] to six Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians [JURIST report], the Washington Post [media website] reported Sunday. Sources told the Post that the letters, which provide an opportunity for the recipients to contest grand jury evidence, indicate the Justice Department will likely seek indictments against at least some of the guards under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) [text]. Indictments against the Blackwater employees under the MEJA would mark the first time that State Department contractors were prosecuted under the Act, which allows criminal charges to be filed against contractors working for the Department of Defense. The sources explained that a final decision on whether to indict the men may not be made until October. The Washington Post has more.

The Blackwater incident caused domestic outrage in Iraq and has prompted legal controversy in the US. In November, the New York Times and the Washington Post [texts] reported that an FBI investigation into the incident concluded that the shootings were unjustified [JURIST report] and last month Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that private security contractors operating in Iraq may be stripped of their immunity from prosecution [JURIST report] under a US-Iraqi agreement currently in negotiations. Advocacy group Human Rights First [advocacy website] issued a report [PDF text] in January asserting that existing federal law is sufficient to prosecute private contractors using excessive violence in their overseas capacities, and that the US government is to blame for failing to "develop a clear policy with respect to the accountability of private contractors for crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan." The report says that the MEJA could be extended to State Department contractors, but that the US has failed to do so.

jurist.law.pitt.edu

__________________
"Keeping quiet while monks and other peaceful protesters are murdered and jailed is not evidence of constructive engagement." - Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch.

"I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check" - M.C. Escher