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The same thing happened to me last year, with the same insurance company, TD Meloche Monnex. Same explanation. From 2009 to 2012, my car insurance premium would have doubled. So I found another company where the premium was 45% lower than the Meloche Monnex premium. I switched. However, my...

Thanks for the great advice. Next time I'm in LV, I'm going to give your technique a try.

Thanks Butler1000. I've stayed the old Stardust a few times too, many years ago. That just goes to show the value of information, I had no idea what was available right in the hotel. While based at the Stardust, a friend and I drove out to the Cherry Patch brothel, but came back because...

Hi Butler1000. Which LV hotels would you recommend for finding a semi-pro SP at a bar or playing the slots or video poker?

Sorry, there are actually three threads going on at the same time. No, this isn't fun. But I thought I'd do my little bit to try to make people understand that we're all in a war where the enemy wants to kill as many innocent people as they can.

So you're saying that the mass graves, the rapes, the attacks on Kuwait and Iran, all that is balanced off by the fact that Bush assumed (like Clinton and the UN) that Iraq had WMD but was wrong? So Bush being wrong (or lying, but I noticed that you weren't able to come up with a url to support...

I think I've read enough to come to some conclusions about the 1995 P+O, the 2000 Document and the issue of negative security assurances (NSA). http://www.acronym.org.uk/a12part2.htm That web site has reports in the various NPT PrepCons and other meetings. If you look at the section under...

Re: And oh by the way...one more thing.... Oddly enough, bin Laden is using Iraq as part of his strategy. If you go over the audio tapes he's released, he's calling on Muslims to join the fight in Iraq. But rather than talk endlessly about who said what, or who knew what, let's talk about the...

Thanks, I hadn't come across that story yet. But that article seems to support Bush's position. Here are some relevant clips: "The United States also feared that the Iraqis while rejecting the offer in 1990 may have planned to revive it after the war, with one inspector noting that the Iraqis...

Yes, I've made that assumption. Because to assume anything else means that Clinton was negligent and not merely stupid. You've confused me. First you say that both Clinton and Bush did jack squat about al Qaeda, now you're saying that you think Clinton told Bush that al Qaeda was a major...

Did you read the Clinton statements about Hussein and Iraq? How about the UN resolutions over WMD in Iraq? There's a very long history of suspicion about WMD in Iraq. I guess this is where we disagree. Iraq had two nuclear weapons programs, one in the early 80's, one in the early 90's. Iraq...

Then we're both in agreement that Clinton did nothing, which was my original point. However, on Bush, my position is that he didn't have time to do anything at all. The Clinton administration didn't see al Qaeda as a major threat, the Bush adminstration accepted that during the transition but...

I went over the other posts we've exchanged, I'm not sure what case was made against Israel or how the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict entered this discussion. But, for the record, I'm against all Israeli land confiscation policies in the Middle East and I'm against the Canadian/US...

I don't think WMD will be found in Iraq. But I still support Bush's actions. As I said, he couldn't risk the lives of thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US citizens on the hope that Hussein, a dictator known to have murderous anti-US beliefs, would not one day reach an...

Actually, isn't that what happened after Pearl Harbour? The US declared war against all their enemies, Japan and Germany. And that's what happened after 9/11. The two states that had shown aggression against the US, Iraq and the Taliban/Afghanistan, were targeted. I'm not forgetting that the...

As I said in another post, Clinton had 8 years, Bush had about 8 months. What I don't understand is your double standard. Somehow Clinton gets off the hook in spite of years of ineffective action and you slam Bush because he didn't solve the problem even though he only had about 1/10 the time to...

What is bizarre is that we're talking about the same Presidential Finding, but in cases each of us has brought forward, they both contradict your original assertion, that there exists a blanket negative security assurance. There clearly is none. In the Presidential Finding I read, the phrase...

If you read Res 984, you'll see that it refers to the 1995 Presidential Finding I had previously posted, the one where the US agreed to negative security assurances "except under certain circumstances". That's not a blanket negative security assurance. What you've already posted confirms my...

No, that's old hat, it went out with the 70's. Now it's all about precision guided bombs and limited application of force. Don't forget, in Viet Nam the US took 50,000 killed, or about 100 to 200 per week. Now it's 135 for an entire war. Still a tragic figure to be sure, but it pales in...