The Iraqi Elections

[Sir T Fireball]

Antibiotic prescriptions being handed out like free candy......not a good thing doc

[Chopdoc]

Antibiotic prescriptions being handed out like free candy......not a good thing doc

Free?

 

Blasphemy!

 

The bill will be in the mail.

[Sir T Fireball]

By the way, no brain drains required. Gave him antibiotics, but he had an allergic reaction and now looks like an over-inflated doll

 

Poor sod isn't going to survive the NHS methinks

[Chopdoc]

Sorry to hear about the reaction. The antibiotics used in such cases do carry higher risk, but it's a serious situation.

 

Surviving the NHS can be an accomplishment in itself.

[Sir T Fireball]

BBC link works now.

 

The UN, as many peeps have often pointed out here, is the sum of its parts. It needs votes in the Security Council to take direct action so criticisms of UN inaction should be directed at the SC permanent Members, not the UN as a body.

7. Corrupt contracts: Mr. Pollock stated erroneously that the “US and Britain held up some obviously corrupt contracts under the Oil-for-Food.” In fact, neither the US, the UK nor any other country held up a single OFFP contract out of concerns over corruption, even though UN staff had flagged suspicious contracts and warned the Security Council committee overseeing the Programme.

 

All contracts had to be submitted to the UN for approval via the national authorities of each supplier. All details of every contract were known not only by the national authorities of each supplier but also by the members of the Security Council 661 Committee — including, of course, the US — who had the power to approve or hold any contract. All the US and UK “holds” related to concerns about “dual use”, not corruption.

 

http://www.un.org/News/dh/iraq/shashi-3dec.htm

 

Oil for food & UN corruption is all a figment of Fox's warped imagination

[moon]

The long delay in forming a new government has dismayed many Iraqis who defied the violence to vote on 30 January.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4390703.stm

 

Ain't Representative Democracy a honey ?

[Chopdoc]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4390703.stm

 

Ain't Representative Democracy a honey ?

Just how long did you think it would take moon?

 

Have you ever seen such a thing go smoothly even under more ideal circumstances?

 

I have seen just as much turmoil in getting a student government going.

 

They will do it. Have some tolerance for a people that are in upheaval in the middle of a war torn land.

[moon]

Have some tolerance for a people that are in upheaval in the middle of a war torn land.

Oh, I will. I'll have some for Iraqis as well.

[Chopdoc]

Oh, I will. I'll have some for Iraqis as well.

Not very funny. If you need to stretch that far to create insults then why bother?

 

Iraqis as well? The subject is Iraq....so as well?

 

Iraqis as well as Iraqis?

 

There was no other subject even remotely suggested in my post so perhaps you would like to clarify your new subject? Unless of course you are satisfied with not making sense.

 

Perhaps you mean Ireland?

[moon]

OK 'doc, let's indulge in a bout of pointless analysis.

 

You said;

Not very funny.

therefore undeniably admitting that you knew it was a joke. ( even if you didn't like it)

 

So, what's all the pompous padding about ?

Edited April 1, 2005 by moon

[Chopdoc]

It cannot be a joke. I did not see the joke disclaimer in bold and I did not get an email.

[Sir T Fireball]

There was no other subject even remotely suggested in my post so perhaps you would like to clarify your new subject? Unless of course you are satisfied with not making sense.

 

Made sense to me and was quite amusing too

[Chopdoc]

Yeah, but your one of them dang foreners, I can tell by the UN flag....and the funny accent.....

[Sir T Fireball]

lemme alone and get back to helping old sweaty mercy!

[Chopdoc]

lemme alone and get back to helping old sweaty mercy!

Why do I get the distinct impression you are going to get me into deep trouble over there?

[Sir T Fireball]

as if you need my help

 

now get in there and tell her the cure is to shave her head, paint her butt purple and to run naked up and down the main street in her hick town screaming "can anyone see me? can anyone see me?"

 

If they ignore her then she is menopausal - if they throw rocks at her, she needs to get dressed.

 

tell her you need pics posted to aid your diagnosis - It's ok, she believes anything anyone tells her :beer:

[moon]

If these I-raqis had started out with an eDemocracy, while they had the chance, they'd have it all sorted by now.

[Chopdoc]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04...main/index.html

 

Iraq's transitional National Assembly moved toward forming a new government on Sunday by electing a Sunni Muslim as speaker, and a Kurdish politician and Shiite Muslim as deputy speakers.

[moon]

Iraq's parliament has chosen Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new president after the first elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4415459.stm

 

Right, now for the banquet menu.