QUOTE(dumbducky @ Mar 8 2006, 04:25 PM)
In order to increase test results, you have to increase quality of education.
Yah you can. Kill all the terrorists and you win.
Osama was in there at the time of 9/11. Where else would we go?
Your right. We should have left and said "Whoever comes out on top gets to be dictator."
Your privacy hasn't been invaded.
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All right, Professor Blanket Statement, let's have a look at this:
Quality of education is not "increased" by any standard by imposing standardized tests that disrupt established curricula. Furthermore, standardized tests rarely serve any more purpose than providing statistics for nice-looking charts that are entirely useless.
There's a bit of a difference between "kill the terrorists" and "fight a sustained leech campaign against an enemy that has substantial grassroots resources, fights concealed, blows up a few more $4,000,000 U.S. soldiers every day, and has in its employ people who can wire something as innocuous as a cell phone to destroy a marketplace."
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Your right. We should have left and said "Whoever comes out on top gets to be dictator.
Since you're already evidently blind to the reality of Iraq, here's a little tidbit for you:
that's what is going to happen anyway. The whole country is descending into civil war, between Sunni and Shi'ia. The place is going to become a theocracy, and yet another bastion of anti-American sentiment. The conservatives in their $400 suits always say "It's talk like that that'll lose us the war!" No it won't, it's talk like THAT that shows how

ing stupid so many people all, if they can't realize what a beating american forces take every day. This isn't WWII, with massive troop movements and tanks rolling across embankments, it's Iraq, and it's now 2006. War is done underground, under the eyes of snipers, demolition experts, and suicide bombers. That is not a recipe for stability.
And as far as I'm concerned, if so much as a single person has their personal activities monitored by the now-gigantic federal government (so much for the Republican small government..), then the right to privacy has been violated, much like the rest of the Constitution. Bush wants to ban gay marriage, so does half the Senate. Bush wants to ban burning the American flag, so does half the senate, the

ing republican bureaucrat half. The democrats are just as useless, but as a whole they're not IDIOTIC FEAR MONGERS.
If people slog on with giving vague, defunct answers, replete with standard Senate-level circumlocution, to the questions and accusations posed by those who can see through the worn veil of secrecy that this administration has grown so endeared to, then I can't see any point in this nation's continued existence.