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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece Looks like there were chemical weapons in Iraq after all.

There isn't a large difference, because you have no control over who your government tortures or doesn't, if you concede they have the right to use it.

Killing his enemies. Again, torture isn't a reliable way of obtaining information. If you get dragged in on a charge you are completely innocent of, how do you react if you are tortured and threatened? You think they'll stop if you tell them you don't know anything or if you promise to tell...

You honestly think that's why those people in France are rioting? Have a word with yourself.

Also, considering the "War on Terror" is supposedly the war of freedom against tyranny, then doesn't using methods of torture and violence sort of suggest that those ways of tyranny are the correct ways? Saddam Hussein really knew how to run a country? That is the basic admission when we strip...

No, it isn't a useful tool. It never has been. When you torture someone, they'll tell you what you want to hear, whether it is true or not.

Except that poor white French people still live there. They are predominantly immigrant areas, however no one can blame an ordinary French family for wanting to be upwardly mobile and to go to an area where they will have greater opportunity. You're assuming an innate racism. Unfortunately...

The USA hasn't fought a modern war on its own doorstep. The 9/11 attacks seemingly have the American people cowering in panic, if your government and media are to be believed. It's easy to be snide about the French in the World Wars, but their country was the battleground, not yours.

They were doing the same in Belfast in September. They were also shooting at police. No worldwide news coverage, I expect, because everyone's used to it happening here.

The problem with saying the population makes up the government is that we all know that is essentially the idea, but in reality it's wrong. Government policy is dictated by factors other than what is necessarily best for the population of the nation or the world at large, and governments can...

I only really know about it because of the efforts Monsanto made to genetically engineer glycosphate resistance into crops. It works by inhibiting a certain plant enzyme that is vital for plant life but which we don't possess.

Hence why you spray it on the weeds.

Glycosphate murders all plant life but is completely non-toxic to people or animals.

The government built cheap housing in and around the suburbs of their cities to keep the inner cities middle class and "clean" thus creating "shanty towns" or ghettos of North African immigrants. The opposite can be seen in places like the UK or the US where the poor have been housed in the...

Bollocks. I've been to the USA for extended periods, and there is no fucking way I could ever live there. No offence intended, but the American way is not for everyone.

Whether you can say the French deserve it or not is a matter of opinion: personally, I don't think French people should be having their homes and cars burnt and destroyed, no matter what their government has done in the past. Just as I don't think American citizens should be killed or attacked...

Not really, I'm in the city. I buy my fruit and veg out of the local shop rather than the supermarket, but a lot of the veg which can't really be grown here (especially not in winter) seems to be imported from Holland, and the Dutch fruit and veg is bland, uniform rubbish. I go for tinned...

The reason why farmers cannot make a living with fresh, traditionally grown produce is because supermarkets have artificially forced down prices to compete with each other, and thus the only farmers who can survive in such an environment are those who use intensive, modern processes. However...

The police are in a difficult position in these situations. In September we had a week of severe rioting in Belfast (not that unusual) with shots being fired at the police, yet local politicians accuse the police of being heavy handed as soon as a single rioter gets manhandled or hurt at the...

But if it did occur, and is not upheld for whatever reason, then the person who complains should be punished? How would that be fair?