Where it will get sticky is if drivers of similar cars have more accidents than the Cadillacs, yet for the Cadillac, the accidents will definitely be attributable to a defect. The lawyers are probably already planning their yachts and vacation homes.

Yah, and if the libertards have their way, we will get the CDC out of peoples lives. It is such an overreach of government to have them concerned about Americans' health.

Think of the chickens!!!

Oh, so you mean the EPA is requiring what used to be called "externalities" be paid by the industry involved instead of imposed as a health tax on the rest of Americans? Those bastards.

Hmmm....so they are promoting Congressional postal propaganda (franking)...those bastards!!

Really, I stopped paying attention to the BBC after too many incomplete and inaccurate reports on news. I don't know why they do it, maybe it is just ineptitude, but if it is, they need to re-learn journalism.

Not really, toward's the end of Saddam's career in government, his officer corps was being infiltrated by Islamists. He wouldn't have lasted much longer regardless of what the Americans did.

More importantly, he didn't say to kill anyone who made statues.

Prophet my ass. He was a late stage schizophrenic who went off to the mountains, heard voices, and concluded it must be angels (Allah never communicates directly with humans, he is to Other that he uses angels...its in the escape clause of his contract). Modern schizophrenics are typically enamored with religion and also hear angels, devils, Jimmy Carter, Kim Jong-un, the arch-angel Gabriel, and funny talking frogs (think the Loony-Tune's cartoon with the frog singing but only when the owner cannot make any money off him).

The entire situation reminds me of the joke where a fellow advertises to sell his talking dog. A prospective buyer goes to the fellow's house and is told the dog is in the bedroom. So the guy goes in and asks the dog to speak. The dog greets him, "How ya doing?". And guy is awed and asks the dog what he's been doing all these years. The dog props himself on an elbow and says that he was involved in the WTC rescue effort and saved 20 people. He also was sent up in the space shuttle to perform science experiments and found a new form of matter. And he helped fly helicopters after Hurricane Katrina, saving people. The guy is totally blown away, so he goes out into the other room and asks the fellow why he's selling his talking dog. The guy says in a loud voice so the dog can hear "BECAUSE HE'S A BIG LIAR!"

Last we heard, tourism tanked in Egypt not long after the Muslim Brotherhood took over and good relations with minorities went out the window. Then the recent military takeover made tourism even less stable because the Muslim Terrorist Nutjobs look at foreigners as infidels to killed ASAP.

Now there's a thought, a herd of 8 foot tall chickens rampaging around the country-side. If you mange to kill one, you could eat for two weeks with proper refrigeration. Now about those venomous ducks...

"3) Same massive government does not understand science to uses measures which are invalid and unrealistic to maintain science programs."

I think this is a much bigger problem than you indicate. The reason: because bureaucrats do not understand science, they and their managers are being rewarded for successful science which they fund. They, being almost but not quite entirely stupid, have just enough on the ball to realize that if they narrow their funding targets to those they can be reasonably certain will succeed (namely because the researchers are only promising incremental advances), then they (the bureaucrats) will be rewarded with pay raises and more vacation time.

The fellow up above had it correct, do the research first so you can point to it, then ask for funding for it promising some incremental improvements which, if you are on the ball, you've already done but not published, and then use the money to work on your next line of research. This notion of how to do research has been a running joke ever since I started in research lo' those many years ago, and I'm am not young.

Essentially, it is the victory of the bean counters. These bureaucrats have no appreciable skills other than bean counting. They work in an environment that rewards them for counting the most of the correctly colored beans. Their ultimate bosses, the politicians, are even worse. The bureaucrats actually believe science is valuable even if they don't understand it. The politicians have no use for science because it cannot be spun very easily. They think of scientists as part of a big dodge who are colluding to prevent the pols from dictating how the world works...or worse, dictating how their god tells everyone else how it works.

"Not disbanded the previous Iraqi military", and the Shi'ites would have stood for this how? The Iraqi military upper echelon was all Sunni because that's all Saddam trusted, the Shi'ites were never going to allow themselves to resubmit to those storm troopers.

"Not kicked-over the government so completely that its leader fled, leaving the power vacuum. ", similarly, the Shi'ites were never going to stand for being ruled by Saddamites again.

Iraq was headed for a civil war regardless. By the time we knocked over Saddam, his officer core was already being infiltrated by Islamists who were intent on starting a civil war.

There was no amount of American troops that would have stopped the breakup from ultimately happening. The outside players had too much at stake in creating a mess. Iran wanted a toady state, Syria wanted to keep the Sunnis in line lest their own started getting upset, which ultimately happened.

Those slimy degenerates, the Qataris, are still busy funding anything that marches under the banner of radical Islam while they keep smiling at the U.S. The best thing the U.S. could do is bomb Qatar into a smoking hole for the Persian Gulf to reclaim to wash their filth away.

The soldiers had divided loyalties because the Al Maliki re-staffed the military we left him with Shi'ite lap dogs. They were only in those positions of authority because Al Maliki could count on them not to lead the troops against the government. The U.S. by this time had been out of Iraq a few years. When the crunch came, the fearless leaders ran away and the troops had no direction, so they left too. Also, Maliki made most of the military Shi'ite, that lot were not going to fight to keep one square mile of Sunni land.

If you are a celebrity, every douche and their brother's dog is going to be looking for nude photos. Don't take them, instead populate your collections with variations on goatse, it will maim the perps for life.