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Originally Posted by dezzo
Hmmm, remind me again who got more votes in the 1st election the Bush Jnr got elected in?
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Democracy is not perfect, but it's better than an autocracy, theocracy or a dictatorship.
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Originally Posted by dezzo
I think you'll find the US and UK spend huge amounts on keeping their current stockpiles up to date and the US have a sizeable amount of defense spending on newer models of nuclear weapons.
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I'd rather see them let the weapons get old and unreliable. For them to go unserviced and for them to become unservicable. That sound really sensible.
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Originally Posted by dezzo
Thats why they have a couple of supercomputers working away on modeling nuclear blasts so they don't have to go down the French route and blow up a small island in the Pacific somewhere.
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And that's a bad thing?
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No. I'm saying it hypocritical of the West to be so against any attempts by other countries (with the exception of Israel) while still having huge stockpiles of weapons and not making any real efforts to eliminate them completely.
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There is no exception being made for Israel. They are no more adding to their nuclear arsenal than the US or UK.
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I do. I just think the 'World greatest democracy' having a system where you only really have a choice between two people and even if more of the population vote for one candidate and he still loses is fairly laughable.
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In that case you'd better have a real belly laugh at the UK electoral system, where an entire government can be decided upon by a (small) minority.