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Maybe he finally got the pen I mailed them.

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20%? Try 40%. The whole damned lot of them over there are a huge drain on the world economy.

Could you imagine how different things would be if we had bombs as strong as nukes, but delivering none of the long term fallout?

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Sorry, but no. 50% of Americans do not even agree that it's okay to restrict at least "some" civil liberties of Muslim Americans. Almost 1/2 of Americans say their liberties shouldn't be restricted "in any way." Less than 30% believe Muslim civic organizations should be monitored for their activities and fund-raising.

Given the above, I have a hard time imagining 40% of Americans would love to commit genocide against Muslims.

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If we let the ones who are already in Europe live, it's not really quite genocide. I mean, at a minimum, for genocide we'd have to round up everyone here and in Europe and send them back before nuking. Or bombing into oblivion. It's more like when a castle didn't give in to a siege -- when the besiegers finally got in, frequently they'd kill everyone inside, to set an example. But they weren't obliterating e.g. the entire families of all the people in there, just everyone at the location in question. It's a geographic thing, not a racial/familial thing.

How many planes do we have capable of dropping really big bombs? I would think enough to pretty much obliterate most of the population centers within a couple days, which would leave minimal time for escape.

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ummm..... I'm afraid i have to disagree with your plans here. I eat hummus and shwarma at least a couple of times a week. i don't want some white bread american version.

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Um...the intent to kill, in whole or in part, a national or religious group is genocide as per Geneva Convention. But thanks for playing.

Right. Sure, it's um, like that castle thing.

Genocidal fuck.

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The people who make that for you live here, so they won't die.

There might be a period of mourning for any family members, but maybe you could go on vacation that week or something.

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They are terrorists or enemy combatants or whatever. The Geneva Convention doesn't apply. Haven't you been paying attention to anything? In any event, we only are getting the ones actually resident in the nation. Expats, like those who make Hank's food, are safe.

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Maybe the food will even get better!!!!? I bet without that whole war thing we'd not have so many Pho kitchens!!!!

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This sounds like an argument for neutron bombs. I can't really remember the science, though. There must be some reason that we invest so heavily in nukes and not neutrons -- other than our base enjoyment of blowing the shit out of everything.

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2.

( killing terrorists in a car in a foreign country with a predator launched missile) + (ok to wiretap if a minimum % chance terrorists might be on the line) = (we can bomb a whole country is we can show a certain % are terrorists)

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Right. And Hitler didn't attempt or commit genocide because he didn't round up the Jews in the US.

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I've always heard it referred to as a holocaust. Is a holocaust a lesser included offense to genocide?

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Pfft. It's not the same thing. He rounded them up in his country AND outside of his country. We are clearly not rounding them up in our country -- we aren't even putting them in camps like with the Japanese in WWII -- we are just getting rid of the bulk of populations in entire countries. I mean, shit, I think there will be some US casualties. Collateral damage.

Hank, I thought pho was Vietnamese?

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Right. And the Japanese only slaughtered or made slaves of Koreans outside of Japan. It wasn't genocide, it was a PARTY!