₦airaland Forum

Bush became President because he is smart,you can't be President of the United States if you are not smart.

The only dumb people are those who have no hope of acheiving any major thing in thier life calling a 2 term Governor and President dumb because they don't like his policies.

Their mantra is "if i disagree with u then u must be stupid",now that is really dumb

It is amazing how underacheiving our past leaders that the introduction of GSM is pointed at as a major


acheivement.As was earlier pointed even war-torn nations like Sierra Leone DRC Congo and Iraq have fast growing GSM markets.Does that mean that those running these places deserve praise?

The President will deserve praise if he he was able to acheive double digit growth rates and significant reductions in poverty.There is no indication of any such acheivements in this Govt

Instead the high oil prices have covered up alll the weaknesses of this Govt.Don't forget that during the Abacha adminsrtation oil prices were at one-third present day levels,hence Obasanjo has 3 times the levels of revenue available to the previous Abacha adminstration .
Can anyone in all honesty tell me what has been acheived with this tripling of resources?

Islam has not undergone the kind of the reformation that Christianity has.Untill this happens,Islam will continue to be hijacked for political purposes by groups like Hezbollah.

@desiree
If Bush is so dumb,how come he is President and we are all here posting impotently on Nairaland?

This stuff about Isreal having peace only when it returns to the pre 67 border is a load of nonsense.Prior to 1967 Isreal was regularly attacked by the Arab states who refused to accept its existence.It is completely illogical to blame Isreal's subsequent occupation of Palestian land in 1967 as the cause of hostility towards it.Common sense tells me that for a state of affairs to be the result of certain factors,the causative factors must have preceded the effect. If Arab hostility towards Isreal is simply the result the result of Isreal's occupation of Palestian land,then what explains Arab hostilty towards Isreal prior to 1967?

It makes no sense acting as Hezbollah's spokesmen on this forum,in Hezbolah's own words there sole goal is the ultimate destruction of Isreal.They have made it very clear that thier interpretation of Islam demands that infidels like Isrealis are removed from Moslem land.This threat is what stands btw a peaceful resolution of the Palestian conflict

The claim that Hezbollah was formed as a reaction to Isreal's invasion of Lebanon and as such Isreal should not be too aggreived about  Hezbolllah's actions is misguided.While Hezbollh's existence was justifiable for the duration of the occupation,it's continued existence 6 years after the end of the occupation can't be justified.

The claim by Hezbollah's leaders that their goal is the destruction of Isreal should not be dismissed out of hand.In the 6 years since the of Isreal's occupation ,Hezbollah has only grown stronger miltarily.They are enormously more powerful now than they ever were making it impossible for the Lebanese Govt to disarm them.Their growing military strenght made Hezbollah more overconfident and resistant to change.

How can a group that claims to be defending Lebanon undertake actions that make Lebanon a victim of massive bombardment. Is lebanon better off now than weeks ago?

The sole responsibilty for the deaths in Lebanon lies with HEZBOLLAH.Had they not undertaken the raid they conduted, Lebanon will not bein the state it is now.

There is an argument that implies that because Isreal is inflicting more destruction on Lebanon than is the case with Hezbollah in Israel then they are more culpable.That is like saying that Britain is more morally culpable than Nazi Germany because they inflicted more damage on Germany than Germany inflicted on Britain.If two people get into a fight,blame is not attached to the person who inflicts the most damage on the other without examining the root cause of the conflict.

The root cause of this conflict is Hezbollah's Islamic inspired desire not to live with what it calls Kaffirs-Jews-on its border.This is a group that claims that it intends to turn Lebanon into a Shia Islamic state.Isreal has no obligation to tolerate on its border a group that calls for its destruction.

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@bamiprof
U did not actually explain to me what exactly he achieved

There won't be any peace in the Middle East until Hezbollah is completely disarmed.There is no room for an armed militia in a modern world.Imagine if there was a sectarian militia in Nigeria more powerful than the Govt.

People make the mistake of justifying Hebollah's actions on the basis that Isreal occupy's Arab land but they coveniently forget that Hebollah's founding charter calls for the destruction of Isreal. It doesn't say withdrawal from land but the total destruction of Isreal.

Isreal's critics expect Isreal to live with an armed militia on its border whose goal is it's destruction.This is ridiculous and Isreal's response should be seen in that light .

@medube
First of all u suggest that the Nigerian Govt is restrained in its response to challenges to it.Obviously u don't know about Odi where over 1000 civillians died within 24 hrs of fighting.That's twice the amount the more powerful Isrealis have managed to kill in 2weeks of fighting.

The US is not always in the right but they do make efforts to dothre right thing.It is because of the US that we Blacks are still alive.If Nazi Germany had won the War,could i imagine what they would have done to Black people.

Lets not kid ourselves either in thinking our colonial masters gave us independence because of our effforts.It was the Truman adminstration that compelled the European colonial masters as part of the Marshall Plan to free the colonial territries.

In the case of Korea,do u ask yourself why the South which the Americans occupied turned out to be a prosperous democracy with economic giants like Samsung,LG,Daewoo,whereas the North occupied by the Soviet Union turned out to be a famine riden dictatorship where a million people have died from starvation and people live on food aid some of it from the US

It is true that the US has not always been on the good side of history but so has no other country.The fact of the matter is that a country which is responsible for one-third of World economic growth,80 percent of food aid,a humanitrian prgram that has helped save the lives of a milllion Africans through the funding of retrovirals desserves more praise than criticsm.

why don't other countries get the level of criticsm that the US get?because its the only superpower.Do u have any idea  how  Nigeria and Nigerians are seen around the world?Like a nation of crooks and anarchy.The fact that people are prejudiced against a nation does not initself justify the prejudice.When China becomes the only superpower it too will become the object of scorn and ridicule as is alread the case in South East aSIA.

Finally,why are we even focused about the conflict in the Middle East,are we Arabs?.In Darfur,200 thousand have died in a war launched by an Arab Govt against African Muslims yet we say nothing.U can be reat assured that in Arab chatrooms,nobody is discussing about the sufferings of Afriacans in Sudan,it is only the African that will be traumatised about the suffering s of other people while totally ignoring their own problems.Is it not interesting that in Nairaland there is no topic discussing the wars in Africa,only wars outside Africa,we follow only the onflicts that the international media chooses to show us and totallly ignire our own suffering,by the wy which country has sent the most food aid to SouthSudan where a million peopole died and Darfur,u guessed it the United States

The rantings of Medube are so imbeccilic that they are not worthy of a a response.

As far as the conflict btw Isreal and Hezbollah is concerned,Isreal had no option but tot respond to the threats posed to it by Hezbollah.Lets not forget,Hezbollah is an Islamic fundamentallist organisation committed to the eradication of infidels from muslim land.This is not a case of land dispute,since as the UN noted ,Isreal had withdrawn from alll of Lebanese land.Hezbollah continued to acquire weapons and fire rockets into Israel despite this.

All this would have been prevented if Security Council Resolutions were implemented to disarm Hesbollah  and allow the Lebanese Army to take care of secrity in South Lebanon.There should no room in the modern world for a foreign sponsored private militia to run riot.Can u imagine if in Nigeria there existed a well armed religious militia sponsored by foreign govts which took it it upon itself to wage war on our nieghbors for one reason or the other.

The State alone should have the sole possesion of means of coercion.Ther should be no room fro private militia answerable to no one.We won't want it in Nigeria,neither should we want it in Nigeria

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I have an idea
Lets all get together at the Spearmint Rhino and ogle nude ladies.I have a membership card that will alow us in.What do u think?

In 2000,Isreal moved out of Lebanon and according to the UN was no longer occupying territory that belongs to Lebanon.This did not lead to the disarmament of Hezbollah,as is required under international law.Instead Hezbollah went on an arms buildup.

Lets not forget that Hezbollah's main objective as stated in their charter is the destruction of Isreal.How is Irseal expected to tolerate a militia on its border that thrreatens to destroy it?

CaN someone tell me how I can download free music on the net.I have been trying unsuccesfully for ages.All the sites tell u pay something or dowload their software b4 u can download music

Can someone explain to me what Mr Emeagwali is supposed to have acheived.A quick search for hom on Google shows that he is not all that he is built up to be in Nigeria

He has no registered patent to his name for someone who is said to have built the fastest computer and he was said to have failed his PHD programme.

Can someone show me what exactly he accomplished

@ mukina2
Good.So i can continue with my dirty thoughts.
Seriously girl,u really freaked me out

@mukina 2
I thought u are female.i have to cleanse all the dirty thoughts I had about u

Everything is wrong with Nigerian movies.In fact i prefer sticking my manhood into a bee's nest than watching a Nigerian movie

My mum comes first,but reasonably ur wife should come first cos u spend the rest of ur life with her

I dey Germany right now,I go watch the match live,if Italy lose u will see me on the telly running naked in the stadium

First of all it won't happen cos Italt will definitely win.But in the unlikely event that Italy lose,am going naked.

@Mukina
U always back the losers.We all know that the Azurris will win it

The Azurris will win.No doubt about it

If they don't win,I will walk round London in the nude

Women should never watch cartoons like "Samurai Jack".That is just awful

No matter what we say about formations or the competence of Sven,there is a point that has eluded many in this debate-English players are not as good as the hype suggests.Sven has taken them as far they deserve.

I said it at the beginning of the World Cup when every one was tipping Brasil ,that the Azurris will win.The World will be a better place if people listen to me

IBB talk say the Pope call am,for me na Benito Mussolini wey come down from hell tell me say na Azurri go win

@IBB
i DEY MENTAL ASYLUM

@IBB
I agree with you.

They can't stand me cos am way too smart for their inane machinations,I have no time for these ugly fat cows

because Nigerian ladies stink like hell,are golddiggers,brainless,stuckup,fatcows,ugly,goodfornothing hoes.Thats why am with a non-nigerian girl.Cos I can't stand Nigerian women