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docokwy:
Debosky thanks for the link. It is clear that Igbos are ok with Okiro. He is a true Igbo son. Case closed.

If Docokwy is satisfied,then all Igbos have no reason to complain

Omo Eko:
most of them are lying because the only girl on Nairaland who is pass 5'10 is Muiknat

Coco29 is 5ft 10inc .I'm sure there are more

This una thread funny o

@Fekuti

Abeg,carry on my bro.Make all these short men find women their height You know say short men get issues

Una two dey craze

@docokwy

This thing don become disease

The BBC report seems to be for 2005

What  Bush has acheived:Some of them have been noted by TayoD
1) GDP growth at 3.3% ,inflation adjusted average,per year since 2003(fastest growing economy of any major industrialised nation over the past 5 years)
2)44 consecutive months of job growth
3)Productivity growth of 2.8% since 2001
4)8 million new jobs since 2003
5)Tax revenue increases
6)Low unemployement rate of 4.5%
7)Libya giving up its nuclear program
Removal of the Talebans from power
9)Coercing Sudan to end the war in the South(which had cost 1million lives)
10)Banning partial birth abortions
11)Tripling direct aid to Africa(from $1.4billion under Clinton to $4.3billion as at 2005
12)Increase funding for HIV/AIDS program( from $547million per year under Clinton to $3billion going up to $6billion)
13)Trade policies that have doubled trade between the US and Africa since 2001
14)Lowering Capital gains tax
15)Home ownership at record high
16)Signed many free trade agreements thus expanding trade
17)Provided life-saving retrovirals to 850,000 people(that is 850,000 people who would have been dead)-.[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,2091703,00.html[/url]
18)Expanded the size of the military and the budget(including pay rises)
19)The US economy has grown from $10trillon in 2000 to $13.6trillon in 2007
20) Per capita income has grown from $29,469 in 2000 to $34,586 in 2005-http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html

Excerpts from Hassan Al Bannah's treatise,Jihad .Al Bannah is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood

[b]All Muslims Must Make Jihad

Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs and the fighters in His way a splendid one. Only those who have acted similarly and who have modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their performance of jihad can join them in this reward. Furthermore, Allah has specifically honoured the Mujahideen {those who wage jihad} with certain exceptional qualities, both spiritual and practical, to benefit them in this world and the next. Their pure blood is a symbol of victory in this world and the mark of success and felicity in the world to come.

Those who can only find excuses, however, have been warned of extremely dreadful punishments and Allah has described them with the most unfortunate of names. He has reprimanded them for their cowardice and lack of spirit, and castigated them for their weakness and truancy. In this world, they will be surrounded by dishonour and in the next they will be surrounded by the fire from which they shall not escape though they may possess much wealth. The weaknesses of abstention and evasion of jihad are regarded by Allah as one of the major sins, and one of the seven sins that guarantee failure.

Islam is concerned with the question of jihad and the drafting and the mobilisation of the entire Umma {the global Muslim community} into one body to defend the right cause with all its strength than any other ancient or modern system of living, whether religious or civil. The verses of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Muhammad (PBUH {Peace Be Unto Him}) are overflowing with all these noble ideals and they summon people in general (with the most eloquent expression and the clearest exposition) to jihad, to warfare, to the armed forces, and all means of land and sea fighting. [/b]

This is Islam!you can't get out -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6703155.stm

Malaysia's highest court has rejected a Muslim convert's six-year battle to be legally recognised as a Christian.

A three-judge panel ruled that only the country's Sharia Court could let Azlina Jailani, now known as Lina Joy, remove the word Islam from her identity card.

Malaysia's constitution guarantees freedom of worship but says all ethnic Malays are Muslim. Under Sharia law, Muslims are not allowed to convert.

Ms Joy said she should not be bound by that law as she is no longer a Muslim.

Calm down,folks.Its all about peace_{as long as you don't make "derogatory" remarks}

[i]LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday sentenced a blasphemy accused, Younis Masih, to death after a video jail trial. The court also fined him Rs 100,000.

Factory Area police had registered a blasphemy case under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against Masih on September 10, 2005, after he had allegedly made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at a Qawali function on September 9, 2005.

[url]http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\31\story_31-5-2007_pg13_1[/url]

What I don't get is the fine  The poor Christian man has already been sentenced to death,why fine him?

babyosisi:
I-man I heard you are 4play,is that true and why the rebirth?

I was banned as 4play, so I'm using this one now  _{maybe Seun didn't like the name}

Any criminal seeing people climbing down buildings like that will be gripped with fear 

I know this is not relevant but I thought I share it with you guys-[url]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBLSmiSDFQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epajamasmedia%2Ecom%2F[/url]

Mourinho seems to be planning to win the title next season without spending:

[b]After claiming five leading trophies in three extraordinary seasons, Mourinho will start next season back at Stamford Bridge, but in some respects he will be managing a different club on returning on July 9 from a five-week holiday in Portugal, one shorn of the extravagances of the past. With the exception of Steve Sidwell, Claudio Pizarro and Alex, all signed on free transfers, the Portuguese has been told that he must work with what he has got.

Mourinho, though, is not complaining. Indeed, after three years of his club being castigated as the Barclays Premiership’s spendthrifts, he is relishing the opportunity to prove that he can be just as successful on a more modest budget, mischievously asking whether Manchester United or Liverpool will be crowned “champions” [the biggest spenders] of the transfer window.

Another joke doing the rounds among Mourinho’s inner circle is Chelsea’s desire to make history by becoming the first team to win the Premiership without spending a single penny. Such parsimony is a source of pride.

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-http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premiership/chelsea/article1873157.ece

@Denex

You said "infringement on constituitonal rights are at its worst".The US has been existing since 1776.How can you say that this Adminstration's record on constituitonal rights are "at its worst"?

How can you say that the US is under a state of emergency and that martial law has been declared by Bush?

Check out another thread she started-https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=34385.msg791514#top

[i]Abeg George Bush has ruined the Image of the US.
Rights are abused, elections are rigged, documents are falsified, the country is placed in a state of emergency and ruled under marshall law for upwards of 4 years (here in Nigeria, a state of emergency was declared in Ekiti State and after 5 months, senate stood up against it.

Is the US placed under a state of emergency ? Is it ruled by martial law? Which planet does Denex live on?

denex:
Now someone mentioned increase in unemployment. Can you imagine a man who took a document which said "it certainly is A" and turned it into "we believe it might have been B".
Think how creative he could get with a document that says[b] "There have been several job cuts in the aviation and manufacturing industry due to relocation of most manufacturer to China and India, thereby causing a rise in these countries GDP to levels above 9%."
W. could edit it to read: "There have been several jobs created especially in the aviation and manufacturing industries such as we have see in India and China. Level of unemployment is now below 4%."
yours sincerely,[/b]
George W.

By the way, you can hardly call recruiting youths to go and die in Iraq job creation.
GM will slash jobs, Nike will close down a factory and move to Asia, even DELL just slashed 9,000 jobs today. But go and check W.'s diary; these will all be listed under newly created jobs.

What in God's name are you talking about? You have lost me here.Are you saying that Bush alters the the employment statistics? Is that your way of explaining away the good employment figures ?

Let me ask you a question.How many Democrat politicians challenge US unemployment figures? How many have challenged that its not 4.5%?

I just realised the complete folly in battling your ilk.When you start to question stats that are not challenged by anyone,what good is it debating further?

denex:
Did Dick Cheney enrich himself during this war.

The short answer is no.Cheney has no financial ties that is linked to the performance of Haliburton.He has pre-agreed defered payments for 5 years but none of this has anything to do with Haliburton's performance.Whether Haliburton makes a profit or a loss has no effect on Cheney's finances.

Another thing people forget about Haliburton is that it has been the main supplier of military utilities since the Vietnam war.It won exclusive contracts under Clinton for the Kosovo campaign and also won such rights for Gulf War 1

denex:
US citizens living like common "almajiris" in Louisiana 20 months after hurricane Katrina? Little is being done. Yet they can boldly send AID to Africa. Nature just created a little sample of the true African experience and they can't handle it. Approximately $25billion is needed to fix the damage done by the hurricane including rehabilitating the residents and W. says there's no money yet they are going to spend $380billion on Iraq. He has given Africa more than $30billion and is asking congress to approve another $30billion (this was yesterday 31st May 2007). If na your papa dey behave like this you go like am. You dey hospital e say e no get N25,000 for your operation yet e give one aristo chick N380,000, e donate N30,000 to charity organization for publicity sake. You no go kill am?

Anybody reading this would think that the cost of Katrina is about $25 billion and that Bush has refused to contribute it.Bush as at August 2006,had spent $122 billion on Hurricane Katrina-http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008860   .To put that in perspective,other disasters-9/11,Hurricane Andrew,LA Earthquake,other hurricanes-incurred FG expenditure of $56 billion.Bush has spent,for Hurricane Katrina alone, more than double the amount spent on other tragedies that cost even more lives.

Here is Denex,presumably a Nigerian,complaining that Bush has spent money on Africa.Is that not ridiculous? Why is an African complaining that Bush has tripled direct aid to Africa? Or that money on HIV/AIDS has gone up from $547 million under Clinton to $6billion under Bush per annum?.I don't see American Jews complaining about sending money to Isreal

denex:
As a nigerian, you must have heard the term awaiting trial. That's when you're in jail without ever stepping into court. It was most prominent during the Abacha days. But did you ever think people would be held in the USA for four years without trial. Four years just for being a suspect. Do you people actually know that a suspect is innocent? It's only a convict that is guilty.

I don't think people would be held in the USA for 4 years without trial for the simple reason that nobody has been held in the USA without trial.Unless Guantanamo Bay is in the USA.Now for someone who doesn't know simple geography,maybe you should have kept quiet.

The only time someone has been held in the USA without trial was when the entire Japanese population was interned.No American is held in Guantanamo Bay.If you think that this is the first time America is holding foreigners captured during military conflict in a foreign location,you must be one ignorant oaf

@denex
Your lies just dey too much so I talk say make I watch the England game first ;DThis by all means,the worst collection of lies I have seen on NL

denex:
Infringement on constitutional rights is at it's worst. Americans used to have some freedoms like em let me see, okay, when you get arrested at least you're sure of a phone call, a lawyer which even if you can't afford one, the state would provide for you. These new 911 act and antiterror laws that have been passed place the entire US in a state of emergency. And in a state of emergency, constitutional laws can be bypassed. You could be thrown in guantanamo and even if you can afford 200 lawyers, not one will be allowed to see you.

Constituitonal rights are its worst ? As a black man,you think Americans have less rights in 2007 than in the 18th and early 19th century,when there was slavery .So you prefer then? What about when there was segregation?You prefer that period to 2007?When you had to get to the back of the bus,that is what u prefer?

What about during the 2nd World War,the last time America was attacked untill 9/11,the entire Japanese population in America was interned.Do you prefer that? It didn't matter whether they had US citizenship,as long as you were of Japnese descent,you were locked up.

Another lie you told was that Americans used to be sure of a lawyer,but that now America is in state of emergency ,hence they are not sure of a lawyer.You hear that folks,Denex says America is in a state of emergency.Now that is a blatant lie! Every American is entitled to a lawyer and this remains the case today

You see why I was saying you were telling lies?

@denex

I have never seen a more detailed submission reeking with ignorance and lies on Nairaland.Let me go watch the England game,I will deal with the more egregious lies you have told

Bankole01:
That Bush has a 26% approval rating is no lie. I live in America and this is his latest approval rating according to recent polls.

You are actually shameless in your deceit for someone who calls Bush a liar.Did you actually click on the links I gave you?  Let me put it up for the 3rd time-[url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/president_bush_job_approval ]http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/president_bush_job_approval  [/url]
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Bankole01:
Someone said he lied under oath about not having sex with his intern! handling someone does not equate sex. Why was the House concerning itself to infidelity as if it was life threatening. It was witch hunt plain and simple.

This is not only dishonest but laughable  Clinton deposited under oath that he had no "sexual relations "with Monica Lewinsky.I don't know about you but receiving MouthAction repeatedly amounts to sexual relations

Do you have to be dishonest just to make your point? 

Bankole01:
That America today is enjoying a robust economy has nothing to do with Bush. It more to do with the racing economy of China and the Axis Tigers than with America as a whole. The acolades here do not go to Bush. The fact is American motor companies are losing market shares to Japan.

This is just hogwash.Economic growth in every nation on earth is affected by economic relations  with other nations.That is the logic of trade.Growth in China and the rest of the Asian Tigers is driven in large part by US consunmer spending.The receipts from such spending is re-invested in US securities and debts.

It was the case during Clinton's era and is the case in every nation on earth and in the era of every past President the US has had.Your submissions are just a cocktail of ignorance and dishonesty.

Bush's tax cuts have had a large part to play in US economic growth.Tax cuts boost consunmer spending and consunmer spending  drives about  2/3rds of the US economy.To ignore this is disingenuous on your part

Tornadoz:
Bush invaded Iraq,
Clinton did not

In a post 9/11 world,Clinton would,as he himself said repeatedly, have invaded Iraq.Had Bush been President from 1992 to 2000,chances are he won't as he never at the time called for an invasion.

Let me put it this way:From 1992 to 2000,neither Clinton nor Bush called for an invasion of Iraq.After 9/11 both Clinton and Bush called for an invasion of Iraq.The difference between the 2, is not in policy,but in the fact that their roles had changed.

Tornadoz:
Bush defied the UN when he and his allies invaded Iraq
Under Clinton's reign it was the UN that imposed sanction to checkmate Iraq's "weapons" program

Sanctions were imposed on Iraq by the UN,at America's insistence, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait .During the 90s,most countries in the UN wanted the sanctions removed but that was[b] impossible[/b] without US consent.The Clinton Adminstration refused insisting that ;Iraq had WMDs,had an active nuclear,chemical and biological program and was a "leading state sponsor of terror.  Only Britain supported the Clinton Adminstration's position.

The refusal to remove sanctions led to the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.We now know that at the time,Iraq had no WMDs(since 1995).So the Clinton Adminstration's policy on its Iraq,justified then on the basis of Iraq's WMDs ,could be rightly said to be based on "lies" and just as costly(even more costly) in terms of lives lost.Don't sit there and pretend that Clinton had nothing to do with the sanctions.

Tornadoz:
Lest not forget the topic title : Is Bush  Destroying What America Stands For?  If you think he is not destroying what the US stands for, by all means give the  reasons.

You may be ignorant of the Middle East but I presume you are not blind.I have stated elaborately,more than any other on this thread, Bush's positive record as President.Please refer to my previous posts on this thread.Thanks

Seun:
Nobody Died When Clinton Lied but thousands died when Bush lied.  Isn't human life is very precious?

Nobody died indeed!Apart from the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi nobodies who died under sanctions regime which Clinton maintained(400,000 to 800,000 Iraqi children according to an estimate by the Seattle Post Intelligencer)-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions  

Let me ask this simple question .If the "lies" told by the Bush Adminstration about Iraq's WMDs are a scar on his tenure due to the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died since the invasion,how come the loss of lives under the Clinton regime due to the sanctions maintained by the US,justified at the time on the basis of Iraq's WMDs(which we later knew after the invasion did not exist since 1995),does not impose blame on Clinton?

Clinton said Iraq had WMDs and  used it to justify sanctions(which claimed close to a 1 million Iraqi lives) and yet you have the audacity to tell me that nobody died    

Let me tell you one major difference between now and then.In the "good old days"(Clinton era) a lot of people died but they were only Iraqis.Now,"the bad days"(Bush era) Americans are dying too.That,Seun is the  key reason behind the present brouhaha over Iraq.

Once the Americans leave,very few will care or know how many people are dying in Iraq,since the world's media(mainly American) won't care as much.It will be just like the Clinton era when close to a million nobodies died in Iraq.Nobody died indeed!    

PS:Nobodydied.com should be changed to noamericandied.com.

Bankole01:
No American president has been more hated  by the World and his own people. He has an approval rating of a mere 26%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you bothered to read through this thread,you would have seen where I posted a link dealing with approval ratings-http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htmhttp://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/president_bush_job_approval . Good luck in locating the 26% approval rating.Another blatant lie.

Bankole01:
The environment under Bush has never faced a worse degradation, for a man who could not even pronounce nuclear, calling it 'nucular'

For someone calling Bush a liar,you just told a blatant lie.Here are the real facts as Henry Payne pointed out in a recent article: Lead air levels dropped 96% since 1980,sulfur dioxide dropped 63%,carbod monoxide concentrations reduced 74%In addition, fine particulate matter was reduced 40 percent. Soot, nitrogen oxide and organic compounds have all decreased as well. In fact, in all of last year, there was not a single code red ozone day. Not one.-[url]http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba577/
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The lower the pollutants get,the higher the rhetorics from environ[b]mentalists[/b] who survive on raising alarm.

What about greenhouse emissions?That fell 1.3% even as the economy grew 3.3% last year.Significant since its the first time emissions have fallen in a non-reccession year since 1990-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301510.html

Bankole01:
Under Bush, the military has been so devastated and thinned out that they could not marshal enough forces to be of any threat to Iran. Iran knows these only too well, that is why they are thumbing their noses at the US and the World with their nuclear program.

When Bush turned the military to the World police by sending them on cowboy missions and fighting on several fronts, he made the military weak.

Another blatant lie.The US military is much larger now than it was under Clinton.Between 1992 and 2000, the Clinton Administration cut national defense by more than half a million personnel and $50 billion in inflation-adjusted -[url]http://www.heritage.org/Research/MissileDefense/BG1394es.cfmdollars[/url]

By the time Clinton left office,the US army regular forces totalled 480,000.Bush has increased it to 514,000.How come Clinton who reduced half a million personnel is not to blame  whereas Bush,who increased the size of the military, is to blame for not having enough forces to wage war against Iran? Please explain that

Bankole01:
Corrections. If Bush were a Democrat, he would have been impeached. Bill Clinton didn't break laws nor lied to put the country at war, yet the Republicans (whom I classify as hateful) wanted to impeach him for the mere fact that they couldn't get him out as much as they tried.

Clinton lied under oath.That,in the US,is a felony. Bush "lied" by asserting that Iraq had WMDs?The Clinton Adminstration also said that Iraq had WMDs.The Clinton Adminstration listed Iraq as a "leading state sponsor of terror" and bombed it repeatdly.The Clinton Adminstration also approved a law calling for regime change in Iraq.Bill Clinton supported the Iraq war and even came down to Britain to give a speech in favor of it at the Labour party conference telling us if he were still President,he would do the same thing based on what he knew of Iraq while he was President.

How come in Bush's case  he is a liar,whereas Clinton who said the same thing is not? Summary:Bush says-Iraq has WMDs=Bush is a liar. Clinton says-Iraq has WMDs=Clinton didn't tell lies  .Work that one out for me,pals 

Bankole01:
Gas at $3.39/girl is gouging of the public. This only happened under the presidency and watch of Bush. This resulted in massive profit of billions for the oil companies. Even with the congress threatening to pass legislation to curb the excesses of the oil companies, Bush is said to promise a veto if such legislation is passed. If this is not corrupt and one sided, I don't know what is.

How in God Almighty's name is Bush responsible for escalating gas prices? Gas prices are going up in every single nation on the face of the earth. Where on earth do u know of that prices are not going up?The reason prices are going up is simple:oil prices,like commodity prices in general, are going up rapidly due to the rapid growth of China and India which has pushed demand up by unprecedented levels.How Bush is responsible for that,beats my imagination.

Guess what happens when oil prices go up:The oil coys make huge profit(from Exxon Mobil to Petronas of Malaysia down to Sonatrach of Algeria).That has nothing to do with Bush.Congress wanted to pass legislation for windfall taxes of oil coys.Now explain to me how increasing the cost of production for  a coy is supposed to make its prices come down.This is what ignorance breeds

If you think I was kidding about Bush Derangement Syndrome,check out this:http://www.bushisantichrist.com/

What do you make of the fact that 7.8 million new jobs have been created over 44 consecutive months of job creation.Or that the economy has averaged growth of 3.3%,inflation adjusted,since 2003.Does that amount to a destruction of America?

PS:I'm off to watch Bill O'Reilly

Tornadoz:
@I-man
Why don't you visit your regular source of newsfeed?
Has Messrs Limbaugh, Ann coulter and O'reilly run out of excuses?

You should have acknowledged the source of your post.That is plagiarism.Even Afam acknowledges

Check this link out.Notice the similarities to Tornadoz's post  Its common in the leftist blogosphere
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html

He didn't copy the whole thing,that's why he said this

Tornadoz:
Let me know if  you want more reasons.
The above list is not exhaustive.

Haba,my man.Plagiarism no good o

@Tornadoz

You just copied that from a leftist blog _{copy and paste}