Political Motivation

[Watchman]

Moral outrage at the fact that inmates in the US can't vote?

Slightly more than one in a hundred, or so I recall. Even if they were all democrats they wouldn't have changed the outcome.

Mainly just pointing out that's not exactly going to increase the ratio of folks at the urns there.

[Tribesman]

Haha, the funniest bit is that they're using WMD's(in the form of chemical weapons) in the current Iraq war...

They are not chemical weapons , they are target markers , you set the people on fire so they are easy to identify and shoot .

Anyhow strictly speaking it isn't a war in Iraq so none of those rules apply .
Just as it isn't an occupation so none of those rules apply either .
If however someone finally does confirm the obvious and calls it a civil war then the coilitions gets to stand on really dodgy ground (rather than just being stuck in a really dodgy situation up to their necks with no way out) .

[Watchman]

Anyhow strictly speaking it isn't a war in Iraq so none of those rules apply .
Just as it isn't an occupation so none of those rules apply either .
If however someone finally does confirm the obvious and calls it a civil war then the coilitions gets to stand on really dodgy ground (rather than just being stuck in a really dodgy situation up to their necks with no way out) .

I'm kind of reminded of The Onion's country-fact box on Iraq... "Primary cause of death: Victory"