For those of you who didn't pick this up from the Australian Com
Psych list, thought you'd "like" this.

We have been very silent as a community on this list about the
war, or else my employer is censuring my incoming e-mails

Personally, I oppose the war and I will not "get behind my country"
to support the war in any form.

p

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Subject:                [Fwd: Some questions you won't find in Trivial Pursuit]

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Subject: Surprise, Surprise! Some questions you won't find in Trivial
Pursuit

Some questions you won't find in Trivial Pursuit...

 1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs
 on over twenty different countries since 1945?

 2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

 3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed
 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985 in a botched assassination attempt,
 thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern
 Middle East history?

 4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described
 by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

 5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of
 Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against
 Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council
 resolution calling on all states to observe international law?

 6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission
 of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide"
 against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?

 7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic
 Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001?

 8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification
 process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an
 international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?

 9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the
 gun trade at a small arms conference in July 2001?

 10) Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the
 worldto have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the
 Child?

 11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death
 penalty to be applied to children?

 12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997
 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?

 13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation
 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?

 14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in
 opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international
 terrorism?

 15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United
 Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?

16) Which country has used its UN Security Council veto more often than
any other?


 --Answer to all 16 questions: The United States of America.
 --The new moral dictators of the world???????



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