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The Democratic leadership is more capable of winning the War on Terror than the Republican leaders

Are talking about the democratic leadership or Joe Biden? Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have zero military experience and their only solution is bring home all troops now, losing all progress we have made. However Senator Biden, whom i deeply respect, suggested a redeployment of troops in Iraq. This i sensible but the surge strategy is working. The year started out with 83 deaths in January and 81 each in February and March. The numbers jumped higher in the spring, with 104 in April, 126 in May and 101 in June. As the military established its new counterinsurgency strategy, the attacks began dropping from the 101 deaths tallied in June to 78 in July, 84 in August, 65 in September, 38 in October, 37 in November, and 23 in December. It is blantenly obvious that the surge is working. The democratic LEADERSHIP has no position but to pull out of iraq. "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything" Harry Reid The democrats NEED us to lose this war for there party's survival.
The Democratic leadership is more capable of winning the War on Terror than the Republican leaders

The most capable foreign policy genius, Joe Biden, Senator from Delaware, is the solution to America's international quagmires. Senator Biden is admired by the international community as a voice of reason who only has the best interests of America as priority. For this debate, my opponent should present a case supporting a politician from the Republican party whose ideas and leadership are better than what Joe Biden can offer. Although Joe Biden has withdrawn his Presidential bid, his appointment as a Vice Presidential nominee or Secretary of State would restore legitimacy to American foreign policy.
Salt vs Pepper

After two dropped rounds, the only thing I want to respond to a comment made my sadolite, where he says: "Correction: that it fills the ocean and the ocean covers 75% of the "earths surface" I know,annoying comment, couldn't help myself." This is definitely right... if it were 75% of the earth's land mass, salt would be excessively abundant, and who knows what the earth would look like. I apologize for the mistake, yet still contend that even if that's true, no more salt is being made, and we will run out. Once again, I feel I should apologize for the lack of clash, since my opponent won't have the opportunity. This debate had potential, I believe, but that was erased when my opponent started this debate and walked away... As a final thought, vote CON, all my arguments went uncontested, and I believe that my facts and sources outweigh any "benefits" my opponent claims from salt. I've proven that salt has more negatives than positives, and that pepper has many beneficial attributes. Once again I ask that you vote on the merits of the debate, and not on seasonal preference... Thanks for your time.
Salt vs Pepper

Alright... we'll I re-read the debate rather carefully, and I noticed a couple things. The first comes from my opponents speech where he says, and I quote: "I can see no reason why any1 in their right mind would choose salt over pepper." And I am forced to agree. Why would anyone choose salt over pepper? The second thing I noticed was a faux-pas of mine when I was stating trivial facts on pepper. I said "Once was to be used as currency". If you re-read that article, it should say Once WAS used as currency. I apologize for my mistake. With no arguments to refute, I will restate my arguments and see what happens... * My opponent offers you no substantial reason to vote for salt. So it preserves meat, is used on popcorn, and is found in the ocean. Why is that important? I'd like my opponent to make an impact with those instead of state those facts. * Salt has many negative health benefits * Pepper has many positive health benefits * Pepper was used as currency and offered to the gods as a sacred offering. To add to my list of arguments: 1) Salt is a dehydrator, if you drink salt water, you only become more thirsty. Salt water is only beneficial if someone is active and loses electrolytes. Looking at America, it's not as active as it once was. And in the comments section, sadolite generously offers a point for my opponent, saying that we will never run out of salt, that it fills the ocean and the ocean fills 75% of Earth's land mass. My responses: 1) Despite the fact that there may be a large amount of salt remaining on the Earth, no more salt is being made naturally, and we will run out... it's only a matter of time. 2) The salt in the ocean in paramount to the survival of many ocean species. It's why there are fresh water and salt water organisms. While we might be able to supply ourselves with salt a little longer, there's a delicate balance. (The opposite extreme is found through desalination). * If my opponent proposes we could synthetically manufacture salt, I agree, but this would be more costly and would be nowhere near as good as the current salt (if you could call salt "good") * If my opponent proposes that we take advantage of desalination and taking salt from the ocean, that only lessens the amount of territory ocean organisms have to roam about... eventually drying up our oceans. That's really all I have right now. I apologize for the lack of clash in this debate. I'd still like to thank my opponent for creating this imaginative debate, thank the readers for taking an interest, and thank the voters for taking an interest and selecting a position. I'd like to finish by once again asking the judges to vote on the merits of the debate and not personal preference. I look forward to a response from my opponent.
Salt vs Pepper

With that said, I will go ahead and refute my opponents attacks. My opponent provides three reasons as to why salt is better than pepper. They are: 1) Salt was used to preserve meat 2) Salt is used in salted popcorn and 3) Salt fills the ocean However, salt isn't perfect. Side effects from salt are: 1) Stroke 2) Cardiovascular disease 3) Osteoporosis and 4) Stomach Cancer [1] Another major fact I'd like to bring up is that salt is mined, meaning, it will, eventually, run out. Pepper on the other hand is a plant, it can be grown, literally, forever. Pepper also has properties that make it beneficial to the human body: 1) Cayenne Pepper can stop internal bleeding and heart attacks [2] 2) Black Pepper is a great source of manganese, vitamin K, iron, and fiber. [3] 3) Black Pepper also wards off cancers, increases brain function, and is a "natural antidepressant". [4] And since my opponent seems intrigued with trivial matters, such as salt in the ocean, here are some random facts on pepper: 1) Once was to be used as currency 2) Formerly presented to the gods as a sacred offering [3] On a final note, I'd like to, again, thank my opponent, readers, and judges. As a last comment to the judges, I'd ask that you please judge based on the merits of the debate, not on whichever seasoning you prefer. Thanks I await the counter argument(s). .. SOURCES [1] The danger salt poses to your health . http://www.internethealthlibrary.com... [2] Benefits of pepper- . http://www.healthrecipes.com... [3] Black Pepper- . http://www.whfoods.com... [4] Health Benefits of Pepper- . http://www.foodproductdesign.com...
Salt vs Pepper

OK salt.... the universal awesomeness. When the cavemen needed to preserve their meats what did they use???? Pepper, I think not it was salt. Whenever you get popcorn what do do???? You salt it not pepper it. I can see no reason why any1 in their right mind would choose salt over pepper. What are the waters of the ocen filled with???? pepper....NO salt. So now i leave it open to my opponent to argue.
The following argument on Evolution is extremely annoying.

Although there is no way to debunk your clearly obvious claim that that argument is annoying. However, that argument has nothing to do with evolution. Seriously, it's some nonsense about how the universe was created like four thousand years after the Babylonians first brewed beer. I don't even think the originator of those debates has the faintest idea of what exactly evolution is or how it works. Despite the title. It isn't about evolution at all. P.S. Somebody break the tie, http://www.debate.org... Bugs me.
The bible is written to God's own! Lack of understanding means He not talking to you.

I will begin by addressing my opponents claim that all the bible battles are in the past. I say that is a false statement. Or gross error.1. When did Jesus fight a battle? Is my opponent claiming that the Day of the Lord mentioned many time in the bible happened already in the past! When? Zechariah 14:1-5 King James Version (KJV) 14 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 2. What era did the the battle of Gog and Magog take place? You think Putin never read about Russia in the bible.https://www.google.com...3. Why are two TV stations camped at the Mt. of Olives for Jesus to come?Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem - Los Angeles Timeshttps://www.google.com...
The bible is written to God's own! Lack of understanding means He not talking to you.

Pro asked the age old Question concerning scriptural prophecies and conspiracy theories: "I ask my opponent how did the bible know Israel would kick Palestine out! (?) "Fact is, the Bible did not know anything, it is a Book and books are not conscious, nor does the Bible change, but people cherry pick sections and claim those sections are relevant or a prophecy.Another fact is that if people or a peoples (as in the Jewish people) believe in a prophecy strong enough they will deliberately try and make it happen, just to see, we told you the Bible is right.This type of deliberate attempts to make a prediction appear true occurs both consciously and subconsciously in humans.If a person believes in a psychic strongly enough, that person may subconsciously believe the predictions enough to actually will them into being.The power of suggestion is very strong indeed.Brainwashing techniques are mostly about harnessing the power of suggestion to control individuals.When it becomes a group, the power of suggestion is amplified by the numbers in the group.When it is a nation, then the prophecies believed by a group will often be enacted by the group because they believe in it. Not because there was actually any real knowledge in the writers of the predictions.This is known as a "self-fulfilling prophecy" If one President believes very strongly that a prophesy states that when a crisis appears in the Middle East he will activate and fire a nuclear weapon, when he is the control room because of such a Middle East crisis, he will be very tempted to fire the weapon, as he senses that it is what he is destined or supposed to do.In simple terms, his knowledge of the prophecy becomes the driving force for him to enact the prophecy, or he is locked into a self-fulfilling prophecy.Though the Bible doesn't give a chronologically accurate time line either and since there is always conflict in that region, it was bound to happen whether the Bible predicted it or not.If the Bible actually gave an accurate date of the prediction, we could judge it's accuracy, but since it didn't and supposedly Palestine didn't get kicked this century, but the next, then Christians next century would be making the same claim of Biblical accuracy, which is somewhat ridiculous it shows lack of accuracy in the prophecies.The Prophecy is not accurate, it is a generalization which may possibly occur anyway, so nobody, not even yourself can truly claim that the events are a result of the Biblical prophecy, but since the people in Israel believed in the prophecy strongly as it states on Jewish sites, then the event is likely a result in the belief in the prophecy forcing it and not really because the Bible writer knew it would happen.http://www.youtube.com...http://wiki.ironchariots.org...On the Israel Conflicts: The Jewish View.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org...Thanks Pro, back to you now.
The bible is written to God's own! Lack of understanding means He not talking to you.

Pro asserts the Bronze age Tribal Conflicts mentioned in the Bible still rage in the Modern World, when in fact the conflicts between the Tribal groups ( often referred to wrongly as states ) between those tribes mentioned within the Biblical passages such as the Esau, Edomites, Phoenicians, Canaanites, etc.. According to Archaeological and Anthropological research, these tribes had completely dissipated by the time of the Roman and Byzantine periods up to around CE 330. http://www.academia.edu... They have dispersed and intermingled, there is no definite, traceable remnants of these tribal groups, which shared many similar genetic traits and by the modern era have introduced many crossovers with many people having connections to all the tribes mentioned in the Bible. Though since the first books of the Bible have been deemed false by Archaeological and Anthropological investigations in that it appears that Moses may not have existed and if he did exist, he did not Thus apart from the Bible being somewhat false chronologically, it is also plagued with errors of the period in which it was written, The tribes existed and were conflicting at the period, but once invaded by a common enemy, such as the Romans, they appeared to have settled their differences and joined forces against their common enemy, thus the divisions vanished and so did their conflicts. There is no war between the tribes of Biblical times present in the modern world. It's only Biblical, End Of Times Charlatans that exploit the ancient Bronze Age myths to convince people that the Middle East Conflicts hold Biblical Significance, which they actually Do Not. On the Mythical Nature of the Christian Bible: http://themysteryofchrist.wordpress.com... Such as if Moses never wrote the first books of the Bible, who did? If the first books of the Bible are so Fabricated, Then why should anybody ever accept the rest of the Bible as having any Truth? Because if the basis of the Bible, the stories of Moses and Abraham are Fictitious, then so must be the rest of it! http://www.biblicalnonsense.com... And the Israelite tribes did not really belong in Israel, they actually came from Turkey and Southern Russia, from DNA evidence. Making much of the Bible Mythical. http://www.jogg.info... http://www.rastafarispeaks.com... And An article on the Edom Myth! http://edomsthorn.wordpress.com... That will do for now: Over to Pro.
The bible is written to God's own! Lack of understanding means He not talking to you.

Hmm, I accept the Challenge. Though I will not be working from within the Bible most of the time as my position is to demonstrate: The Bible Clearly Is Not Written To His Own: But writings from Oral Tradition which are Chronologically Inaccurate and thus the Prophecies from within the Bible are thus, also entirely Inaccurate. http://www.weseekthetruth.org... Such as it matters little which language you seek to interpret the Bible from, the End Of Time Prophesies upheld by modern Evangelical Christian groups such as the conflicts between descendents of Jacob and his twin Brother have nothing at all to do with current times. The tales of the Bible have been debunked many times by scholars and much of the Bible accounts of history are entirely Wrong, such as the march of the Israelites never occurred as the Book of Exodus is entirely make believe. Using scripture from within a make believe book does little to support the book as real. Thus it is entirely useless to use parables that are entirely fictitious, as there is no proof that their authors existed and that they were not simply made up when the books of the Old Testament were doctored 200BC and again 370AD. http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com... http://au.answers.yahoo.com... http://www.coppit.org... http://skepticsannotatedbible.com... So I bear little belief of what is written inside books that I once studied and found to be entirely Fraudulent, such as The Bible, therefore I do not care for nor take any notice of what is written within. Because most of what is written within conflicts with itself. This is why there are so many stupid End Of Times Prophesies and Christian Sects. Because the Bible can be Cherry picked to make it mean whatever you want, but there is also many passages that will conflict with and contradict those cherry picked passages, such as those cherry picked by Pro. Notice he chose small parts of whole sections of passages, chances are that if anybody would read the entire chapter that those cherry picked passages arose from, the interpretation would be quite different. Such is the reason there are so many Disputes Within Christianity itself. It's better to sit on the outside looking in and criticize the feuding between Christian Sects than to be a Christian within the Feud. That is the position I prefer. Whether any God wants to communicate with me is up to that God alone. I really am not interested in such communication. If I did communicate with any such God, I'd know it was only a Hallucination. Just like the Hallucinations Abraham had which started the Old Testament in the first place. Thanks Pro and over to You: XD~ So whether any God talks to us or not, bears little consequence for anybody.
The bible is written to God's own! Lack of understanding means He not talking to you.

The bible is simple and easy to understand. Prophecy and the history of man. Written 1000's of years ago but got current event perfectly. Must be of God! I assert if one does not understand the bible the God not talking to you. 1. Eze_20:49, Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Mat_13:3, And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; Mat_13:10, And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? Mat_13:13, Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Mat_13:34, All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: Mat_13:35, That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. 2. The bible is easy to understand if one refers to the Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic culture. 2Co_11:22, Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Phi_3:5, Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Rev_9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. Rev_16:16, And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. 3. The Russian current events pertaining to the dead sea and the land around it! Are coming to past! https://www.google.com... https://www.google.com...
War Game Scenario: Russia vs Chosen nation

October 2 Russian Revolutionary forces take Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg from anti-revolutionary forces. Anti-revolutionary forces are in disarray following the assassination of Vladimir Putin. Opportunistic Russians in the anti-revolutionary forces try to seize control causing internal strife and fragmenting the anti-revolutionary forces. October 3 The Russian Navy (anti-revolutionary) and the JSDF engage in a fierce naval battle in the Miyako strait with Japan effectively routing the Russian fleet with minimal casualties. North Korea renounces its alliance with Russia after Chinese fears that the US will use the Russian-North Korean alliance as a pretext to invade and allow South Korea to take North Korea. China takes a pragmatic approach hoping to whittle down the regional powers for a future conflict while maintaining a dagger pointed to the heart of Japan. October 4 Anti-revolutionary engage in a final counter-offensive in the hopes to wear down the revolutionary and Ukrainian forces. Japan sends a contingent of armored columns and troops of the JGSDF with aerial support from the JASDF to assist Ukraine and the Revolutionary forces October 12/13 Anti-Revolutionary forces make some gain as Russian warlords carve several small mini-states from lands seized from pro-revolutionary Russian forces October 15 Tide turns in favor of Pro-revolutionary forces after Pro-Revolutionary forces receive their first shipments of m1 abrams crushing the anti-revolutionary armor with ease. November 4 Anti-revolutionary counter-offensive fails after fierce battles throughout Western Russia end with heavy losses for the anti-revolutionary and the loss of several economic hubs to the Revolutionary Russian army. November 15 Pro-revolutionary forces seize control of Russia's nuclear arsenal December 7 Russian anti-revolutionary forces surrender unconditionally after Moscow falls ending the Second Russo-Japanese War. Russia agrees to allow Japan to keep the Northern Territories and Sakhalin Island. Russia agrees to pay reparations to Ukraine for its invasion of Crimea and allows Ukraine to keep Crimea. Both sides agree to negotiate the status of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Moldova in a future negotiation effectively ending the conflict.