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(...) Which was partly (if not all) the result of quotes from the press. (...) Put a Warhead in the middle, and you'll have Cerberus (ya know, the dog that guarded the Styx...) ;-) Pedro (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) At this point in time, I disagree. But in the mid-term that can happen and probably will. Mind you, that does NOT imply in any way that Europe automatically becomes an antagonist to the US! (...) ??? Do you mean anything other than the (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well spotted on the hypocrisy - he's just grinding his usual axe. And I wish to note that I have great respect for the way Frank expresses his opinions (we could all learn a lesson by emulating him). But, ummmmm, errrrr, I'd agree with most of (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A lot of people in America aren't impressed with us being the world's policemen, either, regardless of the individual cases. But to run down the list... Pakistan: if we were to deal with Pakistan, we would have to deal with the trigger device (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) gives "an ungrateful person", or "a person who shows no gratitude"... none of the meanings it lists have any negative connotation beyond that. Ya, that's namecalling all right. (1) But of course, words like "airhead", "poodle", "lapdog", (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) From whom? (...) Which they use to hold land which does not belong to them and kill women and children. Does it make you feel pround to know this bomb had "made in the usa" stamped on the side: (URL)If we went in and disarmed them (like some (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought Duq made a lot of very good points in his post. I'm disappointed that both you and Frank have chosen to respond to him with name calling. Scott A (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Inherently I support the idea of a world court, but I'm not sure how to implement it to give it appropriate teeth. I was going to talk about my feelings of two noteable incidents of US pilots attacking non-enemies. From what I can see, I hope (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Duq" <lugnetpost@skipthis...tmfweb.nl> wrote in message news:H9JqHM.2IM@lugnet.com... snip (...) and (...) LOL, good post. /Jocke (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I fixed Duk's quoting, he did it in a nonstandard way. I found one thing to agree with in the post. The rest is pretty hateful and divorced from reality though... (...) Great. Glad to hear it. I'm not the only person who thinks you lot (and a number (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think we all have a duty to defend freedom where it is threatened... even if it means out multinationals loose $$$. Take a look at what the UK did in Sierra Leon: (URL) was not perfect. UK lives were lost. But democracy was restored. It was (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed. In the UK, Blair is often satirised as a poodle, whilst "his master" is a chimp. More often he's just a diminutive form of bush: (URL) kind of a shame, as Blair is often argued to be one of the smartest leaders there is - but I suppose (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<snip> I think many countries want the US to be the policement, but only when they're interests are at risk.</snip> I don't know about other countries, but a lot of people here in Holland aren't impressed with America taking the role of police (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Neither. Leak it to the Iraqis. Do you really think the inspection team is free of Iraqi sympathisers? Why do you think the satellite photos show the Iraqis consistently busily bulldozing stuff the day before the inspection team arrives? You (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Leak it to the inspectors, yes. Leak it to the general media, prob'ly not. (...) How 'bout a coherent foreign policy--one that does not overlook the atrocities of some nations 'cause they're buddy buddy with the oil tycoons but comes down hard (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think many countries want the US to be the policement, but only when they're interests are at risk. In my opinion, we have a small responsibility to protect Europe, however, those countries being in pretty good economic condition, the help (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You really mean give it to the UN so they can leak it... (...) Well which way are you arguing here? If you think we 'murricans should be the world's policeman it's aw'fly darn clear to me that Iraq desperately needs waxing, and has, since (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I'm not saying release the info to Joe Schmo--give the intelligence to people who will use it. The inspectors are trying to do a job for the UN to make sure that whoever complied with whatever resolution-- This is like me going to my (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Er... "Coventry"... you know,where Jaguars come from(1). I'm sure it had some convents and such but that's not what I meant to backform. Also the Enigma/Coventry thing may only be myth (URL) has a different view 1 - (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So-- I haven't been following overly closely-- what's the most the media knows about this 'proof'? As for the question at hand, I can only assume that Junior's intelligence knows the type of weapon but not the location. OR perhaps he knows (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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