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I loved this: (URL) Bell never fails. ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Do not ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -Richard Feynmann (...) The French are upset because of Dubya's stOOpid actions. I'd describe his "diplomacy" as perhaps the worst I've ever seen (and this from a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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first: (URL) you think the Iraqi conscripts might know more about reality than the SF protestors? I can't take credit for discovering this juxtaposition, I saw it on a blog. (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry Larry, you're thinking is too simplistic in my view. You ascribe everything to stupidity and not everything works that way. What is their motive? Or had you forgotten that most people have motives for the things that they do? And what? (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And most if not all of the Palestinian aggression is in retaliation for Israeli terrorism. I'm not even saying that you're wrong. I think you're right. But that doesn't change the rightness of what I said. They are in a cycle of violence (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What you are failing to place into the Israeli question is Palestinian terrorism. Most if not all of Israeli aggression is in retaliation for terrorism. What is going to bring peace in that region is for the Palestinians to eschew terror and (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Making Israel play by "the rules" would, I think, be the first step in reaching a peace in the region. Most of the Arab world objects to the way that Israel is treated to a double standard. I know you just don't think that's a reasonable (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You contradict yourself. How would letting Israel fall *decrease* their misery? (...) Very good question. The answer is because of the UN. We didn't have a mandate to enter Iraq; only to free Kuwait. We *should* have continued on to Baghdad (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But of course; it's a game. (...) But of course! (...) Now that's when it *really* gets fun for the kids! And they are actually learning something about cooperation and teamwork! (...) Never said that. It's a game. (...) But of course. It (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I snipped it because it's another debate. JOHN (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) him (...) I (...) which (...) It was a serious comment at first. How to get rid of an evil dictator with nuclear weapons other than to strike first? The man is clearly insane enough to: (Insert your own "facts" from below). The facts are (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) False. It was doing no such thing. (...) False again. Tell that to the Kurds, er, Shiites, er Chaldeans he gassed/starved/paved over during the peace Hussein's imposition of his will on his oppressed people cost how many hundreds of thousands (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, you're welcome, but I wish you would have left at least one more sentence of what I posted, *the very next one* in fact: "Ashcroft (and his bunch) actually ARE out there undermining liberty" This is true, you can't argue it, so maybe (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Because one way people don't die. Inspections and containment was working. The other way people die--bombing and fighting. There had better be a physical "smoking gun" for me to consider the very option of thinking about starting a war. And if (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thank you for saying so! I have about had it with RM's silly conspiratorial blathering. JOHN (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, let me count the ways: 1. The adult can obviously overpower the children, so any overpowering action taken by the adult must be greatly tempered by thoughtful restraint 2. If the adult has any kind of maturity, he wouldn't simply squash (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You condescending jackass! If this is what you believe America portrays, or even should portray, to the world, i.e. "The Responsible Adult", while all the other countries, i.e. "The Kiddies" play around--oh my goodness--you truly are (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) People like Saddam Hussein? Emphatically YES! JOHN (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not what I said. Might *can make* right, if the might is right(eous). JOHN (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, because a UN weapons inspector says something, that makes it true. That's the same bunch that includes members who tipped off the Iraqis that inspections were about to happen so that they could shift stuff around. (...) You know, for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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