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(...) I reviewed the Sun-- it wasn't that bad. It's like an R rated People/Car&Driver/Time rolled into one. I especially enjoyed Clarkson's article on SUV's: (URL) rags include The Inquirer-type pubs. You call it "gutter" probably because you don't (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wasn't it Napoleon Bonaparte that said something like this? (...) It cannot be that he rolls out of bed each morning and says to himself: "God, I am so stupid I think I'll declare war today." He has to have motive. He has to think there is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "IRAQI conscripts shot their own officers in the chest yesterday to avoid a fruitless fight over the oil terminals at al-Faw." Nobody thinks Iraqi soldiers can stand up to our vastly superior forces -- not with conventional weapons. But where (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This issue [excuse the pun] aside, the Sun really is gutter press. See it online: (URL) at Sun Chirac jibe: (URL) all of News International's >150 papers, it supports the war. Scott A (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well it looks like Turkey is getting itchy feet. But guess what; the USA has rebuked Turkey for daring to invade Iraq! See: Turkish troops enter Iraq (URL) does the word "hypocrisy" come to mind? Scott A (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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