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(...) Fair enough. (...) Yeah, because I *do* make a distinction between the deadly force perpetrated by both sides. The Israelis desire to root out and kill *terrorists*-- the fact that these cowardly scumbags hide in and among the civilian (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Gadzooks! That's just intolerable. I guess we should just go over there and teach them a lesson. O wait... Risks of War: death, maiming, mutilation, maltreatment, rape...doesn't much matter which side you are on from what I have understood of it. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Iraq military really knows how to treat people....they received a report that a pilot ejected and landed in the tigris river in baghdad...so what does the irag military do? ...they shoot at the river....nice way to take pows. (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> (...) (URL) should be required reading for all the gun-toting "Shoot first, ask questions later" yahoos who think because they have the ability to shoot a gun, that using one solves problems better than any other way. Anti-war does (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John: You really will just argue inanely over almost anything won't you? Frank's post was so reasonable, so even-handed as to almost be void of interesting comment. At face value, and as history has taught us again and again -- taking out a single (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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From: (URL) this: Iraq's Defence Minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, said Iraq would "not harm the captured prisoners of war". "It will treat them in accordance with the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war." with this: An ICRC spokeswoman said it was (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) protestor who takes up an anti-war sign. JOHN (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Come on, Frank, you can't possibly make the comparison of the incineration of 2 *buildings* to the incineration of an entire *city*. And I wasn't talking about just *any* city; I specifically meant Washington, D.C. And what if the attack came (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) --Anyone with half a brain must see that Saddam has --to be taken out. It is extraordinarily ironic that the --anti-war protesters are marching to defend a --government which stops its people exercising that --freedom. particularly interesting (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's just silly. I have no problem calling it terrorism. Any tactic designed primarily to inspire fear (or "shock and awe?") is a terrorist tactic. I still stand behind the notion that terrorism sometimes makes good sense. My verbiage was (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Look, this is just counterproductive. There is no on-point discussion being advanced. If you were looking at my resume you would absolutely assume that my past record had at least some relationship to the trajectory of my present and future career (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) More on this: (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It sure is interesting. It also certainly says a lot about what is going on inside Iraq for the officers to have been shot. It is hard to comprehend the officer's mindset since I can't believe they were given sufficient support to have any (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm, in a "totally open and free US society" (which we've never had, or certainly haven't had this century), I don't think nuking one city would collapse us. See, the thing is, with a totally open and free society, the power is sufficiently (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> (...) Palestinian "aggression"? You can't even bring yourself to call it "terrorism". I don't really want to go here, though, because I fear it is an issue of differing perspectives. (...) Agreed. (...) Well, I bet you can guess how (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Has Quebec seceded already, then? Else I am not following you. By the way, not everyone in Canada shares your view... (URL) I know... he's from the west coast. (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) John, try to be a bit more serious... you'll never get him to ADMIT it. Normally I ignore him but he's gone too far this time. In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: "Please show me where I claimed the work of some hidden (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So you admit you are a conspiracy nut... JOHN (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This isn't reasonable discussion of the issues. All of this "conspiracy" nonsense is just that. Please show me where I claimed the work of some hidden conspiracy? I gave a cite from CNN, for crying out loud. All I did was then analyze the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Those guys are pikers. It's the Robot Sea Monsters aligned with the Orbital Mind Control Lasers that are behind this vast conspiracy. (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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