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Spotting the losers: (URL) that the US ain't scoring a perfect 0 out of 7 here) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think Bush tells himself what he wants to hear and then convinces himself that it is true. "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou cannot be false to any man." Perhaps you are reacting to his own deception (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Post it here, but I believe that I have seen the video on CNN - they were showing it, but running on about something else. Tank shoots building. Pretty straightforward and undeniable. (...) (strategic snipping of my own comments to string this (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Evolution? Don't you mean natural selection? Cheers Richie (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think this particular regime waived that notion when they started stationing (and firing) AA from inside hospitals and stationing (and firing) tanks next to mosques. These reporters were told that Baghdad was a dangerous place and they would (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes: (snip) (...) What's wrong with that (11mln counted overnight)? half that number is counted in my country by hand on election night, and we have half the population (and presumably, half the number (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would agree that our election process is far from perfect. I wish they would require a photo ID at poling places, or have some other way for voters to prove who they are. Here in Southern California there is always a secret group that buses (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps I am a bit gullible but I tend to believe that our leaders are not lying. I even believed Clinton, who I felt was a pathological liar, when he said that bombing Iraq was in the interest of national security. I have always believed the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very good point. That happened in Algeria in '92, when free elections were handled and the fundamentalists won... without cheat! Pedro (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I regret to hear it's no longer there. If I find this video on the web, would you care for me to send it? (...) The footage showed some 5 secs of the tank turret taking aim, then shooting, then the camera shook. If the tank and the target had (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Please elaborate. Personally, I think a (known to be occupied) hotel is a "don't shoot" place, much like a hospital. If the troops see anything that disproves that, then they should report to the hierarchy and ask for orders. It was a very (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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SO WHAT - GO BUILD SOME LEGO - (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes: <snip> (...) Why should he stop his lieing now? Dubya's lied to us so much since the word 'Go' that even if it was noon in Arizona and he told me that the sun was up, I'd look out a window to (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How do you think LBJ got to be governor? Ahhhhhh, Texas politicians, ya gotta love em! ;-) -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I presume you are in the U.S. for the purposes of the next comment, but even if you are not -- the point is a sound one. I didn't vote for Gore myself, but I ask you: do you really want to live in a country where the elections are being fixed? It's (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually motives are a good question. What possible motive could they have had to kill *any* journalist, that would have provided a benefit to them that was worth all the bad press they are receiving now? They have been going out of their way (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And Dubya can have his brother appointed governor of Iraq, and have the Florida election commision make sure that those he doesn't want having ballots don't get them or.... We can trade zingers, Scott, but the real point is do you believe Bush (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Or AlGore can get that bald guy with the glasses to continue recounting hanging chads until he gets the result that he wants. Scott (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) option with the exceedingly long lag delays. Neither the story nor the video. The video would only be conclusive if it showed the whole incident from start to finish, not just the moment of firing. (...) Regarding reports: see what I mean? (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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