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(URL) is truly shameful here is that these people had to wait for 24 years to escape this evil tyrant. Additionally shameful is the fact that this liberation came not at the hands of the United Nations, or neighboring Islamic nations. This was not a (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The truth of it?
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(URL) Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: THIS is why this whole war is a waste of time.
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Check this out: "This war was not worth a child's finger" (URL) think what I like about the article is the documenting of the arguments and techniques to justify the war. As many breathe a sigh of relief they instantly forget the slippery slope we (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Sinfest does it again
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Besides the funny psychoanalysis of 'Nique that's going on right now... " The Resistance: Wartime News: · Former 3rd Rock from the Sun star French Stewart changes his name to Freedom Stewart. "It's my patriotic duty," says actor. · Pro-neutral (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | QB and CA, was Re: THIS is why this whole war is a waste of time. - NO ITS NOT - GO BUILD SOME LEG
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Prosper writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Hey Terry, I don't want to make this sound like QB bashing, but "My Country, Quebec'? Terry, what gives? It's like saying, "My Country, Ontario" or "My Country, Hamilton". (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Letter to local paper (not by me!)
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As I sit embedded in my sofa, alert but not alarmed[1], I wonder in shock and awe at the barrage of jargonised verbiage being fired by weapons of mass instruction in the battle for my heart and mind. Brooding in my evil lair, I seek a human shield (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Stupid People (was Re: Hotel Palestine)
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(...) Probably true. But Larry's assertion was that stupid people getting themselves killed was 'evolution in action'. Assuming that when Larry says 'evolution' he means 'evolution [of something] through natural selection', I see no evidence that (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hotel Palestine
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(...) Actually, I'd say we're pretty smart. In reality, I think the average person doesn't have much care for most of what goes on in the world because it simply doesn't really effect them (see my earlier discussion on the total impact to me (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LEGO for Iraq?
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(...) Something to consider is the cost of shipping. Several years ago (work, that was 4 years ago...) we looked into shipping LEGO to Turkey after one of the earthquakes. We ended up discovering all sorts of problems. See this post from Selcuk (and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: THIS is why this whole war is a waste of time. - NO ITS NOT - GO BUILD SOME LEGO!!
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(...) If it's truly futile to have these discussions, then aren't we being dumb by having them? That's what I'm reading from your position, that these discussions are futile because not enough of us are involved. Frank (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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