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Followup to yesterday: "The two faces of Rumsfeld" (URL) director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Having it both ways W.R.T. DPRK
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Why should the U.S. engage in these activities in the first place? The fact that people placed highly in goverment are probably reaping some kind of on/offshore monitary benefit only makes it worse. I am also non-patisan on the issue -- Clinton (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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The agreed framework ((URL) was a bad idea when the Clinton administration put it forth, and it continued to be a bad idea all along. How bad an idea indeed, we know now, since the DPRK was apparently violating it all along. But under the terms of (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am sorry to make you a scapegoat Scott, but this is one nit I have to pick. Irregardless is not a word, it is a double negative. What you actually mean is 'regardless' which means 'without regard to'. If 'irregardless' was a word it would (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It is pretty clear why that aid had to go then. The "man monkey" is no moron. ;) Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I am going to say that being called corrupt is worse. If one is a moron that usually represents a natural born deficiency, someone who is a moron is not simply unlearned, or unwise, but possessing a level of retardation. To say someone is corrupt (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would have said that Dubya's policies are moronic. However, what the aide actually said was, "George Bush.... what a moron!" Thus, in order to stay true to the actual quotation and the resulting political tizzy, I used the original, not my (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Was the term not "moronic"? Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Rumsfeld, Nukes, North Korea and $$$$
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I read this in "shock and awe": “Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defense, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants.” (URL) quite as bad his selling WOMD to Iraq... but (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Thunderbirds are Go!
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(URL) can almost make out the strings... =) -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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