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(...) Yeah, I seem to recall an arms buildup in "aggressive" Iraq to go invade the US... oh wait, it was the opposite. Iraq wasn't agressive at all--it was the US agressiveness--politically, economically, and militarity--agressive on all (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The missile in itself won't be much of a weapon without a powerful warhead. A SCUD armed with 1 ton of TNT will do less damage than a "daisy cutter" or similar ordnance. (...) Technically, since the previous armistice (1991) Iraq did not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) See, it's dumb comments like that that contribute nothing. Your equation of KIS and Bush is just moronic, bigotted blather. JOHN (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "and such", such as ballistic missiles (Scuds)? (...) If defense is the actual intent. Iraq was an aggressor, and to characterize it, especially with SH at the helm, as anything but is just ludicrous. JOHN (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) Ummmm, Canada, but you saw that one coming a mile away... (...) All too true. (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, the WoMD was--there was nothing in the res. that said that Iraqi's couldn't have, say, a factory producing bullets and rifles and such--that's a weapons program... To deny a country the right to defend itself is just ludicrous. Dave K (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) planet and (...) moving (...) This sounds suspiciously like the Doctor Who story "Dalek Invasion of Earth" where the Daleks were drilling down to the molten core of the planet in order to drain it away and install a propulsion system so they (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) He's not exactly a despot on the level of KIS. Not yet, anyway. The trend points in that direction, though. Live in the US? Vote Libertarian, because the demopublicans ain't stoppin' the trend, not neither of 'em. Or, if you don't like semi (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Kinda like Dubya... Oops, did I infer that Dubya's a despotic ruler ignoring the plight of his people? Oh wait, that's exactly what I meant--no inference necessary. (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Minessoooooooota.... Always liked saying that.... Hey, you have the 'twin cities'.... And murals painted on buildings on the 'west side' (which, iirc, is the south side, but that crazy river and all....) Dave K (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: (URL) (...) Dam right! what makes it even sadder is that the ruler lives in opulence while his people suffer and die. (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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... and so do some of the rest of us! (thank (whomever they tend to thank) that you're a Canadian and not, say, a Minnesooootttaaan) JUST KIDDING. (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) UN res 1441, among others. (...) Actually, I think that is precisely the reason. JOHN (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) A weapons programme and WoMD are not the same thing. Canada has a weapons programme somewhere, I'm sure--our armed forces must have some sort of hardware for their job. Telling a country that they can't have a weapons program?? Telling Iraq (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Apathy on the part of hopeful americans and back-peddalling on the part of the president -- with everyone behaving like the members of a dysfunctional family until all the annoying skeletons in the closet just go away... Under-Fire President (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Or at least an Ontarian ;) (URL) Stark and Michael Leshner were able to marry immediately The highest court in Canada's largest province, Ontario, has ruled that gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry there " I also have to research (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Just as I can't yell "Fire!" in a theatre causing undue panic, when there was no fire, Dubya cannot yell "Clear and imminent danger" and incite us into a "terror driven frenzy" which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, untold (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Naw, they'll just outsource everything and sell to fewer and fewer customers for more dollars per unit. Alternatively, they will sell to fewer americans and westerners in general, but more persons on a global scale overall -- even if the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) We have a branch out in Windsor that lost its WAN connection-- AT&T were blaming the Bell guys--saying it was the actual phone lines, Bell was blaming the AT&T guys, saying it was the 'cloud' (but all our other branches were still working thru (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Remember though that all the parents have lower taxes and thus have more money than before to choose an appropriate private school. Also, there would be a greater variety of schools, religious and non-religious (and even a few (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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