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(...) <snip> (...) It doesn't follow that lower taxes due to lower government education expenditure would lead to higher private spending on education. (When the Australian Government cut it's 'gun byback' tax, I did not rush out and spend my tax (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You reckon? Most likely? Come on, show me a reference that says that 51% of religious men molest boys. Your comment is without base, and apparently without thought. (...) It might. It might also tell us that that Jesuits value education (and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Canada has economic issues? And the US doesn't? And the gun control thing? That's what makes us a better country. Oh, and we're not beholden to a piece of paper written generations ago. So, your QED?--not so much. Me thinks you're buying your (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Um, no. Saying so ain't making it so. Canada has economic issues, and too much gun control. QED. (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh really. A ruler that lives in luxury, making questionable edicts for his country--a country in turmoil right now? I'm not 'equalling' Dubya with the leader of N Korea, I'm saying there are similarities. Moronic is not realizing that the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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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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