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(...) No, it was Iraq invading Iran AND Kuwait. Busy, busy. (...) What is the cost? Didn't cost you a thing. We paid for it, and gladly so. The price for freedom was relatively cheap IMO. Consequences? Millions have been liberated? You have a (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I don't know why you keep piping up with that line. You're beholden to a piece of paper that was written recently, and had to ask some foreign royalty to even get that far. And you wouldn't have gotten that far except for us setting the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The problem with "your" moron is that he's taking his moronic policies and telling other countries what they have to do to keep him happy. If Dubya was content being an idiot in his own back yard, I would have no issue, really. Heck, the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Celibacy leads to abused altar boys." -Some Self-Appointed Wit Said before the current revelations about recent news headlines concerning the clergy. But there is an unstated smiley behind it. I took it that this was the same. :-) (...) (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Hey. Maybe you think canada is a great place. Ive been there, and it aint much different than the US. Maybe you should just get off the US's case, eh? Dubya may be a moron, he may not. That's not the point. He's our moron. You have a problem with (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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