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(...) He claims to have asked for a meeting with Bush 3 days after he came to power. RC wanted to talk about OBL; Bush only wanted to hear about Iraq! (URL) for yourself. In the same BBC interview, he also claims that Rumsfeld wanted to bomb Iraq on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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(...) Rubbish. Its all in the spin. Read the article. The dude had been 'discovered' before, there had been a half hearted enquiry that had been dropped for reasons unspecified. Of course the authorities were not 'allowing' them to live in the US. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Sheikh Yassin
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Were the AWM's* used US sourced? (*) Air-to-Wheelchair-Missiles Fredrik (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Partial transcript of pretty much every interview with Condoleezza Rice
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(...) Indeed. Plagiarism is not only dishonest, it betrays the trust of this community and it is against the terms of this site if it infringes copyright restrictions. Scott A (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Richard Clarke
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(...) Strange that O'Neil also said that Bush took his eye off the ball. (...) Clarke is clear that he thought OBL was a problem... Bush did not want to hear. (...) That does not answer my point... is throw mud all you can do? (...) Anything to say? (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But if they'd posed a threat to, say, Cuba instead of to the United States, would they have been arrested at all? And, anyway, that's not the point. All day, every day, we're bombarded with so-called "breaking news" reports about the latest (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) First of all, nobody with the knowledge of what they were up to was "allowing" them to live in the US. As soon as they were discovered, they were arrested. (...) Is this last part meant as a joke? Are you inferring some sort of aspersion on (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | FOUND: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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From Dubya's own carefully fact-checked SOTU (URL) address:> As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. I've (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Richard Clarke
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(...) Not if he is kissing Democrats. (...) More like CYA. (...) That's my point! It was HIS job to get that perception, and way back then! (...) If nothing else he should shut his piehole or take some responsibility instead of trying to profit and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Richard Clarke
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(...) I think Clarke pre-dates even Clinton; he is not the "kiss & tell" type. Is he not acting in the US's best interests? (...) That would be the same attack you did not know about 2 weeks ago? John Neal: "Nobody perceived OBL as a threat on (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Richard Clarke
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(...) More reason to clean house when a new administration comes in. Got any personal agendas, Mr. Clarke-- such as a book to sell? Why not tell us all you and the Clinton adminstration did after the attack on the (URL) USS Cole>? One could easily (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Richard Clarke
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Richard Clarke (URL) Quotes>: "Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Sheikh Yassin
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Sheikh Yassin Quotes: “Death threats do not frighten us; we are in search of martyrdom.” “In the past we declared a unilateral ceasefire, we gave the Israeli enemy a truce for 50 days, but they did not commit to it even for one day. They continued (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
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(...) Well, I thought you were kidding around. Provide a concrete example-- or were you referring to racism? JOHN (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Doesn't address my point in the slightest. Nothing more than I expected. -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, this horse is past due for the glue factory, but I just wanted to make this final observation. It isn't any secret that conservatives have lower tolerance level on most issues than liberals do. That's why they are called conservative;-) (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: The Parable ot the Tortured Debtor
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(...) That makes sense. (...) OK. I don't think I'll ever understand why killing an animal would incline God toward forgiveness. But even taking for granted that that system of atonement exists, I am further completely baffled as to how/why the act (...) (21 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, he gets to be intolerant because he doesn't believe in tolerance - he just doesn't want intolerance of his intolerance, and will pretend that any intolerance of his intolerance is the same as his intolerance itself, and therefore said (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
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(...) And I am saying that those that want to be intolerant (read: haters of those different from their own narrow views) have come up with an ego-defense mechanism that tries to equate their intolerance of others as the same as the disapproval of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But, you're demanding that Liberals be tolerant of intolerance, so wouldn't you have to tolerate the Liberals' intolerance of intolerance? (...) Are we to understand, then, that you will henceforth be tolerant of homosexuals as well as of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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