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(...) Unless you mean Prescott Bush begetting George HW Bush begetting George W Bush, then I don't think that Nazis did attack US soil. However, they invaded and attacked numerous allies of the US, did they not? Did Iraq likewise engage in invasion (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What is a sovereign nation? Is there really such a thing anymore? Everything seems so global these days. Global corporations. Global terrorist organizations. Global special interest groups. The global internet. Nothing much seems rooted to a (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) John, if this cause justifies the loss in human life, how much more loss would it justify? What if our best guess based on well-rounded intelligence suggested that the only way to have a serious chance of ridding the world of this vermin was (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm, I wonder from where that idea could have come? At the end of his term, Clinton was pardoning crooks so fast it was unbelievable! Besides, you don't have to be convicted to be pardoned. Let's wait and see if Bush actually pardons anyone (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Did the Nazis ever attack US soil? (...) What about the aftermath of WWI in terms of policies towards Germany as an major instigator of WWII? (...) Can't parse. "For" the US perhaps? (...) lol seems like that we exactly what you were driving (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Actually, I didn't mean at that level of detail. I don't think Bush particularly cares at the trouble. (I mean, I'm sure he'd rather that headache would go away, but that's life.) He was willing to start the war with the associated risks (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Really? They knew in advance that these fanatics and insurgents would be emboldened? I think you have to be pretty machavellian to see how that would actually be of any benefit to anyone, enough that you would deliberately plot for that (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I would actually really appriciate if you DID say something every time you force it, just because otherwise, a thread will just disappear as far as NNTP/SMTP users are concered. If you do let people know you moved it, then at least if I still (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You don't really believe that it was pointless. Do you? Bush had reasons for doing what he did. You (and I!) just disagree with the felicity of his reasons. You have, in the past, given room for either evil or incompetence as the explanation (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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snip (...) unjustified (...) Iraqis. I (...) they (...) Yes, it is sad. But he will surely pay for it sooner or later. /J (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did FDR initiate an unprovoked attack upon a sovereign nation? If so, was he inspired to do so because of decades of biased and unbalanced foreign policy, which itself came on the heels of imperialist efforts to usurp the natural resources of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, that's the point, isn't it? Bush deliberately initiated an unjustified war, and now 1,000+ US soldiers are dead, along with ~12,000 innocent Iraqis. I agree that soldiers put themselves in harm's way, but one would hope that they (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) As you wrote it, I don't think the Israeli land grab is terrorism. Terrorism is a means not an end. The point is to instill fear so that some other thing (even if poorly defined) may happen. The Israelis may (like every other nation) use (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote: (snip) In my view this subthread is not really suitable to .general, especially the way it's went downtree. I forceFUT several of the posts in this branch without saying anything(1), but I'm not sure it (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John, what Beslan/Chechnya shows is that combating Terrorism with Terrorism does not work. The same goes for Israel. Personally, I found the events in Beslan very disturbing. Even more so, if I'm honest, than the events of 911. However, we must (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) To stick with your analogy for a moment, can Michael Jackson, as a former black person, call a currently black person the "N" word? Not that I think this is a very good analogy. Having dark skin is really not analagous to subscribing to a (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But nothing; were the rights of Communists not restricted? Search google for "McCarthyism" & "freedom" to see what I mean. Scott A (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) Are Muslims starting to "get it"? (URL) Is the European Left starting to "get it"? Hope. JOHN (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Good one:-) (...) Ah, well, I should've kept my fingers shut because I don't have the time or inclination to "go there" (again) WRT to this topic, but here is an analogy to consider: why can a black person call another black person the "N" (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) A MOCery, perhaps... <groan> Brenden is just illustrating the words, he's not changing them or editing them in any way. I don't see how you can consider that mocking the good book. JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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