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| (...) Here are a few thoughts--not sure how feasible they are, and some will require greater diplomacy than is currently available to the administration. 1. Get rid of Bush. His handling of this entire debacle has been nightmarishly inept and (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Snipped bunches. Some I agree with (the venality of leaders everywhere, but certainly in the US) and some I don't (it's not just "about the oil!")... focusing on one bit. (...) What I'm not seeing the current participants in this debate providing is (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Mmmmm. This green light in your mind that allows you to do awful things with dubious grounds, and with scant care for human life. Not the green light of well thought out, systematically supported, equitable and respected authorisation I think, (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Is that a rhetorical question? We are actively engaged in the process of securing a sovereign nation's natural resources for our own benefit, and this is exacerbated by the fact that our hegemonic military presence in that country is intended (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Clinton didn't propose an unprovoked invasion in defiance of the UN, and he didn't endorse the removal of inspectors before their job was done, and he certainly didn't advocate the murder of 100,000 Iraqi civilians. If removing him was the (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) No, there really doesn't seem to be much support in any quarter. And the remaining pro war camp is much quieter and harder to draw (apart from the determined political apologist rearguard, and the shrill cries of the mindless faithful), (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Please point me to where Resolution 114 mentions Iraqi freedom. That may (possibly, eventually) be a consequence, but it is NOT what Americans are dying for. ROSCO (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Look, even Clinton acknowledged that SH would need to be deposed eventually. Removing him was the bottom line, even without the threat of WMDs. His mere existence was a "green light" in my mind. JOHN (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) What you seem to have never internalized is that we went into Iraq for one reason, and one reason only-- to depose SH's evil regime. We issued an ultimatum for him leave or we would make him. He didn't, and we did. He was the threat, he was (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) And not just farce, but expressly known to be false, months before Dubya invaded Iraq unprovoked. Dave! (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) WHAT????? You seem to have conveniently forgotten the war in Iraq was primarily to remove the "threat" of nuclear weapons and the (apparent) harbouring of terrorists, as part of the "war on terrorism". THAT is why Americans (and others) are (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Stating something is wrong and *proving* it is wrong are entirely different things, John. I don't like SA's rantings, but I also don't like the bile that often spouts from your fingers into this group. At this point, I call Put Up or Shut Up - if (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) If you humbley say so yourself? ;-) (...) Anarchy? Where are you getting your information? (...) Now I must really question your sources, because what you have just said could not be further from the truth! Virtually all if not all of the (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) SH was not the biggest fool on the world stage. (...) You mean the "scandal" (URL) and abetted> by Washington? Who do you think bought that oil and burned it in their bloated "SUV's"... your countrymen! John, you are being played like a (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I'd suggest a little humility is in order. (...) ...and replacing it with violent anarchy. That's what I call progress! (...) Hmm. I recall reading that only ~5% of the insurgents were "foreign" and the majority of Iraqis want Bush to pack his (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, I don't adhere to that scenerio. I believe he actually was hiding WMDs and their whereabouts is still unknown. But since we haven't found any, I am willing to concede the above scenerio, which would make SH out to be an idiot. It (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) I'm glad to see that revisionist history isn't limited to the US administration. Looks as if John has the bug as well. <snip> (...) Dave K (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) By the looks of it, Helen is one of the few who are still asking the tough questions. The rest apear to be 'bauble heads', spreading the propaganda of Dubya. I also think you missed the point where she asked if the 'newly established gov'ts' (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Now it is I who must ask you what on earth are you talking about! (...) So, you'd advocate somehow going back in time and not rushing in. (...) The "mess" meaning liberating the Iraqis from the yoke of dictatorship? The "mess" in helping the (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) What is it that you think we would do with that huge stockpile of oil? Steal it? (...) A lot of countries have them. Not many actually use them. Guns don't kill; people do. (...) Let's face it-- SH was an idiot. The guy read the tea leaves all (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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