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| (...) BIGOT! <okay, only kidding> (...) My point which I believe Lar picked up on is this: you expressed laments about continued support for the war. So, I asked, what should we do? Leave? You responded by saying we shouldn't have gone in the first (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Someone expressed frank misgivings about the formatting of this post: (URL) can I say? The FTX shows up just fine on my browser. But because I am a kind and generous soul, I am reposting in plain text -----repost begins here----- Here are a few (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| And the Teflon Prez... (URL) it turns out that the FBI has documents showing that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, complained about the mistreatment of the Koran and that many said they were severely beaten. The documents specifically include an (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, I'm not playing to the cheap seats. Looks fine on the web. Dave! (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Wow, that's almost unreadable in a newsreader... Not sure how this looked in the original submission, or how it looks in the web view, but people might want to pay attention to their postings formatting... Frank (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Like (URL) this,> for example. Nice! Dave! (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I thought their Nukes were French? Scott A (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Rubish! If it was agreed he had complied with 1441, he would have been able to stay in power. Anyhow, why start with him whilst training the (URL) Uzbek security forces> and bank-rolling (URL) Israeli belligerence>? (URL) Funded by Washington (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I'm not sure I agree with any of your summary. However, think about this: If I catch you having sex with your cat; do I have to offer you an alternative in order to suggest you stop? Or is up to you to find an alternative? Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Whoops! 11. Do something about Israel. No, Israel's not 100% wrong in all things, and yes, Palestinians are not without blood on their hands, either. But if we had to pick one thing (other than cultural imperialism (as opposed to militaristic (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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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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