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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) And my point right back at you is that millions and millions of people, in your country as well as mine, and the countless millions from all over the world, protesting do not a 'few' make. (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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|  |  | Re: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. 
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| (...) Comparing SH with pre-war Germany is (URL) misleading>: "Let's be clear about this. Saddam Hussein is not Hitler, as hysterical Americans keep claiming. The charges of external violence are 12 years old. There is no coherent evidence that he (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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| (...) Would that we could compare that number to the number of innocents who would have been executed by SH by now. Chances are the latter would be higher, and thus Bush's intervention actually saved the lives of innocents in total. (...) We know (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Q Who is getting 38% of the $18.6bn? 
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| (...) I'm sorry, but that's simply inconsistent with reality. Free trade absolutely does not exist in Iraq. As just one example, an enormous, multibillion-dollar, well-connected company has a stranglehold on the reconstruction process in a no-bid (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: 2 Qs For John 
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| (...) Tell that to the Vietnam war dead
 an estimated (URL) 2 million> (...) Many would say that it was your nations support for the House of Saud that rankled OBL so much
 and Bush is still covering for them! (...) Nonsense. Right-wing Israeli (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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| (...) Bush & Blair looked pretty keen on it! (...) I'm not saying anything. I'm just asking you to justify your point. It looks to me like you've based your opinion on a single quote! (...) He claims to be fighting for world securityfreedom... it's (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: did you wave your little flag to make it go away? 
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| (...) DO YOU AGREE? (...) This war could have been a "civil disagreement", but that's another issue! (...) You are avoiding the issue. How many US troops have been investigated for incidents in Iraq? Scott A (...)    (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Q Who is getting 38% of the $18.6bn? 
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| (...) You mean like Bush is doing in (URL)? They boil people alive there with your tax-dollars..... wave your little flag at that if you dare! Scott A (...)    (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Q Who is getting 38% of the $18.6bn? 
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| (...) Good questions. They never existed in Iraq-- until now. Whatever happened to opposing blood-thirsty dictators, and promoting freedom and democracy in the world? JOHN    (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: No!  Say it ain't so!  No France or Germany allowed!! 
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| (...) What? You are just finally coming to that realization???? :-) JOHN    (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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