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| (...) My favorite part: Saddam was also heartened by Mr. Bush's promise that, "The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq." With new attacks by and on US and other foreign occupation forces, the former strongman stated, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Some will be too quick to dismiss (URL) this article> as farce, but the underlying story is worth reflection. Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I think it still has legs! (...) Indeed the Bolsheviks and East Germany(?) did cancel their international debt (as well as nationalise industry and seize land) when they took power; being raving communists they had little sympathy for the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) That's if the company has no assetts. Iraq has assets; I doubt the war would have happened otherwise. ;) Scott A (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) The company/CEO analogy is a bit squiffy, we're talking about soverign nations, not corporations which presumably are a bit more constrained and tend to make contracts, not treaties. So it ought to be ditched as not very appropriate The proper (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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