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Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
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Mon, 24 May 2004 19:51:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   As I recall, the death toll from the destruction of the World Trade Center came in somewhere under 3,000, so Dubya is responsible for the unprovoked massacre of a far greater number of innocent civilians than Osama bin Laden.

Incorrect. In fact, the responsibility of those lost Iraqi lives can be attributed to OBL as well. Consider this recent NYT article by Thomas Friedman: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/opinion/23FRIE.html?pagewanted=print&position=

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Please. The New York Times is considered the most respected and established news source in the US (registration costs nothing).
  
  
The resistance in Iraq is coming primarily from outside Iraq, not in.

Like those folks at that wedding?

Won’t dignify that smart-ass remark with a repl.....uh, nevermind.

  
   As Friedman says, it is better to address this threat early outside of US borders before it reaches us.

...Bush is increasing the threat; don’t doubt that!

How do you increase a threat as large as the 9-11 attack? I think Bush overreacted to decrease that threat, if anything.

JOHN



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  Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
 
(...) Only time and the risk of even more spam. (...) From its very pages: Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, a spokesman for the occupation forces, estimated that there were a total of 3,000 to 5,000 guerrilla fighters in Iraq, with 5 to 10 percent of those (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) Is this really worth subscribing for? (...) Like those folks at that wedding? (...) ...Bush is increasing the threat; don't doubt that! Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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