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Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 May 2004 09:47:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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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.
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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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Is this really worth subscribing for?
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Only time and the risk of even more spam.
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Please. The New York Times is considered the most respected and established
news source in the US (registration costs nothing).
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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 coming from outside the country.
Since when did 5 to 10% = “most”?
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The resistance in Iraq is coming primarily from outside Iraq, not in.
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Like those folks at that wedding?
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Won’t dignify that smart-ass remark with a repl.....uh, nevermind.
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Bush’s spin: “This is one of the routes we have watched for a long time as a
place where foreign fighters and smugglers go.”
The reality:
Bush’s inability to admit fault is further radicalisimg opinion in the region
and thus increasing the “threat” to us all.
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As
Friedman says, it is better to address this threat early outside of US
borders before it reaches us.
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...Bush is increasing the threat; don’t doubt that!
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How do you increase a threat as large as the 9-11 attack?
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The 9-11(R) attack was not a threat.
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I think Bush
overreacted to decrease that threat, if anything.
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The main source of concern pre 911 was US support for the Saudi’s and Israel.
Bush has made that list much longer! Bush only reacts to the symptoms; not the
causes. I can’t think of any real effort he has made to target what drives the
“evil doers”. Even Afghanistan is descending into anarchy.
Scott A
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