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Re: Fair use and allusion?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:06:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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I still don’t see what your point is here beyond controlling that flow
(your original point was how it was obvious that this was all about freeing
the Iraqis, yet still admit it was about the oil one way or the other).
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Our main objective was eliminating a dangerous threat in the person of SH
(via WMD proliferation mainly...
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If you do think he had WMD,
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Along with everybody else.
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are you not concerned that Bush has engineered a
situation whereby OBL’s foot soldiers are apparently crawling all over the
country?
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What exactly do you mean? Yes, there are terrorists there to attack Americans.
But can you not see that we are not the only targets? What if, tomorrow, we
were to evacuate completely from Iraq? Do you think that the terrorism in Iraq
would stop? Of course not! These terrorists fight against Freedom and
Democracy. A free Iraq is now suddenly a greater and more imminent threat to
their cause than the existence of the US!
So meanwhile, the war on terrorism is on their turf, not ours.
JOHN
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I'm talking about *today* (...) I mean Bush has engineered a situation whereby OBL’s foot soldiers are apparently crawling all over Iraq... a country apparently full of WMD! (...) Nice try. I did not say that. (What is your point?) (...) I (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Oh that's simple then--there's the base line right there! We can kick at the ant hill all we want and so long as the ants don't come and attack us directly, then things are honkey dory! We can get the hornets all nice and angry by throwing (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) If you do think he had WMD, are you not concerned that Bush has engineered a situation whereby OBL’s foot soldiers are apparently crawling all over the country? Scott A (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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